Upcoming Presentations 2024
Previous Presentations | Summer/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. |
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. |
