Faculty
Timothy R. Billiar, MD
George Vance Foster Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery
412-647-1749
Interests
mechanisms involved in acute cellular and organ injury in inflammatory states such as shock, trauma, and sepsis
Faculty
Priscilla F. McAuliffe, MD, PhD, FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery
412-641-4274
Interests
Diana M. Metes, MD
Professor of Surgery and Immunology
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Interests
immune responses to EBV; memory T cell response and DC immunobiology in solid organ transplantation
Deepika Mohan, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine
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Interests
physician decision making in time-sensitive conditions; heuristics and biases; trauma triage; emergency general surgery
Michele Molinari, MD, MSc, FACS
Professor of Surgery
412-647-5800
Interests
decision analysis in transplant, hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery; impact of obesity in transplant surgery
Adrian E. Morelli, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery and Immunology
412-624-2193
Interests
function of professional Ag-presenting cells during transplant rejection and transplant tolerance/immune-suppression
Michael J. Morowitz, MD, FACS
Professor of Surgery
412-692-7282
Interests
pathogenicity of intestinal microbes in milk-fed and formula-fed premature infants
Dominick A. Motto, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery
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Interests
general surgery and robotic-assisted techniques; surgical resident education
Christopher J. Myers, MD, FACS, FASMBS
Clinical Assistant Professor
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Interests
Rami A. Namas, MD
Research Assistant Professor of Surgery
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Interests
inflammatory processes and diseases
Matthew L. Nicotra, PhD
Assistant Professor of Surgery and Immunology
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Interests
allorecognition; genomics; molecular genetics; invertebrate zoology; molecular evolution; comparative immunology; innate immunity; transplantation
Martin Oberbarnscheidt, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
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Interests
innate allorecognition in transplantation; renal dendritic cell network
Melanie C. Ongchin, MD, FACS
Associate Professor
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Interests
treatment of advanced GI malignancies; peritoneal carcinomatosis; skin and soft tissue cancers
Alessandro Paniccia, MD, FACS
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Interests
minimally invasive HPB surgery; pancreatic adenocarcinoma
Julie Phillippi, PhD
Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Bioengineering
Interests
James F. Pingpank Jr., MD, FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery
412-692-2852
Interests
treatment of primary and metastatic gastrointestinal cancers and advanced malignancies of the liver and peritoneal cavity
Krishna Prasadan, PhD
Research Associate Professor of Surgery
412-692-9211
Interests
role of notch-signaling pathway during pancreatic beta cell differentiation; intra-endocrine regulation of beta cell differentiation during pancreas development
Juan C. Puyana, MD
Professor of Surgery, Critical Care Medicine, and Clinical Translational Science
412-647-0421
Interests
promoting research, educational opportunities, and clinical collaboration internationally
Ramesh Chandran Ramanathan, MD, FRCS
Assistant Professor of Surgery
412-641-3668
Interests
bariatric surgery; surgical oncology
Balathiripurasundari Ramaswami, PhD
Research Instructor
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Interests
transplant immunology; immunological tolerance; viral transplant immunology