UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - Key Persons

A. Everette James

Job Titles:
  • Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Policy and Planning, Health Sciences
Everette James, JD, MBA, is associate vice chancellor for health policy and planning, health sciences. He is also director of the University of Pittsburgh's Health Policy Institute (HPI), where he manages HPI's day-to-day operations and works with government, foundation, and business funders to support the institute's research and programs. Mr. James's faculty appointment is in the Graduate School of Public Health, where he is the M. Allen Pond Professor of Health Policy and Management. Mr. James has extensive experience in state and federal health policy and regulation, cost effectiveness, and translational health services research. From 2008-10, Mr. James was the Pennsylvania secretary of health and oversaw the regulation of all hospitals, nursing homes, and managed care plans in the Commonwealth. As a senior advisor to the governor, he formulated policy, drafted and negotiated legislation, and implemented laws and regulations during his tenure. Prior to his time with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Mr. James practiced law with a focus on insurance and health care corporate and regulatory matters in Washington, D.C. He received his BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his JD and MBA from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.

Amy L. Seybert

Job Titles:
  • Dean
  • Dean, School of Pharmacy
  • Dean, School of Pharmacy / Professor of Pharmacy and Therapeutics
Amy L. Seybert, PharmD, serves as dean of the School of Pharmacy and professor of pharmacy and therapeutics. She is Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics chair, administrative director of the pharmacy residency programs, director of the PharmacoAnalytics fellowship and associate director for pharmacy programs at the Winter Institute for Simulation, Education and Research (WISER). Dr. Seybert's research focuses on the scholarship of education using simulation as well as improvement of clinical outcomes in cardiovascular disease and critical care, with an emphasis on medication safety. She is recognized as an international leader in simulation education in pharmacy and pioneered the use of high-fidelity human patient simulation to advance pharmacotherapy knowledge, clinical decision making and medication safety skills in health care professionals. Her clinical research in cardiovascular and critical care pharmacy practice and medication safety has led to substantial advances in patient care as well as growth of pharmacy and patient safety services throughout the UPMC health system and beyond. In addition to her research and clinical care, Dr. Seybert is responsible for all pharmacy residency programs at UPMC Presbyterian, UPMC Shadyside, UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital and the School of Pharmacy, while also serving as the administrative lead for the residency and fellowship council in her role as chair. An accomplished faculty member, Dr. Seybert has been honored as a fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy and of the American Society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP). She has received multiple teaching awards, including the University of Pittsburgh Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award, ASHP Research and Education Foundation Pharmacy Residency Excellence Preceptor Award, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Rufus A. Lyman Award, and the AACP Distinguished Teaching Scholar Award. Dr. Seybert completed her BS in pharmacy and her PharmD at Pitt. She then completed her residency in cardiovascular critical care pharmacy at Tampa General Hospital in Florida in 1997, after which she returned to Pitt as an assistant professor of pharmacy and therapeutics.

Amy M. Morgan

Job Titles:
  • Executive Administrator

Anantha Shekhar

Job Titles:
  • Dean
  • John and Gertrude Petersen Dean, School of Medicine
  • Member of the National Academies of Sciences
  • Senior Vice Chancellor for the Health Sciences
Dr. Shekhar is an elected member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation. Dr. Shekhar, who was born in India, earned his medical degree at St. John's Medical College, Bangalore, and PhD in neuroscience at Indiana University.

Angela J. Burrows

Job Titles:
  • Associate Vice Chancellor for Strategic Communications
As associate vice chancellor for strategic communications, health sciences, Angela J. Burrows, MPM, oversees the marketing and communications strategies for University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences and the School of Medicine and establishes and leads a comprehensive and integrated suite of services designed to elevate and promote their missions. Ms. Burrows oversees all activities of the Pitt health sciences centralized communications staff and advises and collaborates with communications personnel in the six health sciences schools to achieve these goals. During a career spanning more than 35 years, Ms. Burrows has served as an executive-level marketing and communications leader at six universities, including Pitt. She has accumulated extensive expertise in successfully establishing strategies, managing integrated teams, and capitalizing on data to reach institutional objectives. Her wide-ranging experience includes presidential communications, branding, media relations, issues management, crisis communications, concept development and strategy, digital communications, publications, and public relations. Ms. Burrows has led several award-winning teams whose work has been consistently recognized for excellence in multiple marketing and communications categories. Prior to joining Pitt, Ms. Burrows served as associate vice president and chief marketing officer at Pennsylvania Western University (PennWest), advancing from her role as vice president for brand strategy and marketing at Edinboro University when California, Clarion and Edinboro Universities merged to form PennWest. Previous roles include chief communications officer at Susquehanna University, senior director of marketing and public relations at Point Park University, executive director of infomedia services for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Greensburg, and director of public relations for Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. Ms. Burrows earned her BS in psychology with a double-major in English from the University of Pittsburgh, a Master of Public Management from Carnegie Mellon University, and an Executive Certificate in Crisis Leadership in Higher Education from Harvard Kennedy School.

Anthony Delitto

Job Titles:
  • Dean
  • Dean, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Barbara E. Barnes

Job Titles:
  • Associate Vice Chancellor for Industry Relations and Continuing Education, Health Sciences
Barbara E. Barnes, MD, MS, serves as associate vice chancellor for industry relations and continuing education, health sciences, and associate dean for continuing medical education with the School of Medicine. She coordinates continuing medical education (CME) programs in the Schools of the Health Sciences and UPMC, oversees CME accreditation for the School of Medicine, and administers the University of Pittsburgh's Health Career Scholars Academy and Office for Oversight of Anatomic Specimens. Dr. Barnes began her career as a general internist and emergency medicine physician in rural Pennsylvania. She was senior vice president for provider relations at Saint Vincent Health Center in Erie, Pa., before coming to Pitt. She received her MD from the Penn State Hershey College of Medicine and her MS in health services administration from Gannon University. Her research interests include the use of educational technology and integration of continuing education into performance-improvement initiatives.

