Rachel Sackrowitz, MD, MBA

  • Executive Vice Chair
  • Associate Professor, Critical Care Medicine
  • Vice President, UPMC Operational Excellence
  • Chief Medical Officer, UPMC ICU Service Center

    Education & Training

  • BA, Psychology, Amherst College, 1997
  • MD, New York University School of Medicine, 2004
  • Residency, Internal Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical Center, 2007
  • Fellowship, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical Center, 2010
  • MBA, Stern School of Business New York University, 2017
Awards
A. Lee Winston Award for Excellence in Critical Care, Compassion, and Humanitarianism
American Women's Association Award For Academic Excellence
Alpha Omega Alpha
Representative Publications

Sackrowitz, R. Addressing ICU burnout using tele-technology to expand the team. Becker’s Health IT and CIO Report, August 2018.

Sackrowitz, R. Different challenges, shared experiences and common purpose. Becker’s Hospital Review, May 2018.

Research Interests
  • Evidence-based medicine in critical care
  • System-wide quality improvement
  • Cost reduction in hospitalized patients
  • Telemedicine and regional care delivery