About UPMC's Graduate Medical Education Program

The GME program team supports our trainees through the many steps of deciding on and completing their GME training.

GME Program Goals

Train excellent doctors, dentists, pharmacists and podiatrists in a model of patient-centered care. This builds a foundation of high-value care, positive patient outcomes, and clinical knowledge that improves health.
Build a supportive working and learning setting that helps our residents and fellows grow as role models of professionalism, care, and compassion.
Create a model of professional development for trainees and teachers in GME that highlights expertise, leadership skills, scholarly achievement, and career advancement.
Foster a culture that centers on the well-being of the members of our clinical and academic community.
Serve the health needs of communities.
Transform the health care system of tomorrow through innovation.
Harness our combined skills to provide safe, quality, and valued patient care through GME at UPMC.

Helpful GME Program Resources

The UPMC Medical Education Board of Directors and UPMC System Hospital Executive Leadership are committed to graduate medical education as our collective responsibility and mission to recruit, train and retain the best and most diverse physicians, pharmacists, and other clinicians to care for our patients.

We are committed to providing the necessary administrative, educational, financial, and human and clinical resources to provide residents with an optimal environment in which to advance their learning and to achieve their professional goals. We work to provide the best education possible in the current art and science of medicine; while developing leaders in patient care, research, and community partnerships. We direct that our patients receive unparalleled quality and the safest care. We endeavor to select and retain the most qualified applicants. Integral to our efforts in the continuing advancement of the profession of medicine is the mission of scholarship, research, evidence-based care and continual clinical innovation. We foster and require an ethical and inclusive atmosphere; one of collegiality and well-being among our faculty, learners, and academic leadership. UPMC ME ensures the highest level of professional leadership for its Graduate Medical Education Programs.

Pursuant to the above goals, the UPMC Board, and Executive Leadership, have directed that UPMC ME, through its Graduate Medical Education Committee (GMEC), has the sole system authority and responsibility for all UPMC Graduate Medical Education training across the UPMC system. This includes all ACGME accredited graduate medical education programs, Non-Standard Training Programs (NST), and all other programs under the purview of the GMEC. UPMC ME will provide leadership and guidance that includes regular internal quality assessments and compliance reviews, decisions related to the reallocation of system resources in Graduate Medical Education, and addressing concerns related to discrimination to improve all our programs.

The Graduate Medical Education Committee (GMEC) is empowered to enforce actions on each program, to assure compliance with ACGME standards, as well as UPMC policies and professional practice directives for quality and integrity mandated by this body.

Signed and approved by the UPMC Medical Education Board of Directors and UPMC Executive Leadership:
October 25, 2022

Gregory M. Bump, MD
Chair, GMEC
Designated Institutional Official
UPMC ME

Donald Yealy, MD, Chair
Chief Medical Officer
Senior Vice President, UPMC Health Services Division
Chair, Emergency Medicine

Robert Friedlander, MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Chair of the UPP Council of Clinical Chairs

Brian Fritz, CPA
Chief Operating and Financial Officer, Physician Services Division / UPMC ME Board of Directors Treasurer

David Gibbons
Senior Vice President, UPMC Health Services Division
Regional President, UPMC Northwest PA and New York, North Central PA, and Central regions

Diane S. Hupp, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN
President, UPMC Children’s Hospital

Oscar Marroquin, MD
Executive Vice President
President, UPMC Physician Services Division

Elizabeth Piccione, MD
President, UPMC Passavant

Sandra L. Rader, DNP, RN
President, UPMC Presbyterian-Shadyside Hospital

Anantha Shekhar, MD, PhD
Senior Vice Chancellor for the Health Sciences University of Pittsburgh
Dean, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Joel Yuhas, FACHE
Executive Vice President
President, UPMC Health Services Division