University Times

Pitt's five highest paid professors during the 1996-97 fiscal year were – as usual – from the School of Medicine, according to an Internal Revenue Service form that the University filed this month. The professors were: Bartley P. Griffith, professor of cardiothoracic surgery – $591,650 in salary (up from $380,600 the year before), $42,434 in […]

After six years and three searches, Pitt finally has found a replacement for Thomas Detre, senior vice chancellor for Health Sciences. Arthur S. Levine, 61, currently scientific director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will succeed Detre Nov. 1. In addition to taking on […]

Average salaries of full, associate and assistant professors at the Pittsburgh campus lost ground last year compared with the median of salaries at other American Association of Universities (AAU) schools. No surprise there. Last year, Pitt awarded average raises of 2.1 percent for professors, 2 percent for associate profs and 2.2 percent for assistant professors. […]

Eva Reid Brosius, former clerk of the University Senate who held the job for over 27 years, died May 25. Brosius joined the University in 1969 as associate director of the Office of Development and Alumni Affairs. Appointed the first clerk of the University Senate that year, Brosius went on to work with 15 Senate […]

The School of Medicine has established a first-of-its-kind endowed chair focusing on the patient-doctor relationship and patient-centered care. A national search will be conducted to identify the physician who will hold the newly created Leo H. Criep, M.D., Chair in Patient Care. The Criep professor will hold the appointment in Pitt's Department of Medicine. The […]

To Arthur S. Levine, culture isn't just something you grow in a Petri dish. "I've always been as interested in the humanities as in the sciences," says Levine, who was named last week as Pitt senior vice chancellor for Health Sciences and dean of the medical school, effective Nov. 1. Levine, 61, currently is scientific […]

Pitt's Office of General Counsel employs six full-time lawyers but needs to hire three more to handle a growing workload, according to Assistant Chancellor Jerome Cochran, who has been directing the office since March. In updating the University Senate budget policies committee (BPC) this month on the office's activities, Cochran said he will seek permission […]

The Pitt Board of Trustees executive committee on May 15 unanimously ratified an agreement through which School of Medicine clinical practice plans will pay $17 million to the U.S. Department of Justice to settle charges that University physicians overbilled Medicare and Medicaid between 1990 and 1996. UPMC Health System has pledged to reimburse the practice […]

The May 13 Staff Association Council (SAC) meeting covered a lot of ground in the nearly two-hour public forum that included the approval of new council members, a firming-up of the July 25 Pitt Kennywood Day details, and an old-style, convention-floor fight of sorts over bylaws changes. Due to a glitch in scheduling, some new […]

The Pennsylvania Prevention Project at the Graduate School of Public Health has launched an award-winning website for individuals, physicians, health care workers and anyone interested in finding out more about HIV and AIDS. The project won best website for health education and promotion at the 1997 National Health Association Conference. The website ‹ http://www.stophiv.com – […]