Memberships
- Ambulatory Pediatric Association
- Society of Hospital Medicine
- American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on International Child Health
Awards
- Named as the "most
highly recommended" pediatrician in the Pittsburgh area by WPXI-TV,
2005
- 2004 Academy of Masters of Medical Education, Steering Committee,
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
- 2003 Recipient of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Award
for Commitment and Excellence in Service (ACES)
- 2002 Selected by the American Academy of Pediatrics, Pennsylvania
Chapter, as Pediatrician of the Year
Publications
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As chief of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh's Diagnostic Referral
Service since 2002, Basil J. Zitelli, MD, has overseen an expansion of
the division and witnessed a dramatic increase in the use of the hospitalist
and other services it offers patients and community physicians throughout
the region.
Today, nearly twice the number of community physicians are using the inpatient
services provided by the division's general pediatricians/hospitalists,
who specialize in diagnosing and managing a wide range of complex pediatric
medical conditions. In addition, the division offers ambulatory consultation
for physicians, a medical short stay unit, an evening hospitalist program
and is committed to the training of medical students and residents. In
2004, Diagnostic Referral had more discharges and more observation patients
than any other hospital division.
Dr. Zitelli, a native of Pittsburgh, joined Children's Hospital's Diagnostic
Referral Service in 1978. The same year, he was appointed to the faculty
of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he continues
to teach future physicians as a professor of pediatrics.
He received his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1971
and completed his pediatric training at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore,
Md. Following two years of military service, he returned to Johns Hopkins
as chief resident in pediatrics from 1976-1978.
Dr. Zitelli, an active member of several professional and scientific societies,
has received honors and awards from a number of them, including the American
Medical Association Physicians Recognition Award for Continuing Education
and the American Academy of Pediatrics, Pennsylvania Chapter, Pediatrician
of the Year.
His clinical and research interests include issues related to pediatric
liver transplantation, particularly the long-term follow up of transplant
patients. His work in pediatric medicine also extends to other countries,
including efforts to develop partnerships with children's hospitals in
Poland and in Minsk, Belarus.
Dr. Zitelli has lectured and published extensively throughout his career.
He is the author of more than 130 published journal articles, books, book
chapters, reviews and other publications and is senior editor of the Atlas
of Pediatric Physical Diagnosis, a popular text/atlas of pediatric
disorders, and co-editor of Common and Chronic Symptoms in Pediatrics
and the eighth edition of the Harriet Lane Handbook.
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