Department of Surgery

General Surgery Grand Rounds are held live (schedule below); videos of the lectures are also archived online.

Attendees may obtain individual attendance reports via the UPMC CCEHS website on a quarterly basis. Click “View Credit Transcript” and follow the prompts. When entering attendee information, please only enter the last name and social security number. Do not enter dates in the date fields. If you have any difficulty accessing a CME transcript, please call (412) 647-8232. 

General Surgery Grand Rounds

Moving From First to Second: A Proposal for Another National Trial to Improve Surgical Training

Resident Lectures: 7:00-8:00 AM
Presenters: Julie Goswami, MD and Christine Leeper, MD

Guest Lecture: 8:00-9:00 AM
Presenter: Karl Bilimoria, MD, John B. Murphy Professor of Surgery; Vice President - Quality, Northwestern Medicine; Director, Surgical Outcomes and Quality Improvement Center; Vice Chair for Quality, Department of Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

Second UPMC HPB Lecture: Current Treatment Strategies for Hepatocellular Carcinoma

HPB/Surgical Oncology Fellow Presentations, 7:00 to 8:00 a.m.

  • “Management of the Indeterminate Biliary Stricture,” Greg Wilson, MD, UPMC Surgical Oncology Fellow
  • “Two-Stage Hepatectomy For Bilobar Metastatic Colorectal Cancer, Forat Swaid, MD, UPMC HPB Fellow

Main Lecture, 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Speaker: Speaker: William C. Chapman, MD, FACS, Professor and Chief, Section of Transplantation; Chief, Division of General Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis