
Samantha Pitts, MD
Internal Medicine
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
About Samantha Pitts
Professional Titles
- Associate Vice Chair for Ambulatory Quality and Safety, Department of Medicine
- Co-Director, Armstrong Institute’s Patient Safety and Quality Leadership Academy
Primary Academic Title
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Background
Dr. Samantha Irene Pitts is an assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She sees patients at Johns Hopkins Green Spring Station.
Dr. Pitts received her B.A. from Brown University and completed her M.D. and residency training at the University of California, San Francisco, where she focused on primary care and evidence-based medicine. She subsequently received her M.P.H. in epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley. She has completed fellowship training in applied epidemiology at the New Jersey Department of Health and in general internal medicine and comparative effectiveness research at Johns Hopkins.
She is a champion of the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) team at the Green Spring General Internal Medicine and serves as Assistant Director of the Armstrong Institute’s Patient Safety and Quality Leadership Academy.
Her research interests include ambulatory patient safety and quality, including the application of CUSP in office based practices and improving delivery of evidence-based care through clinical care teams.
Centers and Institutes
Research Interests
Ambulatory patient safety, Comprehensive Unit Based Safety Program, Evidence-based medicine, Preventive care delivery, Team based care
Lab Website
Samantha Pitts Lab - Lab Website
- Research in the Samantha Pitts Lab focuses on care safety and quality in ambulatory patients. Specifically, our activities have included applying the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) in office-based practices and improving the delivery of evidence-based care through clinical care teams.
Professional Activities
- Principal Faculty, Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality
Locations
- Johns Hopkins Health Care & Surgery Center - Green Spring Station, Lutherville
- 10753 Falls Road, Pavilion II, Ste 325, Lutherville, MD 21093
- phone: 410-583-2774
- fax: 410-583-2883
Expertise
Education
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Fellowship, Medicine, 2014Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Fellowship, Epidemiology, 2011University of California, Berkeley
Graduate School, MPH, 2009University of California San Francisco School of Medicine
Residency, Internal Medicine, 1999University of California San Francisco School of Medicine
Medical Education, MD, 1996Board Certifications
Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine, 2019Insurance
- Aetna
- CareFirst
- Cigna
- First Health
- Geisinger Health Plan
- HealthSmart/Accel
- Humana
- Johns Hopkins Health Plans
- MultiPlan
- Pennsylvania's Preferred Health Networks (PPHN)
- Point Comfort Underwriters
- Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
- UnitedHealthcare
- Veteran Affairs Community Care Network (Optum-VACCN)