We are pleased to announce that previous clinical and T32 fellow, Margaret Zupa, MD, MS has joined our division as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Zupa obtained her MD at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Buffalo in 2015. She then...

We are pleased to announce that Maja Stefanovic-Racic, MD, PhD has been promoted to Associate Professor of Medicine! Dr. Stefanovic-Racic joined the Division as an Instructor in 2004. In 2005, she became the Assistant Program Director of the Clinical Fellowship and...

We are pleased to announce that Aneseh Adeshirlarijaney, PhD and Alison Kohan, PhD have been awarded a University of Pittsburgh Cystic Fibrosis Research Center (CFRC) Impact Grant. The project funded by this award is titled “Are Plasma Lipoprotein Profiles an...

We are pleased to announce that Ruya Liu, MD, PhD has been awarded a UPMC Competitive Medical Research Fund (CMRF) in collaboration with Partha Dutta, DVM, PhD of the Vascular Medicine Institute. The project supported by this funding is titled “C5x as a Novel...

The Division is pleased to welcome Katrina Han, MD, Donna Lee, MD, and Divya Sistla, MBBS as Clinical Assistant Professors.Dr. Han obtained her MD at the University of Pittsburgh in 2016. She went on to complete an Internal Medicine Residency at UPMC in 2019....

We are pleased to announce that Michael Jurczak, PhD has been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure. Dr. Jurczak joined the Division as an Assistant Professor in 2015. Throughout his career, he has been an active mentor and facilitated multiple collaborations...

Congratulations to Karen Selk, DO for being appointed chief of UPMC Mercy Division of Endocrinology. Dr. Selk completed her internal medicine residency at UPMC Mercy, including serving as chief medical resident. She went on to complete an endocrinology fellowship...

We are pleased to announce that University of Pittsburgh undergraduate Leonie Finke has been awarded a Fall 2021 Chancellor’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship under the mentorship of Ruya Liu, MD, PhD. The project supported by this funding is titled “Dying of a Big...

We are pleased to announce that Yong Wan, PhD has been awarded a Samuel and Emma Winters Foundation grant. The project supported by this funding is titled, “Exploring Novel Targets Through Secretome Analysis for the Treatment of Osteoporosis”.

Congratulations to Sandra Sobel, MD for being elected to the Board of the Western and Central PA Chapter of the JDRF. In this role, Dr. Sobel will communicate and emphasize JDRF’s impact on type 1 diabetes research. She is tasked with staying current on the cutting...