Upcoming Presentations Winter 2024/2025
December 18, 2024
"Navigating the Future: Artificial Intelligence for the Family Physician" Dr. Kevin Kindler is an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He completed his undergraduate studies in chemistry at the University of Richmond before earning his medical degree from Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Kindler completed his Family Medicine Residency at UPMC Shadyside, where he served as Co-Chief Resident. He later pursued a fellowship in Clinical Informatics at Christian Care/Sidney Kimmel Medical College, where he contributed to projects involving clinical decision support and digital health innovation. Dr. Kindler's current roles include ambulatory patient care at UPP Squirrel Hill Family Medicine and serving as a Faculty Member in UPMC’s Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program. His research focuses on clinical informatics, AI, and health technology innovation. Please join our teleconference! February 19, 2025
Topic: Insulin Pumps Gregory B. Castelli, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS, BC-ADM, CDCES, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he serves as Director of Academic and Clinical Pharmacy and Co-Lead of the Interprofessional Education Thread in the Three Rivers Curriculum. He earned his PharmD from Wilkes University and completed residency training at UPMC St. Margaret before holding faculty roles at West Virginia University and returning to Pittsburgh in 2016 to join UPMC St. Margaret's Family Medicine and Pharmacy Residency programs. Dr. Castelli practices primary care at UPP Family Medicine and Latterman Family Health Center, specializing in chronic condition management and evidence-based medicine, and is active in national organizations like ACCP and STFM. Please join our teleconference!
April 16, 2025
"Engagement and Empathy in the Era of the Open Note: High Acuity Medical Documentation" Dr. Tony Thrasher is a board-certified psychiatrist and the medical director of Crisis Services for the Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division. He completed his psychiatric training at Washington University in St. Louis at Barnes Jewish Hospital and is the Immediate Past President of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry (AAEP). A Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Dr. Thrasher is currently President of both the Wisconsin Psychiatric Association (WPA) and the Wisconsin Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons (WAOPS). In 2023, he served as Editor for the Oxford Press Primer on Emergency Psychiatry and the APA's Maintenance of Certification FOCUS journal. He was inducted into the American College of Psychiatrists, named a Top Doctor for 2022 by Milwaukee Magazine, earned his Certified Physician Executive (CPE) accreditation, and received the 2023 Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from National NAMI. |
Previous Presentations | Fall 2024
August 21, 2024
Topic: Gender affirming care: what an endocrinologist would love PCPs to know Janet Leung is a Clinical Assistant Professor at UPMC. She earned an engineering degree from MIT, went to medical school at the University of Michigan, residency at Stanford Medicine, and fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School. In addition to her deep love of all aspects of general endocrinology, she is especially interested in providing comprehensive endocrine care for transgender and gender-diverse people. At UPMC, she serves as Clinical Lead and Associate Program Director for Quality and Value and Clinical Lead for Transgender and Gender Diverse Care in the endocrinology division. She is active in USPATH, WPATH, and the Endocrine Society, and is finishing her term on the board of directors for the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology. |
October 16, 2024
"Primary Care Dermatology in Skin of Color" Dr. Frazier in an Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Education in the family medicine department at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He was born and raised in Texas, going to the University of Houston and then Baylor College of Medicine for medical school. He headed north to complete his family medicine residency in Chicago. After working 1 year at a federally qualified health center in the Southside he worked on the West Coast for three years before coming to Pittsburgh. While in Pittsburgh, he completed a faculty development fellowship, MPH, and post-doc in addiction medicine. Since completing this training, he has been an associate program director and medical director at two different family medicine residency programs in Texas and Pittsburgh. He then joined the department of family medicine in his current roles. His clinical and scholarly interests include primary care dermatology. He has published over a dozen peer-reviewed articles on dermatology topics, and he currently sits on the National Eczema Association Workgroup and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Atopic Dermatitis Guideline Panel. Outside of medicine, his partner is a family medicine physician who specializes in gender-affirming care and they have two young children. |
November 13, 2024 • Annual Grand Rounds
Topic: STEPS / POEMS Dr. Shaughnessy has edited several books and published over 200 research papers in the areas of medical education, continuing medical education, evidence-based medicine, pharmacology, family medicine education, prescription writing, and medical information management. He is assistant editor for American Family Physician and Senior Editor of Essential Evidence Plus. He has received several awards for teaching, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Family Medicine Education Consortium and The Innovative Program Award from the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. He is a member of the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society. In 2022 he was awarded The Lynn and Joan Carmichael Recognition Award for outstanding leadership in advancing family medicine as a discipline, the highest award given by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. |
Previous Presentations | Winter/Spring 2024
February 21, 2024
"Health Care and the environment: First do no harm" Noe Copley-Woods, MD is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the Univesity of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She attended medical school at Temple University School of Medicine and then completed her residency at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. She is currently a specialist in pelvic ultrasound and performs research and education in healthcare sustainability. She completed a Climate Health Organizing fellowship at Harvard Chan School of Public Health.
