Titles:
Professor CCM and Medicine
Contact:
Email: devitam@msx.upmc.edu
Degrees:
POST GRADUATE EDUCATION
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION |
DEGREE |
YEAR |
FIELD |
| Georgetown University |
MD |
1981 |
Medicine |
| Residency: |
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| Georgetown University Hospital |
Resident |
1982-1984 |
Internal Medicine |
Fellowship:
|
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| St. Vincent’s Medical Center of New York |
Fellow |
1984-1986 |
Critical Care Medicine |
Other:
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| University of Pittsburgh |
MPH |
2000 |
Public Health, Medical Management |
| Board Certifications: |
Year |
ABIM – Internal Medicine
|
1984 |
| ABIM – Critical Care Medicine |
1987, 97 |
American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
|
2001 |
Administrative Title:
- Associate Medical Director, UPMC Presbyterian
Hospital
- Medical Director, Department
of Respiratory Care, UPMC Presbyterian Hospital
Major Honors/Awards:
- Presidential Citation, Society of Critical
Care Medicine
- Christer Grenvik Award,
Society of Critical Care Medicine, 1998, Outstanding Contribution
to Ethics in Critical Care
Current Research Interest:
- Crisis Team Training using Laerdal SimMan,
human simulator.
- Interventions to prevent In hospital unexpected
death.
- Ethics in Transplantation
- Ethical issues in Research
Publications:
- DeVita M, Snyder J: Development of the University
of Pittsburgh Medical Center Policy for the Care of Terminally
Ill Patients Who May Become Organ Donors After Removal Life Support,
and Death. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 3(2):209 June,
1993.
- DeVita, M, Snyder JV, Arnold RM, Siminoff LA.
Observations of withdrawal of support from patients who became
non-heartbeating organ donors. Crit Care Med, 28(6):1-5, 2000.
- DeVita, M. The Death Watch: Certifying Death
Using Cardiac Criteria. Progress in Transplantation. 11: 58-66,
2001.
- DeVita, M. Honestly,
do we need a policy on truth? Kennedy Inst. Ethics J. (11(2):
157-64, 2001DeVita M, Aulisio M, Guest editors. Kennedy Inst.
Ethics J. 11(2): 115-168, 2001. The ethics of medical mistakes:
Historical, Legal and Institutional perspectives.
Presentations at Major Meetings:
- Research Involving the Newly Dead. American
Society of Bioethics and Humanities. Baltimore, MD. October 27,
2002.
- Altering End of Life
Care to Accommodate Research and Transplantation. Society of Critical
Care Medicine, San Diego, CA. January 30, 2002.
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