Bernard J. Costello

Job Titles:
  • Associate Vice Chancellor for the Office of Interdisciplinary Education, Health Sciences
  • Associate Vice Chancellor for the Office of Interdisciplinary Education, Health Sciences / Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Bernard J. Costello, DMD, MD, is associate vice chancellor for the office of interdisciplinary education and professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery. In his associate vice chancellor role, he collaborates with the senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and other members of senior leadership to build a framework that enables greater collaboration among the six health sciences schools. The chief of pediatric oral and maxillofacial surgery at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and a surgeon with the Cleft and Craniofacial Center, Dr. Costello earned his doctorates in dentistry and medicine from the University of Pennsylvania, where he completed a residency in oral and maxillofacial surgery followed by a craniofacial fellowship at the Posnick Center for Facial Plastic Surgery and Georgetown University Medical Center. Dr. Costello has served in leadership positions with a number of professional societies and foundations. He is a vice president on the board of directors of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and is past president of the American Academy of Craniomaxillofacial Surgeons and the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Dentists. Dr. Costello has been principal and co-investigator on multiple grants and research contracts, including Novel Synthetic Bone Craniofacial Regeneration, funded by the Department of Defense, and Bone Tissue Engineering Using Natural Materials, funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Health and the National Science Foundation. He has also been an investigator on studies that evaluate tissue adhesives and the pathology causing craniosynostosis. He is an author on numerous peer-reviewed publications and an editor and contributor to many texts focused on pediatric craniomaxillofacial surgery. Dr. Costello regularly lectures internationally on pediatric and adult facial differences and craniofacial regenerative translational research.

Carl Lawson

Job Titles:
  • Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Health Sciences
Carl Lawson, PhD, MPH, MA, is responsible for leading efforts across all six Pitt Health Sciences schools to foster an inclusive environment in which students, trainees, staff and faculty of all races, ethnicities, genders and religions can thrive. Prior to joining Pitt in 2024, Dr. Lawson served at Rosalind Franklin University (RFU) of Medicine in North Chicago, Illinois, as director of diversity, equity and inclusion for Chicago Medical School and director of interprofessional global health for RFU. He has extensive experience designing initiatives to advance the success of faculty and students from groups underrepresented in medicine and working with faculty, students and administrators to address and increase community knowledge of DEI issues in academic medicine. Carl has also engaged faculty and students in courses ranging from global health, health disparities, health care inequities, LGBTQ+ patient care and structural racism in medicine. As global health director for RFU, Carl forged relationships with medical schools, hospitals and other organizations based outside the United States to further mutually beneficial learning and training opportunities between RFU and its international partners. Carl is a proud veteran who served as a commissioned officer with the U.S. Public Health Service while at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Center for Global Health. In this role, he managed international infectious disease program operations for CDC satellite offices in multiple countries, worked as the administrator for a global quarantine reporting system, and contributed to public health emergency response efforts. He also volunteered with the U.S. Peace Corps in The Gambia. Dr. Lawson earned his BS from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, an MPH in international health and development from the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, an MA in international relations from the University of Kent Brussels School of International Studies, and his PhD in peace and conflict studies from the United Nations University for Peace. He also earned certification from the Association of American Medical Colleges' Healthcare Executive Diversity and Inclusion program, an intensive academic curriculum aimed at training leaders to drive diversity as a core component of excellence in health care.

Chandan K. Sen

Job Titles:
  • Associate Vice Chancellor for Life Sciences Innovation and Commercialization
Chandan K. Sen, PhD, MS, a world-renowned regenerative medicine expert and pioneer of novel wound care technologies, joined the University of Pittsburgh in 2023 as associate vice chancellor for life sciences innovation and commercialization, health sciences, and also serves as director of the University's McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine (MIRM). In these leadership roles, he is responsible for accelerating momentum in research areas that are key to the future of the Pittsburgh region, and for driving collaboration with local and national academic and industry partners to speed scientific discoveries to patients and the marketplace. Dr. Sen is also a professor of surgery in the School of Medicine, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Plastic Surgery, and is chief scientific officer of UPMC Wound Care Services. Since 2000, Dr. Sen's research lab has consistently pioneered novel solutions for tissue injury, repair, regeneration and infection and propelled commercialization of a wide variety of therapeutics, preventatives and related products in the field. His scientific breakthroughs in tissue nanotransfection, electroceutical infection management, nanomedicine and bioinformatics apply to a wide range of diseases and conditions. He currently leads a patient-based biomarker study for the NIH-funded Diabetic Foot Consortium (DFC) - the first multicenter network to study diabetic foot ulcers. His team is also conducting a DFC study examining whether a breach of barrier function of the skin on a newly healed foot ulcer can predict the likelihood of its recurrence, a finding that would prove transformational in guiding treatment. Among many awards and honors, Dr. Sen's team won the 2018 Edison Award for Innovation for the development of a nanochip device that uses tissue nanotransfection (TNT) and nanoporation to noninvasively reprogram one type of tissue into another functionality. These TNT-based technologies could potentially enable skin and other tissue to be converted to tissue types necessary for supplying blood to ischemic tissues, reducing diabetic complications and re-growing damaged and diseased tissue. Dr. Sen's team also won the 2016 Frost & Sullivan Award for New Product Innovation for being the first to show that special bandages that become electrically active upon contact with body fluids can be used to disrupt bacterial biofilm infection, combat antibiotic resistance and enable healing in infected burn wounds. Dr. Sen earned his Master of Science degree in human physiology from the University of Calcutta, his PhD in physiology from the University of Eastern Finland, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining Pitt, he served at Indiana University (IU) as the J. Stanley Battersby Professor of Surgery, a distinguished university professor, executive director of the IU Health Wound Care Center and director of the Indiana Center for Regenerative Medicine and Engineering (ICRME), among other leadership roles. Dr. Sen has published more than 350 peer-reviewed papers (H-index 110) and a dozen books, which have been cited more than 45,000 times.

