Pediatric Surgery

Benjamin R. Fisher Chair of Pediatric Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief
Director, Pediatric Surgical Research
Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine


Department of Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
3705 Fifth Ave., 4A-492
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

412-692-7291
412-692-5008 Fax
george.gittes@chp.edu
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Medical School:

1987 Harvard Medical School

Residency:

1994 University of California, San Francisco, CA

Fellowship:

1994 Hormone Research Institute and The Gastrointestinal Research Laboratories, University of
California, San Francisco, CA
1996 Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO

• American Society of Clinical Investigators
• American Surgical Association
• American Pediatric Surgical Association
• Specialty Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics
• American College of Surgeons, Fellow
• Plastic Surgery Research Council
• British Association of Pediatric Surgeons
• American Diabetes Association
• American Society of Cell Biology
• Pacific Association of Pediatric Surgeons

• American Board of Surgery
• American Board of Surgery with Special Qualification in Pediatric Surgery
  

• John Harvard Scholar, Harvard College
• Magna Cum Laude, Harvard College
• Soma Weiss Presentation, Harvard Medical School
• Cum Laude, Harvard Medical School
• NIH GI Training Grant, University of California
• First Prize, Resident Research Competition 1991, University of California
• First Prize, Resident Research Competition 1992, University of California
• Ross Laboratories Resident Award for paper entitled "Initiation of Gastrin Expression During Development of the Mouse Pancreas"
• Finalist, American Surgical Association Foundation Grant
• Finalist, New York Speaker's Fund Grant Competition
• Owen H. Wangensteen, MD, FACS, Faculty Research Fellowship of the American College of Surgeons Fellowship
• One of four invited outside expert reviewers for the JDF $20 million grant to Harvard for the cure of Diabetes, December 22, 1998
• Guest Editor, Seminars in Pediatric Surgery, August, 1999 issue
• Thomas Holder and Keith Ashcraft Chair of Pediatric Surgical Research
• Guest Editor, Seminars in Pediatric Surgery, March, 2004 issue
• American College of Surgeons Traveling Fellowship to Japan for 2004
• President, Society of University Surgeons
• Benjamin R. Fisher Chair of Pediatric Surgery, August 2005
  

• Kobayashi H, Tamatani T, Tamura T, Kusafuka J, Yamataka A, Lane GJ, Kawasaki S, Ishizaki Y, Mizuta K, Kawarasaki H, Gittes GK. Maternal microchimerism in biliary atresia. J Pediatr Surg. 2007 Jun;42(6):987-91; discussion 991.
• Li Z, Ruan L, Lin S, Gittes GK. Clock controls timing of mouse pancreatic differentiation through regulation of Wnt- and Notch-based and cell division components. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2007 Aug 3;359(3):491-6. Epub 2007 May 30.
• Tulachan SS, Tei E, Hembree M, Crisera C, Prasadan K, Koizumi M, Shah S, Guo P, Bottinger E, Gittes GK. TGF-beta isoform signaling regulates secondary transition and mesenchymal-induced endocrine development in the embryonic mouse pancreas. Dev Biol. 2007 May 15;305(2):508-21. Epub 2007 Mar 2.

View Dr. Gittes' full list of publications from PubMed.

• Principal Investigator: NIH R01, "BMP vs. Activin Signaling in Pancreatic Development"
• Principal Investigator: Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Pilot and Feasibility Grant, "In Utero Intrapancreatic Injection of Stem Cells"
• Surgical Principal Investigator: U01-DK62466-04 (Perlmuter) NIH/NIDDK, Biliary Atresia Clinical Research Consortium
  
• Principal Investigator: Commonwealth Universal Research Enhancement (CURE), Department of Health, RFA#04-07-09: "Peptide Hormone Signaling in Pancreatic Beta Cell Formation" (Tobacco Grant)

Dr. Gittes comes to Pittsburgh from Children’s Mercy Hospital and the University of Missouri Kansas City School Hospital and the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine, where he held the Thomas M. Holder/Keith of Medicine, where he held the Thomas M. Holder/Keith W. Ashcraft Chair in Pediatric Surgical Research. He has long been actively involved in mentoring the next generation of scientific researchers.

Dr. Gittes is the 2005–06 president of the Society of University Surgeons and is professor of Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.