UPMC Children’s Appoints Michael Ost, MD, MBA, as Chief Medical Officer and Vice President for Medical Affairs
October 11, 2024
Michael Ost, MD, MBA, from the Division of Pediatric Urology at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, was appointed chief medical officer and vice president of Medical Affairs. Dr. Ost had served as vice president of Medical Affairs on an interim basis beginning January 1, 2024. He will be responsible for quality and safety, medical affairs, and community health at the hospital.
In addition to his clinical practice as a professor of Urology, Dr. Ost serves as director of Pediatric Surgical Outreach at UPMC Children’s and assistant dean for Interprofessional Education and Technology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Dr. Ost received his medical degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He received subspecialty fellowship training in both endourology (Northwell Health System – New York) and pediatric urology (UPMC Children’s). He was the first urologist in the United States to receive such training to treat a wide spectrum of urologic diseases in a minimally invasive fashion in both adults and children. He is widely published and has lectured nationally and internationally on his areas of specialization.
Dr. Ost also received his MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He previously served as division chief of Pediatric Urology at UPMC Children’s and vice chair in the Department of Urology from 2012 -2017.
Clinical and Research Emphasis
Dr. Ost treats the full spectrum of urologic conditions in children and adults using a variety of minimally invasive approaches – robotic-assisted surgery, laparoscopy, and endourologic techniques. Dr. Ost continues to specialize in treating kidney cancer, congenital renal anomalies, and complex stone disease in patients of all ages.
Leadership Positions
As assistant dean for Interprofessional Education and Technology at the Pitt School of Medicine, Dr. Ost is responsible for leading a team that actively collaborates to provide cross-disciplinary educational efforts for health care providers – medical students, residents, fellows, physicians, nurses, and others – about what each service line within the greater School of Medicine and UPMC health system entails and can offer in the realms of direct patient care, technological assets, research, and other opportunities.
The Interprofessional Education and Technology program within the School of Medicine was created by medical school dean Anantha Shekhar, MD, PhD, who was one of the first in the country to recognize the importance and power of such an educational approach for health care providers and implemented such a program at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine after becoming Dean in June 2020.
Dr. Ost and colleagues' work is designed to facilitate communication and educational efforts between disciplines and create an environment that fosters collaborative research or patient care opportunities and bridges the use of potentially overlapping resources, medical technologies, research protocols, and other system assets between disparate disciplines.
Dr. Ost's other leadership role within the UPMC system – director of Pediatric Surgical Outreach at UPMC Children's – will focus on facilitating and expanding pediatric surgical services to patients and families in distant areas of the state while uniformly coordinating this patient care across all surgical disciplines between the outlying UPMC hospitals in north and central/east-central Pennsylvania and UPMC Children's main facility in Pittsburgh.