Christine E. Kasper

Job Titles:
  • Dean, School of Nursing
Christine E. Kasper, PhD, RN, is the dean of the School of Nursing. Dr. Kasper earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the University of Evansville in Indiana, a Master of Science in Nursing at Rush University in Chicago and a PhD in nursing from the University of Michigan, where she also focused on exercise physiology. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Rush University in physiology and biophysics, she served as assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing and associate professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Nursing. She was also the M. Adelaide Nutting Research Professor at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Kasper's scholarship has covered a broad range of topics but has a significant focus on muscle atrophy and, more recently, conflict-related injuries. She has more than 200 national and international peer-reviewed and invited publications, books and presentations to her credit. Additionally, she has worked across disciplines with researchers, clinicians, educators and policymakers and held leadership positions in interprofessional organizations, like the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), to enhance the application of advances in rehabilitation and genomics in health care and clinical research. Dr. Kasper was previously dean of the University of New Mexico (UNM) College of Nursing, a position she held since 2018. Before joining UNM, she served as a senior nurse executive and senior research scientist in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Nursing Services, and was professor and chair in the Daniel K. Inouye Graduate School of Nursing at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. She was also principal investigator on numerous National Institutes of Health, NASA and Department of Veterans Affairs grants and has studied the role of "desert dust" metals on the pathobiology of Gulf War Illness. The current editor of the Annual Review of Nursing Research, Dr. Kasper was founding editor of Biological Research for Nursing. She was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Nurses in 1994, a fellow of ACSM in 1995 and inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Inaugural Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame in 2015.

Darlene F. Zellers

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Vice Chancellor
  • Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Career Development, Health Sciences
Darlene F. Zellers, PhD, is associate vice chancellor for academic career development, health sciences, and associate dean for postdoctoral affairs in the School of Medicine. Since 2003, Dr. Zellers has been director of the Office of Academic Career Development (OACD), Health Sciences, which enhances the recruitment, retention, and academic success of biomedical scientists and clinical investigators within the health sciences, particularly postdoctoral fellows. OACD helps emerging investigators navigate the processes surrounding the discovery and translation of biomedical knowledge. Under Dr. Zellers, OACD established a standardized postdoctoral career development and progress assessment process across the Schools of the Health Sciences. The office has also notably propelled the success of women in science and medicine and has garnered national acclaim for its efforts. Dr. Zellers previously served as associate dean of continuing education and summer programs in the College of General Studies. Dr. Zellers's research interests involve academic cultures, professional career development, and program development. Among her awards is the 2012 University of Pittsburgh Postdoctoral Association Postdoctoral Advocate Award. Dr. Zellers received her BS degree from Pennsylvania State University and both her MA in administrative and policy studies and PhD in higher education administration from the University of Pittsburgh.

Deborah A. Kollar

Job Titles:
  • Associate Vice Chancellor for Administration and Human Resources Management and Policy, Health Sciences
  • MSL
Deborah Kollar, CPA, is associate vice chancellor for administration and human resources management and policy, health sciences. In this position, which is part of the Office of Administration, Health Sciences, she oversees key functions in overall administrative operations and talent resource management. She collaborates with the six schools in the health sciences, administrative teams across the University of Pittsburgh and external contacts to identify, establish and implement policies and procedures for operations and human resource management. Prior to coming to Pitt, Ms. Kollar worked in public accounting in a number of roles, including forensic accounting and litigation support, and with a wide variety of industries and clients. At Pitt, she has held a number of positions of increasing responsibility in the areas of finance, human resources, clinical operations and business administration, including the roles of chief financial officer and director of clinical operations at University Dental Health Services, Inc. She most recently served as director of planning and management, health sciences. Ms. Kollar received her bachelor's degree in accounting from Robert Morris University and is a licensed certified public accountant. She earned her Master of Studies in Law at the University of Pittsburgh.

Derek C. Angus

Job Titles:
  • Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Care Innovation, Health Sciences
  • Associate Vice Chancellors
  • Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
Derek C. Angus, MD, MPH, is the inaugural associate vice chancellor for health care innovation, a role that complements his appointment as UPMC's chief health care innovation officer and fosters more strategic linkages between the two organizations to enable improved learning of health systems. In his associate vice chancellor role, Dr. Angus works to stimulate the fusion of multiple disciplines and skills, blending expertise in clinical care delivery with organization science, decision psychology, machine learning, Bayesian trial designs, causal inference, implementation science and behavioral economics, among others. Dr. Angus' mandate is to enable us to learn while doing-to make smarter, faster decisions and create better integration across all of the translational, clinical, and health services and health policy domains on campus. In doing so, Dr. Angus supports the entire health sciences community in working together more effectively and in concert with UPMC. Dr. Angus also gives equal attention to creative disruption in health sciences education. Progress in health care innovation requires the development of leaders and teams with considerable range across disciplines that have not necessarily been emphasized and have rarely been united in the same person or team. Thus, Dr. Angus works to identify opportunities to think about curricular innovations and novel training programs across the health sciences. Dr. Angus is ideally positioned for his new roles. He is an internationally renowned and highly prolific scientist who has developed and led many successful multidisciplinary collaborations of basic scientists, clinicians, data scientists, economists, and behavioral and social scientists. In recent years, he has been a leader in developing and evaluating approaches that facilitate smarter decision-making and faster learning in health care, including novel Bayesian adaptive trial designs, the application of machine learning to large-scale data, and the use of behavioral economics and decision psychology to support optimal decision-making. Dr. Angus is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom and has received multiple national and international honors. He completed medical school and internal medicine training at the University of Glasgow and affiliated teaching hospitals, and he completed a fellowship in critical care medicine and his MPH in health services administration at Pitt.

Doris Ru

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice Chancellor for Clinical Research Education and Training
Doris Rubio, PhD, is assistant vice chancellor for clinical research education and training, health sciences. She is a professor of medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine, and of biomedical informatics, of biostatistics, and of clinical and translational science at the University of Pittsburgh.

Doris Rubio

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice Chancellor for Clinical Research Education and Training, Health Sciences
Dr. Rubio has extensive experience as a researcher, educator, mentor, and administrator. As director of Pitt's Institute for Clinical Research Education (ICRE), she oversees and helps shape numerous training, degree-granting, and career-development programs for clinical and translational science researchers. At ICRE, she has directed or co-directed seven courses for postdoctoral fellows and faculty members and has mentored and advised many trainees from underrepresented groups. She directs the Leading Emerging and Diverse Scientists to Success (LEADS) and Building Up a Diverse Pipeline for the Biomedical Research Workforce (Building Up) programs and previously led the Professional Mentoring Skills Enhancing Diversity (PROMISED) program within ICRE. Dr. Rubio has also previously directed the University's Center for Research on Health Care (CRHC) Data Center, which provides database development, data management, and statistical and qualitative support for investigators across the health sciences schools. Dr. Rubio has conducted research and implemented new practices on diversifying the biomedical sciences workforce and has led grants aimed at assisting trainees from diverse backgrounds to launch and sustain careers in the health sciences. Her research interests and areas of study have also included psychometrics, alcoholism and depression, structural equation modeling, quality-of-life indicators, and career development. Dr. Rubio studied social work throughout college and graduate school, receiving her bachelor's degree from Florida Atlantic University, her master's degree from Florida International University, and her PhD from Washington University in St. Louis. She is past president of the Association for Clinical Research Training (ACRT) and formerly chaired the Evaluation Key Function Committee and the Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design Key Function Committee for the NIH's Clinical and Translational Science Awards. Dr. Rubio has received the Educator of the Year Award from the Association for Clinical and Translational Science, which recognizes a leader in clinical research education and mentoring, among other honors.

