Research News

These promising students not only engaged in rigorous research training, but also actively participated in clinical anesthesia activities.

Kumiko Chino, MD, was awarded funding to study correlations between viscoelastic testing and traditional labs among parturients with thrombocytopenia.

Marsha Ritter Jones, MD, PhD, was awarded a Maximizing Investigators' Research Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences/National Institutes of Health for her project “Neuroimmune Signaling in Surgical Wound Healing and Modulation by Regional Anesthesia.”

We were honored to host the 13th International NPY-PYY-PP Research Conference, an international gathering of scientists who are interested in the meeting topic of peptides and their role in conditions like pain, psychiatric disorders, the brain, metabolism, and stress.

An artificial intelligence-based model developed by our Chair Dr. Aman Mahajan with Dr. Oscar Marroquin and other Pitt/UPMC researchers was featured in a news release and several news articles.

The “Surgical Opioid Stewardship Program” will focus on multidisciplinary approaches to perioperative pain.

Aman Mahajan, MD, PhD, MBA, earned two grants from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to develop innovative cardiovascular monitoring technologies.

Grace Lim, MD, MS, was awarded a major RO1 grant of over $2.5M from the National Institutes of Healt /National Institute of Mental Health for her research proposal “Ketamine to Reduce Postpartum Depression and Pain after Cesarean Delivery.”

Marcia Timko-Shannon, MD, was awarded grant funding from the Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation for her project, “Translation of Obstetric Consents for our Limited-English-Proficiency Patients.”

The 20th annual Safar Symposium and 13th annual Multi-Departmental Trainees’ Research Day was held on May 18-19, 2023.