Tara Sunder, MD

  • Assistant Professor of Medicine
  • Section of Hospital Medicine
Academic Interests

Dr. Sunder is a staff hospitalist in the Section of Hospital Medicine. She attended Creighton University School of Medicine before completing her internal medicine residency at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. While in residency, she pursued the Medical Education Pathway and served on both the Patient Centered Rounds Workgroup Committee and Peer Review Committee. She joined the Pitt faculty in 2019. Dr. Sunder's clinical interests include working with residents and advanced practice providers on inpatient services, transitions of care, and patient education. Her educational interests include medical education, physician wellness, and the humanities in medicine.

    Education & Training

  • BS, Biology and English, Boston College, 2010
  • Post-Bacc Pre-Health Specialized Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2011
  • MD, Creighton University, 2016
  • Internal Medicine Residency, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, 2019
Recent Publications

Valakh V, Kirichenko A, Miller R, Sunder T, Miller L, Fuhrer R. Combination of IG-IMRT and permanent source prostate brachytherapy in patients with organ-confined prostate cancer: GU and GI toxicity and effect on erectile function. Bracytherapy. 2011; 10(3):195-200.

McGhee-Jez A, Batra V, Sunder T, Rizk S. Spontaneous tumor lysis syndrome as presenting sign of metastatic prostate cancer. Cureus. 2018; 10(12).