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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.

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Timothy Billiar, MD
George Vance Foster Professor and Chair
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Abdominal Transplant	Pediatric Surgery
Abhinav Humar, MD Amit Basu, MD Geoffrey Bond, MD Thomas Cacciarelli, MD David Cooper, MD, PhD Guilherme Costa, MD Paulo Fontes, MD Ira J. Fox, MD Christopher Hughes, MD Fadi G. Lakkis, MD Roberto Carlos Lopez, MD George Mazariegos, MD David M. Rothstein, MD Ron Shapiro, MD Rakesh Sindhi, MD Hiroshi Sogawa, MD Kyle Soltys, MD Thomas Starzl, MD, PhD Mark Sturdevant, MD Henkie Tan, MD, PhD Martin N. Wijkstrom, MD	George Gittes, MD Barbara Gaines, MD Geoffrey J. Bond, MD David Hackam, MD, PhD Vinci Samuel Jones, MD Aviva Katz, MD Kelly Miller, MD Kevin P. Mollen, MD, FAAP Michael J. Morowitz, MD, FACS Douglas Potoka, MD Indranil Sau, MD, FRCS Stefan Scholz, MD, FAAP
Trauma and General Surgery	Vascular Surgery
Andrew Peitzman, MD Louis Alarcon, MD Christopher Bartels, MD Graciela Bauzá, MD Richard Bondi, MD Stuart Chetlin, MD Joseph Colella, MD, FACS Alain C. Corcos, MD, FACS Marc Cordero, MD Anita Courcoulas, MD Randall Draper, MD George Eid, MD Garth Elias, MD Raquel Forsythe, MD Kevin Garrett, MD Steven C. Gribar, MD Sharon Goldstein, MD Daniel E. Hall, MD, MDiv, MHSc Giselle Hamad, MD Anthony Harrison, MD Gary Marshall, MD Carol McCloskey, MD John A. McKeating, MD, FACS Juan Ochoa, MD LeeAnn Peluso, MD Juan Puyana, MD Nagamalli Ramakrishna, MD Ramesh C. Ramanathan, MD Matthew R. Rosengart, MD Vaishali Schuchert, MD Aaron M. Scifres, MD Harry W. Sell, Jr., MD Richard Simmons, MD Jason L. Sperry, MD, MPH Samuel Tisherman, MD Jorge Varcelotti, MD Gregory A. Watson, MD Mark Wilson, MD, PhD Jenny A. Ziembicki, MD Brian Zuckerbraun, MD	Michel Makaroun, MD Ghassan Abu-Hamad, MD Georges Elie Al-Khoury, MD Efthimios Avgerinos, MD Rabih Chaer, MD Jae Sung Cho, MD Ellen Dillavou, MD Catalin Harbuzariu, MD Stanley Hirsch, MD Geetha Jeyabalan, MD Steven Leers, MD Luke Marone, MD Madhusudanan Nair, MD Ulka Sachdev, MD Bryan W. Tillman, MD, PhD Edith Tzeng, MD Timothy Wu, MD
Surgical Oncology Services
David Bartlett, MD
Breast and Melanoma	Colon and Rectal Surgery
Gretchen Ahrendt, MD Marguerite Bonaventura, MD Matthew Holtzman, MD Ronald Johnson, MD Mary Beth Malay, MD Priscilla F. McAuliffe, MD, PhD Kandace P. McGuire, MD Atilla Soran, MD, MPH	David Stanley Medich, MD James P. Celebrezze, MD Jennifer Marie Holder-Murray, MD Andrew R. Watson, MD
Endocrine	Gastrointestinal
Sally Carty, MD Michaele J. Armstrong, PhD Kelly Lynn McCoy, MD, FACS Michael T. Stang, MD Linwah Yip, MD	Herbert Zeh, MD Mohammad Haroon Asif Choudry, MD Leonard Evans, MD Steven Evans, MD Matthew Holtzman, MD Kenneth Lee, MD Joshua Rubin, MD Wolfgang Schraut, MD Amer H. Zureikat, MD
Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) Surgery	Passavant Community
David A. Geller, MD J. Wallis Marsh, MD James F. Pingpank, MD Allan Tsung, MD	Steven Ahrendt, MD Marc Edward Brozovich, MD Randall R. Draper, MD Ved P. Kaushik, MD Mary Beth Malay, MD

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Our Surgery Experts

Chairman

Abdominal Transplant

Pediatric Surgery

​Trauma and General Surgery

​Vascular Surgery

Surgical Oncology Services

​Breast and Melanoma

​Colon and Rectal Surgery​

​Endocrine

​Gastrointestinal

Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) Surgery​

​Passavant Community

Trauma and General Surgery

Vascular Surgery

Breast and Melanoma

Colon and Rectal Surgery

Endocrine

Gastrointestinal

Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) Surgery

Passavant Community