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, Gastrointestinal 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

Center for Liver Diseases Hepatologists

• Kiran Bambha, MD
  Medical Director for Hepatology
  Director of Liver Transplant Quality and Innovations
• Jaideep Behari, MD, PhD
  Transplant Hepatology
• Scott Biggins, MD
  Chief of Hepatology and UPMC Liver Care
  Medical Director of Liver Transplantation
• 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
• Samer Tohme, MD
  Surgical Oncology

Transplant Coordinators

Rose Scalo, MSN, RN
Director of Liver and Intestinal Transplant

Katrina Street
UNOS Data Quality Reviewer

Pre Transplant Coordinators

• Samantha Bednar, BS
• Christina Caldwell, BSN, RN
• Michelle Dilick, BSN, RN
• Erin Haschets, BSN, RN
• Michelle Nagy, BSN, RN, CCTC
• Nancy Pritchard, BSN, RN
• Tammy Rothacher, BSN, RN
• Kerri Silbaugh, BSN, RN
• Alyson Spierling, BS
• Angelina Talley, BSN, RN

Post Transplant Coordinators

• Kristi Delledonne, ASN, RN
• Teresa Doppelheuer, ASN, RN
• Nora Elazazzy, PA-C
• Deidre Frieze, BSN, RN
• Jennifer Kilpatrick, MSN, RN, CCTC
• Tabitha Novosat, BSN, RN
• Nicole Odille, CRNP
• Kelly Ohrman, BSN, RN
• Casey Regula, BSN, RN, CCTC

Living Donor Coordinators

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