Magee-Womens Resarch Institute (MWRI), Erie has appointed Erie resident Linda Paterniti as its director.
Paterniti will return to the UPMC Hamot campus where her career in pharmacy began 40 years ago as a staff pharmacist. After 20 years in progressive leadership roles, she assumed the director of pharmacy position in 2001. She most recently served for three years as director of clinical services at The Regional Cancer Center in Erie where she served as director of pharmacy for 13 years prior to that.
“We’re very pleased Linda is joining our team to bring locally-focused clinical medical research trials to the region, improving the health of generations of women while creating a new sector in Erie’s economy,” said Halina Zyczynski, M.D., a leading researcher and physician at MWRI in Pittsburgh and UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital, and medical director of Magee-Womens Specialty Services at UPMC Hamot. “She will expertly lead and oversee the growth of MWRI as we continue to provide specific research on women’s health, reproductive biology and infertility.”
In September, the Erie Community Foundation (ECF) announced a $6 million grant, the largest in its 84-year history, to expand Pittsburgh-based MWRI to Erie and create a new biomedical commercialization and translational research lab at Penn State Behrend’s Knowledge Park.
“I’m eager and honored to work with the talented MWRI team which has a direct impact on women’s lives every day,” said Paterniti. “I’m excited to be part of the cutting-edge research that is transforming women’s lives, and that work, those trials, will now take place right here in Erie.”
