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Deborah Dzombak McMahon, M.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Program of Study: Biology
Class Year: 1977

Deborah Dzombak McMahon is an associate professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Medicine. She serves as the clinical director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's HIV/AIDS Program and has a secondary appointment in the Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology in the Graduate School of Public Health. She oversees the activities of the AIDS Clinical Trials Unit, which conducts NIH-funded and industry-sponsored clinical trials as well as the HIV primary care unit. Dr. McMahon is the director of the University of Pittsburgh’s HRSA-funded HIV Early Intervention Project, which provides testing and counseling services as well as enhanced primary medical care services to more than 1,450 HIV-infected men and women in western Pennsylvania. In addition, she serves as project director for a President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)-supported Twinning Partnership with the Catholic University of Mozambique to train Mozambican healthcare workers and medical students. Dr. McMahon earned her Doctor of Medicine degree from Temple University in 1981.