Our Experts
With more than 150 surgeons in a wide range of specialty areas, UPMC’s surgical programs are among the world’s largest and busiest. Many UPMC surgeons are internationally recognized for their wealth of experience and expertise.
Chairman
Timothy Billiar, MD
George Vance Foster Professor and Chair
Department of Surgery
Cardiac Surgery
- Robert Bennett, MD
- Christian Bermudez, MD
- Thomas Gleason, MD
- Brack Hattler, MD
- Robert Kormos, MD
- Kenneth McCurry, MD
- Victor Morell, MD
- Forozan Navid, MD
- Amit Patel, MD
- Ronald Pellegrini, MD
- Michael Siegenthaler, MD
- Giovanni Speziali, MD
- Yoshiya Toyoda, MD
- Peter Wearden, MD
- Lawrence Wei, MD
- Kenton Zehr, MD
- Marco Zenati, MD
Pediatric Surgery
- Edward Barksdale, MD
- Cartland Burns, MD
- Julie Fuchs, MD
- Barbara Gaines, MD
- George Gittes, MD
- David Hackam, MD, PhD
- Timothy Kane, MD
- Aviva Katz, MD
- James M. Lynch, MD
- Kelly Miller, MD
- Douglas Potoka, MD
- David Rodeberg, MD
Plastic Surgery
- Kodi Azari, MD, FACS
- Carolyn De La Cruz, MD
- Frederic Deleyiannis, MD, MPhil, MPH
- Michael Gimbel, MD
- Dinakar Golla, MD
- Shao Jiang, MD
- W.P. Andrew Lee, MD
- Joseph Losee, MD, FACS, FAAP
- Ernest Manders, MD
- J. Peter Rubin, MD
- James Russavage, MD, DMD
- Kenneth Shestak, MD
- Ronit Wollstein, MD
Surgical Oncology
- Gretchen Ahrendt, MD
- Steven Ahrendt, MD
- David Bartlett, MD
- Marguerite Bonaventura, MD
- Charles Brown, MD, PhD
- Sally Carty, MD
- Howard Edington, MD
- Leonard Evans, MD
- Steven Evans, MD
- Linda Farkas, MD
- Thomas Clark Gamblin, MD
- Matthew Holtzman, MD
- Steven Hughes, MD
- Ronald Johnson, MD
- Kenneth Lee, MD
- Mary Beth Malay, MD
- A. James Moser, MD
- Jennifer Ogilvie, MD
- Joshua Rubin, MD
- Wolfgang Schraut, MD
- Atilla Soran, MD, MPH
- Andrew Watson, MD
- John Yim, MD
- Herbert Zeh, MD
Thoracic Surgery
- Ghulam Abbas, MD
- Miguel Alvelo-Rivera, MD
- Neil Christie, MD
- Peter Ferson, MD
- Sebastien Gilbert, MD, FRCSC
- Rodney Landreneau, MD
- James Luketich, MD, FACS
- Arjun Pennathur, MD
- Brian Pettiford, MD
- Matthew Schuchert, MD
- Manisha Shende, MD
Transplantation
- Kareem Abu-Elmagd, MD
- Amit Basu, MD
- Deanna Blisard, MD
- Geoffrey Bond, MD
- David Cooper, MD, PhD
- Guilherme Costa, MD
- Michael deVera, MD
- Paulo Fontes, MD
- David Geller, MD
- Roberto Lopez, MD
- Amadeo Marcos, MD
- J. Wallis Marsh, MD
- George Mazariegos, MD
- Ron Shapiro, MD
- Rakesh Sindhi, MD
- Cynthia Smetanka, MD
- Kyle Soltys, MD
- Thomas Starzl, MD, PhD
- Henke Tan, MD, PhD
- Kusum Tom, MD
Trauma and General Surgery
- Louis Alarcon, MD
- Christopher Bartels, MD
- Richard Bondi, MD
- Sricharan Chalikonda, MD
- Stuart Chetlin, MD
- Anita Courcoulas, MD
- Randall Draper, MD
- George Eid, MD
- Garth Elias, MD
- Raquel Forsythe, MD
- Kevin Garrett, MD
- Sharon Goldstein, MD
- Giselle Hamad, MD
- Anthony Harrison, MD
- Carol McCloskey, MD
- Harry Null, MD
- Juan Ochoa, MD
- Andrew Peitzman, MD
- LeeAnn Peluso, MD
- Juan Puyana, MD
- Ramesh C. Ramanathan, MD
- Matthew R. Rosengart, MD
- Vaishali Schuchert, MD
- Sunil Sharma, MD
- Richard Simmons, MD
- Samuel Tisherman, MD
- Mark Wilson, MD, PhD
- Brian Zuckerbraun, MD
Vascular Surgery
- Ghassan Abu-Hamad, MD
- Rabih Chaer, MD
- Jae Sung Cho, MD
- Ellen Dillavou, MD
- Navyash Gupta, MD
- Stanley Hirsch, MD
- Steven Leers, MD
- Michel Makaroun, MD
- Luke Marone, MD
- Robert Rhee, MD
- Ulka Sachdev, MD
- David Steed, MD
- Edith Tzeng, MD