Dr. Marnie Oakley

Job Titles:
  • Dean
  • Dean, School of Dental Medicine
  • Fellow of the ADEA 's Leadership Institute
  • Interim Dean
Dr. Marnie Oakley, DMD, is dean at the School of Dental Medicine. After earning her DMD from Pitt in 1992, she served an active duty, four-year tour as a dental officer in the United States Navy. She returned to Pitt in 1996 as a clinical assistant professor and since then has steadily taken on roles of increasing leadership. She is the school's vice dean and associate dean for clinical affairs and former chair of the Department of Restorative Dentistry and Comprehensive Care. Among her many contributions, Dr. Oakley was responsible for the development and implementation of the School of Dental Medicine Comprehensive Care program, which provides patients with oral health treatments that ensure that their dental care contributes to their overall health and prioritizes their most important medical needs. She served as chair of the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) Annual Session Planning Committee for two consecutive years, for which she received a citation from the ADEA president. As a graduate fellow of the ADEA's Leadership Institute, Dr. Oakley was an officer in several ADEA committees and groups. She is a senior consultant for the Academy of Advancing Leadership, where she offers one-on-one consulting services and seminars on various leadership topics to academicians across the country. Dr. Oakley maintains membership in numerous professional organizations, including the American Dental Association, Pennsylvania Dental Association, Dental Society of Western Pennsylvania, Omicron Kappa Upsilon and the Academy of General Dentistry. Dr. Oakley facilitates leadership training at a national level across dental education. She has gained an international reputation in dental education as a speaker, consultant to other schools, and mentor with the ADEA's leadership programs.

Jackie Detty

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant to the Dean

Jacqueline DiNardo

Job Titles:
  • Assistant to the Dean

Jaime R. Cerilli

Job Titles:
  • Associate Vice Chancellor for Strategic Space Planning and Management, Health Sciences
  • Associate Vice Chancellor for Strategic Space Planning and Management, Health Sciences / Director, Strategic Space Planning, School of Medicine
Jaime R. Cerilli, PhD, MPM, is associate vice chancellor for strategic space planning and management, health sciences. The Office of Space Management, Health Sciences, was established in 2013 under Dr. Cerilli's leadership to oversee and manage the maintenance, renovation, and expansion of the health sciences schools' infrastructure and building space on campus and beyond. The office manages all capital construction projects, acts as a liaison with facilities management, anticipates and addresses space needs and requirements, and conducts strategic planning for more than 3 million square feet of health sciences research, teaching, and administrative space. Dr. Cerilli has been with the University since 1997 and has facilitated faculty recruitment, lease negotiations, and grant submissions and led a variety of capital construction and renovation projects. She has been integral to the design, construction, and planning of the 10-story, 330,000-square-foot Biomedical Science Tower 3 research center on Fifth Avenue, the Bridgeside Point I and II facilities on Technology Drive, and the ongoing renovations and new West Wing Addition to Alan Magee Scaife Hall, home of the School of Medicine. She and her team keep large-scale projects on budget while managing space inventories and promoting cost-saving measures. Dr. Cerilli received her bachelor's degree in public administration and communications from Pitt, her master's in public policy and management from Carnegie Mellon University, and her doctorate from Pitt's School of Education.

Jeremy M. Berg

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Associate Senior Vice Chancellor for Science Strategy and Planning, Health Sciences
  • Associate Senior Vice Chancellor for Science Strategy and Planning, Health Sciences / Professor of Computational and Systems Biology, School of Medicine
  • Vice Chancellor for Science Strategy and Planning
Jeremy M. Berg, PhD, is associate senior vice chancellor for science strategy and planning, health sciences, and professor of computational and systems biology in Pitt's School of Medicine. Dr. Berg works to advance the University's position as a biomedical research leader. In July 2016, he was named editor-in-chief of Science magazine and the Science family of journals. Dr. Berg was the founding director of Pitt's Institute for Precision Medicine, which he oversaw from 2013-16. Launched by Pitt and UPMC, the institute applies genetics, genomics, and research in other areas to advance evidence-based medicine and treatments tailored to individual patients, often through genetics and DNA analysis. Prior to his appointment at Pitt in 2011, Dr. Berg served as director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), one of the National Institutes of Health, where he oversaw a $2 billion budget supporting basic research across a wide range of areas, including cell biology, genetics, biological chemistry, bioinformatics, anesthesiology, wound healing, and critical care medicine. Before serving as NIGMS director, Dr. Berg directed the Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he was professor and director of the Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry. Dr. Berg's research into the structures and functions of biological molecules has elucidated how zinc-containing proteins bind to DNA or RNA and regulate gene activity. As a bioinorganic chemist, Dr. Berg investigates biomolecule interaction inside cells using experimental and computational methods. Dr. Berg's awards and honors include the American Chemical Society's Public Service Award, the Distinguished Service Award from the Biophysical Society, and election to the National Academy of Medicine. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and past president of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Dr. Berg earned his BS and MS in chemistry at Stanford University, received his PhD in chemistry from Harvard University, and was a postdoctoral fellow in biophysics at Johns Hopkins.

