Jill Zupetic, MD

Fellow, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Email: zupeticja@upmc.edu

Bio

Dr. Jill Zupetic graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a Bachelor’s Degree in Neuroscience, she also completed her medical education and residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Outside of the hospital Dr. Zupetic also enjoys hiking, biking, reading, and traveling.

Research Interests

Dr. Zupetic received an Excellence in Collaborative Teaching Award and analyzed data from the Severe Asthma Research Program (SARP) to examine if depression confounds the association between obesity and asthma control. She moved to the bench during residency and studied host-pathogen interactions in a murine model of Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia and how thrombospondin-1 regulates P. aeruginosa exoprotease and elastase activity. During fellowship, she plans to continue working on the characterization of pseudomonal exoprotease and elastase activity using clinical isolates from patients with P. aeruginosa pneumonia in the ICU.

Education

2006 – 2010 : University of Pittsburgh, B.S. Neuroscience
2010 – 2014 : University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, M.D.
2014 – 2017 : University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Internal Medicine Residency

Publications

• Qu Y, Olonisakin T, Bain W, Zupetic J, Brown R, Hulver M, Xiong Z, Tejero J, Shanks RM, Bomberger JM, Cooper VS, Zegans ME, Ryu H, Han J, Pilewski J, Ray A, Cheng Z, Ray P, Lee JS. Thrombospondin-1 protects against pathogen-induced lung injury by limiting extracellular matrix proteolysis. JCI Insight. 2018 Feb 8;3(3).

• Han S, Olonisakin TF, Pribis JP, Zupetic J, Yoon JH, Holleran KM, Jeong K, Shaikh N, Rubio DM, Lee JS. A checklist is associated with increased quality of reporting preclinical biomedical research: A systematic review. PLoS One. 2017 Sep 13;12(9):e0183591