UPMC Presbyterian / UPMC Magee-Womens
Quick Facts
UPMC Presbyterian Hospital
- Has a Level I (highest level) Trauma Center, designed to treat the most serious life-threatening injuries – and the area’s only Trauma in Pregnancy Center
- Over 750 medical/surgical beds, 150 critical care beds, and more than 32,000 inpatient admissions per year
- Major training site for all University of Pittsburgh residency and fellowship programs
- Has performed more than 20,000 total transplants and 2,000 lung transplants, the most of any lung transplant program in the U.S.
- Home of Thomas E. Starzl, M.D., the “father of transplantation”
- Second center in the world to surpass 3,000 cardiothoracic transplants
- One of 41 nationally certified Comprehensive Stroke Centers
UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital
- State-of-the-art Emergency Department delivers extensive medical services to men and women 24/7
- Offers expertise in women’s health across the lifespan and an array of services for men
- Treats more than 1,500 seriously or critically ill babies each year; the highest-volume neonatal intensive care unit in Pennsylvania and one of the largest in the country
- Collaborates with Magee-Womens Research Institute, the largest research institute in the U.S. devoted exclusively to women’s health research
- One of the busiest clinical sites in the country for women’s cancer
- Offers additional care services for all patient populations such as genetics and genomics, imaging, cardiology, orthopedic surgery, lupus, gastro-enterology, colorectal surgery, pulmonology, and urology. In addition, Magee is home to robust MS Clinic, Infusion Center and Vein Center.
Allison DeKosky, MD
Medical Director, Presbyterian Hospital Medicine
Associate Professor
E. Raymund Ramirez, MD
Associate Medical Director, Presbyterian Hospital Medicine
Clinical Assistant Professor
Fadeke Akanbi, MD
Clinical Instructor
Matan Arnon, DO
Clinical Assistant Professor
Dreema Awan, MD
Clinical Instructor
Ricardo Bedoya, MD
Senior Hospitalist, UPMC Magee Hospital Medicine
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Pooja Bhatt, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Layana Biglow, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Molly Brennan, DO
Clinical Instructor
Andy Cheng, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Allison Cipriani, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Chelsea Dahl, MD
Assistant Professor
Kendall Downer, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Ashten Ebersbacher, DO
Clinical Assistant Professor
Kristian Feterik, MD, MBA, FAMIA
Associate Professor
Shea Ford, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Lauren Glikes, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Danielle Heffner, MD
Assistant Professor
Adam Hsu, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
William Levin, MD
Associate Professor
Kathryn Leyens, MD
Clinical Instructor
Audrey Lim, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Almut McDermott, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Casey McQuade, MD, MS
Assistant Professor
Bruce Milburn, MD
Clinical Instructor
Margaret Moreland, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Jessica Oh, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Krupa Patel, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Ann Perrin, MD, MPH
Clinical Assistant Professor
Michael Porter, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Raghunandan Purushothaman, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Siddique Qurashi, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Sinthana Ramsey, DO
Clinical Assistant Professor
Evan Sacolick, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Tabinda Saleem, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Amjad Sattout, MD, MASc
Clinical Assistant Professor
Michael Simonson, MD, MS
Assistant Professor
Danica Smith, DO
Clinical Assistant Professor
Wilton Smith, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Benjamin Sprague, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Tara Sunder, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
John Szymusiak, MD, MS
Associate Professor
Alvin Thalappillil, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Justin Wang, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Faculty, Non-ACGME Fellow
Andrew Wickerham, MD, MPH, MBA
Clinical Assistant Professor
Katherine Willoughby, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Christopher Wynkoop, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Advanced Practice Providers
Alexis Allan, PA-C
PA Specialist
Ahlam Abukhdeir, PA-C
PA Specialist
Tauna Price, CRNP
CRNP Specialist
Shally Saini, CRNP
CRNP Specialist
Michell Weber, CRNP
CRNP Specialist
Tracey Willis, CRNP
CRNP Specialist
Allison Wojciechowski, PA-C
PA Specialist
Administrative Support
Adam Kramer
Director, Operations
Tracey Townsend
Administrative Coordinator
Presbyterian Team Structure
Academic Hospital Medicine
- 7 traditional teaching teams, with the attending physician leading a team of one resident, two interns, an acting intern, and two third-year medical students
- Attending physicians conduct daily teaching rounds in the afternoon and twice a week bedside rounds with their team
- The educational goal is to develop residents with strong clinical, management, teaching and leadership skills
- Residents work independently under close supervision, leading daily multidisciplinary and care coordination rounds
Junior Hospitalist Service
- One attending physician leads a team of 3 second-year residents
- The educational goal is to strengthen the clinical, management, and efficiency skills of our residents.
- Daily teaching sessions centered around hospital medicine topics
Non-Teaching Service
- Hospitalist Attending physicians and Advanced Practice Providers see patients independently
- 2 teams that cover all patients not admitted to the main medical floors
Medicine Consults
- 2 consult teams that provide 24/7 preoperative risk assessments for all surgical patients
- Management of all medical conditions for the patients admitted to non-medical services
- Co-management programs that enhance efficiency and quality of the patient’s discharge