Lisa (Upsher) Woods, MSOL

Woods acts as a conduit for communication and collaboration across the six schools of the health sciences; creates events that foster community among faculty and students; and represents the Office of Health Sciences Engagement & Enrichment in Pitt’s recruitment efforts nationwide. She also works with department heads across the health sciences schools to administer the hiring and retention of collaborative research faculty.

Before joining HSEE, Woods led diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts at the Center for Organ Recovery and Education (CORE), where she was instrumental in having CORE declared a site of the Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program, which promotes positive health behaviors through public education by focusing on diseases and behaviors that lead to the need for transplantation in minoritized communities.