Dr. Carmen Andreescu is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a licensed psychiatrist with additional expertise in Geriatric and Interventional Psychiatry. Dr. Andreescu is a faculty member in the Center for Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh and for the Research Career Institute in the Mental Health of Aging (CIMA) directed by NIMH and Weill Cornell Medical Center. She is the director of the ARGO Neuroscience of Aging Research lab [https://argo.pitt.edu]. Her research focus is on mapping the neural circuitry associated with mood/anxiety phenotypes in late-life, identifying neural markers of treatment response in late-life depression and anxiety, and describing the pathways through which  anxiety accelerates brain aging. Her research has been funded by BBRF, NIMH and NIA. Dr. Andreescu serves as a member on the editorial board of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, and she is a board member of the Federation Global Initiative on Psychiatry and the president of its American chapter [https://www.gip-global.org]. Dr. Andreescu has received multiple awards for her research including the International Psychogeriatrics Junior Research Award, the Donald F. Klein Early Career Investigator Award and the APA Hartford-Jeste Award for future leaders in Geriatric Psychiatry.