People
Faculty
William R. Wagner, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Surgery
Interests
medical device biocompatibility and design; cardiovascular tissue engineering; targeted vascular imaging
Khodor Abou-Daya, MD
Assistant Professor
412-652-8000
Interests
adaptive and innate immune response in transplantation; leveraging artificial intelligence to advance medical research
Bestoun H. Ahmed, MD, FACS, FRCS, FICS, FICMS
Professor of Surgery and Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine
412-641-3632
Interests
laparoscopic and robotic revisional bariatric surgery; surgical management of complicated colonic diverticulitis; laparoscopic management of perforated peptic and anastomotic ulcers
Georges Elie Al-Khoury, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
412-802-3036
Interests
aortic pathology; carotid disease; mesenteric ischemia; PAD and emergency vascular surgery
Louis H. Alarcon, MD, FACS, FCCM
Professor of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine
412-692-2850
Interests
coagulopathy of trauma; blunt solid organ injuries; resuscitation of trauma patients; nutritional support of critically-ill patients; surgical infection prevention & treatment
Kelly Ann Miller Austin, MD, MS, FACS, FAAP
Associate Professor of Surgery
412-692-7282
Interests
Hirschsprung's disease; Hirschsprung's enterocolitis; pediatric intestinal diseases; ischemia/reperfusion
Stephen Badylak, DVM, PhD, MD
Professor of Surgery
412-624-5253
Interests
regenerative medicine; biomaterials
Graciela Bauzá, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery and Surgical Critical Care
412-647-0421
Interests
chest wall reconstruction after trauma; necrotizing soft tissue infections; student and resident education and simulation
Geoff J. Bond, MD
Assistant Professor in Pediatric Surgery
412-692-7280
Interests
pediatric intestinal failure; adult and pediatric transplantation; short bowel syndrome
Camilla Macedo Both, MD
Research Associate Professor of Surgery
412-624-6494
Interests
novel approaches to control viral immunity in solid organ transplant recipients; post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease; innate immunity and cross-reactivity to allo-immunity; phenotype and function of dendritic cells following mTOR inhibition
Joshua B. Brown, MD, MSc
Samuel P. Harbison Endowed Assistant Professor of Surgery
412-647-3065
Interests
air medical transport for trauma; prehospital resuscitation; trauma system development
Marc Edward Brozovich, MD, FASCRS, FACS
Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery
412-367-5010
Geoffrey Camirand, PhD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
412-383-8616
Interests
regulatory CD4+ T cell function within allografts; secondary lymphoid tissues in regulatory CD4+ T cell homeostasis; inflammation and the expansion of regulatory CD4+ T cells in transplantation
James P. Celebrezze Jr., MD, FACS, FASCRS
Associate Professor of Surgery
877-684-7189
Interests
colon & rectal cancer; minimally invasive therapy; surgical management of diverticulitis and IBD
Tianmeng Chen, MD, PhD
Research Instructor
Interests
single-cell sequencing analysis; trauma immunology; patient classification
Joseph T. Church, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
412-692-7280
Interests
congenital diaphragmatic hernia; lung development
Marc E. Cordero, MD, MMS, FACS
Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery
412-672-3422
Interests
advanced wound care; laparoscopy
Michael S. Cowher, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Interests
breast cancer, axillary staging, clinical trials
Ruy J. Cruz Jr., MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Interests
management of intestinal failure; autologous GI reconstruction; liver, intestinal, and multivisceral transplantation
Qing Ding, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
412-383-6960
Interests
investigating the roles of regulatory and pro-inflammatory B cells in transplantation and autoimmune diseases
Qiang Du, MD
Research Assistant Professor of Surgery
412-624-6702
Interests
innate immunity; liver research; iNOS/NO; Wnt signaling and cancer
Antonio D’Amore, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
412-624-5307
Interests
coupling a mechanistic understanding of the relationship between scaffolds micro-structure, mechanics, and endogenous tissue growth with the development of novel biomaterials for tissue engineering strategies
Raymond Eid, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
412-802-3333
Interests
open surgical and endovascular treatment of aneurysms, carotid disease, peripheral vascular disease, and dialysis access
Ronen Elefant, MS, MD, MBA, FACS
Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery
570-321-2280
Interests
surgical simulation; surgical anatomy and embryology; emergency general surgery; healthcare economics