Dr. Pitts completed her internal medicine residency at the University of California San Francisco, where she focused on primary care and evidence-based medicine. She subsequently received her MPH in Epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley and completed fellowship training in General Internal Medicine and Comparative Effectiveness Research at Johns Hopkins. She is the Champion of a Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) team in General Internal Medicine and a former Scholar of the Patient Safety and Leadership Academy. Her research focuses on improving patient safety and delivery of evidence-based care in ambulatory settings through implementation of team-based models of care, CUSP, and the use of health information technology.