Jessica Sikora

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant to the Dean

JoAnne Flynn

Job Titles:
  • Appointed Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Chair

Kaleab Z. Abebe

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice Chancellor for Clinical Trials, Health Sciences
  • Assistant Vice Chancellor for Clinical Trials, Health Sciences / Associate Professor of Medicine, Biostatistics, and Clinical and Translational Science
  • Member of the Kidney
As assistant vice chancellor for clinical trials, Dr. Abebe seeks to standardize the infrastructure and processes for clinical trials as well as develop networks of existing clinical and data coordination efforts across the University of Pittsburgh's schools of the health sciences. Dr. Abebe joined the School of Medicine faculty in 2009 after receiving his MA and PhD in statistics from the University of Pittsburgh. He holds a primary appointment in the Department of Medicine's Division of General Internal Medicine. He also holds secondary appointments in the School of Public Health's Department of Biostatistics and at the University of Pittsburgh's Institute for Clinical Research Education, where he directs the Clinical Trials Research Track for the Master of Science in Clinical Research program. Dr. Abebe also directs the Center for Research on Health Care Data Center as well as the Center for Clinical Trials and Data Coordination within the Division of General Internal Medicine. His collaborative research focuses on design, conduct, coordination, and analysis of multicenter randomized controlled trials. He is the principal investigator (PI) of two large NIH-funded consortiums: the COPE-AKI (Caring for OutPatiEnts after Acute Kidney Injury) Consortium Scientific and Data Research Center, which is developing and testing interventions to reduce morbidity and mortality in acute kidney injury, and the Data Coordinating Center for the REBIRTH Study, which will assess the effect of bromocriptine on left ventricular ejection fraction in women with peripartum cardiomyopathy. Additionally, he is co-PI for the CaRISMA study, which is a pragmatic trial examining the effectiveness of computerized cognitive behavioral therapy (vs. pain education) on pain intensity in adults with sickle cell disease. Dr. Abebe's methodological interests revolve around the design and analysis of cluster randomized trials. Beyond his roles at Pitt, Dr. Abebe is a standing member of the Kidney, Endocrine, and Digestive Disorders (KEDD) Study Section at the National Institutes of Health. He also serves on the board of the Society for Clinical Trials and as chair of its Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee.

Ken Gabriel

Job Titles:
  • Named Pitt BioForge CEO and Advanced Biomanufacturing Institute Director

Kinsey Casey

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Vice Chancellor
  • Associate Vice Chancellor for Economic Development, Health Sciences
Kinsey Casey is associate vice chancellor for economic development, health sciences. In this position, Ms. Casey helps lead the health sciences' role in the transformative growth of the region's life sciences and biotech ecosystem, elevating the University's status as a global leader in research and innovation. One of her areas of focus is the development of the Pitt BioForge into a global center for advanced biomanufacturing that will help translate promising therapies to the clinic in collaboration with UPMC, the external research community and research organizations and life sciences companies. Ms. Casey has more than 20 years of experience in executing leaders' strategic visions and managing multimillion-dollar partnerships and complex relationships in national nonprofit and government roles. Before her current position with the University of Pittsburgh, she served as chief operating officer of the City of Pittsburgh from 2019-22, where she oversaw day-to-day operations, with an emphasis on coordinating activities among departments and with city-affiliated agencies. From 2017-19, she was chief of staff for national nonprofit Emerge America, and her first position with Pitt was as deputy chief of staff to Chancellor Gallagher from 2015-17. Among other positions, Ms. Casey served in the Obama administration for seven years, including as chief of staff for Secretary John Kerry's Office of Global Partnerships at the Department of State, in the White House Presidential Personnel Office and at the Department of Homeland Security. Ms. Casey earned a BA in political science and history from Wagner College in Staten Island, N.Y.

Leeanna McKibben

Leeanna McKibben, DHA, MSN, RN, joined the University of Pittsburgh in 2021 as the inaugural chief of staff for Anantha Shekhar, MD, PhD, senior vice chancellor for the Health Sciences (SVCHS) and John and Gertrude Petersen Dean, School of Medicine. As an executive on the SVCHS leadership team and senior-most staff member in the SVCHS office, Dr. McKibben works to create, develop, and advance the top priorities of the health sciences. These include internal and external relationships, operational and strategic initiatives, and Pitt's partnership with UPMC. Additionally, she serves as Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences administration, directly responsible for the Economic Development, Human Resources, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Communications and Marketing, and Global and Academic Affairs portfolios. Dr. McKibben has over 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry, serving in executive, clinical, operational, administrative, and academic roles. Prior to joining Pitt, she served as the Vice President of Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing Officer at UPMC Mercy, a 500-bed level one trauma center, and executive co-lead of the UPMC system-wide 40-hospital Emergency Services group. She has guided her teams to achieve recognized excellence, including Joint Commission Comprehensive Stroke designation, Geriatric Emergency Department accreditation, Trauma and Burn accreditation, Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade A, and two Magnet Recognition designations, considered the most prestigious recognition of nursing excellence. Leeanna was instrumental in establishing enhanced behavioral health, substance use, housing, and clinical care services to meet patient needs in an urban underserved setting. She has served as an executive lead on large-scale healthcare construction efforts totaling more than $1.4 billion. Additionally, she has directed comprehensive human resources and finance efforts with experience in academic, community, and provider settings. Dr. McKibben earned an MS in nursing administration and leadership and a BS in nursing from Chatham University, where she has served as adjunct faculty since 2008. She holds a doctorate in health care administration from Capella University, focusing on data analytics utilization to guide decision-making. Dr. McKibben holds certification in executive nursing practice through the American Organization of Nurse Leaders (AONL) and is an active member of AONL, Southwestern Pennsylvania Organization of Nurse Leaders, and Sigma Theta Tau International. She was recognized as a 2022 American Heart Association Woman of Impact and awarded a 2013 University of Pittsburgh Cameo of Caring Management Advanced Practice and a 2006 DAISY Award. She is currently the board chair for the American Heart Association Southwestern Pennsylvania Region.

