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photo Rachna Rawal, MD

General Internal Medicine

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Email: rawalr@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-692-4882

Contact
Office: UPMC Montefiore
200 Lothrop Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
 
Phone: 412-692-4882
Fax: 412-692-4555
E-mail: rawalr@upmc.edu
Administrative Assistant:
Crystal Knorr Lisowski
Phone: 412-692-4882
Administrative Assistant:
Anna Meurer
Phone: 412-692-4882
Education and Training
Education
BA Biological Sciences, University of Chicago (Chicago, IL), 2010
MD, University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, IL), 2015
Training
Internal Medicine Residency, Saint Louis University (St. Louis, MO), 2018
Chief Resident, Saint Louis University (St. Louis, MO), 2019
Research Interest
Dr. Rawal has extensive research and presentation experience, with a special interest in value based healthcare and patient reported outcomes. Her current research interest is in monotherapy sliding scale insulin use in the hospital.

Recent Presentations:

Sustaining Mindful Laboratory Ordering Practices: A Culture Change. Poster. Association of American Medical Colleges Integrating Quality National Conference, June 2019 (Minneapolis, MN).

Stop. Think. Does My Patient Need Those Labs? Invited talk. John Cochrane Veterans Affairs Medical Center Grand Rounds, May 2019 (St. Louis, MO).

Addressing the "Low-Value" of Unnecessary Lab Ordering. Oral presentation. Lown National Conference, April 2018 (Washington, D.C.).

High-Value Care Education for Third Year Medical Students. Oral presentation. Society of General Internal Medicine Midwest Regional Meeting, September 2018 (Chicago, IL).
Clinical Interest
Dr. Rawal is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine who joined the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh in 2019. She attended medical school at the University of Illinois at Chicago before completing her residency at St. Louis University, serving as Chief Resident from 2018-2019. She has extensive research and presentation experience, with a special interest in value-based healthcare and patient-reported outcomes. Her current research interest is in monotherapy sliding scale insulin use in the hospital. In addition to her clinical and teaching responsibilities, she continues to promote high-value care within the hospital.
Educational Interest
Dr. Rawal is also experienced in medical resident education, having previously served as a course developer for medical students and residents at St. Louis University teaching high-value care quality improvement and mindful lab ordering. She is also a faculty member of the Physicians in Training Committee for Society of Hospital Medicine and serves as the editor for the Future Hospitalist Roundup (a quarterly newsletter for trainees) and she is a member of the SGIM Quality Improvement and Safety Committee.
Publications
Selected Publications:
Rawal, R, Buckhold, FR, Schmidt, J. Analyze Patient Tests for Importance Before Ordering. JAMA Internal Medicine. 2019; 179(5): 729-730.
Rawal, R. So You Wanna Be Chief (Resident)?. Future Hospitalist Roundup. 2019.
Rawal, R, Naramvar, A, Villa, P, Tu, YL, Eshraghi, N. The Different Views of “The Match”. Future Hospitalist Roundup. 2019.
Rawal, R, Naramvar, A. Meeting the Future of Hospital Medicine in the Nation’s Capital. Future Hospitalist Roundup. 2019.
Rawal, R. Propelling My Career Forward With SHM’s Resident Travel Blog. Future Hospitalist Roundup. 2018.
Lunt, JM, Al-Taee, A, Rawal, R, Buckhold, FR. Trigeminocardiac Reflex as the Presentation of Maxillary Sinus Adenocarcinoma. The American Journal of Medicine. 2017; 130(11): e505-e506.
Rawal, R, Gupta, D. Primary Hyperparathyroidism in Clinical Decision Support. In: Hospital Medicine, edited by Miller C, Burger A, Lai C, and Pahwa A. 2017.
Notable Achievements
1st Place, Educational Curricula, High Value Practice Academic Alliance National Conference, 2019
JAMA Internal Medicine Teachable Moment Fellow, 2018-2019
1st Place, Clinical Vignette Poster Presentation, American College of Physician Missouri State Competition, 2018
Resident Travel Grant Award, Society of Hospital Medicine National Conference, 2018
2nd Place, Oral Innovations Presentation, Society of General Internal Medicine Midwest Regional Conference, 2018
Future Leader, High Value Practice Academic Alliance, 2017-2018
1st Place, Quality Improvement/Patient Safety, Poster. American College of Physicians Missouri State Competition, 2017
Young Scholar Award, Society of General Internal Medicine, Midwest Regional Conference, Chicago, 2017
Second Place Oral Presentation Clinical Vignette, Indian American Medical Association of Illinois, Golden Stethoscope Award, 2016