Ana Radovic, MD, MSc

  • Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Administrative Assistant: Erika Phillips

Radovic is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a pediatrician and subspecialist in Adolescent Medicine. Radovic completed her undergraduate and medical school at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She completed pediatrics residency and adolescent medicine fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and also received a Masters in Clinical Science at the University of Pittsburgh.

Radovic's research focuses on how to use technology to improve mental health services for adolescents and young adults with symptoms of depression or anxiety. She has studied primary care provider attitudes toward approaching shared decision making with parents; the use of electronic order sets and screening decision aids to improve the integration of behavioral health services in primary care settings; and the impacts of social media and technology use in depressed adolescents and their parents. Her team developed a website intervention for teens with symptoms of depression or anxiety - sova.pitt.edu - to allow adolescents to anonymously share their stories in a safe space, counteract negative attitudes toward treatment, and provide opportunities for social support. Radovic has collaborated with multiple internal and external research teams on NIH funded clinical trials to develop and investigate technological solutions to improving mental health services for adolescents, including investigating the use of passive sensing to develop a mobile application to predict symptoms of depression in adolescents (NCT05376358), understanding the utility of online social support to increase help-seeking (NCT06083987), evaluating psychoeducational online social support interventions in community settings (NCT06066697), and understanding the utility of virtual peer support and digital CBT for adolescent and emerging adults with sickle cell disease (NCT06374238). 

Radovic has been funded by an institutional career development award, the PCOR K12 award, to develop training in human computer interaction and stakeholder engagement and completed a K23 early career investigator award from NIMH. She is a core faculty member of the University of Pittsburgh Center for Behavioral Health, Media, and Technology and a center investigator and co-leader of stakeholder engagement for the ALACRITY-funded Enhancing Treatment and Utilization for Depression and Emergent Suicidality in Pediatric Primary Care study (etudes.pitt.edu) in collaboration with PITT Department of Psychiatry. 

Since 2024, Dr. Radovic has served as an Assistant Dean of Medical Student Research at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She also collaborates with multiple research teams, trainees, and youth interested in advocating for adolescent health research as the Director of Clinical Research in the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine and Faculty Advisor of the Center for Adolescent and Young Adult Health (CAYAH) Youth Research Advisory Board.

  • Society for Pediatric Research, Fellows’ Section Member, 2012-2017
  • American Academy of Pediatrics, Member, Fellow, 2008-Present
  • Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, 2011-Present, Previous Co-Chair of Mental Health Committee
  • Society for Pediatric Research, 2018-Present

Education & Training

  • BA, Biology, Case Western Reserve University, 2004
  • MD, Case Western Reserve University, 2008
  • Internship, Pediatrics Residency, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, 2011
  • MSc, Clinical Research Comparative, University of Pittsburgh, 2013
  • Fellowship, Adolescent Medicine, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, 2014

Selected Publications

 

Radovic A, Farris C, Reynolds K, Reis, EC, Miller, E, Stein, BD. Primary care providers' initial treatment decisions and antidepressant prescribing for adolescent depression. J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2014 Jan;35(1):28-37. PMID: 24336091 PMCID: PMC4105359

Radovic, A, Reynolds, K, McCauley, HL, Sucato, GS, Stein, BD, Miller, E. Parents’ Role in Adolescent Depression Care: Primary Care Provider Perspectives. J Pediatr. 2015 Oct 167 (4): 911-8. PMID: 26143382 PMCID: PMC4586359

Radovic A, Gmelin T, Stein BD, Miller E. Depressed adolescents’ positive and negative use of social media. J Adolesc. 2016 Dec 17 (55): 5-15. PMID: 27997851 PMCID: PMC5485251

Radovic A, DeMand A, Gmelin T, Stein BD, Miller E. SOVA: Design of a stakeholder informed social media website for depressed adolescents and their parents. Journal of Technology in Human Services. 2017 Jul; 335 (3): 169-182.

Radovic A, Li Y, Landsittel D, Odenthal KR, Stein BD, Miller E. A Social Media Website (Supporting Our Valued Adolescents) to Support Treatment Uptake for Adolescents with Depression or Anxiety: Outcomes From a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Mental Health 2022;9(10):e35313. PMID: 36206044 PMCID: PMC9587493 DOI: 10.2196/35313. 

Radovic A, Coren MA, Wecht S, Hazebrook T, LaPorte M, George-Milford B, Lindhiem O. Detecting and Managing Adolescent Depression in Primary Care: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. Procedia computer science 2022; 206 (81-91).  

Mullick T, Shaaban S, Radovic A, Doryab A. Framework for Ranking Machine Learning Predictions of Limited, Multimodal, and Longitudinal Behavioral Passive Sensing Data: Combining User-Agnostic and Personalized Modeling. JMIR AI. 2024; 3:e47805.

Wecht S, Hendrixson M, Radovic A. A Mixed Method Investigation of Parent-Adolescent Communication About Mental Health. Journal of Adolescent Health, Dec 2024; 75 (6), p 904-911.

Coren M, Lindhiem O, Angus A, Toevs E, Radovic A. Provider Perspectives on Implementing an Enhanced Digital Screening for Adolescent Depression and Suicidality: Qualitative Study. JMIR Form Res, Apr 2025; 10:9:e67624.

Academic and Research Interests

  • Adolescent
  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • Social Media
  • Technology Intervention 
  • Screening 
  • Young Adult
  • Stigma 
  • Parents
  • Primary Care