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Jonathan C. Li, MD

  • Chief Resident, Combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program
  • Resident, PGY-4

Jonathan C. Li, MD is chief resident of the Combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program at the UPMC and Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Li received his Bachelor of Science degree from Stony Brook University and his Doctor of Medicine degree from Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University with distinction in the Clinical Translational Research Track. He was inducted into the Hobart Amory Hare Medical Honor Society, George McClellan Surgical Honor Society, and the Arnold P. Gold Humanism Honor Society. He completed a year of training at the Combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program at ChristianaCare and Nemors Children’s Hospital in Delaware before moving to Pittsburgh. As a current resident he is the recipient of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium (PRSYM) Abstract Award by the Rheumatology Research Foundation.

He has also completed the Research Education in Advancing Investigative Careers for Housestaff and Fellows Program (REACH) at the University of Pittsburgh, Institute for Clinical Research Education sponsored by the Internal Medicine Residency Clinician Scientist Track. Li is interested in autoimmune disease, fibrotic disease, interstitial lung disease, pediatric and adult scleroderma, transition of care, biobanking and biomarker research. He has previously conducted research on occupational lung disease as it relates to open burn pits exposures under Dr. Anthony Szema.

In medical school he was involved in community-based research and advocacy with the Clean Air Council, receiving a public health grant from the Delaware Health Sciences Alliance to develop a community air monitoring network to help address environmental injustice. He is currently conducting research in pediatric localized and systemic scleroderma under the mentorship of Dr. Kathryn Torok in the Department of Pediatric Rheumatology.

Resident Biographical Details

Hometown

Delhi, NY

College or Medical School

Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University

Education & Training

  • Stony Brook University
  • Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University

Selected Publications

Li J, Rosser F, Tadros S, Torok K. Pulmonary Nodules in Juvenile Systemic Sclerosis: A Case-Series from the National Registry for Childhood Onset Scleroderma (NRCOS). Diagnostics (Basel). 2023 Jun 17;13(12):2103. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics13122103. PMID: 37370998; PMCID: PMC10297561.

Li J, and Casher D. The impact of an urban scrapyard fire on respiratory-related pediatric emergency department visits. Journal of occupational and environmental medicine 62.9 (2020): 764-770.

Caruana DL, Huang PH, Li JC, Cheslack-Postava K, Szema AM, Anthony AM. Allergy and Lung Injury among Rescue Workers Exposed to the World Trade Center Disaster Assessed 17 Years after Exposure to Ground Zero, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine: May 12, 2020 - Volume Publish Ahead of Print - Issue - doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000001903

Dang, S., Duffy, A., Li, J. C., Gandee, Z., Rana, T., Gunville, B., Zhan, T., Curry, J., Luginbuhl, A., Cottrill, E. and Cognetti, D. (2019), Postoperative opioid‐prescribing practices in otolaryngology: A multiphasic study. The Laryngoscope. doi:10.1002/lary.28101

Lin D, Li J, Razi R, Qamar N, Levine L, Zimmerman T, Hamidi SA, Schmidt M, Golightly MG, Rueb T, Harrington A, Garnett M, Antonawich F, McClain S, Miller E, Cox C, Hsuan PH, & Szema AM. (2018) Rux largely restores lungs in Iraq PM-exposed mice, Up-regulating regulatory T-cells (Tregs), Experimental Lung Research, DOI: 10.1080/01902148.2018.1459957

Szema AM, Forsyth E, Ying B, Hamidi SA, Chen JJ, Hwang S, Li JC, Sabatini Dwyer D, Ramiro-Diaz JM, Giermakowska W, Gonzalez Bosc LV. NFATc3 and VIP in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Zhao Y-Y, ed. PLoS ONE. 2017;12(1):e0170606. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0170606.

Szema AM, Mirsaidi N, Patel B, Viens L, Forsyth E, Li J, Dang S, Dukes B, Giraldo J, Kim P, Burns M. (2015). Proposed Iraq/Afghanistan War-Lung Injury (IAW-LI) Clinical Practice Recommendations: National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine Burn Pits Workshop. American Journal of Men’s Health. 2017;11(6):1653-1663. doi:10.1177/1557988315619005.

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