Margaret C. McDonald

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic and Global Affairs, Health Sciences
Margaret C. McDonald, PhD, MFA, is associate vice chancellor for academic and global affairs, health sciences. In this capacity, she coordinates the development and support of research, educational, and public affairs initiatives within the health sciences schools and between the health sciences and other University units; provides expert support to University executive staff; and promotes and implements health-related collaborative relationships with academic institutions in other countries. Dr. McDonald has been a member of the project development team for initiatives in Sapporo, Japan (residency program in general internal medicine); Palermo, Italy (fellowship training for Ri.MED Foundation scientists); Erzurum, Turkey (School of Medicine curriculum needs assessment); Cairo, Egypt (maternal and child health in rural areas); Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (health sciences curriculum consultation for Princess Noura University); and Astana, Kazakhstan (development of a new medical school at Nazarbayev University), as well as academic collaborations with universities and hospitals in Sao Paolo, Brazil; Manila, Philippines; Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Changsha, China; Danang, Vietnam; and Hyderabad, India, among others. Dr. McDonald collaborates closely with UPMC International to leverage partnerships of mutual benefit to both entities. She also regularly convenes the global health representatives from the six health sciences schools to initiate and respond to a broad range of opportunities and to leverage existing expertise into a strong Health Sciences Global Affairs team. On the academic affairs side, Dr. McDonald and her team routinely organize and implement academic and research-based activities and events designed to advance research, collaboration, and innovation within and beyond the health sciences schools. Dr. McDonald is associate professor of epidemiology in the Graduate School of Public Health and associate professor of psychiatry in the School of Medicine. Her research interests include health and risk communication and the global burden of psychiatric illness. Dr. McDonald received her BA in English and drama from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, her MFA from Antioch University, and her PhD in epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. Before coming to the University of Pittsburgh in 1983, Dr. McDonald had a successful career as a science and medical journalist. At Pitt, Dr. McDonald has held a number of positions of increasing responsibility.

Mark W. Geraci

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Associate Vice Chancellor for Interdisciplinary Research, Health Sciences
  • Associate Vice Chancellor for Interdisciplinary Research, Health Sciences / Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine
Mark W. Geraci, MD, is associate vice chancellor for interdisciplinary research, health sciences, and is professor of medicine in the School of Medicine. He seeks to advance research efforts across all six health sciences schools by implementing novel approaches and programs and enhancing the research infrastructure necessary to support the University's expanding biomedical research activities. Dr. Geraci works to build collaborations and to stimulate interdisciplinary research with the ultimate goals of promoting health and healing, curing disease, and enhancing lives. Dr. Geraci's research interests center on the role of the signaling molecules eicosanoids in the biology of lung cancer and pulmonary vascular diseases. His lung cancer research also focuses on early carcinogenesis and chemoprevention and the use of lung cancer animal models. His work has uncovered important findings, such as the finding that airway dysplasia could be reversed in former smokers by using the drug iloprost. Prior to joining Pitt in 2020, Dr. Geraci was on faculty at Indiana University, where he was the John B. Hickman Professor and chair of the Department of Medicine. There, he expanded the department's research portfolio, clinical growth, and financial position while broadening diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. He also held leadership roles with the Precision Health Initiative program and the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. Dr. Geraci earned his BA at the University of Colorado studying molecular, cellular, and developmental biology and psychology. He received his MD from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and trained in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School before completing a pulmonary sciences and critical care medicine fellowship at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.

Maureen Lichtveld

Job Titles:
  • Dean
  • Dean of the School
  • Dean, School of Public
  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine
Maureen Lichtveld, MD, MPH, is dean of the School of Public Health, where she oversees the growth and continued success of the school's seven academic departments and hundreds of students, faculty, and staff. She also serves as professor of environmental and occupational health and is the Jonas Salk Professor of Population Health. Dr. Lichtveld studies environmental public health, focusing on environmentally induced disease, health disparities, environmental health policy, disaster preparedness, public health systems, and community resilience. Her research examines the cumulative impact of chemical and non-chemical stressors on communities facing environmental health threats, disasters, and health disparities. Before joining Pitt in January 2021, Dr. Lichtveld chaired Tulane University's Department of Environmental Health Sciences in the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She also directed the Center for Gulf Coast Environmental Health Research, Leadership, and Strategic Initiatives within Tulane's public health and tropical medicine school. In this role, Dr. Lichtveld led development and implementation of disaster management, health promotion, and disease-prevention strategies for Gulf Coast communities. Prior to her arrival at Tulane in 2005, Dr. Lichtveld spent 18 years with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, where she designed public health research tools and protocols to guide environmental health studies in communities located near hazardous waste sites. Dr. Lichtveld is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and a member of the board of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health. She received her MPH from Johns Hopkins University's School of Hygiene and Public Health and her MD from Anton de Kom University of Suriname and the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.

Michael J. Becich

Job Titles:
  • Associate Vice Chancellor for Informatics
  • Associate Vice Chancellor for Informatics, Health Sciences
Michael J. Becich, MD, PhD, is associate vice chancellor for informatics in the health sciences. As chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics, he leads the department's efforts to use technologies to advance biomedical research and clinical care. The scope of the department's research ranges from genomic and proteomic data mining to machine learning and biosurveillance. Dr. Becich's personal research focuses on the interface between clinical informatics and bioinformatics. He has studied clinical phenotyping of patients for personalized medicine, tissue banking informatics and pathology informatics, and data sharing's role in clinical informatics and bioinformatics. He is a current fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. He is founding president of the Pittsburgh-based Association for Pathology Informatics, which seeks to advance pathology informatics as a core subspecialty discipline in the medical community. Dr. Becich received his BA in biology in 1977 and his MD and PhD degrees in 1984, all from Northwestern University. He completed a fellowship in urologic pathology from the University of Nebraska and both a fellowship and residency in anatomic pathology at Washington University in St. Louis.

Monica L. Baskin

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice Chancellor for Community Health Equity, Health Sciences
  • Professor
Monica L. Baskin, PhD, is professor of medicine in the Division of Hematology/Oncology and associate director of community outreach and engagement at Hillman Cancer Center. She also serves as associate director of health equity at Hillman Cancer Center and assistant vice chancellor for community health equity within the Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for the Health Sciences at Pitt. On the Hillman leadership team, Dr. Baskin directs community outreach and engagement in the catchment area served by the cancer center. She also leads screening and prevention studies to quantify and overcome barriers to screening and early detection of cancer in under-represented minority and rural populations across the Hillman network. Dr. Baskin joins Pitt Med and Hillman from the Heersink School of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), where she served as professor of preventive medicine and inaugural vice chair for culture and diversity in the Department of Medicine. She also served as inaugural associate director for community outreach and engagement at the O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB. For nearly 20 years, Dr. Baskin has led an extensive extramurally funded research program aimed at reducing health disparities in the Deep South. Most of her research has focused on community-based participatory methods that link academic partners to community- and faith-based networks to better understand and address factors associated with healthy eating, physical activity, obesity and cancer prevention and control. Dr. Baskin has served on the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Accelerating Rural Cancer Control External Advisory Board and as chair of the World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Continuous Update Project Global Expert Committee on Cancer Incidence. She is associate editor for Science Advances and past president of the Society of Behavioral Medicine. Dr. Baskin is also a member of the first cohort of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Leaders Program, a member of the Executive Committee of the Council on Black Health, and an authorized facilitator for nationally known training programs on unconscious bias. Dr. Baskin earned her Bachelor of Arts in psychology and sociology from Emory University and Master of Science in community counseling and PhD in counseling psychology from Georgia State University; she is also a licensed psychologist.

