Vitalant: payments to clinicians
Vitalant's 2025 payments went to relatively few clinicians: $2,313,517 to 10, about $231,352 each. All of it was speaking and faculty fees. The largest single recipient (Specialist, Pennsylvania) received $354,204.
| Program year | Total | Payments | Clinicians paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $2,313,517 | 97 | 10 |
| 2024 | $2,691,056 | 123 | 12 |
Largest recipients in 2025
| # | Clinician | Specialty | Location | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lirong Qu | Specialist | Pittsburgh, PA | $354,204 |
| 2 | Mark Harris Yazer, MD | Specialist | Pittsburgh, PA | $349,676 |
| 3 | Irina Chibisov, MD | Pathology, Blood Banking & Transfusion Medicine | Pittsburgh, PA | $310,500 |
| 4 | Suzanne Bakdash, MD | Pathology, Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology | Pittsburgh, PA | $310,500 |
| 5 | Alesia Kaplan, MD | Pathology, Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology | Pittsburgh, PA | $309,664 |
| 6 | Darrell Triulzi | Specialist | Pittsburgh, PA | $306,579 |
| 7 | Sally Ann Campbell-Lee, M.D. | Pathology, Clinical Pathology | Chicago, IL | $254,506 |
| 8 | Paul E. Stander, M.D | Internal Medicine | Phoenix, AZ | $45,515 |
| 9 | Clifford A. Lowell, M.D. | Internal Medicine | San Francisco, CA | $36,700 |
| 10 | Jonathan Waters, MD | Specialist | Pittsburgh, PA | $35,674 |
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