Leadership

Charles E. Bogosta

Mr. Bogosta is executive vice president of UPMC and president of UPMC's International and Commercial Services Division for which he oversees international development efforts, including the creation of a new biomedical research center in Sicily, a leading transplant hospital in Palermo, Italy, and cancer treatment centers in Ireland. He is spearheading efforts to create and manage innovative, for-profit businesses that leverage UPMC's medical and technological expertise.

Mr. Bogosta is also president of UPMC CancerCenter, part of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. In this role, Mr. Bogosta is responsible for the strategic, operational, and financial activities of all cancer-related clinical and research activity.

Simona Abbro

Ms. Abbro is director of UPMC International Marketing Communications. Stationed at UPMC 's Rome office, she is responsible for planning, coordinating, and implementing internal and external communication strategies throughout the European Union and other international regions in order to establish and maintain a strong, positive brand identity for UPMC. Ms. Abbro also oversees the marketing communications efforts in the local countries where UPMC operates.

Stephen Boochever

Mr. Boochever is executive vice president for business development of UPMC’s International and Commercial Services Division. He oversees UPMC’s evaluation and management of investments in early and mid-stage companies, strategic partnerships with industry, and commercialization of emerging technologies. To date, UPMC has invested over $100M in portfolio companies, and UPMC and its technology partners (including IBM, GE, Alcatel-Lucent, and Cerner) have committed over $150M to develop and market new technologies.

Kathryn Devine

Ms. Devine is vice president of Human Resources, International Services, UPMC. She is responsible for developing human resources and expatriate programs to meet the strategic and operational needs of expanding UPMC international facilities and programs. Ms. Devine has more than 20 years of experience in human resources, including 10 years in international activities.

Bruno Gridelli, MD

Dr. Gridelli is the medical and scientific director of UPMC’s International and Commercial Services Division and the medical scientific director of ISMETT, a transplant hospital in Palermo, Italy. Under his direction ISMETT has significantly increased liver transplant activity and started new clinical programs, such as heart, lung, and pancreas transplantation. The lung transplant program in Palermo is the only one south of Rome. The number of transplants performed at ISMETT has more than tripled under Dr. Gridelli’s direction. ISMETT also is entering the field of regenerative medicine and cell transplantation.

Loretta L.  Hanwell

Ms. Hanwell is the vice president of UPMC Global Care and International Cancer Center Development. She leads a team for development and implementation of international initiatives in several countries. Ms. Hanwell has extensive clinical experience in hospital administration and recently was responsible for project management efforts for UPMC CancerCenter, including the planning, design, and organizational startup of more than 12 free-standing cancer centers. She has worked closely with joint venture partners in formulating strategic and operational plans, physician referral programs, and outreach initiatives.

Dwight E. Heron, MD, FACRO

Dr. Heron is vice chairman for Clinical Affairs of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Department of Radiation Oncology, and associate professor of radiation oncology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Heron specializes in stereotactic radiosurgery, high-dose rate brachytherapy, radiation therapy (IMRT), intraoperative radiotherapy, and interstitial hyperthermia. His clinical research interests include the evaluation of PET/CT scans in the staging and management of cancers, stereotactic radiotherapy for benign and malignant tumors.

Rebecca L. Kaul

Ms. Kaul is the President of the Technology Development Center and a Senior Vice President in the International and Commercial Services Division (ICSD). She oversees the Technology Development Center with the vision of bringing innovation to health care information technology. She achieves this by collaborating with ICSD’s commercial and academic partners to bring UPMC’s health care intelligence into the development process of new information technology products. Ms. Kaul is responsible for evaluating new technology investments and overseeing the development and transition of these prospects into commercial opportunities.

John Kuzmishin

Mr. Kuzmishin is senior vice president and chief financial officer of UPMC’s International and Commercial Services Division. He is responsible for managing the financial operations of the division and is a vital resource in operational as well as business development activities. Mr. Kuzmishin oversees and provides management for domestic and international financial resources and their support of clinical operations. Before joining UPMC, Mr. Kuzmishin worked as a health care investment banker, most recently at Robert W. Baird & Co.

Nancy A. Landman

Ms. Landman is the chief information officer for UPMC's International and Commercial Services Division. She is responsible for planning, directing, coordinating, and managing information system services in support of all international sites and activities. In addition, she is the liaison between UPMC's Information Services Division and UPMC's International and Commercial Services Division. Prior to this position, Ms. Landman was vice president of business development and operations for the Information Services Division of UPMC.

