Pediatric Surgery Providers and Staff

George Kingsley Gittes, MD

Director, Richard King Mellon Institute for Pediatric Research
Benjamin R. Fisher Chair of Pediatric Surgery
Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Surgeon-in-Chief Emeritus and Co-scientific Director, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
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Barbara A. Gaines, MD

Associate Surgeon in Chief, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Clinical Director, Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery
Program Director, Pediatric Surgery Fellowship
Professor of Surgery and Clinical and Translational Science, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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Kelly Austin, MD

Director, Colorectal Center for Children and Division of Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery
Surgical Director, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Program Director, Surgical Critical Care, Residency Program
Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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Geoffrey Bond, MD

Surgical Director, Intestinal Care and Rehabilitation Center, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Assistant Professor in Transplant Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute
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Serena Hsi Ju Chan, MD

Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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Joseph Thomas Church, MD

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Marcus Malek, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Director, Pediatric Surgical Oncology
Attending Surgeon, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
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Kevin Mollen, MD

Surgical Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Samuel P. Harbison Assistant Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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Michael Morowitz, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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Ward Richardson, MD

Director, Trauma and Injury Prevention
Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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Stefan Scholz, MD

Director, Minimally Invasive Surgery
Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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Paul K Waltz, MD

Surgical Director, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
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Nurse Practitioners

Melissa DeCola, CRNP
Kristen Eberlein, DNP, CRNP
Christine McKenna, CRNP
Paula Sever, CRNP

Physician Assistants

Yovana Bontrager, PA-C

Nurses

Stephanie Kotz, RN
Rachael Reif, RN