Office:	VAPHS University Drive C
	Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone:	412-360-1709
Fax:	412-360-6290
E-mail:	Deborah.dinardo@va.gov

Education
	BS, The Pennsylvania State University, 2004
	MD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2008
	MS in Medical Education, University of Pittsburgh, 2015

Training
	Internal Medicine Residency, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2011
	Chief Resident, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2013

Dr. DiNardo’s main research interests center around the development, implementation, and evaluation of curricula for teaching clinical reasoning within both undergraduate and graduate medical education. Dr. DiNardo has presented her work and teaching both locally and nationally. Dr. DiNardo has also developed clinical expertise and presented nationally in the areas of Women’s Health, breast cancer screening and risk assessment, and the provision of cancer survivorship care in primary care settings. She formed and directs the VA Pittsburgh Women’s Cancer Navigation Team, a multi-disciplinary group with a goal of improving the quality of care received by women veterans with cancer, and secured a $10,000 grant from the Veterans Research Foundation to support and evaluate these efforts.

Dr. DiNardo serves as Women’s Health Medical Director at the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System. She enjoys caring for a diverse group of male and female veterans in the VA Pittsburgh Primary Care Clinic. She also supervises residents in both the inpatient and outpatient settings at the Pittsburgh VA.

Dr. DiNardo’s educational interests including teaching clinical reasoning within both undergraduate and graduate medical education. Within the medical school, her curricular contributions span the entire undergraduate experience, including an elective for 4th year students that she co-developed and co-directs. Dr. DiNardo also collaborated with others within the Department of Medicine to develop, implement, and evaluate a curriculum to teach the principles of clinical reasoning and cognitive bias during Internal Medicine residency. She contributed to the development of a set of interactive online modules to teach various aspects of clinical reasoning that have become a standard part of the undergraduate and graduate medical training at UPMC. Finally, Dr. DiNardo also enjoys teaching about a variety of women’s health topics.

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