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Congratulations to the UPMC Physician Excellence Award Winners!
We are very pleased to announce the five faculty members who have been selected as UPMC Physician Excellence Award winners. Each recipient was chosen from many highly qualified nominees. The ID Division was represented in the Early- to Mid-Career Physician… Read more
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M. Hong Nguyen, MD – Receives NIH Research Award
Minh-Hong Nguyen, MD, has been awarded funding in the amount of $437,250 for a two-year grant by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID) entitled, “Within-patient Candida auris strain diversity in a tertiary hospital.” This proposal was submitted… Read more
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Madhu Choudhary, MD – Receives NIH Research Award
Madhu Choudhary, MD, has been awarded funding in the amount of $657,036 for a one-year administrative supplement to the U01AI152969 award (Sharon Riddler, PI) by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID) for a proposal… Read more
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Yijia Li, MD, Receives RUSTBELT CFAR Developmental Grant
Yijia Li, MD, has been awarded funding in the amount of $50,000 for a one-year grant by the RUSTBELT Center For AIDS Research (CFAR) entitled, “Intact HIV-1 Provirus Decay Dynamics on Long- Term ART.” This proposal was submitted in response to the… Read more
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J. Alex Viehman, MD – Receives Leadership Appointment
We are very pleased to announce that J. Alex Viehman, MD, has been appointed Program Director of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program, effective July 1, 2023. Dr. Viehman was recruited to UPMC as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine in… Read more
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Welcome First Year ID Fellows 2023
Please welcome our newest ID first year fellows! We are pleased to be sharing the next two years with these bright, young future specialists! Please welcome: Dr. Kavitha Ramakrishnan, MDDr. Jason Park, MDDr. Tyler Tate, MDDr. Sahil Angelo, MD (pictured… Read more
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Dr. Mohamed Yassin, MD, PhD, Leads UPMC Mercy Infection Prevention Team to APIC 2023 in Florida
The Infection Prevention team from UPMC Mercy, lead by Dr. Mohamed Yassin, MD, PhD absolutely crushed it at the APIC 2023 Annual Conference in Orlando, FL last month. Mohamed was a coauthor for DS 37 – “Examining Endoscope Dryness Following… Read more
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Alex Trzebucki, MD Appointed Associate Medical Director for Clinical Operations and Quality with ID Connect
Alex Trzebucki, MD, has been appointed Associate Medical Director for Clinical Operations and Quality with the Tele-ID program at Infectious Disease (ID) Connect and as a member of the UPMC System Infectious Diseases Clinical Quality Committee effective July 1, 2023. Dr.… Read more
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