International & Commercial Services Division

Charles E. Bogosta

Mr. Bogosta is executive vice president of UPMC and of UPMC Cancer Centers, part of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. Mr. Bogosta is president of the International and Commercial Services Division (ICSD) of UPMC. As a leader of ICSD, he oversees international development efforts, including the creation of a new biomedical research center in Sicily, a leading transplant hospital in Palermo, Italy, and cancer treatment centers in Ireland. He is also spearheading efforts to create and manage innovative, for-profit businesses that leverage UPMC’s medical and technological expertise. As vice president of UPMC Cancer Centers, Mr. Bogosta is responsible for the strategic, operational, and financial activities of all cancer-related clinical and research activity.

Philip Green

Mr. Green is president of Strategic Business Initiatives (SBI) of UPMC. In this position, Mr. Green oversees all of UPMC's strategic partnerships and relationships with for-profit companies. SBI is responsible for bringing new concepts and emerging technologies to market. SBI has successfully advanced business opportunities in fields as diverse as information technology, biosecurity, and biotechnology. To date, it has invested more than $100 million in multiple ventures, with more under development.

Simona Abbro

Ms. Abbro is director of UPMC International Marketing Communications. Stationed at UPMC 's Rome office, she is responsible for planning, coordinating, and implementing internal and external communication strategies throughout the European Union and other international regions in order to establish and maintain a strong, positive brand identity for UPMC. Ms. Abbro also oversees the marketing communications efforts in the local countries where UPMC operates.

Stephen Boochever

Mr. Boochever is executive vice president of the International and Commercial Services Divison (ICSD), oversees UPMC’s evaluation and management of investments in early and mid-stage companies, strategic partnerships with industry, and commercialization of emerging technologies.  To date, UPMC has invested over $100M in portfolio companies and UPMC and its technology partners (including IBM, GE, Alcatel-Lucent and Cerner) have committed over $170M to develop and market new technologies. 

Kathryn Devine

Ms. Devine is vice president of Human Resources, International Services, UPMC. She is responsible for developing human resources and expatriate programs to meet the strategic and operational needs of expanding UPMC international facilities and programs. Ms. Devine has over 20 years experience in human resources, including 10 years in international activities.

Bruno Gridelli, MD

Dr. Gridelli is the Medical and Scientific Director of UPMC’s International and Commercial Services Division and the medical-scientific director of ISMETT, a transplant hospital in Palermo, Italy. Under his direction ISMETT has remarkably increased the liver transplant activity and started new clinical programs, such as heart, lung, and pancreas transplantation. The lung transplant program in Palermo is the only one south of Rome. The number of transplants performed at ISMETT has more than tripled under Dr. Gridelli’s direction. ISMETT is also entering the field of regenerative medicine and cell transplantation.

Loretta L. Hanwell

Ms. Hanwell is the senior director of the UPMC International and Commercial Services Division (ICSD) and UPMC Cancer Centers. In her role within ICSD, Ms. Hanwell leads a team for development and implementation of international initiatives in several countries including Ireland, U.K., and Cyprus. Ms. Hanwell has extensive clinical experience in hospital administration and recently was responsible for project management efforts for UPMC Cancer Centers, including the planning, design and organizational start up of more than 12 free-standing cancer centers. She has worked closely with joint venture partners in formulating strategic and operational plans, physicians referral programs, and outreach initiatives.

John Kuzmishin

Mr. Kuzmishin is vice president of the International and Commercial Services Division (ICSD), and oversees its Transaction Services Group. His group’s responsibilities include coordinating and managing the analysis of ICSD’s investments and international clinical expansion initiatives, providing due diligence, structuring and financial analysis. Before joining UPMC, Mr. Kuzmishin worked for 15 years as a health care investment banker, most recently as head of the health care investment banking group at Robert W. Baird & Co. He also worked in the investment banking groups at Vector Securities International and Shearson, Lehman Hutton Inc.

Donna L. McCormick

Ms. McCormick is the chief information officer for UPMC’s International and Commercial Services Division. Stationed in London, Ms. McCormick is responsible for planning, directing, coordinating, and managing information system services in support of all international sites and activities. Prior to this position, Ms. McCormick was vice president of Enterprise Hospital Systems within the UPMC Corporate IS Division.

