Dr. David Yankura Completes UPMC Leadership Program 

Congratulations to David Yankura, MD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry), who has completed the UPMC Physician Leadership Essentials Program!

Physician Leadership Essentials is designed to equip physician leaders with the skills necessary to successfully identify and leverage personal and team strengths, build community among physician leaders across UPMC, and monitor progress throughout their leadership journey. Successful completion of program requirements includes more than 40 hours of leadership and management instruction in addition to self-assessments, class discussions, readings, homework, and a capstone project.

Dr. Yankura is medical director of Coding and Compliance at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH), and medical director of WPH Emergency Department Telepsychiatry. He is an attending physician in the WPH Psychiatric Emergency Services (PES), as well as with Comprehensive Recovery Services, which cares for adults with acute exacerbations of severe mental illness diagnoses, such as schizophrenia or bipolar mania with psychosis. 

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Yankura!