Faculty
Faculty
Michael Madigan, MD
Assistant Professor
412-802-3333
Interests
endovascular aortic repair; wound healing; carotid artery disease
Marcus M. Malek, MD, FAAP
Assistant Professor of Surgery
412-692-7280
Interests
pediatric oncology; surgery for pediatric solid tumors; advanced minimally invasive surgery; pediatric colorectal disease; gastroesophageal reflux disease; chest wall deformities
George V. Mazariegos, MD
Jamie Lee Curtis Chair in Transplantation Surgery
412-692-6110
Interests
pediatric intestinal failure; hepatocyte transplantation; pediatric liver transplantation; immunosuppression; bio-artificial liver device; sorbent suspension dialysis in advanced hepatic encephalopathy
Priscilla F. McAuliffe, MD, PhD, FACS
Assistant Professor of Surgery
412-641-4274
Interests
Ryan M. McEnaney, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
412-864-0985
Interests
purinergic signaling in arterial function and disease; arteriogenesis and vascular biology; arterial hemodynamics; vascular calcification
Diana M. Metes, MD
Professor of Surgery and Immunology
412-648-3291
Interests
immune responses to EBV; memory T cell response and DC immunobiology in solid organ transplantation
Deepika Mohan, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine
412-647-2986
Interests
physician decision making in time-sensitive conditions; heuristics and biases; trauma triage; emergency general surgery
Michele Molinari, MD, MSc, FACS
Professor of Surgery
412-647-5800
Interests
decision analysis in transplant, hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery; impact of obesity in transplant surgery
Kevin P. Mollen, MD
Samuel P. Harbison Associate Professor
412-692-7282
Interests
pediatric inflammatory bowel disease
Adrian E. Morelli, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery and Immunology
412-624-2193
Interests
function of professional Ag-presenting cells during transplant rejection and transplant tolerance/immune-suppression
Michael J. Morowitz, MD, FACS
Professor of Surgery
412-692-7282
Interests
pathogenicity of intestinal microbes in milk-fed and formula-fed premature infants
Dominick A. Motto, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery
412-367-5010
Interests
general surgery and robotic-assisted techniques; surgical resident education
Christopher J. Myers, MD, FACS, FASMBS
Clinical Assistant Professor
724-546-2502
Interests
Rami A. Namas, MD
Research Assistant Professor of Surgery
412-648-7866
Interests
inflammatory processes and diseases
Matthew L. Nicotra, PhD
Assistant Professor of Surgery and Immunology
412-648-0177
Interests
allorecognition; genomics; molecular genetics; invertebrate zoology; molecular evolution; comparative immunology; innate immunity; transplantation
Martin Oberbarnscheidt, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
412-648-1491
Interests
innate allorecognition in transplantation; renal dendritic cell network
Melanie C. Ongchin, MD, FACS
Clinical Assistant Professor
412-748-6454
Interests
treatment of advanced GI malignancies; peritoneal carcinomatosis; skin and soft tissue cancers
Alessandro Paniccia, MD, FACS
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Interests
minimally invasive HPB surgery; pancreatic adenocarcinoma
Jon D. Piganelli, PhD
Associate Professor of Surgery, Immunology, and Pathology
412-692-7498
Interests
immunology and autoimmunity; type 1 diabetes
James F. Pingpank Jr., MD, FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery
412-692-2852
Interests
treatment of primary and metastatic gastrointestinal cancers and advanced malignancies of the liver and peritoneal cavity
Krishna Prasadan, PhD
Research Assistant Professor of Surgery
412-692-9211
Interests
role of notch-signaling pathway during pancreatic beta cell differentiation; intra-endocrine regulation of beta cell differentiation during pancreas development
Juan C. Puyana, MD
Professor of Surgery, Critical Care Medicine, and Clinical Translational Science
412-647-0421
Interests
promoting research, educational opportunities, and clinical collaboration internationally
Ramesh Chandran Ramanathan, MD, FRCS
Assistant Professor of Surgery
412-641-3668
Interests
bariatric surgery; surgical oncology
Balathiripurasundari Ramaswami, PhD
Research Instructor
412-648-1427
Interests
transplant immunology; immunological tolerance; viral transplant immunology
Kimberly M. Ramonell, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
412-647-0647
Interests
benign and malignant parathyroid, thyroid, and adrenal disorders
Ward M. Richardson, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
412-692-7280
Interests
congenital and acquired, benign and malignant, and open and minimally invasive pediatric surgery and trauma
Walter E. Rizzoni, MD, FACS
Assistant Professor of Surgery
814-877-5600
Interests
peripheral vascular surgery; carotid artery and aneurysm surgery; adult cardiac surgery; vein laser procedures
David M. Rothstein, MD
Professor of Surgery, Medicine, and Immunology
412-648-7154
Interests
immune tolerance and immunoregulation in allograft and autoimmune settings; regulatory T cells; regulatory and effector B cells
Quratulain Sabih, MD, FACS
Assistant Professor
Interests
resident education; women in academic medicine; mentorship
Ulka Sachdev-Ost, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
412-802-3036
Interests
angiogenesis; innate immunity; lower extremity ischemia; platelet-leukocyte interactions
Faruk Sacirbegovic, PhD
Research Assistant Professor of Surgery
Interests
understanding the complex biological processes behind T cell immune responses to develop novel cell-based disease therapies