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
• Roberto Carlos Lopez, MD
• George Mazariegos, MD
• Michele Molinari, MD, MSc, FACS
• Diana A. Shellmer, PhD
• Rakesh Sindhi, MD
• Kyle Soltys, MD
• Henkie Tan, MD, PhD
• Amit D. Tevar, MD
• Martin N. Wijkstrom, MD

General/Trauma/Acute Care

• Brian Zuckerbraun, MD
• Louis Alarcon, MD
• Graciela Bauzá, MD
• Alain C. Corcos, MD, FACS
• Marc Cordero, MD
• Randall Draper, MD
• Rebecca D. Edmonds, MD
• Garth Elias, MD
• Christopher J. Esper, DO, FACOS
• Raquel Forsythe, MD
• Kevin Garrett, MD
• Jon R. Henwood, DO, FACOS
• Gina Howell, MD, MS
• John A. McKeating, MD, FACS
• Deepika Mohan, 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

Pediatric

• George Gittes, MD
• Geoffrey J. Bond, MD
• Luis De La Torre, MD
• Barbara Gaines, MD
• Aviva Katz, MD
• Marcus M. Malek, MD
• Kelly Miller Austin, MD
• Kevin P. Mollen, MD, FAAP
• Michael J. Morowitz, MD, FACS
• Douglas Potoka, MD
• 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
• Efthimios Avgerinos, MD
• Rabih Chaer, MD
• Arthur J. DeMarsico, DO, FACOS, RPVI
• Raymond Eid, MD
• Mohammad H. Eslami, MD, FACS, FACC
• Eric Hager, MD
• Steven Leers, MD
• Michael Madigan, MD
• Ryan McEnaney, MD
• Richard E. Redlinger Jr., MD
• Walter E. Rizzoni, MD, FACS
• Ulka Sachdev, MD
• Michael Singh, MD
• Bryan W. Tillman, MD, PhD
• Edith Tzeng, MD
• Theodore Yuo, MD

Surgical Oncology Services 

Breast and Melanoma

• Emilia Diego, MD
• Ronald Johnson, MD
• Priscilla F. McAuliffe, MD, PhD
• Kandace P. McGuire, MD
• Maryann E. Payne, MD, FACS
• Atilla Soran, MD, MPH
• Jennifer G. Steiman, MD

Colon and Rectal Surgery

• David Stanley Medich, MD
• James P. Celebrezze, MD
• Jennifer Marie Holder-Murray, MD
• Javier Salgado, MD
• Andrew R. Watson, MD

Endocrine

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

Gastrointestinal

• Mohammad Haroon Asif Choudry, MD
• Steven Evans, MD
• Melissa Hogg, 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