Biography

Dr. Sgro is an Academic Hospitalist at VA Pittsburgh, an Associate Program Director for the UPMC Internal Medicine Residency Program, and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (UPSoM).

He is a clinician and a writer who serves as the Site Director of the My Life, My Story Program at VA Pittsburgh and Co-Director of the Area of Concentration in the Medical Humanities and Ethics at UPSoM. He is the recipient of teaching awards, including the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award, the Golden Apple Teaching Award, and the 2022 Carl R. Fuhrman Clinical Educator of the Year Award. His creative writing has appeared in Rattle, the Bellevue Literary Review, The Healing Muse, Annals of Internal Medicine, JAMA, the Best New Poets Anthology, and elsewhere.

Job Title

Associate Professor of Medicine

Institution/Organization

Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System