Pitt Pediatrics is excited to announce the appointment of Alison Culyba, MD, PhD, MPH, as Director of the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics.
Culyba received her M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and her Masters of Public Health degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She completed combined pediatrics and internal medicine residency training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and adolescent medicine fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She joined the faculty of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh in 2017.
Culyba leads an interdisciplinary investigative team focused on youth and community violence prevention funded by the CDC, NIH, and SAMHSA. Coupling innovative social network and geospatial analytic methods with community-partnered intervention development, her team designs and tests interventions that leverage connections and neighborhood assets to protect youth.
Culyba is Director of the Empowering Teens to Thrive hospital-based violence intervention program and community-based mentorship program at UPMC Children’s Hospital, which provides wraparound support for youth injured or affected by violence. Culyba is Director of the Career Education and Enhancement for Health Care Research Diversity (CEED) Program through the Institute for Clinical Research Education. She mentors students, fellows, and junior faculty engaged in health-equity research and has been recognized with the Philip Troen, M.D. Excellence in Medical Student Research Mentoring Award from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Culyba will start in her new role on September 1, 2023.
The department would like to thank Elizabeth Miller, MD, PhD, FSAHM, for her 12 years of outstanding service leading the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine. Miller will continue her field-leading research and clinical care as Co-Director of the Pittsburgh Study and Medical Director of Community and Population Health at UPMC Children’s Hospital. The department also thanks Raymond Pitetti, MD, MPH, FAAP, and members of the Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine Division Director search committee.
Please join the Department of Pediatrics in congratulating Alison on this vital leadership role for the Department of Pediatrics.