In addition to her professorship, Dr. Sullivan is the Chief of the Division of Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology for the University of Pittsburgh Physicians (UPP) Department of Anesthesiology and the Director of the Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology Fellowship Program. Dr. Sullivan is the Associate Chief Anesthesiologist at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh. She holds a BS in Biochemistry from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and received her MD from the Louisiana State University School of Medicine New Orleans in 1986.