Pitt General Internal Medicine

We love celebrating #internalmedicine for many reasons, but here are just a few in honor of #nationalinternalmedicineday! 🩺

Some physicians leave a mark on patients; others leave a mark on a field. Dr. Peter Bulova's done both. Congrats on his 2026 UPMC Physician Excellence Award! For 20+ years, he's dedicated his career to the care of adults with physical, intellectual, & developmental disabilities.

The best primary care doctors build trust, one conversation at a time. Congrats to Dr. Rebecca Green on her 2026 UPMC Physician Excellence Award for Early Career Clinical Care! 👏 Since joining UPMC in 2022, she’s become one of our most sought-after internists. #PittMed

Congrats to Dr. Lars Margolis on winning a 2026 UPMC Physician Excellence Award for Early Career Physician Excellence in Clinical Care! 👏 Beyond top-tier bedside care, he’s reshaped #PallCare billing dept-wide via a THRIVE grant & teaches serious illness communication.

Congrats to @jillianrkylepgh on winning a @SocietyGIM Mid-Atlantic Innovation Poster Award for her poster, “Flipped Classrooms for Clinical Immersion for Ophtho Training in the Medicine Clerkship," developed in collaboration with PGY2 Laura Gerrick, MD. 🎉 #SGIM #MedEd #PittMed

What does this mean for system design? Behavioral insights can help us understand how people will respond to different systems, and design safer and more effective interventions, decision-support tools, and human-AI systems.

What does their research show? Experience can lead people to behave as if they believe that "it won't happen to me," stop too early or too late, or rely too much on automation. Read this pub for more about their findings: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…

Dr. @doroncohe and colleagues used simplified, tightly controlled tasks to isolate behavioral mechanisms behind real-world problems. By understanding which behaviors different systems tend to reinforce, we can predict behavior and design better systems.

What will you learn in today’s #PittHSRseminar with Dr. @doroncohe? How to better understand human behavior by understanding the systems that shape it, and how people adapt to them. Follow along or hop on Zoom to join us! pitt.zoom.us/j/91688845926

A Vaccination Clinic happening today from 1-5 pm at 2nd Avenue Commons! Get your Tetanus, Measles, Pneumonia, Flu, or Covid-19 vaccine, no appointment needed. Sign up at the clinic, and snacks are on us. 🍪 #VaccinationClinic #PublicHealth #CommunityHealth

Pitt’s @Raaginizzle & Austen Markus served as subject matter expert partners on a new @HealthAllegheny report examining the overlapping health risks faced by people who inject drugs. Read the report: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories…

🎉 Congrats to Vanessa Murray, ACES Fellow, whose poster “Prescribing with Purpose: A Decision-Tool-Based Curriculum to Teach Management Reasoning” was awarded Best Poster by a Postgraduate Trainee at the 11th Annual Med Ed Day! #MedEd #ADME #MedicalEducation #ClinicalReasoning

.@PaulJoudreyMD & @RCloutierPhD co-authored a commentary on the future of person-centered methadone treatment calling for shifting away from compliance-based models toward meaningful patient participation & stronger shared decision-making. #PittMed pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4276…

New from Sonya Borrero: a clinical trial testing a digital decision support tool for reproductive health conversations. The text message intervention didn’t significantly boost discussions overall — pointing to a need for refined, scalable strategies. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4277…

Join us Wed, Nov 4, 1-5pm at Second Ave Commons for a Vaccination Clinic! 💙💛 Tetanus, Measles, Pneumonia, Flu & COVID-19 vaccines will be available. Walk in, sign up, enjoy snacks! Share with someone who needs one 🙌 #PublicHealth #PittMed #CommunityHealth

Today’s #PittHSRseminar: Dr. Audrey Zhang examines how primary care delivery has changed & what new Medicare payment & workforce data reveal. In-person or Zoom! 💻 gim-crhc.pitt.edu/events/hsr…

.@Raaginizzle, @shang_maggie, Megan Hamm, José Luiggi-Hernández, Flor de Abril Cameron, @liebschutz & colleagues found #HarmRduction kit implementation in outpatient addiction clinics was successful but stigma & funding challenges persist. More: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4240…

Has primary care financing & staffing kept pace with what it actually requires? Join #PittHSRseminar Oct 29 as Audrey Zhang discusses a new Medicare payment for longitudinal care & the growing role of APPs in primary care. In-person or Zoom! 🔗 gim-crhc.pitt.edu/events/hsr…

Congrats to @GinaPiscitello, Donna Durant, Tami Minnier, Marika Haranis, @rabob & @JaneSchell11 on their study of hospitalized patients with comfort measures only orders. Among ~6.8K patients, #PallCare consults ⬇️ mortality & ⬆️ hospice discharge. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4225…

Opioid overdoses are rising in older adults even as other age groups decline, yet MOUD trials often exclude them. Tim Anderson & Tae Woo (Ted) Park earned a NIDA R01 to close that gap. 👏 #PittMed