Dr. Pickering is a clinician-educator and affiliated faculty at the Center for Pharmaceutical Policy and Prescribing (CP3). She is a board-certified internist, providing clinical care as a primary care physician at UPMC General Internal Medicine, Oakland and as an inpatient teaching attending at UPMC Montefiore. Dr. Pickering’s research focuses on characterizing and reducing low-value care and subsequent care cascades and deprescribing low-value medications in older adults. She is particularly interested in applying implementation science principles to develop strategies to support deprescribing and in the de-implementation of other low-value practices. Dr. Pickering is also actively involved in medical student and resident education. She instructs both residents and medical students as an attending on the inpatient internal medicine service at UPMC Montefiore. She also acts as a preceptor for several medical student programs/courses, including the Longitudinal Alliance Program.
- BS, Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2013
- MD, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 2017
- Internal Medicine Residency, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 2020
- General Internal Medicine Clinician-Researcher Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 2022
- MS, Clinical Research, University of Pittsburgh Institute for Clinical Research Education, 2022
Education & Training
Pickering AN, Hamm ME, Dawdani A, Hanlon JT, Thorpe CT, Gellad WF, Radomski, TR. Older Patient and Caregiver Perspectives on Medication Value and Deprescribing: A Qualitative Study. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2020.
Pickering AN, Walter EL, Dawdani A, Decker A, Hamm ME, Gellad WF, Radomski TR. Primary Care Physicians' Approaches to Low-Value Medication Use in Older Adults: A Qualitative Study. BMC Geriatrics, 2022, 22(1): 152.
Pickering AN, Zhao X, Sileanu FE, Lovelace EZ, Rose L, Schwartz AL, Oakes AH, Hale JA, Schleiden LJ, Gellad WF, Fine MJ, Thorpe CT, Radomski TR. Prevalence and Cost of Care Cascades Following Low-Value Preoperative Electrocardiogram and Chest Radiograph Within the Veterans Health Administration. J Gen Intern Med, 2022.
Pickering AN, Zhao X, Sileanu FE, Lovelace EZ, Rose L, Schwartz AL, Oakes AH, Hale JA, Schleiden LJ, Gellad WF, Fine MJ, Thorpe CT, Radomski TR. Assessment of care cascades following low-value prostate specific antigen testing in Veterans dually enrolled in the Veterans Health Administration and Medicare systems. JAMA Network Open, 2022, 5(12):e2247180.
- Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, 2016
- Young Scholars in General Internal Medicine Scholarship, Society of General Internal Medicine, 2019
- Pepper Scholars Program, University of Pittsburgh, 2023
