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Job Title Medical Director, Pediatric Behavioral Health Consultation and Liaison Services, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC

Job Title Associate Director, Residency Training, Triple Board Program, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Job Title Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

4117 Penn Ave., Suite Floor 3

Pittsburgh, PA 15201

412-692-5100 Phone

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Email ortizaguayor@upmc.edu

Medical School:	2002 MD, cum laude, Research Track, University of Puerto Rico, School of Medicine, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Residency:	2007 Triple Board Residency, Pediatrics/General Psychiatry/Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA

Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Physically Ill Child Committee Member
Training and Education Component Member
Fellow - American Academy of Pediatrics
National Association of Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Training – President Elect
University of Pittsburgh Physicians – Board of Directors
American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training
Association of Pediatric Program Directors

Certificate of Recognition – Praise from Patients 2010, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
AACAP Pilot Research Award for Junior Faculty and Child Psychiatry Fellows, Supported by Eli Lilly and Company
AACAP Outstanding Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Resident Award
Cancer Research Training Award, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

Sporn A, Gogtay N, Ortiz-Aguayo R, Alfaro C, Tosell J, Lenane M, Gochman P, Rappoport J. Clozapine Induced neutropenia in Children: management with Lithium Carbonate Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. 2003 Fall; 13 (3): 401-4.
Ortiz-Aguayo R, Meyer VA, Ackerman K, (2007), Pittsburgh-Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry Chapter 17: Liaison Psychiatry. Editors, Kupfer, Lewis, Reynolds, Thase, Brent, Horner and Travis. Oxford University Press, NY, NY. (in press).
Ortiz-Aguayo R, Campo J, (2009) Treating Child and Adolescent Depression. Chapter 21: Treating Depression in Children and Adolescents with Chronic Physical Illness. Editors Rey, Joseph and Birmaher, Boris. Lipincott, Williams and Wilkins. Philadelphia USA.

View Dr. Ortiz-Aguayo's full list of publications from PubMed.