Megan Cortazzo, MD

  • Associate Professor

Dr. Cortazzo currently serves as the Medical Director of Clinical Quality Capture and the Medical Director for Health Information Management for UPMC. Prior to that role, she served as Vice Clinical Chair of outpatient services where she helped expand the spine intervention and pain program and was involved in the design of the UPMC Spine Center. She has been involved with initiatives at UPMC regarding the improvement of care through quality documentation, developing tools to improve EHR efficiency and streamlining procedures and processes across the system.

Board Certifications
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Clinical Interests: Non-operative spine care, clinical documentation integrity and coding, health information management, efficiency of electronic medical records, nutrition and exercise to support improved health

Education & Training

  • BS, Neuroscience, Magna Cum Laude, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 1997
  • MD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 2001
  • PM&R Residency, UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, 2005
  • Pain Medicine Fellowship, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA, 2007