Dr. Bellini is Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Medicine. Her primary responsibilities revolve around directing educational programs for residents and fellows. She is the Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency program that has 150 residents. The residency program at Penn is one of the nation's best and is regarded by the faculty as the gem of the department. In her role as Vice Chair, she is also responsible for overseeing all of the subspecialty fellowship programs. She spends a large portion of her time teaching all levels of trainees. Given the concentration of teaching experiences on the inpatient services, Dr. Bellini is responsible for the organization and maintenance of the inpatient medicine services that cover over 220 beds and 15,000 admissions per year. This includes oversight for the Penn Hospitalist Program for general medicine inpatients.
In 2005, she assumed responsibility for all of graduate medical education for the health system. As Associate Dean, she oversees the education and training of over 850 residents across 61 different programs.
Her primary research interests involve the design, implementation and evaluation of new educational initiatives. Current interests involve issues related to house staff quality of life including sleep deprivation, depression, burn out and empathy.
Her clinical interests include general pulmonary medicine, particularly advanced lung disease.
Volpp KG, Rosen AK, Rosenbaum P, Romano P, Even-Shoshan O, Canamucio A, Bellini LM, Behringer T, Silber JH. The Impact of the ACGME Duty Hour Rules on Mortality Rates in Teaching Hospitals. JAMA. In press.
McOwen KM, Bellini LM, Guerra CS, Shea JA. Evaluation of Clinical Faculty – Gender and Minority Implications. In Press.
Volpp KG, Rosen AK, Rosenbaum P, Romano P, Even-Shoshan O, Canamucio A, Bellini LM, Behringer T, Silber JH. The Impact of ACGME Duty Hour Rules on Mortality of Medicare Beneficiaries : Two Years Post-Reform. In Press.
Bellini LM, Shea JA. Mood changes and empathy decline persist during internal medicine residency training. Aca Med. 2005;80:164-167.
Rosen IM, Bellini LM, Shea JA. Sleep behaviors and attitudes among internal medicine housestaff. Aca Med. 79:407-416, 2004.
Kogan JR, Bellini LM, Shea JA. The impact of resident duty hour reform in a medicine core clerkship. Aca Med. 2004;S79:S58-S61.
Bellini LM, Baime M, Shea JA. Variation of Mood and Empathy During Internship. JAMA. 287:3143-3146, 2002.
Bellini LM, Abbuhl S, Grisso JA, Lavizzo-Mourey R, Shea JA. Stresses and Workplace Resources for Academic Junior Faculty: Track and Gender Comparisons. Aca Med. 76:S62-S64, 2001.
Christie JD, Rosen IM, Bellini LM, Inglesby TV, Lindsay J, Alper A, Asch DA. Prescription drug use and self-prescription among housestaff in four U.S. internal medicine training programs. JAMA 280: 14, 1998.
