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Witness exciting innovations happening across UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh. UPMC Physician Journal videos showcase physician researchers and clinicians who are making life-changing medicine happen.
Featured Specialties: Radiology, Oncology
In this UPMC Physician Journal feature, learn about exciting advances in theranostics with Ravi Patel, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor Radiation Oncology, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center; and Shyam M. Srinivas, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Director of Molecular Imaging Research, UPMC.
Featured Specialties: Podiatry, Plastic Surgery
In this UPMC Physician Journal feature, witness the unique collaboration of husband and wife team Dr. Jeffrey Gusenoff and Dr. Beth Gusenoff. He’s a plastic surgeon and she’s a podiatrist, and together they’ve developed an evidence-based procedure to treat fat pad atrophy and plantar fasciitis.
Learn more about the husband and wife team's evidence-based procedure.
Featured Specialties: Oncology
Ovarian cancer accounts for more deaths than any other cancer of the female reproductive system, in part because there is no reliable test for early detection. In this UPMC Physician Journal feature, Sarah Taylor, MD, assistant professor, UPMC Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, discusses what women should consider about preventative salpingo-oophorectomies and hysterectomies if genetic testing has revealed a pathogenic variant placing them at increased risk.
Learn more about risk-reducing surgery for gynecologic cancers.
Featured Specialties: Oncology, Gastroenterology, and Transplantation
In this UPMC Physician Journal feature, join Diwakar Davar, MD, and Hassane M. Zarour, MD, as they study ways to help more cancer patients respond to immunotherapy using fecal microbiota transplants.
Learn more about immunotherapy using fecal microbiota transplants.
Featured Specialties: Gynecology and Oncology
In this UPMC Physician Journal feature, Phuong Mai, MD, associate professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, and Genetic Counselor Darcy Thull, MS, discuss the role of genetic testing to reveal a woman’s increased risk of hereditary cancers, including breast and ovarian cancer, as well as the range of prevention and early-detection interventions when testing reveals a pathogenic variant.
Featured Specialties: Orthopaedic Surgery
In this UPMC Physician Journal feature, MaCalus V. Hogan, MD, MBA, Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery at UPMC and David Silver Professor and Chair of Pitt’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, takes viewers inside a research lab to see cutting-edge technology being used to improve diagnosis and care of orthopaedic conditions.
Learn more about the cutting-edge technology being using at UPMC research labs.
Featured Specialties: Radiology
Meet Margarita Zuley, MD, FACR, Chief of Breast Imaging at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital, and learn about contrast-enhanced mammography as a way to improve diagnostics and offer a lower-cost and more accessible method of breast imaging for women with increased risk of breast cancer.
Featured Specialties: Rheumatology
The rheumatology field faces a critical shortage of health providers. Christine Peoples, MD, director of the Telerheumatology Program at UPMC, explains how the health system reaches more patients with rheumatic disease and advances long-term clinical care through unique options in tele-medicine.
Learn more about the benefits of Telerheumatology from Dr. Peoples.
Featured Specialties: Rheumatology
Meet Andreea Coca, MD, MPH, Medical Director at UPMC’s Lupus Center of Excellence, and learn about a unique UPMC clinic that uses tele-health visits to address the dramatic influx of new patients with rheumatic disease. The RAVE Clinic (Rapid Access Video Encounter) reduces wait-times for appointments, assessments, and crucial follow-up care.
Featured Specialties: Critical Care Medicine
Sepsis is the cause of approximately one out of every five deaths around the world. Join Kristina Rudd, MD, MPH, as she explains her award-winning work on sepsis and Syndemic Theory, and exploring adverse interactions between medical and social risk factors in order to develop novel strategies in clinical care, research, and health policies.
Learn more about Dr. Rudd's work on sepsis and Syndemic Theory.
Featured Specialties: Neurology
Join Dr. Page Pennell as she discusses her work on the MONEAD study and provides an inside look at the groundbreaking research that is giving new hope to pregnant women with epilepsy.
