Rasim Diler MD

 Dr. Diler is a professor of psychiatry at University of Pittsburgh and a researcher in the Clinical and Translational Affective Neuroscience Program and in Child and Adolescent Bipolar Services at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital, University of Pittsburgh. His research has focused on the evaluation, differential diagnoses, treatment, and neurobiology of bipolar and depressive disorders in youth. He employed neuroimaging to study etiology and treatment response of mood disorders in youth that resulted in promising findings. He successfully disseminated his research in top psychiatric journals and oral presentation in international conferences. He serves as PD/PI in two NIH funded studies (1) to identify neural and cognitive/behavioral markers and longitudinal trajectories of mixed manic symptoms in non-bipolar depressed adolescents (R01MH111600, MPI: Diler & Ladouceur) and (2) to study brain-behavior correlation and examine neural and behavioral markers bipolar disorder disease progression in high-risk inpatient adolescents with manic symptoms (R01 MH121451-01, MPI: Diler & Bertocci). Dr. Diler is committed to pursue his research interests in understanding brain-behavior connection in youth with and at risk for bipolar disorders. Dr. Diler serves as the medical director of the nation’s first inpatient pediatric bipolar unit (“In-CABS”) that was established more than a decade ago with 15 beds aiming to bridge inpatient with outpatient as well as clinical and research services.