Dr. Kira Ryskina is a clinician investigator whose research focuses on improving the quality and value of care for older adults. She practices hospital medicine at the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. She joined UPHS in 2013 and currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Medicine.
Dr. Ryskina earned her medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, completed an internal medicine-primary care residency at New York Presbyterian (NYP)-Weill Cornell, and a General Internal Medicine Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania.
Leonard Davis Institute Emerging Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2018
Best Paper Award, Cost and Quality of Geriatric Care, American Geriatrics Society, 2018
McCabe Fund Pilot Award, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 2016
Finalist, Mack Lipkin Sr. Associate Member Award, Society of General Internal Medicine, 2014 and 2015
Finalist, David E. Rogers Memorial Research Award, Weill Cornell Medical College, 2013