Our Surgery 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

Abdominal Transplant

• Abhinav Humar, MD
• Geoffrey Bond, MD
• Ruy J. Cruz Jr., MD, PhD
• Armando Ganoza, MD
• Christopher Hughes, MD
• Ajai Khanna, MD, PhD, MBA, FACS, FRCS
• Fadi G. Lakkis, MD
• George Mazariegos, MD
• Michele Molinari, MD, MSc, FACS
• Diana A. Shellmer, PhD
• Rakesh Sindhi, MD
• Kyle Soltys, MD
• Amit D. Tevar, MD
• Martin N. Wijkstrom, MD

General/Trauma/Acute Care

• Brian Zuckerbraun, MD
• Louis Alarcon, MD
• Graciela Bauzá, MD
• Joshua Brown, MD, MS
• Alain C. Corcos, MD, FACS
• Marc Cordero, MD
• Randall Draper, MD
• Garth Elias, MD
• Christopher J. Esper, DO, FACOS
• Raquel Forsythe, MD
• Kevin Garrett, MD
• William Gilleland Jr., MD
• Robert Handzel, MD
• Jon R. Henwood, DO, FACOS
• Gina Howell, MD, MS
• Christine Leeper, MD, MS
• Jason Luciano, MD
• John A. McKeating, MD, FACS
• Deepika Mohan, MD
• Dominick A. Motto, MD
• Christopher Myers, MD
• Matthew D. Neal, MD
• Andrew Peitzman, MD
• Juan Puyana, MD
• Mostafa H. Ramadan, MD
• Matthew R. Rosengart, MD
• Vaishali Schuchert, MD
• Harry W. Sell, Jr., MD
• Khalid M. Shalaby, MD, PhD, FRCS, FACS
• Richard Simmons, MD
• Cheryl K. Six, DO
• Jason L. Sperry, MD, MPH
• Gregory A. Watson, MD
• Sean P. Whelan, MD
• Jenny A. Ziembicki, MD
• Brian Zuckerbraun, MD

Pediatric

• George Gittes, MD
• Geoffrey J. Bond, MD
• Barbara Gaines, MD
• Marcus M. Malek, MD
• Kelly Miller Austin, MD
• Kevin P. Mollen, MD, FAAP
• Michael J. Morowitz, MD, FACS
• Ward M. Richardson, MD
• Indranil Sau, MD, FRCS
• Stefan Scholz, MD, FAAP

Minimally Invasive/Metabolic

• Anita Courcoulas, MD
• Bestoun H. Ahmed, MD, FACS, FRCS, FICS, FICMS
• Giselle Hamad, MD
• Ramesh C. Ramanathan, MD

Vascular

• Michel Makaroun, MD
• Georges Elie Al-Khoury, MD
• Rabih Chaer, MD
• Raymond Eid, MD
• Mohammad H. Eslami, MD, FACS, FACC
• Eric Hager, MD
• Steven Leers, MD
• Michael Madigan, MD
• Ryan McEnaney, MD
• Walter E. Rizzoni, MD, FACS
• Ulka Sachdev, MD
• Michael Singh, MD
• Edith Tzeng, MD
• Theodore Yuo, MD

Surgical Oncology Services 

Breast and Melanoma

• Emilia Diego, MD
• Ronald Johnson, MD
• Priscilla F. McAuliffe, MD, PhD
• Atilla Soran, MD, MPH
• Jennifer G. Steiman, MD

Colon and Rectal Surgery

• David Stanley Medich, MD
• James P. Celebrezze, MD
• Kellie Cunningham, MD
• Jennifer Marie Holder-Murray, MD
• Andrew R. Watson, MD
• Sean P. Whelan, MD

Endocrine

• Sally Carty, MD
• Kelly Lynn McCoy, MD, FACS
• Linwah Yip, MD

Gastrointestinal

• Mohammad Haroon Asif Choudry, MD
• Steven Evans, MD
• Matthew Holtzman, MD
• Udai S. Kammula, MD, FACS
• Kenneth Lee, MD
• Joshua Rubin, MD
• Wolfgang Schraut, MD
• Amer H. Zureikat, MD

Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) Surgery

• David A. Geller, MD
• James F. Pingpank, MD

Passavant Community

• Marc Edward Brozovich, MD
• Randall R. Draper, MD
• Ved P. Kaushik, MD