Michael D. Riska, CPA

Mr. Riska is chief financial officer of UPMC International and Commercial Services Division and works out of UPMC’s corporate offices located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mr. Riska manages the day-to-day financial, controllership, financial risk management, and other financial support services for the division and is a vital resource in current operational as well as business development activities. He oversees and provides management for domestic and international financial resources and their support of the clinical operations.

Steven Shapiro, MD

Dr. Shapiro is associate international and medical scientific director of the UPMC International and Commercial Services Division and he works closely on clinical and scientific activity for all international locations. Dr. Shapiro’s primary focus is on research activity and he assists with physician recruitment, policy development, and providing the important linkages between UPMC’s international locations and key departments within the Physician Services Division.

Katie Taylor

Katie Taylor is vice president for business development of the UPMC International and Commercial Services Division. Based in Paris, Ms. Taylor plays a key role in shaping and implementing UPMC’s overall international business development strategy. Before joining UPMC, Ms. Taylor worked for General Electric Co. for nearly 20 years in a wide variety of businesses, including its health care, transportation, and mortgage units.

John Williams, MD

Dr. Williams is associate medical and scientific director of the UPMC International and Commercial Services Division. Dr. Williams works closely on clinical and scientific activity for all international locations. He focuses his efforts on physician recruitment, policy development, and providing the important linkages between our international locations and key departments within the Physician Services Division. For the past 11 years, Dr. Williams has been actively involved in providing support to UPMC operations at ISMETT. He was also instrumental in the development of the WISER Simulation Center at ISMETT.

Professor John G. Armstrong MD, FRCPI, DABR, FFRRCSI

Dr. Armstrong is presently the chairman of the Irish Cancer Society and one of the leading radiation oncologists in Europe. He was trained in the United States at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where he directed the lung cancer radiation research program. Dr. Armstrong wrote the first U.S. publication about the use of 3-D radiation for lung cancer. He is currently the director of research at St. Lukes Hospital, the largest cancer facility in Ireland. In addition, Dr. Armstrong is medical director for UPMC Ireland, a joint venture between UPMC and Eurocare, with cancer centres in Waterford and Dublin. He has been intimately involved in the rollout of new procedures involving high tech radiation therapy procedures such as IMRT, and stereotactic radiosurgery.

Michael Costelloe

Mr. Costelloe is managing director of UPMC Cancer Centers Ireland and CEO of Beacon Hospital. He has spent the last two years developing and operating highly-specialized cancer treatment centres in Ireland and worked closely with the Irish Public Health System to reach a Services Level Agreement for the treatment of public patients at a private radiotherapy centre in accordance with the National Radiotherapy Guidelines. Previously, Mr. Costelloe was the director general of UPMC’s highly specialized, multi-organ transplantation hospital in Italy where he was stationed from 1998 to 2005. He has extensive experience in the creation, implementation, and management of public-private partnerships in healthcare. 

Alan Hodgdon, MD

Dr. Hodgdon is the executive medical director of the HMC/UPMC Emergency Enhancement Project with Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) in Doha, Qatar. He is an emergency physician with extensive overseas experience and serves on the faculty as clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Walt Stoy, PhD, EMT-P, CCEMTP

Dr. Stoy is the executive administrative director of the HMC/UPMC Emergency Medicine Enhancement Project with Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) in Doha, Qatar. Under his direction, UPMC physicians, surgeons, paramedics, and nurses provide hands-on training in emergency medicine and work side-by-side with their local counterparts to evaluate, improve, and achieve world-class emergency care at three HMC hospitals and the Emergency Medical Services (EMS). The HMC/UPMC partnership also created Qatar’s first Trauma Service at Hamad General Hospital. The Trauma Service is part of a broader vision to establish a Level 1 Trauma Center at HMC.

Ugo Palazzo, MD

Dr. Palazzo is the chief of staff and deputy medical officer of ISMETT in Palermo, Italy. Dr. Palazzo began his work at ISMETT in 1999 as the associate medical director and director of both the Liver Unit and Outpatient Clinic. He has also served as director of the International Patients Service Department. Before joining ISMETT, Dr. Palazzo was the director of a unit dedicated to patients on a waiting list for liver transplants at Vincenzo Cervello Hospital.

Laura Raimondo

Ms. Raimondo is vice president of UPMC International Services and managing director of UPMC Italy. Stationed in Rome, Ms. Raimondo ensures management of and services to ISMETT and also manages coordination and development of international activities and investments of UPMC in Europe and the Middle East. Ms. Raimondo was responsible for the set-up and launch of the Ri.MED Foundation in Italy.