Dr. Wunderle is interested in helping patients and families get through difficult times. Unfortunately, doctors often cannot change a patient's illness but can hopefully change the experience of their illness. This may mean different things for different people. Whether it's helping to manage pain or other symptoms to give a patient a more comfortable experience, shifting the focus of care to aggressively treat symptoms, or advocating for a patient or family, Dr. Wunderle strives to make difficult times at least a little easier. She practices critical care medicine at the VA Pittsburgh.
Dr. Wunderle is interested in teaching communication skills to all levels and backgrounds of learners. She has particular interest in teaching about communication in the ICU. She also developed an online curriculum about basic critical care topics for residents and is Program Director for the Internal Medicine Critical Care Fellowship. Her research centers on communication in the ICU, gender in academic medicine, and curriculum development.
- BA, Psychology, Amherst College, 2008
- Post-baccalaureate certificate, Pre-medical, Bryn Mawr College, 2010
- MD, University of Rochester, 2015
- Internal Medicine Residency, Oregon Health & Science University, 2018
- Fellowship, Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 2020
- Fellowship, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 2021
Education & Training
- Victor Meyer Emmel Prize in Histology, University of Rochester, 2012
- Edward F. Adolph Medal in Physiology, University of Rochester, 2012
- American Academy of Neurology 2013 Medical Student Scholarship to the Annual Meeting, 2013
- Walle J. H. Nauta Award for Excellence in the Neurosciences, University of Rochester, 2013
- Alpha Omega Alpha, University of Rochester, 2014
- Glasgow-Rubin Citation for Academic Achievement, University of Rochester, 2015
- ACP Young Achiever Award (for participation in Doctor’s Dilemma), 2016
- ACP Young Achiever Award (for poster presentation), 2017
- Dr. Thomas J. Stack and Nancy Fitzgerald Stack Distinguished Teaching/Service Achievement Award, 2018
- Pitt Medicine Professionalism Accolade, 2022
