Samantha Pitts, MD, MPH

Samantha Pitts, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in General Internal Medicine and serves as Associate Vice Chair for Ambulatory Quality and Safety in the Department of Medicine, Co-Director of the Armstrong Institute Patient Safety and Quality Leadership Academy, and Director of the Precision Medicine Center of Excellence for Adult Primary Care.  Her research focuses on improving ambulatory patient safety and enabling the delivery of the evidence-based interventions for health promotion and disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment for each patient in primary care, including AHRQ funded work on electronic communication of prescription discontinuation.  Dr. Pitts completed her internal medicine residency at the University of California San Francisco, where she focused on primary care and evidence-based medicine. She subsequently received her MPH in Epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley and completed fellowship training in General Internal Medicine and Comparative Effectiveness Research at Johns Hopkins prior to joining the faculty.