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Taming the ‘Wild West’ of Women’s Health
Alumna Earns National Recognition for Advancing Cardiac Research
Three Pitt Nursing Students Win Gilman International Scholarships
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Taming the ‘Wild West’ of Women’s Health
Jill Demirci’s lactation research could help more families feed their children.
As a freshly minted nurse from the Pitt School of Nursing, Associate Professor Jill Demirci’s career began at UPMC Magee-Women’s Hospital, providing postpartum care to new mothers. While there, she became fascinated by human milk as an “evolutionarily perfect” system for the health of mothers and babies alike, so much so that she returned to Pitt to study clinical and behavioral interventions for improved breastfeeding.
“There is so much we need to do to support new parents,” she said. “The state of science in women’s health is so far behind when it comes to evidence-based protocols. It’s like the wild west,” she said, in comparison to most other areas in healthcare.
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Alumna Earns National Recognition for Advancing Cardiac Research
Karina Kraevsky (PhD '25) Learned an Alarming Statistic that Continues to Drive her Career
“One of the things that was shocking to me was learning that it takes, on average, 17 years for research to be applied in a clinical setting,” she said. “Finding ways to translate research to the bedside faster is deeply meaningful to me because it allows us to apply the latest scientific evidence to patient care sooner.”
Now a fellow in Pitt’s School of Medicine and a critical care nurse at UPMC, Kraevsky has received national recognition for her efforts to put research into practice. In November 2025, she earned a competitive award from the American Heart Association (AHA) for proposing an algorithm-based tool that could improve the treatment of patients experiencing heart failure.
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Three Pitt Nursing Students Win Gilman International Scholarships
Fatima Fall, Rachel Kam and Riley Moss will study in China, Switzerland and Argentina, respectively.
The three Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) students are among the eight Pitt undergraduates who received a Gilman scholarship for the October 2025 application cycle—an impressive feat, according to Lynnea Lombardi, Pitt Nursing’s Program Manager for Global Programs.
“Fatima, Rachel and Riley's selection out of a historically large pool of applicants speaks to their forward-thinking vision for global perspectives of nursing,” Lombardi said. “The application process includes detailed essays about students' career development and ideas for citizen diplomacy and local contributions. Students often find that they come out of the application process with a deeper sense of purpose for their work and renewed career aspirations.”
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