Pitt Pediatrics is excited to announce the appointment of Mousumi Moulik, MD, as Co-Director of the Pediatric Scientist Development Program (PedSDP) in the Department of Pediatrics. 
Moulik received her medical degree from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and completed a residency in Pediatrics and clinical and research fellowships in Pediatric Cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine, with an emphasis on heart failure and cardiac transplantation. She also trained as a physician-scientist in Baylor’s Clinical Scientist Training Program. She came to UPMC Children’s Hospital in 2017 from the University of Texas McGovern School of Medicine, where she established her basic research laboratory in heart failure, led the clinical pediatric cardiomyopathy and cardiovascular genetics programs, and was Co-Director of Research in Pediatric Cardiology.
Moulik’s NIH-funded research program is focused on understanding molecular mechanisms underlying cardiomyopathy. Another area of interest concerns the role of circadian clocks in cardiac stress adaptation. She directs the Pediatric Cardiovascular Genetics Clinic at UPMC Children’s Hospital. Dr. Moulik has mentored learners at all levels of training and brings her passion for physician-scientist training to this new role. She will join Andrew Nowalk, MD, to co-direct the PedSDP on May 1, 2023.
Moulik succeeds Jacqueline Ho, MD, who served as one of the founding Co-Directors of the PedSDP with Nowalk in 2016. Ho contributed immensely to the design and leadership of the program, one of the largest of its kind in the United States. We thank her for her years of service to the program and applaud her many accomplishments in training young pediatric scientists.
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Moulik on this important leadership role for our department and hospital.