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Accolades & Honors

Naudia Jonassaint Named First Vice Chair for Diversity for Department of Medicine

Naudia Jonassaint, assistant professor of medicine at Pitt’s School of Medicine, has been appointed as the Department of Medicine’s first vice chair for diversity and inclusion. Jonassaint, who also is the medical director of clinical hepatology at UPMC Presbyterian, will work to develop new initiatives and programs to enhance diversity and inclusion across the department.

Jonassaint joined Pitt’s Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition in 2014. She earned a bachelor’s degree in biology and in Hispanic and Italian studies with honors from Johns Hopkins University in 1999. She received her MD from Yale School of Medicine, and then returned to Johns Hopkins where she completed her internal medicine training, chief residency, and gastroenterology and transplant hepatology fellowships. While there, she also received a Master of Health Sciences degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Read more about Jonassaint online at the Department of Medicine’s website.