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University of Pittsburgh, Department of Family Medicine
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Charles W. Mackett III, M.D.
Associate Professor Executive Vice Chair

Dr. Charles W. Mackett is an Associate Professor and is the Executive Vice Chair of Family Medicine, joining the department in 2005. Dr. Mackett is Chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Disaster Management Center and is a member of UPMC’s Avian Influenza Task Force. He currently serves on the UPMC Graduate Medical Education Committee and the University of Pittsburgh Physicians Clinical Operations Committee.

Additionally, Dr. Mackett belongs to several professional societies including the World Organization of National Congresses, Associations and Academies of Family Physicians (WONCA); the American Academy of Family Physicians, where he has served as Chairman of the Scientific Program Committee, and as a Delegate to the Annual Congress of Delegates. He is also a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha National Medical Honor Society, American College of Sports Medicine, Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians, Uniformed Services Academy of Family Physicians, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, and the Air Force Association.

Dr. Mackett graduated from the University of Notre Dame, cum laude, with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1978. He was awarded a M.D. in 1982 from the State University of New York Health Science Center at Syracuse. He served as a family medicine resident from 1982–1985 and as chief resident from 1984–1985 at David Grant U.S. Air Force Medical Center, Travis Air Force Base (CA)—affiliated with the University of California at Davis Medical Center. Dr. Mackett completed his Family Practice faculty development fellowship at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine in 1990 and earned his certificate of added qualification in Geriatrics in 1992. He became a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians in 1994.


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Charles W. Mackett III, M.D.
3518 Fifth Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15261-0001
412-383-2311
412-383-2361 (fax)
mackettcw@upmc.edu