Please join us in welcoming our new Director of Operations, Jayme Falconio! Jayme has worked for UPMC since 2006 in multiple roles. Jayme’s most recent position with UPMC was Senior Practice Manager for Adolescent Medicine. In that role, she oversaw approximately 50...

Please join us in welcoming our newest faculty member, Janet Leung, MD! Dr. Leung received her medical degree from University of Michigan Medical School in 2010. In 2013, she completed an internal medicine residency at the Stanford University, VA Palo Alto Health...

We are pleased to announce that Erin Kershaw, MD has been awarded a National Institute on Aging R01 grant in collaboration with Lauren Sparks, PhD, from AdventHealth Orlando, and Jamie Justice, PhD, from Wake Forest. The grant is titled “Investigating the Role of...

We are pleased to announce that Frederico Toledo, MD has been awarded a National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases U01 grant in collaboration with Dhiraj Yadav, MD from the University of Pittsburgh Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and...

Endocrine Medical Director Esra Karslioglu-French, MD discusses the recent recall on Metformin and how it affects patients with diabetes in this article from Trib Live. Read the article here.

“First Person” is a series of interviews with early-careers researchers to promote their first-author publications and further research. Dr. Mooli is a postdoc in the lab of Sadeesh Ramakrishnan, DVM, PhD studying the role of hypoxic signaling in liver cancer. Learn...

We are pleased to announce that Vijay Yechoor, MD and the team headed by Lans Taylor, PhD, of the Drug Discovery Institute, have been awarded a National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases R01 supplement. The grant is titled “Therapeutic strategies...

We are pleased to announce that Bokai Zhu, PhD has been awarded a National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award from the NIH Common Fund’s High Risk, High Reward Research Program. This grant supports exceptionally creative scientists pursuing highly...

Fiscal Year 2020 was one full of accomplishments and growth for the Division of Endocrinology. Faculty, staff, and fellows published over 60 articles in scientific and clinical academic journals, including the Journal of Clinical Investigation and the Journal of...

The Division of Endocrinology at the University of Pittsburgh and the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology at Children’s Hospital Pittsburgh teamed up once again to raise money for diabetes awareness. Faculty, staff, and fellows participated in the American Diabetes...