Department of Medicine

University of Pittsburgh

Emily Grum, MD

Dr. Grum

Associate Professor of Medicine
Clinical Director, Pulmonary Division, VAMC
UPMC Montefiore Hospital - NW628
3459 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Phone: 412-802-8594
Fax: 412-692-2260
Email: Emily.Grum@med.va.gov
Assistant: Judy Nauman
Assistant Email:naumanja@upmc.edu

Bio

Dr. Grum graduated medical school at the Medical College of Pennsylvania (now Drexel University College of Medicine) in Philadelphia.  Following this, she completed an internal residency program at Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia. She then did a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the Medical College of Pennsylvania.  After several years in the Philadelphia area in both academic, private practice and pharmaceutical positions, Dr. Grum moved to the Pittsburgh area in 1999 and was a pulmonary/critical care faculty physician at Allegheny General Hospital.  In 2002, she became the Chief of the Pulmonary Division at the Pittsburgh VA as well as Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh.

Clinical and Academic Interests

Dr. Grum’s clinical time is spent primarily at the Pittsburgh VA, a major affiliate of the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC.  The VA serves as the tertiary referral center for veterans in the western Pennsylvania region.  Her interests include lung cancer, interstitial lung disease, and sepsis.

Key Publications

Nathan RA, Hanby LA, Grum EE, and Bonuccelli CM: Long –Term Treatment of Asthma with Zafirlukast (Accolate):  Results of a 13-Week Multicenter Trial in Patients with Moderate Airflow Obstruction.  Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1997; 155 (4 Part 2): A663.

Grum EE, and Greenspon LW: Update on Sarcoidosis.  Hospital Medicine 1993; 29 (9): 51-65.

Grum EE, Schwab R, Margolis M: Cryptococcal  Pleural Effusion Preceding Cryptococcal Meningitis in AIDS.  Amer J Med Sci 1991; 301:329-330.

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