Ora A. Weisz

Dr. Weisz is an alumna of the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine program. She is a member of the School of Medicine's Academy of Master Educators and director of its career mentoring program. Dr. Weisz is a recipient of a School of Medicine Distinguished Mentor Award and a University of Pittsburgh Postdoctoral Association Advocate Award. She serves on several journal editorial boards, including Physiological Reviews, Traffic, and the American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology.

Patricia Corby

Job Titles:
  • Associate Vice Chancellor for Clinical Trials Development and Operations
Patricia Corby, DDS, MS, is the inaugural associate vice chancellor for clinical trials development and operations, University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences. In collaboration with leadership across the University, Dr. Corby develops strategies and infrastructure to strengthen the ability of Pitt Health Sciences faculty to obtain increasingly competitive clinical research awards from both traditional and emerging sponsors and assists with study design and grant applications for multicenter and large-scale projects. She also cultivates dynamic and synergistic relationships between and among clinicians, faculty, researchers, industry partners and others to establish and maximize discovery, innovation and entrepreneurship across Pitt Health Sciences. Dr. Corby holds a primary appointment as associate professor of radiation oncology in the School of Medicine and a secondary appointment as professor of periodontics and preventive dentistry in the School of Dental Medicine, where she additionally serves as a senior advisor for clinical and translational research. Prior to joining Pitt in 2023, Dr. Corby served as associate dean of translational research at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), School of Dental Medicine (PDM) and associate professor of oral medicine. She also directed PDM's Center for Clinical and Translational Research, where she spearheaded a significant expansion of clinical and translational extramural support. In addition, Dr Corby held a secondary appointment as associate professor of radiation oncology at the Abramson Cancer Center, UPenn School of Medicine. Prior to Penn, Dr. Corby held various appointments at New York University (NYU), including associate professor of periodontics and implants at the College of Dentistry and associate professor of radiation oncology and population health at the School of Medicine (2015-2019). During this same period, she also served as director of clinical research operations and led the Center for Large Scale Clinical Studies for NYU Langone Health. Earlier in her NYU tenure, she led the College of Dentistry's Translational Research Center (formerly the Bluestone Center), which supports investigators conducting Phase I-IV medical and dental clinical trials both within and outside the University. Dr. Corby earned her Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from the Fundação Tricordiana de Educacao and completed her residency in periodontics and implant dentistry from Universidade Paulista's Instituto de Ciencias da Saude, both in Brazil. From 1998-2002, Pat served as assistant professor in the Department of Dental Public Health at Pitt's School of Dental Medicine. She then went on to earn her MS in biomedical informatics from Pitt Med and complete postdoctoral training in molecular biology and microbial genetics at Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Pat's research focuses on the value of integrating medical and dental services in different health care and public health settings to prevent systemic complications in populations with unmet oral health needs and associated chronic diseases.

Paul Monga

Job Titles:
  • Lead New Pittsburgh Liver Institute

Paula Davis

Job Titles:
  • Sciences DEI Leader

Renae Barger

Job Titles:
  • Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences Library System
Renae Barger, MLIS, is associate vice chancellor for Health Sciences Library System (HSLS). In this position, she is responsible for the leadership and administration of the library's services and collections to support all six schools within the Schools of the Health Sciences: Dental Medicine, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Public Health. Ms. Barger oversees innovation and development in the areas of user services, collections and resources, management and infrastructure, cooperative initiatives and outside funding. Additionally, she oversees the licensing and management of an extensive collection of clinical e-resources for the hospitals and facilities of UPMC, along with services to support graduate medical education programs. Ms. Barger is a Pitt alumna, earning a BS from the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, an MLIS from the School of Information Sciences and a graduate certificate from the Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine. She began her career at HSLS in 2002, starting as a trainee in the Library and Biomedical Informatics Trainee Program and progressively advancing to assistant director and associate director positions. From 2011 to 2021, Ms. Barger served as executive director and then program lead for the Network of the National Library of Medicine-Middle Atlantic Region, building a highly regarded program that was recognized regionally and nationally for innovative health information outreach. From 2017 to 2021, she served as associate director for Research, Instruction, and Clinical Information Services for HSLS, providing leadership for initiatives and services that influence research, access, instruction, scholarly communication and data management. Ms. Barger also leads the Network of the National Library of Medicine All of Us partnership between the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Iowa that leverages a team science approach to address the community engagement, training and education needs of the network's All of Us program. She is an active member of the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee.

Richard M. Henderson Jr.

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Vice Chancellor
  • Associate Vice Chancellor for Finance Management, Health Sciences
Richard M. Henderson Jr. is associate vice chancellor for finance management, health sciences, and is responsible for providing financial counsel and management to the senior administration in the health sciences. He directs key financial activities in the Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for the Health Sciences (SVCHS) and works to ensure that annual operating and capital budgets are prepared and reported to the appropriate areas in the health sciences and to the University of Pittsburgh Office of the Controller. Additionally, he serves as a financial liaison between Pitt and UPMC Physician Services Division. Mr. Henderson has been working at Pitt since 1991, exclusively within the SVCHS office. He received his undergraduate degree and both of his master's degrees from the University of Pittsburgh. During Mr. Henderson's time working at Pitt, the health sciences annual operating budget has grown from about $200 million to more than $1.3 billion. Mr. Henderson has also provided oversight and assistance to the health sciences in many new budget initiatives, like the annual Responsibility Center Resource Proposal process and the transition to a responsibility center management budget model.

