• In 2009 Pittsburgh was named most livable US city by The Economist.
• The city is ranked No. 6 on BusinessWeek magazine's list of the best places to ride out a recession
• Pittsburgh tops National Geographic Adventure Magazine's "Adventure Cities" List.
• This past September President Barack Obama hosted the G20 global economic summit in Pittsburgh.
• Pittsburgh is once again the city of champions! The NFL champion Pittsburgh Steelers, and the NHL champion Pittsburgh Penguins
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• The University of Pittsburgh is ranked #5 in National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding awarded to the Health Sciences Schools. The Department of Medicine is a major recipient of this NIH-sponsored research.
• The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Health System is ranked #13 overall in the U.S. News and World Report's 2009 ranking of America's Best Hospitals. It is listed in the report's Honor Roll of Best Hospitals, with 13 of 16 subspecialties ranked in the top 40.
• UPMC is a Level 1 regional resource trauma center with more than 350,000 emergency room visits, 165,000 inpatient admissions, and over 3 million outpatient visits annually.
• The University of Pittsburgh Internal Medicine Residency Program has been recognized by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) as one of only 21 programs nationwide to lead the Educational Innovation Project (EIP).

"If Pittsburgh were situated somewhere in the heart of Europe, tourists would eagerly journey hundreds of miles out of their way to visit it. Its setting is spectacular: between high bluffs, where the Monongahela River and the Allegheny River meet to form the Ohio.”

- Brendan Gill, architecture writer for The New Yorker, 1990

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