University Times

Pitt’s five highest-paid employees last year were all School of Medicine professors.

They included:

• James D. Luketich, an associate professor in the surgery department — $1,167,917 in salary and $20,572 in employer contributions to benefit plans.

• L. Dade Lunsford, professor and chairperson of neurological surgery — $823,731 in salary and $24,460 in contributions to benefit plans.

• James Kang, associate professor of orthopaedic surgery — $776,697 in salary and $20,932 in contributions to benefit plans.

• Eugene N. Myers, professor and chairperson of otolaryngology — $716,862 in salary and $20,932 in contributions to benefit plans.

• Freddie H. Fu, professor and chairperson of orthopaedic surgery — $695,479 in salary, $20,932 in contributions to benefit plans and $6,902 in educational benefits.

Compensation figures for those and other highly paid Health Sciences professors and executives appeared on IRS forms filed recently by Pitt, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Health System and the University of Pittsburgh Physicians (UPP) practice plan.

The IRS Form 990, a public document, requires tax-exempt, private corporations to reveal compensation figures for their five top-earning, non-officer employees, as well as for officers, directors and trustees.

Pitt does not voluntarily release salary and benefits information for its employees except for the chancellor and six other senior officers whose pay is set by the Board of Trustees compensation committee. Pitt officers’ current salaries, bonuses and special benefits were published in the Jan. 9 University Times, available at: http://www.pitt.edu/utimes/bk_issues.html

For the first time, the listing of the five highest-paid, non-officer employees on Pitt’s 990 form was based on their University salaries combined with income that the professors earned for clinical work through UPP.

The “great majority” of the total compensation for Luketich, Lunsford, Kang, Myers and Fu came through UPP, said Jane Duffield, director of the Health Sciences News Bureau.

UPMC Health System

UPMC’s 990 form did not list individual compensation figures for system President Jeffrey A. Romoff, Executive Vice President John W. Paul and an unspecified number of other executives. Instead, their salaries (totaling $4,998,345) were grouped under a listing for a company called Managed Care Advisory, one of the five contractors that received the most money last year from UPMC.

Romoff appears on the health system’s 990 form only as a member of the UPMC Board of Directors. Paul appears only as the board’s treasurer. Neither was compensated for his board service.

The only paid member of the health system board was corporate secretary Lisa Pupo Lenihan ($129,083 in salary, $12,687 in employer contributions to benefits).

The five highest-paid, non-officer employees listed on UPMC’s Form 990 were: former UPMC public relations director Ann Metzger ($155,910 in salary and $18,368 in benefits contributions) the News Bureau’s Jane Duffield ($149,236 in salary, $13,422 in benefits contributions), UPMC development director Constance Bolanis ($100,044 in salary, $9,192 in benefits contributions), Sandra Staschak-Chicko, development director for the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute ($86,973 in salary, $13,278 in benefits contributions) and UPMC special events director Carol A. Holbay ($81,780 in salary, $8,659 in benefits contributions).

University of Pittsburgh Physicians

The five highest-paid employees (other than officers, directors and trustees) on UPP’s Form 990 differs from Pitt’s top five.

Luketich and Kang ranked No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, on UPP’s form; Lunsford, Myers and Fu appeared on the UPP form as members of UPP’s Board of Directors.

The three remaining non-officers ranked in the top five on UPP’s form were: Christopher D. Harner of orthopaedic surgery ($594,144 in salary and $49,560 in employer contributions to benefits), Sanjeev Bahri of radiation oncology ($591,800 in salary, $49,922 in benefits contributions) and William Donaldson III of orthopaedic surgery ($569,525 in salary, $49,818 in benefits contributions).

UPP’s 990 also included compensation figures for 18 UPP chairpersons, professors and administrators listed as members of UPP’s board.

Salaries and benefits for the 18 were for their work as UPP officers and managers. No compensation was paid for their roles as board members. The UPP personnel included:

Pediatrics chairperson David Hirsch Perlmutter ($305,199 in salary, $5,276 in benefits contributions); surgery professor Andrew B. Peitzman ($349,361 in salary, $48,256 in benefits contributions); pediatrics professor Lee B. Beerman ($149,276 in salary, $22,876 in benefits contributions); urology chairperson Joel Nelson ($261,727 in salary, $21,415 in benefits contributions); pathology professor Trevor A. MacPherson ($304,823 in salary, $49,945 in benefits contributions); cardiology chairperson Arthur M. Feldman ($268,148 in salary, $20,233 in benefits contributions); pathology chairperson George K. Michalopoulos ($337,818 in salary, $31,961 in benefits contributions); surgery chairperson Timothy Robert Billiar ($547,192 in salary, $35, 986 in benefits contributions);

Radiology chairperson Scott A. Morowitz ($504,433 in salary, $37,680 in benefits contributions); assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences Margaret L. Watt-Morse ($167,238 in salary, $29,364 in benefits contributions); medicine professor Susan Candace Hunt ($64,056 in salary, $11,072 in benefits contributions); ophthalmology chairperson Bruce Michael Gorin ($139,236 in salary, $13,651 in benefits contributions);

UPP vice president for administration Anna Roman ($232,315 in salary, $37,115 in benefits contributions); UPP associate counsel Pamela J. Grimm ($193,817 in salary, $9,271 in benefits contributions); anesthesiology chairperson John Williams ($359,773 in salary, $49,660 in benefits contributions); family medicine chairperson Jeannette South-Paul ($138,700 in salary); former ophthalmology chairperson Gary Foulks ($361,570 in salary, $47,923 in benefits contributions), and UPP vice president for finance Mark Benninghoff ($159,952 in salary, $11,114 in benefits contributions).

— Bruce Steele