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Pamela A. Moalli

Pamela A. Moalli

🇺🇸 United States🏥 University of PittsburghMD, PhD

Training and career​

  • Current position Professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences and of bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh; scientific director, Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation (2026; interim executive and scientific director from 2024)12
  • Medical school MD and PhD in molecular and cellular biology, Northwestern University, Medical Scientist Training Program (1986–1994)1
  • Residency Obstetrics and gynecology, Magee-Womens Hospital, University of Pittsburgh (1994–1998)1
  • Fellowship Urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery, UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital (2000)1
  • Leadership Director, Division of Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery, UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital (appointed 2019); co-director, Translational Research Laboratories in Urogynecology (from 2004)13
  • Fellows trained Director of the UPMC fellowship in female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery (appointed 2006)1

Contributions​

Her laboratory studies the host response of vaginal tissue to polypropylene mesh, in animal models and in mesh removed from patients, along with the mechanisms of prolapse recurrence and maternal birth injury.1 She received the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons Distinguished Surgeon Award in 2026.2

  • Pelvic floor and lower urinary tract function (2016). Senior author of a review describing how anterior vaginal wall support, the arcus tendineus fasciae pelvis and the levator ani maintain continence, and how acquired levator dysfunction can progress from urgency to incomplete emptying and retention.4 Cited on WARWIKI: Female Urethra.
  • Mesh stiffness and vaginal degeneration (2013). Senior author of a rhesus macaque sacrocolpopexy study in which the stiffer Gynemesh PS thinned the vaginal smooth muscle layer, increased apoptosis and reduced collagen and elastin content compared with sham surgery and two lower-stiffness meshes.5
  • Host response to mesh in women with complications (2016). Senior author of a study of 27 excised mesh-vagina complexes that found a predominantly M1 proinflammatory macrophage response years after implantation, with 88% higher pro-MMP-9 in meshes removed for exposure than in those removed for pain.6

Cited on WARWIKI

3 publications with Pamela A. Moalli as a listed author are cited on WARWIKI, ordered by the number of pages that cite them. Papers whose author list is shortened to "et al." before this name are not included.

  1. Carter-Brooks CM, Zyczynski HM, Moalli PA, Brodeur PG, Shepherd JP. "Early Catheter Removal After Pelvic Floor Reconstructive Surgery: A Randomized Trial." Int Urogynecol J. 2018;29(8):1203-1212. doi
    Cited on: Sacrospinous Ligament Fixation (SSLF) · Uterosacral Ligament Suspension (USLS) · Colpocleisis (Le Fort and Total)
  2. Chermansky CJ, Moalli PA. "Role of Pelvic Floor in Lower Urinary Tract Function." Auton Neurosci. 2016;200:43–48. doi
    Cited on: Female Urethra
  3. Howden NS, Zyczynski HM, Moalli PA, et al. "Comparison of autologous rectus fascia and cadaveric fascia in pubovaginal sling continence outcomes." Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2006;194(5):1444–9. doi
    Cited on: Tutoplast-Processed Allografts

Footnotes​

  1. Pamela Ann Moalli, MD, PhD. Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  2. A strategic agreement between MWRIF and Pitt Medicine will advance women's and infants' health research. Pittwire, University of Pittsburgh (July 2026). Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2

  3. UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital Director awarded ASME Grood Interdisciplinary Team Science Medal. UPMC (March 4, 2026). Accessed October 2026. ↩

  4. Chermansky CJ, Moalli PA. "Role of pelvic floor in lower urinary tract function." Auton Neurosci. 2016;200:43–48. doi:10.1016/j.autneu.2015.06.003 ↩

  5. Liang R, Abramowitch S, Knight K, et al. "Vaginal degeneration following implantation of synthetic mesh with increased stiffness." BJOG. 2013;120(2):233–243. doi:10.1111/1471-0528.12085 ↩

  6. Nolfi AL, Brown BN, Liang R, et al. "Host response to synthetic mesh in women with mesh complications." Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2016;215(2):206.e1–206.e8. doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2016.04.008 ↩