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April 17, 2024
"HIV Update" Cara McAnaney completed her undergraduate education at the University of Maryland-College Park and Barnard College prior to attending medical school at the University of Pittsburgh. She completed her family medicine residency training at the Lawrence Family Medicine Residency in Lawrence, MA, where she received additional longitudinal training in HIV and viral hepatitis. She next completed a fellowship in wilderness medicine at the University of California San Francisco Fresno. Dr. McAnaney currently serves as the Director of the HIV Primary Care Track for the McKeesport, Shadyside, and St. Margaret family medicine residencies. She sees patients at the Pittsburgh Area Center for Treatment of HIV Clinic and the Latterman Family Health Center. She also works part-time as a consultant for the University of California San Francisco's National Clinician Consultation Center. Please join our teleconference: Meeting ID: 948 7597 9805 For CME credit, text the code (which will be provided in the CHAT during the lecture) to 412-312-4424. |
June 19, 2024
"Updates in Pediatric Pulmonology" Dr. Tiffany Yang is a pediatrician, board-certified by the American Board of Pediatrics since 2019. She hails from Columbus, Ohio, where she earned her BS in biology from The Ohio State University. After graduation, she moved to Nashville, Tennessee to attend medical school at Vanderbilt University, where she developed her passion for pediatrics and medical education. She completed her pediatrics residency at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh in 2019 and earned a Master of Science in medical education from the University of Pittsburgh in 2023. She joined the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine as an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics in 2023. Clinically, she works as a pediatric hospitalist at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. She also serves as the Director of Pediatric Education with the Shadyside Family Medicine Residency Program and in the Department of Family Medicine. Dr. Yang’s academic interests include simulation, feedback, and pediatric curriculum design and evaluation for family medicine trainees. Dr. Yang has a husband, Tom, and a dog, Lucille. Outside of the hospital, Dr. Yang enjoys traveling, reading, and crossword puzzles. |
Previous Presentations | Fall 2023
August 16, 2023 | 12:15 PM (EST)
“A Guide to Tackling Sexual Harassment & Microaggressions in Medical Training” Emmanuelle Yecies, MD MS, is a staff physician at VA Palo Alto Healthcare System and a clinical assistant professor (affiliated) in Primary Care and Population Health at Stanford University. Dr. Yecies graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 2014 before completing a residency in Internal Medicine at UPMC. She went on to complete a three-year fellowship in Women’s Health and General Internal Medicine through the University of Pittsburgh and VA Pittsburgh, during which she obtained a master’s degree in Medical Education. She joined VA Palo Alto Healthcare System and Stanford University in 2020, serving as Women’s Health medical director while continuing to teach and develop educational materials for learners from medical student to faculty. Please join our teleconference: Meeting ID: 993 7436 1164 For CME credit, text the code (which will be provided in the CHAT during the lecture) to 412-312-4424. |
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December 20, 2023
“Lifestyle Medicine Update at UPMC FM” Dr. Thompson triple board certified in lifestyle, integrative, and osteopathic family medicine incorporating culinary medicine and mind-body skills into her patient care along with teaching medical students, interns, residents, and attendings at UPMC since 2006. As the medical director for the Lifestyle Medicine Institute, she is leading the initiative to place self-care in the center of patient care and employee health. She is changing the way medical education and residency is taught placing lifestyle medicine at the center of their training overseeing the lifestyle medicine residency curriculum for family and internal medicine training programs. She has served as Chair of Medicine and currently Vice Chief of Staff for UPMC Horizon and Jameson. Dr Thompson created a “Doctors in the Kitchen-Food as Medicine and Physician Wellness” program offering CME for her colleagues to learn about self-care and lifestyle medicine. As an avid educator and faculty for LECOM, PCOM, and UPSOM, she has taken traditional journal clubs for the residents into the teaching kitchen. She designed lifestyle medicine grand rounds offered virtually system wide. Dr. Thompson has transformed the way health care is offered in her primary care practice and community offering free classes in nutrition, WFPB teaching kitchens, mindfulness workshops, yoga, tai chi, qigong, meditation, sound therapy, art therapy, forest bathing, shop with a doc, aromatherapy, dancing mindfulness, Ayurveda, mind-body medicine, and many other integrative tools empowering people to take control of their health. She has received many awards and grants for her community work where she brought the Dr Yum Project to 3 counties and 2 states to teach nutrition to children and their families in 10 head start programs. Her pop-up teaching kitchen she designed moves through the community teaching churches, schools, businesses, first responders, and doctors’ offices the daily dozen and pillars of lifestyle medicine. As a Champion for UPMC Physician Thrive, she is a fierce advocate for physician wellness and stopping burnout. Dr Thompson created full-day programs for physicians and nurses to learn tools for resilience and self-care. Dr Thompson was featured in the New York Times on several occasions for her work in physician burnout, the workshops she has created, and mind-body skills groups for physicians and implementations of AI in healthcare. She was featured in the recent documentary Going Om discussing the health benefits of sound therapy as a tool in healing. She is an advocate for system change and has been a pioneer in changing the way health care is delivered. Please join our teleconference: Meeting ID: 918 5237 3152 For CME credit, text the code (which will be provided in the CHAT during the lecture) to 412-312-4424. |