Featured Specialties: Pediatrics, Rheumatology
Go behind the scenes at the Juvenile Systemic Scleroderma Center at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and see how its multidisciplinary team is innovating new treatments for this rare and devastating autoimmune disease.
Featured Specialties: Pulmonology
Carbon monoxide is one of the most common causes of poisoning in the world. In this UPMC Physician Journal feature, meet a team of physician-scientists who have made a breakthrough that could lead to the first-ever antidote for CO poisoning in humans.
Learn more about the UPMC team whose research could lead to CO poisoning antidote.
Featured Specialties: Otolaryngology
Join Dr. Thanos Tzounopoulos as he explores the neuroscience of tinnitus and provides an inside look at the labs of University of Pittsburgh researchers as they strive to develop the first FDA-approved drug to treat this condition.
Learn more about University of Pittsburgh's tinnitus research.
Featured Specialties: Endocrinology
Learn from Dr. Vijay Yechoor, Dr. Ipsita Banerjee, and Dr. D. Lansing Taylor as they demonstrate how their team uses an innovative technology known as microphysiological systems – or organs on a chip – to develop better methods for disease modeling and drug testing.
Featured Specialties: Gastroenterology, Transplantation
Meet the team of physicians and researchers who have made UPMC the national leader in living-donor liver transplants and learn about the novel protocols implemented for each life-saving surgery.
Learn more about the novel living-donor liver transplant protocols.
Featured Specialties: Psychiatry
Meet the UPMC team behind the award-winning research investigating the link between molecular changes in the brain and psychiatric illness and learn about the discoveries that could lead to novel treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Learn more about how this research may affect treatment for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
Featured Specialties: Rehabilitation
Join Dr. Eric Helm and Dr. Lee Fisher for an inside look at promising research that uses devices to stimulate the nervous system and restore sensory feedback for patients with amputations.
Learn more about Dr. Helm and Dr. Fisher's sensory feedback research.
Featured Specialties: Oncology
The rapid autopsy program at UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh is leading to cancer research that would otherwise be impossible. Hear about the expansion of this program and the central tissue bank that provides a greater understanding of the disease evolution and drivers of metastases.
Learn more about UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh's rapid autopsy program.
Featured Specialties: Ophthalmology
An international team of researchers, co-led by UPMC’s José-Alain Sahel, MD, set a bold goal: curing blindness. Meet the patient experiencing a first-of-its kind success story using optogenetic vision restoration.
Learn more about Dr. Sahel and team's vision restoration research.
Featured Specialties: Cardiology
Greater diversity in the cardiology workforce is known to lead to better outcomes for patients. UPMC’s Amber E. Johnson, MD, MBA, and Katie Berlacher, MD, are leading an effort to improve diversity now and attract the next generation of cardiologists.
Learn more about the effort to increase diversity in the cardiology workforce.
Featured Specialties: Orthopaedic Surgery
Freddie H. Fu, MD, the creator of UPMC’s world-renowned sports medicine program and long-time chair of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, was one of the most recognized and beloved physicians in Pittsburgh. In this UPMC Physician Journal feature, we pay tribute to the medical legacy of Dr. Fu and honor the kind and compassionate man at the heart of it all.
Featured Specialties: Endocrinology
Join George Gittes, MD, as he walks through the exciting and unexpected potential of diabetes gene therapy. What started as a basic study on beta cells in the pancreas, turned into a possible treatment to eliminate the need for insulin replacement for people with diabetes.
Learn more about how this gene therapy research may offer potential diabetes cure.
Featured Specialties: Neurology
In this UPMC Physician Journal feature, discover the latest advances in novel surgical methods for treating epilepsy - and, see the clinical and research efforts to develop safer and more efficient methods to treat patients with severe seizer and movement disorders.
Learn more about the latest advances in surgical methods for epilepsy treatment.
Learn more about Dr. Fu, the quest to reduce chronic organ rejection, and more.
Learn more about new leadership at UPMC, new COPD device therapy interventions, and more.
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