Gina Piscitello MD MS

Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Medical Director, In-patient Palliative Care Consult Service, UPMC Presbyterian

Gina Piscitello, MD, MS, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Section of Palliative Care and Medical Ethics at the University of Pittsburgh. She is medical director of UPMC Presbyterian Hospital’s palliative consult service and works clinically on the inpatient palliative consult service and outpatient palliative clinic for patients with lung, liver, and neurological disease.

She completed her undergraduate studies at Northwestern University, medical school at the University of Minnesota, and internal medicine residency and hospice and palliative medicine fellowship at the University of Chicago. She also completed a Master of Clinical Research at Rush University and a fellowship in clinical medical ethics at the MacLean Center at the University of Chicago.

She is interested in research at the intersection of clinical medical ethics and palliative medicine, including clinician-patient communication, code status, moral distress, ECMO, and scarce resource allocation.