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Dr. Luca La Colla Earns Master of Science in Health Informatics
Dr. La Colla’s degree work focused on data science, which provides tools to analyze, extract, and present data to the health care community to help health care organizations make well-informed, data-driven decisions.
Residents with Top 10% ABA BASIC Exam Scores Honored with Chair's Distinction Awards
Our residents Wesley Ramirez, MD; Kyle Bevers, MD; and Dylan Bard, MD, received our 2023 Chair's Distinction in Anesthesiology Knowledge Awards.
Dr. Gaurav Chauhan Recognized for Physician Excellence in Clinical Care
Congratulations to Gaurav Chauhan, MD, on being selected as a winner of the UPMC Physician Excellence Award – UPMC New Physician Excellence in Clinical Care. This award honors new physicians with one to three years of practice experience who demonstrate clinical excellence, contribute to UPMC’s…
Clinical Practice Guidelines on Postdural Puncture Headache Coauthored by Dr. Grace Lim Published in RAPM and JAMA Open
Grace Lim, MD, MS, was part of a multidisciplinary international working group that authored clinical practice guidelines on postdural puncture headache that were concurrently published in the journals Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine (RAPM) and JAMA Open. The articles…
Dr. Kumiko Chino Awarded Haemonetics Funding
Congratulations to our obstetric anesthesiology fellow Kumiko Chino, MD, who was awarded funding from Haemonetics to study correlations between viscoelastic testing and traditional labs among parturients with thrombocytopenia. “The current consensus statement does not recommend routine use of…
Richard Henker and John O’Donnell Honored with International Nursing Excellence Awards
Sigma's International Awards for Nursing Excellence recognize superior achievement in developing nurse leaders anywhere to improve healthcare everywhere by connected and empowered nurse leaders.
Department’s Sustainability Work Featured in Environmental Health News
Isabela Angelelli, MD; Joseph J. Ferriero, MSN, CRNA; Miya Oliver, MDUPMC clinicians discussed their efforts to improve sustainability at hospitals in the Environmental Health News article “Pittsburgh-area…
Presbyterian CRNAs Molly Galbraith and Julie Ging Win “Extra Mile” Awards
Molly S. Galbraith, MSN, CRNA, and Julie D. Ging, MSN, CRNA, both CRNAs at UPMC Presbyterian, won UPMC Physician Services’ “The Extra Mile” Quarter 2 Award.
August 2023 Publications
Ten publications authored or co-authored by members of our team were published over the past month.
Faculty Earn Prestigious Teaching Roles in Pitt School of Medicine
Drs. Michael Best, William McIvor, Huong-Tram Duran, and Alexander Praslick were appointed to prestigious teaching roles in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Dr. Marsha Ritter Jones Receives NIGMS MIRA R35 Award to Advance Wound Healing Research
Congratulations to Marsha Ritter Jones, MD, PhD, who was awarded a Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA R35 grant) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences/National Institutes of Health for her project “Neuroimmune Signaling in Surgical Wound Healing and Modulation by…
2023 Chair’s Excellence Awards
Congratulations to the faculty and CRNAs who were selected as recipients of our department’s 2023 Chair’s Excellence Awards. These individuals are recognized by our Chair Dr. Aman Mahajan and department leaders for going above and beyond in their service to our patients and department.
Department Work Featured in June 2023 Anesthesiology News
The June 2023 edition of Anesthesiology News featured two articles spotlighting work presented by residents in our department.
“Blocks Do Not Worsen Neurologic Outcomes In Patients With Upper Extremity Nerve Injuries” (…
Introducing Our 2024-2025 Obstetric Anesthesiology Fellows
We are proud to share the results of our Obstetric Anesthesiology Fellowship match for academic year 2024-2025. Congratulations to Drs. Zachary Ligus and Max Yue Qiu, who join us next year to begin their training!
Zachary Ligus, MD
Medical School: University of Pittsburgh School of…