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Nalini Rao, MD, FACP, FSHEA
Clinical Professor of Medicine and Orthopedics University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases (Shadyside Campus) UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside
Medical Director, Infection Control UPMC Shadyside, Southside and Braddock Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Address: UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside Infection Prevention and Control Department 2nd Floor, School of Nursing 5230 Centre Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15232 TEL (412) 623-1649 FAX (412) 623-1782 e-mail: raon@upmc.edu
Dr. Rao is a medical graduate of Delhi University, New Delhi, India. She completed her Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine at George Washington University. She did her post-doctoral fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Baylor College of Medicine and University of Pittsburgh. She is certified in Travel Medicine and oversees an International Travel Health Center as its medical director.
Her research interests include Healthcare-associated infections, musculoskeletal Infections with special emphasis on prosthetic joint infections and chronic osteomyelitis. She has published over fifty publications including abstracts and book chapters. She has given over 250 lectures at various medical centers. She has received numerous awards including William M. Cooper, M.D., J.D. for excellence in teaching and the Jeanette Wilkins Award for the best clinical paper at the Musculoskeletal Infection Society in 2001. She was elected as president of the Musculoskeletal Infection Society, 2003-2004. She has been cited as one of the America’s Top Doctors from 2001 to 2005 by Castle Connolly Medical, Ltd., New York. She was featured in the May 2005 issue of Pittsburgh Magazine as one of the top doctors in her subspecialty in the region.
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