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photo Kristen Ann Ehrenberger, MD, PhD

General Internal Medicine

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Director, Progressive Evaluation & Referral Center (PERC)

@cfrmedhistory

Email: ehrenbergerka@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-692-4945
Contact
Office: 200 Lothrop St.
MUH Suite N715
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
 
Phone: 412-692-4945
Fax:
E-mail: ehrenbergerka@upmc.edu
Education and Training
Education
MD, University of Illinois College of Medicine, 2016
PhD, History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014
MA, History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007
BA, History, Washington University in Saint Louis, 2004
Training
Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 2020
Research Interest
Dr. Ehrenberger is a historian of medicine and a body scholar with particular interests in food/nutrition and public health in modern Western contexts, such as Germany and the United States. She has leadership positions at the Journal of General Internal Medicine, the C.F. Reynolds Medical History Society, and at H-Nutrition (H-Net). She is also involved in the American Association of the History of Medicine.
Clinical Interest
Dr. Ehrenberger is Director of the Progressive Evaluation & Referral Center (PERC), a unique primary care home for adults with developmental disability, intellectual disability, and/or technology dependence since childhood. She is passionate about creating connections with pediatric providers to smooth the transition into adult medical care.
Educational Interest
Dr. Ehrenberger’s teaching interests include nutrition, health humanities, disability studies, and clinical communication. She is a co-creator of Teaching Rounds, a social media project that provides clinical pearls outside the clinical setting. One of her favorite genres is the historically inflected clinical lecture, such as a history of women's experiences undergoing breast cancer treatment paired with a review of current screening guidelines.
Publications
For my complete bibliography, Click Here.
Selected Publications:
Ehrenberger, K. A., George, A. X. Medical(ized) Bodies in the German-Speaking World. Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. 2023; 59(1).
Ehrenberger, K. A. Food For Thought: Teaching History of Nutrition to Medical Students. H-Nutrition. 2022.
Ehrenberger, K. A. Autopsy, Authority, and Affect: Body Voyaging in Anatomical Fairy Tales from 1920s-1940s Germany. Becoming TransGerman: Cultural Identity Beyond Geography. 2019; New York: Peter Lang.
Anastasio, T. J., Ehrenberger, K. A., Watson, P., Zhang, W. Individual and Collective Memory Consolidation: Analogous Processes on Different Levels. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2012.
Notable Achievements
American Academy of Pediatrics Meds-Peds Resident Advocacy Award, 2020
PittMed Professionalism Accolade, 2020

Division Websites

Cardiology

Endocrinology and Metabolism

Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition

General Internal Medicine

Geriatric Medicine
Hematology/Oncology

Infectious Diseases

Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine

Renal-Electrolyte

Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology

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