Christy M. Lucas, MD

Christy Lucas, MD is a native Pittsburgher and 2016 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where she double-majored in Science Pre-professional Studies (SCPP) and Psychology while working as a waitress, teaching assistant, and academic mentor for the Notre Dame Football Team. She graduated magna cum laude and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa and Psi Chi honor societies. She went on to attend Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, PA, where she continued to pursue her longstanding interest in autism and additionally developed a passion for medical humanities and patient-reported outcomes research. She was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and Gold Humanism Honor Society and received awards for her service, research, educational contributions, and academic/clinical performance, including the Sylvia & Gilbert Nurick Medical Achievement Award for “outstanding academic excellence.” She has over a dozen peer-reviewed publications and has presented her research at regional, national, and international levels, in addition to holding an international patent for novel, evidence-based hospital attire called U MATTER©.

Her professional interests include advocacy, pediatric community service, the patient experience, medical education, and narrative medicine. She continues to work toward developing more humanizing hospital attire to improve the patient experience, which also includes running a fundraiser called “Stitches with Hope” through the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation, raising over $20,000 since its inception in 2015 to provide clothing to patients and families at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh at no cost. After completing her Pediatric residency, she will be pursuing a fellowship in a Pediatric Hematology/Oncology with the goal of becoming a Palliative Ongologist. 

Resident Biographical Details

Hometown

Pittsburgh, PA

College or Medical School

University of Note Dame and Penn State College of Medicine

Hobbies and Interests

Baking, painting, writing, finding new series on Netflix, and spending time with my family and dogs. 

Travel Interests and Languages

Ireland is on my bucketlist and I took four years of German during high school and college. 

"Likes" about UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Children's embodies the gritty, resilient spirit of Pittsburgh and is a family.

Interesting Fact

I was a dancer for a total of 17 years, picking up tap dancing again for two years in medical school. 

Professional and Scientific Society Memberships​

• Psi Chi, 2016-Present
• Phi Beta Kappa, 2016-Present
• American Academy of Pediatrics, 2017-Present
• Pennsylvania medicala Society, 2017-Present
• American Balint Society, 2021-Present