.UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute and the Heart Institute at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh were well-represented at the 2024 American College of Cardiology Annual Meeting. UPMC experts led lectures & presented abstracts on a number of important cardiovascular topics. Learn more about the participation at #ACC24 : go.upmc.com/2345hRQdb

Have you missed some sessions #ACC24 🫀?
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- Diversity in the congenital cardiology workforce is critical.
- Changes in pediatric residency and the future congenital cardiology workforce
- Many more exciting sessions
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Thanks to the Am J Crit Care for publishing the manuscript we wrote on family caregiving across the critical illness continuum.👇

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There is much to unpack!
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Join us tomorrow on Microsoft Teams for #PittEndo 's Endocrine University Wide Conference featuring Alaa Sada, MD, MS from the University of Pittsburgh. For more information, or to request the Teams link, please email [email protected].

The 2024 @SITC election is open today through May 7th. Please consider supporting our director Robert Ferris, MD, PhD, longtime SITC member & candidate for VP. Click below to vote. Pitt Health Sciences
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In surgical treatment of large thoracic dumbbell tumors, perioperative evaluation with augmented reality, new robotic surgical techniques, and a dual surgeon approach can mitigate a myriad of risks. journals.lww.com/onsonline/abst… Nitin Agarwal, M.D. Rida Mitha UPMC Physician Resources

Aman Mahajan, MD, PhD, MBA, of Pitt Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine provides insights into research published by Zahra Dalir, PhD, and team in Scientific Reports suggesting #VR mitigates the pain of #ChestTube removal in #CoronaryArteryBypass grafting.

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🚨Hot off the press! Check out these articles by Drs. Kassandra Allbright and Amanda Moale

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#PAS2024 attendees: UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh faculty will be presenting in the Trainee Zone on Sunday, May 5, from 9:45 to 10 a.m. Be sure to stop by and hear from our faculty about the 'Joys of Career in Pediatric Hospital Medicine.' 🩺

Beta blockers are associated with lower all-cause mortality among HFpEF patients | Clinical Research in Cardiology link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Nice talk by my colleague Parul Barry on de-escalation of radiation treatment in low molecular risk breast cancer at ARS. UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Heath Skinner, MD PhD ARS ROCKET🚀

Join us: May 9 from 6-8 pm ET for Evolving Mgmt of Acute Cholecystitis: A Multidisciplinary Approach. In-person @ the @Pitt University Club or Virtual on Teams. All interested med professionals welcome.
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Hussain Mahmud, MD, and David Rometo, MD, both of UPittEndo, published a notable report in Obesity Science and Practice that explored the effects of adjuvant anti-obesity medications on weight loss & weight regain within a comprehensive lifestyle program. go.upmc.com/2322hzMuo

Big congratulations to Lily Bessette & CP3's Tim Anderson on their award-winning poster at #DOMResearchDay2024 !

New breast cancer screening guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force expand the potential benefits of mammography but don't go far enough, University of Pittsburgh Professor of Radiology Wendie Berg writes in JAMA Oncology.

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Thanks Pitt Department of Pediatrics for summarizing our work recently published in AJP-Endocrinology and Metabolism! 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
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Had a great time representing the continence lab and Pitt Geriatrics at PittDeptofMed #DOMResearchDay2024 talking about the impact of Urgency Urinary Incontinence on functional measures. #PittGeriatrics

#ICYMI : The liver transplant team at the Hillman Center for Pediatric Transplantation at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh recently performed the center’s 200th living-donor liver transplant. Learn more about living-donor #liver transplant: go.upmc.com/2321hgMMi

We are happy to post that our director Robert Ferris, MD, PhD has been nominated to serve as VP for Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer, an organization he's been involved with for more than two decades!! Pitt Health Sciences Pitt Head & Neck Surgery
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