Pitt Pediatrics is excited to announce that Briana Bertoni, MD, MBOE, CPPS, has been appointed Interim Clinical Director of the UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital Newborn Intensive Care Unit. Bertoni also will continue in her current role as Director of Clinical Development and Quality Improvement for the Division of Newborn Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics.
Bertoni received her medical degree from the State University of New York Upstate Medical University and completed her pediatrics residency at Jefferson Medical College/Nemours A.I. DuPont Hospital for Children. She completed a fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Nationwide Children’s Hospital while also earning a Masters of Business Operational Excellence from the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University. Bertoni also completed a Clinical Fellowship in Quality and Safety Leadership at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
Bertoni joined the faculty of the Division of Newborn Medicine in 2021 and has been instrumental in developing a robust quality improvement program, both locally and at the system level. As an active participant in the UPMC Perinatal Quality Collaborative, she has helped to standardize quality metrics across the Pediatric and Womens Health Service Lines. She also is engaged in collaborative quality initiatives at the national level through her membership in the Children’s Hospitals Neonatal Consortium.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank Kathleen Schwabenbauer, MD for her leadership and dedication to the Division of Newborn Medicine and the NICU at Magee-Womens Hospital. She will be leaving UPMC this fall to pursue a different career opportunity, and we wish her all the best.
Please join us in congratulating Bertoni on this key role for the Department of Pediatrics.