David A. Brent

David A. Brent is an American psychiatrist with expertise in child and adolescent psychiatry and suicidology. He is a Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Epidemiology, and holds the Endowed Chair in Suicide Studies at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He also serves as the academic chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic.

Education Brent received his B.S. in General Science from Pennsylvania State University in 1972, his M.D. from Jefferson Medical College in 1974, and his M.S.Hyg. in Epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1987. He trained in pediatrics at the University of Colorado, and in general and child psychiatry at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic. Another study found that adolescents who died by suicide were twice as likely to have lived in homes with firearms compared to those who attempted suicide but survived.