Skip to Content
Also part of the UPMC family:
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
CHP logo
healthbeat logo
ittc logo stacked
UPMC Logo
Skip to Content
UPMC Logo

UPMC Media Relations Department Staff

Media Relations staff are available to assist you 24/7. During non-business hours, we can be reached via pager at 412-392-7963. After dialing that number, listen for three beeps, enter the desired call-back 10-digit number followed by “#.” You will be disconnected after hearing three more beeps.

Meet our Media Relations staff or search by topic:

Paul Wood

Vice President & Chief Communications Officer

Office: 412-647-6647
Cell: 412-352-2058

WoodPC@upmc.edu

Gloria Kreps

Vice President

  • Crisis Communications
  • Human Resources
  • Legal
  • Nursing
  • Real Estate
  • School of Nursing
  • UPMC Mercy

Office: 412-586-9764
Cell: 412-417-2582

KrepsGA@upmc.edu

Susan Manko

Vice President

  • Community Benefits
  • Financial Reporting

Office: 412-586-9771
Cell: 412-370-3614

MankoSM@upmc.edu

Wendy Zellner

Vice President

  • Information Technology
  • International
  • Quality
  • Supply Chain
  • Technology
  • UPMC Enterprises

Office: 412-586-9777
Cell: 412-973-7266

ZellnerWL@upmc.edu

Allison Hydzik

Director, Science and Research

  • Critical Care Medicine
  • Environmental Health
  • Genetics
  • Global Health
  • Graduate School of Public Health
  • Health Policy
  • Medical Education
  • Minority Health
  • Public Health
  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
  • School of Medicine

Office: 412-647-9975
Cell: 412-559-2431

HydzikAM@upmc.edu

Anastasia (Ana) Gorelova

Manager, Science Writing

  • Drug Discovery Institute and Pharmacology
  • Evolutionary Biology
  • Vaccine Research

Office: 412-647-9966
Cell: 412-491-9411

GorelovaA@upmc.edu

Asher Jones

Manager, Science Writing

  • Immunotherapy
  • Pitt Dental School
  • Pitt School of Pharmacy
  • Plastic Surgery
  • Regenerative Medicine

Office: 412-639-6222

JonesAG@upmc.edu

Cyndy Patton

Senior Manager

  • Cancer
  • Dermatology
  • Palliative Care
  • Radiology
  • UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
  • Urology

Office: 412-586-9773
Cell: 412-415-6085

PattonC4@upmc.edu

Amy Charley

Director

  • Bariatrics
  • Crisis Communications
  • Family Planning
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Infertility
  • Maternal Fetal Medicine
  • Maternity Health
  • Menopause
  • OBGYN & Women’s Health
  • Reproductive Endocrinology
  • UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital

Office: 412-586-9778
Cell: 412-738-3511

CharleyA@upmc.edu

Ashley Trentrock

Senior Manager

  • Addiction
  • Aging
  • Anesthesiology
  • Behavioral Health
  • Geriatrics
  • Integrative Medicine
  • Mental Health
  • Pain Medicine
  • Psychiatry
  • Sleep Medicine
  • UPMC Senior Communities
  • UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital

Office: 412-586-9776
Cell: 412-529-9092

TrentrockAR@upmc.edu

Sarah Katz

Manager

  • Family Medicine
  • Internal Medicine
  • UPMC Enterprises
  • UPMC International

Office: 412-864-4370
Cell: 412-312-1042

KatzSB@upmc.edu

Andrea Kunicky

Manager

  • Pediatrics
  • Transplant
  • UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Office: 412-692-6254
Cell: 412-552-7448

KunickyA@upmc.edu

Sheila Davis

Manager

  • Cardiology
  • Neurology
  • Neurosurgery
  • Ophthalmology
  • Rehabilitation

Cell: 412-313-6070

DavisSN2@upmc.edu

Rick Pietzak

Project Director, Crisis Communications

  • Concussion
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Orthopaedics
  • Sports Medicine
  • Trauma
  • UPMC East
  • UPMC McKeesport

Office: 412-864-4151
Cell: 412-523-6922

PietzakR@upmc.edu

Lisa Lombardo

Director, Public Relations--Regional Communications

  • UPMC Horizon
  • UPMC Jameson
  • UPMC Passavant

Office: 724-656-4238
Cell: 724-712-1123

LombardoLA@upmc.edu

Danielle Schall

Manager, Public Relations--Regional Communications

  • UPMC Altoona
  • UPMC Bedford

Office: 814-889-2622
Cell: 412-420-9818

SampsellD@upmc.edu

Stephanie Stanley

Manager, Media Relations Projects

  • Burns
  • UPMC St. Margaret

Office: 412-586-9762
Cell: 412-855-8690

StanleySL@upmc.edu

Karen Beardsley

Manager

  • UPMC Chautauqua
  • UPMC Hamot
  • UPMC Kane
  • UPMC Northwest

Office: 814-877-3917
Cell: 814-392-3362

BeardsleyPetitKL@upmc.edu

Amber Depew

Interim Director, Public Relations

  • UPMC Carlisle
  • UPMC Community Osteopathic
  • UPMC Hanover
  • UPMC Harrisburg
  • UPMC Lititz
  • UPMC Memorial
  • UPMC West Shore
  • UPMC Cole
  • UPMC Lock Haven
  • UPMC Muncy
  • UPMC Wellsboro
  • UPMC Williamsport
  • UPMC Williamsport Divine Providence Campus

Office: 570-321-2137
Cell: 717-460-6699

DepewA2@upmc.edu

Tyler Wagner

Senior Manager

  • UPMC Cole
  • UPMC Lock Haven
  • UPMC Muncy
  • UPMC Wellsboro
  • UPMC Williamsport
  • UPMC Williamsport Divine Providence Campus

Office: 570-321-2858
Cell: 570-494-8330

WagnerT4@upmc.edu

Sarah Deist

Director, Corporate Communications

  • UPMC Somerset

Office: 814-443-5735
Cell: 814-442-2204

sedeist@SomersetHospital.com

Ed DeWitt

Communications Specialist II

  • UPMC Western Maryland

Office: 240-964-8019
Cell: 240-727-7071

dewittej@upmc.edu

Taylor Andres

Communications Specialist II

  • Sports Medicine
  • Orthopaedics

Office: 412-578-9193
Cell: 412-592-7406

AndresTA@upmc.edu