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photo Jing Luo, MD, MPH

General Internal Medicine

Associate Professor of Medicine

Affiliated Faculty, Center for Pharmaceutical Policy and Prescribing (CP3)

Affiliated Faculty, Program on Regulation, Therapeutics and Law (PORTAL), Brigham and Women's Hospital

Email: luoj@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-383-3559
Contact
Office: 3609 Forbes Avenue, 2nd Floor
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
 
Phone: 412-383-3559
Fax:
E-mail: luoj@pitt.edu
Administrative Assistant:
Anita Minahan
Email: amm391@pitt.edu
Education and Training
Education
BS, Duke University, 2006
MD, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, 2011
MPH, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2016
Training
Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars Program, 2010
Internship and Residency, Yale-New Haven Hospital (Primary Care Internal Medicine), 2014
Fellowship in General Medicine and Primary Care (Research), Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 2016
Research Interest
Dr. Luo is a clinician investigator and general internist whose research focuses on prescription drug use, pricing, policy, and comparative effectiveness. He is especially interested in medicines for chronic diseases such as diabetes, including insulin. Prior to joining Pitt, he was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

Dr. Luo serves as PI on an trial comparing human versus analogue insulin for youth with type 1 diabetes living in low resource settings (HumAn-1). You can learn more about this trial here: https://www.iadadiabetes.org/human-1. He is also a NIDDK K23 awardee to examine cost-related medication restrictions among adults with type 2 diabetes.

His original investigations and perspectives have been published in NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine. His work has been featured in the the Washington Post and VOX News.

If you are interested in working as a trainee or collaborator in his research group, contact Dr. Luo at luoj@pitt.edu.
Clinical Interest
Dr. Luo's clinical interests are in type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and chronic pain.
Educational Interest
Dr. Luo teaches students and residents on the inpatient medicine teaching service at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital and enjoys serving as a mentor to students and trainees.
Publications
For my complete bibliography, Click Here.
Selected Publications:
White, G. E., Shu, I., Rometo, D., Arnold, J., Korytkowski, M,, Luo, J. Real-world weight-loss effectiveness of glucagon-like peptide-1 agonists among patients with type 2 diabetes: A retrospective cohort study. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2023; 31(2): 534-544.
Luo, J., Feldman, R., Rothenberger, S., Korytkowski, M., Fischer, M. A., Gellad, W. F. Incidence and predictors of primary nonadherence to sodium glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors and glucagon-like peptide-1 agonists in a large integrated healthcare system. JGIM. 2022; 37(14): 3562-3569.
Zupa, M., Feldman, R., Luo, J. Trends in out-of-pocket cost of glucagon, 2010-2020. JAMA Netw Open. 2022; 5(8): e2229428.
Luo, J., Gabriel, N., Korytkowski, M., Hernandez, I., Gellad, W. F. Association of formulary restrictions and initiation of an SGLT2i or GLP1-RA among Medicare beneficiaries with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2022; 187: 109855.
Notable Achievements
First Place, Original Research, Resident Abstract Competition, American College of Physicians (CT Chapter), 2013
Honorable Mention, Hopkins General Internal Medicine Housestaff Research Award, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 2013
NIH-Forgarty International Clinical Research Scholar, 2009-2010

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