Office:	Department of Medicine, UPMC Shadyside
	5230 Centre Avenue, Suite 323
	Pittsburgh, PA 15232
Phone:	412-623-3688
Fax:	412-623-6621
E-mail:	elnickim@upmc.edu

Education
	BS, Allegheny College, 1979
	MD, University of Pittsburgh, 1983

Training
	Internal Medicine Residency, University of Rochester, 1986
	Fellowship, University of North Carolina, 1994

Medical education, at both the UGME and GME levels, is the primary focus of Dr. Elnicki's scholarship. He has published on educational topics that include improving aspects of the internal medicine clerkskhip, early clinical exposures for medical students, assessment issues, improving the learning environment, teaching evidence based medicine skills, providing feedback to learners and teaching telephone medicine skills to residents. He currently is part of programs to develop curricula on pain management issues, to address issues of student mistreatment and improving residents' continuity clinics.

Dr. Elnicki is designated as a specialist in clinical hypertension by the American Society of Hypertension (ASH), and hypertension is his chief clinical interest. He maintains a hypertension clinic for complicated hypertension patients. That clinic has access to ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and input from a clinical pharmacist.

Teaching in ambulatory clinical settings is Dr. Elnicki's primary educational interest. This includes both teaching medical students on clinical clerkships and residents in their continuity clinics. A major portion of his time is now devoted to establishing a new medical school in Astana, Kazakhstan that is being built on the University of Pittsburgh's model. He has won numerous awards for teaching from trainees themselves, the University and national medical organizations. He was a founding member of the Academy of Master Educators at the University of Pittsburgh.

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