Robert L. Ferris

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Vice Chancellor
  • Associate Senior Vice Chancellor for Cancer Research, Health Sciences
Robert L. Ferris, MD, PhD, is associate senior vice chancellor for cancer research, health sciences; Hillman Professor of Oncology; professor of otolaryngology, of immunology, and of radiation oncology, School of Medicine; and director, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center. As a physician-scientist, Dr. Ferris seeks to further develop and implement immunotherapy, which stimulates the body's immune system to eliminate and suppress cancer. By translating basic science discoveries into immunotherapies for the clinic, Dr. Ferris and colleagues are developing new techniques to combat head and neck tumors, as well as other types of cancers. He studies the immune response to human papillomavirus-associated head and neck cancers and treats patients with benign and malignant tumors of the head and neck using minimally invasive approaches. In 2017, Dr. Ferris was named director of the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, overseeing all aspects of cancer research and education at the region's only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center. As founding codirector of the Tumor Microenvironment Center at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Dr. Ferris studies how immune cells in the tumor microenvironment can be harnessed to combat cancer and how tumor cells evade the body's immunologic defenses. Dr. Ferris received his bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and both his MD and immunology PhD from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed his residency training at Johns Hopkins Hospital, serving as chief resident in otolaryngology and receiving sub-specialty training in head and neck oncologic surgery. He is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the recipient of numerous research and teaching awards.

Stephanine Duplaga

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant

Steven E. Reis

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Vice Chancellor
  • Member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation
  • Vice Chancellor for Multidisciplinary Innovations, Health Sciences
  • Vice Chancellor for Multidisciplinary Innovations, Health Sciences / Director, Clinical and Translational Science Institute / Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine
Steven E. Reis, MD, is associate senior vice chancellor for clinical and translational research, health sciences, and Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine. He is the founding director of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), which supports biomedical discovery and the translation of biomedical advances into clinical practice. Pitt's CTSI is part of a national consortium of research institutes funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It was established in 2006 as one of the first 12 such institutes in the nation. Since then, CTSI has been awarded more than $320 million in NIH grants, underscoring the institute's achievements and its goals to foster collaborative and innovative research that advances new medical therapies and technologies in clinical care while training clinical scientists and ensuring greater access to research and clinical trials for patients and the public. Dr. Reis is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. He received his BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his MD from Harvard Medical School. He completed a residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a cardiovascular fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Thomas Berkhoudt

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Associate Vice Chancellor for Grants and Awards, Health Sciences
Thomas Berkhoudt, MBA, is associate vice chancellor for grants and awards, health sciences. He is responsible for overseeing key functions of the Research Administration Office in developing and implementing research administration goals and priorities. The office manages preaward and postaward research administration activities, recharge centers, management of research data systems and research administration training activities. Mr. Berkhoudt joined Pitt in 2019 after working at UPMC as the director of the Office of Grants and Contracts in the Department of Psychiatry. He helped develop the Committee of Research Administrators at Pitt and was the inaugural president during the first two years of implementation. He started his career at the University of Rochester and then worked at the Rochester Institute of Technology before coming to Pitt. Mr. Berkhoudt received his bachelor's degree in accounting from Alfred University, earned a master's of business administration from the University of Rochester and passed the Certified Research Administrators exam in 2012.

Timothy R. Billiar

Job Titles:
  • Associate Senior Vice Chancellor for Clinical Academics, Health Sciences
  • Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery
Dr. Timothy Billiar has served as the George Vance Foster professor and chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh since 1999. As the associate senior vice chancellor for clinical academics, he invests in the academic success of the clinical departments to enhance our strong clinical and translational research partnership with UPMC with an eye toward the future of academic medicine. Dr. Billiar completed his surgical residency at the University of Minnesota and at Pitt after earning his BA in natural sciences at Doane College and his MD at the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine. His research has been recognized with membership in the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Billiar was named executive vice president and chief scientific officer at UPMC in 2021. He also serves as a senior scientific advisor for UPMC Enterprises, UPMC International and the UPMC Immune Transplant and Therapy Center, a partnership between the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC. Dr. Billiar's laboratory has been funded by the NIH for over three decades. He currently holds a T32 trauma training grant and R35 grant from the NIH, and a CMDRP award from the DoD. He holds seven U.S. patents associated with his research.

Uduak S. Ndoh

Job Titles:
  • Vice Chancellor and Deputy Chief Information Officer
  • Vice Chancellor and Deputy Chief Information Officer, Health Sciences
Uduak S Ndoh, MBA, vice chancellor and deputy chief information officer, health sciences, works to enhance the IT strategy in the health sciences and develop a technology organization and platform that supports education, research and clinical activities. He enables the delivery of IT services to meet the goals of the health sciences and further the vision of One IT to simplify the environment and enhance services overall. Mr. Ndoh joined the University of Pittsburgh in October 2021, coming from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, where he served as associate dean for information technology and chief information officer. His background includes over 20 years of experience in leadership and technology implementations, including the implementation of a clinical trial management system and enterprise resource planning (ERP) system at Duke Clinical Research Institute and then at Carolina Value, an initiative to centralize all IT functions across the School of Medicine at UNC. During his career, Mr. Ndoh has established and directed highly successful, multi-million-dollar initiatives. In addition to his technology leadership, Mr. Ndoh served as adjunct professor for the School of Information and Library Science at UNC, where he taught graduate courses in organizational leadership and system analysis and system design. Moreover, he worked with departmental colleagues to apply available university technology in support of research, teaching and learning and pedagogy. Mr. Ndoh earned his BS in chemical engineering from North Carolina A&T State University and his MBA from Wake Forest University.

William J. Madden

Job Titles:
  • Pitt in 1993 As a Director
  • Vice Chancellor for Finance and Resources, Health Sciences
  • Vice Chancellor for Finance and Resources, Health Sciences / Vice Dean for Administration, School of Medicine
William J. Madden, MS, CPA, is vice chancellor for finance and administration, Health Sciences, and vice dean for administration, School of Medicine. He oversees financial management of the Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor and of the Schools of the Health Sciences. Mr. Madden facilitates the financial relationships between Pitt and UPMC and oversees overall budget coordination for the Schools of the Health Sciences. He also helps manage costs surrounding the School of Medicine's federal research grants and directs the administrative oversight of the health sciences schools. Mr. Madden joined Pitt in 1993 as a director in the Office of Budget, Planning and Analysis. In 1998, he became the director of special projects in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Budget and Controller. In 2000, he joined the Office of Administration, Health Sciences, as director of planning and management. In 2017, he was named associate senior vice chancellor for administration, health sciences. Mr. Madden received his bachelor's degree in business administration in 1984 from Robert Morris University. He became a certified public accountant in 1987 and earned a Master of Science in information science in 1997.