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Alexander J. Davit III, MD

Alexander Davit, MD
Job Title Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
412-692-8650 Phone
412-692-8614 Fax
Email alexander.davit@chp.edu

Education and Training

Medical School:

2000 Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, N.C.
 

Residency:

2008 Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Tennessee College of Medicine – Chattanooga Unit, Department of Plastic Surgery, Erlanger Hospital, Chattanooga, Tenn.
2006 Surgery, University of Tennessee College of Medicine – Chattanooga Unit, Department of Surgery, Erlanger Hospital, Chattanooga, Tenn.
 

Fellowship:

2011 Pediatric Hand Surgery Mini-Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa.
2011 Craniofacial and Pediatric Plastic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Memberships

  • American Society of Plastic Surgeons
  • American College of Surgeons
  • American Society for Surgery of the Hand
  • American Academy of Pediatric Plastic Surgery
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
  • American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons
  • Southeastern Surgical Congress

Board Certifications

  • American Board of  Surgery
  • American Board of Plastic Surgery

Awards

 
  • 2010 ASMS BioMet Resident Scholar Award
  • 2001 Baroness d’Erlanger Housestaff Teaching Award
  • 2000 Matsumae Prize for International Medicine
  • Cum Laude Graduate, Wake Forest University
  • Member, Alpha Epsilon Delta Premedical Honor Society
  • Member, Golden Key National Honor Society

Publications

  • MacIsaac Z, Rottgers SA, Davit AJ, Kumar AR. “Alveolar Reconstruction in Cleft Patients: Decreasing Morbidity and Improved Outcomes with Supplemental Demineralized Bone Matrix and Cancellous Allograft" Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 130(3): 625–632; September 2012.
  • Wood AY, Davit AJ, Ciraulo DL, Arp NW, Richart CM, Maxwell RA, Barker DE,  “A Prospective Assessment of Diagnostic Efficacy of Blind Protective Bronchial Brushings Compared to Bronchoscope-Assisted Lavage, Bronchoscope-Directed Brushings, and Blind Endotracheal Aspirates in Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia”, The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care 55(5): 825-834; Nov 2003.

Active Research Projects / Grants

  • V.A.C. Therapy Versus Conventional Subatmospheric Dressings in Open Abdomen Management
  • Pyoderma Gangrenosum of the Hand: A Review of the Literature and Report on Three Cases
  • Furlow Palatoplasty With Tensor Tenopexy
 
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September 26, 2012
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