Department of Surgery

People

Timothy R. Billiar, MD
George Vance Foster Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery
412-647-1749
Interests
mechanisms involved in acute cellular and organ injury in inflammatory states such as shock, trauma, and sepsis
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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
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
John A. McKeating, MD, FACS
Clinical Assistant Professor
412-281-2255
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
Michael Morrison, D.O.
Clinical Assistant Professor
724-656-0067
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
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
Mylarappa B. Ningappa, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
412-692-9196
Elizabeth A. Novak, PhD
Research Assistant Professor of Surgery
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
Colin Powers, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
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
Mostafa H. Ramadan, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery
412-782-2400
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
Douglas A. Reed, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
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
Alaa Sada, MD, MS
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery
412-647-0467
Shawn D. Safford, MD, MBA
Professor