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Maia Y. Taft, MD
- Assistant professor of Pediatrics
Maia Taft is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Paul C. Gaffney Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine. She completed her Pediatric Residency, Chief Residency, and Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. Her research has focused in health equity and quality improvement through the use of clinical practice guidelines. She currently runs the longitudinal CHP Residency QI Curriculum and is the site PI for the LIGHT project (AAP study implementing hyperbilirubinemia guidelines).
Education & Training
- BA, Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, cum laude, Connecticut College, 2013
- MD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 2017
- Residency in Pediatrics, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, 2017-2020
- Chief Resident in Pediatrics, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, 2020-2021
Selected Publications
Taft M., Garrison J., Fabio A., Shah N., Forster C.S. Equity in Receipt of a Lumbar Puncture for Febrile Infants at an Academic Center. Hospital Pediatrics. February 2023; 13 (3): 216–222. https://doi.org/10.1542/hpeds.2022-006799
Aronson PL, Kerns E, Jennings B, Magee S, Wang ME, McDaniel CE; for the AAP REVISE II QI Collaborative. Trends in Prevalence of Bacterial Infections in Febrile Infants During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Pediatrics. 2022 Dec 1;150(6):e2022059235.
Sharp, E.A., Nicholson, K.J., Taft, M., Glaser, D.H., Gibson, B., Kazmerski, T.M. (2022) Parent-in-training: Resident and fellow experiences from pregnancy to parenthood. Journal of Hospital Medicine, 17, 609- 623. doi:10.1002/jhm.12914
Dunnick, J., Taft, M., Tisherman, R., Nowalk, A., Hickey, R., Wilson, P.. Association of Bacteremia with Vaccination Status in Children Aged 2 to 36 Months. Journal of Pediatrics. 2021, Jan. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.01.005 Pud Status: Published
Dezfulian, C., Taft, M., Corey, C., Hill, G., Krehel, N., Rittenberger, J. C., Guyette, F. X., & Shiva, S.. Biochemical Signaling by Remote Ischemic Conditioning of the Arm versus Thigh: Is One Raise of the Cuff Enough?. Circulation Research. 2016, Aug. Pub Status: Published
Academic and Research Interests
- Health equity
- Quality improvement
- Clinical Practice Guidelines