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Several Pitt Medicine people won honors at the 2024 American Thoracic Society conference
7 fellows and 6 faculty took home awards for research, mentoring and scientific achievement.
Pitt will host the 2024 Higher Education Financial Wellness Alliance Summit
The July 14-17 event will focus on addressing financial barriers to degree completion.
Pitt’s online health informatics MS program earned a top 5 national ranking
With flexible learning options, the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences degree prepares students for the rapidly growing field.
The Pittsburgh Study was honored for its child health equity programming
Community-centered youth leadership and data literacy events earned the Pitt-UPMC research initiative a National Institutes of Health recognition.
She was studying social media’s effects before TikTok even existed
A National Science Foundation CAREER Award will help Sophia Choukas-Bradley develop new ways to approach her research.
2 Pitt Medicine faculty earned Society of General Internal Medicine honors
Timothy Anderson and Jennifer Corbelli receive national awards for mentorship and scholarship in medical education, respectively.
Prevention at Pitt was recognized as a community champion against sexual violence
Significant growth, peer education programs and partnerships with nonprofits are just a few reasons the University coalition earned the Pittsburgh Action Against Rape honor.
See US pharmacy closures over the last decade on an interactive Pitt map
The School of Pharmacy and American Pharmacists Association project demonstrates the importance of health care access in local communities.
15 Pitt students completed the Physician Assistants Advancing Diversity program
The free weeklong program is open to current students on any campus.
A Pitt project is addressing skin cancer disparities in Black communities
School of Medicine students connected with community leaders and distributed 750 pamphlets to spread the word throughout Pittsburgh.
Pitt-Greensburg held its first pinning ceremony for nursing graduates
The event, held April 26, welcomed 28 graduates into the nursing profession.
A Pitt program is connecting people through storytelling to build a more inclusive campus
The CuPID project received a $500,000 Pitt Seed grant to amplify dialogue-based curriculum across the University. An upcoming summer course focuses on the health sciences community.
Pitt undergraduates came in second place in the 2024 Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition
The six juniors had a week to prepare a proposal for a comprehensive intervention to end tuberculosis in India.
2 Pitt Medicine faculty earn AGA mentor awards
Robert E. Schoen won in the clinical practice section, and Dhiraj Yadav won in the pancreatic diseases section.
Graham Hatfull is among the latest National Academy of Sciences electees
Phage research by the Eberly Family Professor of Biotechnology is helping treat infections that are unresponsive to antibiotics.
Kiran Bambha is a 2024 AASLD fellow
The medical director of hepatology is one of 62 recognized by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.
This new hub will leverage smart technology to improve independence for people with paralysis
The innovative program, funded by an anonymous $5 million gift, will build on existing research in Pitt’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and School of Medicine.
A team led by Stephen Y. Chan received an American Heart Association award
The researchers will study how inflammation affects heart and brain health.
Pitt is launching an Office of Sustainability in the Health Sciences
The new office, led by Michael Boninger, aims to reduce Pitt’s impact in a field that accounts for 10% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
Pitt scored a top 10 finish in its first National Bioethics Bowl
Eight undergraduates competed in the annual competition at Baylor University.
