Brielle Spataro, MD, MS

Dr. Spataro is part of the Women's Health Faculty at Pitt and has been an invited lecturer for multiple women's health topics to medical students, residents, fellows, and faculty, locally. She has led multiple national workshops in Women's Health subjects and two have been mentioned on the popular internal medicine podcast Curbsiders. She has been a formal advisor for multiple medical students, residents, and fellows. She almost always has a medical student on their Adult Outpatient Medicine Clerkship with her in her own primary care clinic and when she is on the inpatient wards. In her role as Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency, she oversees all residency activities and initiatives at UPMC Shadyside. She is also core clinical faculty, regularly working with residents in the outpatient clinic and on the wards and is the site director for the general internal medicine fellowship at UPMC Shadyside.

Dr. Spataro has demonstrated clinical excellence in both the outpatient and inpatient setting. She has her own panel of primary care patients. Her Press Ganey scores are exceptional and recurrently place her in the top percept of all providers. In addition to her own clinic, she also serves as a preceptor in our resident clinic two half days a week, working with four internal medicine residents each session. She also attends on the inpatient internal medicine service eight weeks a year, working with a team of trainees, including one senior resident, two interns, and two medical students. Given her excellent clinical performance, she was named a Top Physician Under Forty by the Pennsylvania Medical Society in 2020.

Dr. Spataro's research has focused on physician wellness and women's health. She studied sex differences in burnout in internal medicine residents, which results in a publication in the Journal of Women's Health and an award for Best Poster at the Congress of Women's Health. She studied the correlation of burnout with coping, level of training, mentorship, and life events. This research culminated in oral presentations chosen as a finalist for awards at two consecutive Society of General Internal Medicine annual meetings and resulted in a publication in Medical Science Educator. Her research in wellness led to her involvement in a national committee through the Association of Academic Internal Medicine. On this committee, she contributed to an additional publication in the American Journal of Medicine. 

She has led multiple national workshops on topics pertaining to women's health, particularly in breast health. In addition, she lectures medical students and residents on women's health topics. She has created an online educational product on pelvic inflammatory disease, wrote a book chapter on benign breast disease, and recently published a review article on abnormal uterine bleeding. She serves as the head of Scholarship on the Women and Medicine Commission, a national committee through the Society of General Internal Medicine. She is also interested in studying how to increase learner interest in primary care. With the support of the Taber Chair, Dr. Spataro recently started a Summer Academic Internal Medicine Scholars Program, a clinical and research experience for medical students in the summer after their first year.