Our Liver Transplant Experts

The following experts are members of the Liver Transplantation Program of the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute at UPMC.

Liver Transplant Program Surgeons

• Abhinav Humar, MD
  Division Chief, Transplantation Surgery
  Clinical Director, Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute
  Thomas E. Starzl Professor of Transplantation Surgery
• Christopher B. Hughes, MD
  Clinical Vice Chief, Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute
  Surgical Director, Liver Transplantation
• Vikraman Gunabushanam, MD
  Director, Organ Procurement
• Ruy J. Cruz Jr., MD, PhD
  Director, Gastorintestinal Rehabilitation and Transplant Program at UPMC
  Associate Professor of Surgery
• Michele Molinari, MD
  Transplant Surgery
• Amit Tevar, MD
  Surgical Director, Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation
• Armando Ganoza, MD
  Surgical Director, Pediatric Kidney Transplant Program, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
• Fadi Fouad Francis, MD
  Medical Director, Liver Transplantation

Center for Liver Diseases Hepatologists

• Jaideep Behari, MD, PhD
  Transplant Hepatology
• Kapil Brijmohan Chopra, MD
  Transplant Hepatology
• Swaytha Ganesh, MD
  Medical Director, Living Donor Program
• Naudia L Jonassaint, MD
  Transplant Hepatology
• Shahid Masood Malik, MD
  Program Director, Transplant Hepatology Fellowship
• Alex H Myint, MD
  Transplant Hepatology
• Mordechai Rabinovitz, MD
  Transplant Hepatology

UPMC Liver Cancer Center Surgeons

• David A. Geller, MD
  Co-Director, UPMC Liver Cancer Center

Transplant Coordinators

• Melissa Eynon, MBA, MSN, RN, Director of Liver Transplantation
• Karen Bailey, RN, CCTC
• Lynn Baltich, RN
• Samantha Bednar, BS
• Kiki Delledonne, RN
• Nora Elazazzy, PA-C
• Katie Elliott, BSN, RN, CCTC
• Jennifer Kilpatrick, MSN, BSN, RN, CCTC
• Teresa Kushner-Doppelheuer, RN
• Sau-Ying Lam, RN
• Brianna Milankovich, BSN, RN
• Nicole Odille, CRNP
• Kelly Ohrman, BSN
• Casey Regula BSN, RN, CCTC
• Tammy Rothacher, BSN
• Kerri Silbaugh, BSN
• Robbie Smith, RN
• Alyson Spierling, BS
• Patricia Stine, RN
• Katrina Street – UNOS Data Quality Reviewer
• Andrea Wisener, BSN, RN

Living Donor Coordinators

• Karen Emmett, BSN, CCTN
• Aileen Gallatin, MSED, BSN, RN, CCTC