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Sylvia Owusu-Ansah Receives Health and Equity Leadership Award
Sylvia Owusu-Ansah, associate vice chair of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and assistant professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine in the School of Medicine, received the Health and Equity Leadership Award at the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women event on May 9.
Owusu-Ansah, a board-certified pediatrician and pediatric emergency medicine physician, is...
Pitt Med and Social Work Students Team Up on Advance Care Planning
If you have pneumonia, would you take antibiotics to get better? What if you developed advanced dementia and had a “do not resuscitate” order—would you still want antibiotics for pneumonia?
Many people have opinions about such matters but may not have the paperwork in place to make their wishes known when the time comes. And if they do try to fill out the forms, they may...
Diploma Day 2024 Speakers Highlight Themes of Humility, Compassion and Connection
137th graduating class of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
“When the start of your graduate or medical school career coincides with that of a deadly pandemic, and you make it to the other side able to articulate such hope and clarity, there's only one word to describe you, and that is ‘awesome,’” Jeanne Marrazzo, director of the National Institute of Allergy and...
3 Pitt Health Sciences Faculty Graduate as ELAM and ELH Fellows
By Megumi Barclay
Three University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences faculty members were among the graduates of the 29th class of the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) and Executive Leadership in Health Care (ELH) fellows. The graduates are Jessica S. Merlin (middle) and Kristin Ray (left) from the School of Medicine and Tiffany Gary-Webb...
School of Medicine Diploma Day 2024
The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine’s Diploma Day Ceremony will be held on Sunday, May 19, beginning at 2 p.m. at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall, 4141 Fifth Avenue.
Parking options include the Soldiers and Sailors Parking Garage, accessible via the entrance at 4390 Bigelow Blvd. Street parking is also available.
Staying home? You can watch the live stream...
Pitt Research Is Key to New Concussion Test
Pitt Researchers Find Cellular Feeding Frenzy Fuels Pulmonary Hypertension
Chan, Vitalant Chair in Vascular Medicine and professor of medicine in the Division of Cardiology
Blood vessels in the lungs aren’t like the others in the body. This difference becomes clear in pulmonary hypertension, in which only the lungs’ blood vessels stiffen progressively, leading to chronic lung disease, heart failure and death. The underlying reasons for this...
