Department of Pediatrics
Jessica Pittman, MD MPH is an Associate Professor of Pediatric Pulmonology at Washington University School of Medicine (WashU Med). She graduated from Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH) in 1998, and earned her M.D. from WashU Med (St. Louis, MO) in 2004. She received her training in pediatrics at Seattle Children's Hospital (University of Washington Pediatrics Residency, Seattle, WA) before moving to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC) for her fellowship in Pediatric Pulmonology, where she also received a Master's in Public Health in Epidemiology. Dr. Pittman remained on faculty at the University of North Carolina as an Assistant Professor and served as Director of the UNC Infant and Preschool Pulmonary Function Laboratory before joining the Division of Allergy and Pulmonary Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine in 2014, where she is now an Associate Professor. Her roles at Washington University include Co-Director of the WashU Med/St. Louis Children's Hospital (SLCH) Cystic Fibrosis Therapeutics Development Center, Core Faculty for Health Equity for the WashU Med/SLCH Pediatric Residency Program, Coach for the WashU Med Gateway Curriculum, and Faculty Leader through the WashU Med Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. She previously served as Medical Director of the St. Louis Children's Hospital (SLCH) Pulmonary Function Laboratory from 2014 - 2021.
Dr. Pittman's clinical interests include early childhood lung disease, cystic fibrosis and primary ciliary dyskinesia, as well as pulmonary function testing, including multiple breath washout (MBW) testing. Dr. Pittman's primary research interest is improving the diagnosis and detection of early lung disease in infancy and early childhood through the use of novel outcome measures. She is a past recipient of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Leroy Matthews Physician/Scientist Award (2010 - 2012), a WashU Med Omics of Inflammatory Airways Disease K12 Award (2014 - 2016), a WashU Med Children's Discovery Institute Award (2015 - 2018) and a Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Clinical Research Scholars Program Award (2016 - 2019). She served as the Director of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics Development Network Center for Infant and Preschool Pulmonary Function Testing from 2019 - 2020, and was Associate Director from 2011 - 2018. Dr. Pittman has participated in research studies involving children with cystic fibrosis and primary ciliary dyskinesia, including several multi-center NIH- and TDN/CFF-funded studies. She is currently involved with several longitudinal studies of children with CF in partnership with the CFF Therapeutics Development Network.
Dr. Pittman served in the role of Associate Program Director for Diversity and Inclusion for the WUSM/SLCH Pediatric Residency Program from 2018 - 2024, and now serves as Core Faculty for Health Equity. She co-founded the SLCH/WashU Med Taskforce on Teamwork and Culturally Competent Care, an inter-professional group dedicated to improving patient and staff experiences throughout Children's Hospital, with a focus on issues related to teamwork and inclusivity. She formally joined the WashU Med Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in 2020 as a Faculty Leader and Education Specialist. In the WashU Med ODEI Dr. Pittman serves as co-lead for the Equity Centered Culture Change Curriculum (ECCC), a comprehensive, campus-wide curriculum in cultural humility, equity, and bias mitigation; she leads the clinical faculty and clinical trainee tracts of the ECCC. She also chaired the WashU Med DEI Liaison Group from 2020 - 2023. Dr. Pittman has served as an Assistant SubCommittee Chair for the WashU Med Committee on Admissions since 2020, when she also became a medical student coach for the WashU Med Gateway curriculum. She now serves on several committees related to health equity, culture change work, and education across WashU Med and SLCH. She teaches curricula related to implicit bias, cultural humility and health equity across campus for medical providers at all levels of training.
Special Session--Strategies to Navigate an Academic Career in CF
Saturday, October 25, 2025
7:45 AM - 9:45 AM PDT