Almut McDermott, MD, PhD

  • Assistant Professor of Medicine
  • Section of Hospital Medicine

    Education & Training

  • MS, Leipzig University, 2009
  • PhD, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, 2017
  • MD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 2020
  • Internal Medicine Residency, UPMC, 2020
Recent Publications

McDermott AT, Polsinelli V, Wang NC, Kancharla K, Bhonsale A, Jain SK, Saba S. Presentation, treatment, and outcomes of survivors of in-hospital versus out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest. Am J Cardiol. 2020.

Kantz S, McDermott AT, Sohn M, Reinhardt S, Belka C, Parodi K, Reiner M. Practical implications for the quality assurance of modulated radiation therapy techniques using point detector arrays. Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics. 2017.

Troeller A, Yan D, Marina O, Schulze D, Alber M, Parodi K, Belka C, Sohn M. Comparison and limitations of DVH-based NTCP models derived from 3D-CRT and IMRT data for prediction of gastrointestinal toxicities in prostate cancer patients by using propensity score matched pair analysis. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics. 2015.

Troeller A, Garny S, Pachmann S, Kantz S, Gerum S, Manapov F, Ganswindt U, Belka C, Sohn M. Stereotactic radiotherapy of intrapulmonary lesions: Comparison of different dose calculation algorithms for oncentra. Radiation Oncology. 2015.

Kantz S, Sohn M, Troeller A, Reiner M, Weingand H, Alber M, Belka C, Ganswindt U. Impact of MLC design and IMRT technique in meningioma and head-and-neck treatments. Radiation Oncology. 2015.

    Honors and Awards
  • American Society for Radiation Oncology Annual Meeting Travel Award, 2019
  • Leo H. Criep MD Senior Award for Excellence in Medicine – University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 2020
  • Lawrence Reardon Professionalism Award – University of Pittsburgh Department of Medicine, 2023