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Henkie P. Tan, MD, PhD, FACS

Job Title Associate Professor of Surgery, Kidney, Liver and Pancreas Transplantation, Thomas E Starzl Transplant Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Job Title Director, Living Donor Renal Transplantation, Thomas E Starzl Transplant Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute

4401 Penn Avenue

Pittsburgh, PA 15224

412-692-5182 Phone

412-692-7443 Fax

Email tanhp@upmc.edu

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Education and Training

Medical School:	1992 PhD, Loma Linda University, School of Medicine, Loma Linda, CA 1994 MD, Loma Linda University, School of Medicine, Loma Linda, CA
Residency:	1999 Loma Linda University, School of Medicine, Loma Linda, CA
Fellowship:	2001 Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Memberships

American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS), Scientific Studies Committee, Ad Hoc Committee on Living Donation
American Society of Transplantation (AST)
Patient Care and Education Committee
American Liver Foundation, Western Pennsylvania Chapter, Medical Advisory Committee, Board of Directors
National Kidney Foundation of Western Pennsylvania, Medical Advisory Committee, Board of Directors
American College of Surgeons
International Liver Transplantation Society
Maximus, Center for Health Dispute Resolution, New York, Reviewer Journal of American College of Surgeons, Ad Hoc Editorial Reviewer #713
American Journal of Transplantation, Reviewer
Transplantation, Reviewer
Liver Transplantation, Reviewer
Transplant International, Reviewer
Clinical Transplantation, Reviewer
Transplantation Society
Biomed Central, Editorial Reviewer
Blood Coagulation and Fibrinolysis, Ad Hoc Editorial Reviewer
University of Pittsburgh Institutional Review Board
University of Pittsburg Medical Center Physician Advisory Committee
Central Surgical Association
Association for Academic Surgery
International Pediatric Transplantation Association
Society of University Surgeons
Robert A. Good Immunological Society
Journal of Clinical Rehabilitative Tissue Engineering Research, Editorial Board
Open Surgery Journal, Editorial Board
National Transplant Assistant Fund, Advisory Board

Board Certifications

American Board of Surgery, Diplomate
American Society of Transplant Surgeons
American College of Surgeon, Fellow

Awards

1983-1984 Honors Program, LLU/La Sierra Campus
Loma Linda Physicians Medical Group Research Award
Tan HP, and Strong RM. Pancreatic adenocarcinoma: Diagnostic and treatment modalities. Poster Session, American Cancer Society Local Chapter. 4th Place.
Tan HP, Strong RM, and Chi JCH. Diagnostic and prognostic factors or pancreatic adenocarcinoma: multi-variate regression analysis. Poster Session, LLU Alumni Postgraduate Convention. 2nd Place.
1987, 1991 Walter E. Macpherson Award for “LLU School of Medicine Outstanding Student Researcher”
Research Fellowship and Stipend, Roswell Park Memorial Institute Summer Oncology, Head and Neck Surgery
“Certification of Appreciation” Award, Redlands Community Hospital, Dept of Clinical Pathology
NATO-Advance Science Institute on Molecular Basis of Human Cancer competitive fellowship & the Norma Selma Travel Award. “Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture”, 11th course, Erice, Sicily, Italy.
National Dean’s List
Medicine with Distinction Award: Honors Program in Medicine
David B. Hinshaw “Excellence in Surgery” award as the top surgical medical student
Tri-County Surgical Society, 39th Annual. 1st Prize.
“Outstanding Young Man of America” by Outstanding Young Americans
International WHO’s WHO
America’s Top Surgeons
Best Doctors in America

Publications

Tan HP, Maley WR, Kavoussi LR, Montgomery RA, Ratner LE. Laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy: Evolution of a new standard. Curr Opin Organ Transplant 2000;12:312-318.
Tan HP, Donaldson J, Ellis D, et al. Pediatric living donor kidney transplantation under Alemtuzumab pretreatment and tacrolimus monotherapy: 4-year experience. Transplantation 2008, 86:1725-31.
Tan HP, Donaldson J, Basu A, et al. 200 living donor kidney transplantations under Alemtuzumab induction and tacrolimus monotherapy: 3 year follow up. Am J Transplant 2009; 9:355-66.

View Dr. Tan's full list of publications from PubMed.