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

• Louis Alarcon, MD
• Steven R. Ballesteros, MD
• Graciela Bauzá, MD
• Karla Bernardi, MD
• Joshua Brown, MD, MS
• Alain C. Corcos, MD, FACS
• Marc Cordero, MD
• Anthony R. Cyr, MD, PhD
• Randall Draper, MD
• Garth Elias, MD
• Christopher J. Esper, DO, FACOS
• Raquel Forsythe, MD
• Kevin Garrett, MD
• William Gilleland Jr., MD
• Daniel E. Hall, MD, MDiv, MHSc
• 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
• Douglas A. Reed, 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
• Joseph M. Sorg, MD
• 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

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

Vascular

• Georges Elie Al-Khoury, MD
• Fanny Alie-Cusson, MD
• Rabih Chaer, MD
• Raymond Eid, MD
• Mohammad H. Eslami, MD, FACS, FACC
• Catherine Go, MD
• Lindsey Haga, MD
• Eric Hager, MD
• Steven Leers, MD
• Nathan Liang, MD
• Michael Madigan, MD
• Michel Makaroun, MD
• Ryan McEnaney, MD
• Walter E. Rizzoni, MD, FACS
• Ulka Sachdev, MD
• Karim Mohamed Salem, MD
• Michael Singh, MD
• Natalie Sridharan, MD
• Edith Tzeng, MD
• Theodore Yuo, MD

Surgical Oncology Services 

Breast and Melanoma

• Michael Cowher, MD
• Emilia Diego, MD
• Ronald Johnson, MD
• Kristin M. Lupinacci, DO
• Priscilla F. McAuliffe, MD, PhD
• Quratulain Sabih, MD
• Atilla Soran, MD, MPH
• Jennifer G. Steiman, MD

Colon and Rectal Surgery

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

Endocrine

• Sally Carty, MD
• Kelly Lynn McCoy, MD, FACS
• Kimberly M. Ramonell, MD
• Linwah Yip, MD

Gastrointestinal

• Mohammad Haroon Asif Choudry, MD
• Steven Evans, MD
• Matthew Holtzman, MD
• Udai S. Kammula, MD, FACS
• Kenneth Lee, 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