School of Medicine

Rebecca Thurston
Psychiatry Professor Rebecca Thurston recently led a study that demonstrates how experiences such as death of a child or being in a car accident or natural disaster are linked to later vascular health issues that place women at risk for heart disease.
Young in a white coat in front of a blue computer screen
Kymberly Young is using neurofeedback — a process where patients respond to their own brainwaves — to help patients with depression rewire their brains to focus on the bright side.
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Donald Yealy
Donald Yealy, chair of emergency medicine at UPMC and professor of medicine and clinical and translational sciences at the ...
Mike Schneider examines a model human spine
More than 40 percent of low back pain patients are prescribed opioids at some point. Pitt Associate Professor Mike Schneider and colleagues want to bring that number down.
Greg M. Delgoffe
Greg M. Delgoffe, assistant professor of immunology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, will receive the 2017 NIH...
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With new director Toren Finkel, Pitt's Aging Institute is expanding its approach to improving people's "health span" — the period of life during which a person remains free from serious illness. 
Yoel Sadovsky
Yoel Sadovsky, director of Magee-Womens Research Institute and associate dean and distinguished professor in the University of...