Speaker
Dr. Rasim Somer Diler
Professor of Psychiatry, Medical Director of Inpatient and Co-director of Outpatient Child & Adolescent Bipolar Spectrum Services (CABS), UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital, University of Pittsburgh
Biography
Dr. Diler serves as a researcher, clinician and a teacher at the inpatient and outpatient Child and Adolescent Bipolar Services. Dr. Diler’s research has focused on the assessment, treatment, etiology (e.g., disease- and treatment-specific biomarkers) of depressive and bipolar disorders in youth. Dr. Diler has developed expertise in mood disorders and contributed to the field with over 100 peer-reviewed publications and over 90 presentations at national and international meetings, where I served on multiple advisory and scientific boards. Dr. Diler is currently serving as the Principal Investigator for two translational longitudinal imaging studies and site-PI for a multi-site study of machine learning approaches for school violence. Dr. Diler is committed to pursue his research interests in understanding neurodevelopmental trajectories of bipolar disorder and searching for neural markers that can differentiate bipolar disorder early in life.