Kathy Lokay

Ms. Lokay is senior vice president for commercial oncology services of UPMC’s International and Commercial Services Division. She is responsible for developing, commercializing, and managing oncology products and services for broader market distribution, including Pathways, D3 Radiation Planning, and the Oncology Information System. Before joining UPMC, Ms. Lokay was a senior vice president at US Oncology where she managed several divisions including their electronic health record company and payer-facing pathways business. She also provided operational management to their network of managed practices in radiation, medical oncology, managed care, and clinical research.

Kathleen A. McGinn

Ms. McGinn is vice president of UPMC’s International and Commercial Services Division (ICSD) and oversees its strategic partnership and commercialization group. Her group’s responsibilities include coordinating and managing the analysis of ICSD’s investments and international clinical expansion initiatives, providing due diligence, structuring, and financial analysis. Before joining UPMC, Ms. McGinn worked as a health care investment banker, most recently at Morgan Stanley.

Steven Shapiro, MD

Dr. Shapiro is associate international and medical scientific director of UPMC’s International and Commercial Services Division (ICSD). He works closely on clinical and scientific activity for all international locations. Dr. Shapiro’s primary focus is research activity, and he assists with physician recruitment, policy development, and providing the important linkages between UPMC’s international locations and key departments within UPMC’s Physician Services Division.

Walt Stoy, PhD, EMT-P

Dr. Stoy is director, international business development, for the International and Commercial Services Division of UPMC. He previously served as executive director of UPMC’s emergency medicine enhancement project with Hamad Medical Corp. in Qatar. An accomplished Emergency Medical Services (EMS) educator and administrator, Dr. Stoy helped to create Qatar’s first trauma service at Hamad General Hospital. A professor and director of the Emergency Medicine Program at the University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Dr. Stoy has received numerous honors for his more than 35 years of achievements in EMS.

John Williams, MD

Dr. Williams is associate medical and scientific director of UPMC’s International and Commercial Services Division. He works closely on clinical and scientific activity for all international locations. Dr. Williams focuses on physician recruitment, policy development, and providing the important linkages between our international locations and key departments within the Physician Services Division. For the past 11 years, Dr. Williams has been actively involved in providing support to UPMC operations at ISMETT. He also was instrumental in the development of the WISER Simulation Center at ISMETT.

Joel P. Yuhas, FACHE

Mr. Yuhas is senior vice president of International Operations and serves as the president and chief executive officer of Beacon Hospital, a private, 183-bed facility in Dublin, Ireland. Mr. Yuhas, who joined UPMC in 2007, is based in Ireland and oversees the operations of UPMC CancerCenter in Ireland and the U.K. He previously served as president of UPMC Horizon and interim president of UPMC Northwest, supervising three of UPMC’s 20 hospitals.

Travis Tu

Travis Tu is vice president of Business Development-Asia based in Shanghai, China. During his nine years stay in China, Mr. Tu has been involved in hospital acquisitions, health network development, joint-venture negotiations, and business planning and feasibility study for healthcare investment projects. He was also Director of Operations for a foreign joint-venture hospital in China. Prior to moving to Asia, Mr. Tu worked at two of the largest HMOs in the United States with responsibilities in new market strategy and hospital contracting.

Professor John G. Armstrong, MD, FRCPI, DABR, FFRRCSI

Dr. Armstrong is medical director for UPMC Ireland, a joint venture between UPMC and Eurocare, with cancer centers in Waterford and Dublin. He has been intimately involved in the rollout of new procedures involving high-tech radiation therapy procedures such as IMRT, and stereotactic radiosurgery. Dr. Armstrong is chairman of the Irish Cancer Society and one of the leading radiation oncologists in Europe. He trained in the United States at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where he directed the lung cancer radiation research program. He wrote the first U.S. publication about the use of 3-D radiation for lung cancer. He is currently director of research at St. Lukes Hospital, the largest cancer facility in Ireland.

Ugo Palazzo, MD

Dr. Palazzo is chief of staff and deputy medical officer of ISMETT in Palermo, Italy. Dr. Palazzo began his work at ISMETT in 1999 as the associate medical director and director of both the Liver Unit and Outpatient Clinic. He also has served as director of the International Patients Service Department. Before joining ISMETT, Dr. Palazzo was director of a unit dedicated to patients on a waiting list for liver transplants at Vincenzo Cervello Hospital.

Laura Raimondo

Ms. Raimondo is vice president of UPMC International Services and managing director of UPMC Italy. Stationed in Rome, Ms. Raimondo ensures management of and services to ISMETT and also manages coordination and development of international activities and investments of UPMC in Europe and the Middle East. Ms. Raimondo was responsible for the set-up and launch of the Ri.MED Foundation in Italy.