She is a Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
[1] In 1976, with Aaron T. Beck and Arlene Weissman, Kovacs co-authored a study establishing a correlation between suicide and hopelessness.
[3] In 1979, Beck, Kovacs and Weissman published the Scale for Suicide Ideation (SSI), which measures the frequency and severity of suicidal thoughts.
[4] Kovacs is a Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
[7] In 2003, Kovacs was included in the ISI Highly Cited database.