Dr. Abhinav Humar
Overview
Abhinav Humar, MD, is the clinical director of the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute and chief of UPMC Transplant Services. He received his medical degree from the University of Ottawa where he also completed his general surgical residency. He completed his surgical fellowship in transplantation at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Humar is a member of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and the International Liver Transplantation Society with more than 600 abstracts accepted at national and international transplant meetings and has co-authored more than 200 manuscripts, 30 book chapters and two books. Dr. Humar’s clinical interests include living donor and split liver transplants and studies of hepatic regeneration. View Dr. Humar’s full list of publications from PubMed.
Dr. Humar is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hepatitis. His top areas of expertise are Liver Failure, Fibrolamellar Carcinoma, Hepatitis, Liver Transplant, and Kidney Transplant.
His clinical research consists of co-authoring 138 peer reviewed articles and participating in 4 clinical trials. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, he has co-authored 9 articles and participated in 1 clinical trial in the study of Hepatitis.
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Locations
3459 5th Avenue, Montefiore, 7 South, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Clinical Research
Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.
4 Clinical Trials
Allegheny Clinic
Tadahiro Uemura is a Transplant Surgeon and a General Surgeon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr. Uemura is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hepatitis. His top areas of expertise are Liver Failure, Hepatitis, Low Blood Pressure, Liver Transplant, and Kidney Transplant.
Starzl Transplantation Institute - UPMC Transplant Services
Christopher Hughes, MD, FACS is the surgical director of the UPMC Liver Transplant Program and is certified in liver transplantation and hepatobiliary by the American Board of Surgery. He is an associate professor of surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Hughes received his medical degree from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine where he also completed his residency in general surgery. He completed his fellowship in transplantation surgery at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Dr. Hughes’s clinical interests include liver transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery with a focus on infectious disease in solid organ transplantation. View Dr. Hughes’s full list of publications from PubMed. Dr. Hughes is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hepatitis. His top areas of expertise are Liver Failure, Hepatitis, Visceromegaly, Liver Transplant, and Liver Embolization.
Starzl Transplantation Institute - UPMC Transplant Services
Amit Tevar, MD, is the surgical director of the Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program at UPMC and is certified in multi-organ transplantation and hepatobiliary by the American Board of Surgery. Dr. Tevar received his medical degree from the University of Missouri School of Medicine and completed his residency in general surgery at Indiana University School of Medicine where he served as chief resident. He completed his fellowship in multi-organ transplant surgery at the University of Chicago and the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Tevar is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hepatitis. His top areas of expertise are Liver Failure, Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection, End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), Kidney Transplant, and Liver Transplant.
Areas of Expertise
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- Elite
- Liver TransplantDr. Humar isElite. Learn about Liver Transplant.
- Distinguished
- Fibrolamellar CarcinomaDr. Humar isDistinguished. Learn about Fibrolamellar Carcinoma.
- HepatitisDr. Humar isDistinguished. Learn about Hepatitis.
- Kidney TransplantDr. Humar isDistinguished. Learn about Kidney Transplant.
- Liver FailureDr. Humar isDistinguished. Learn about Liver Failure.
- Advanced
- Alcoholic CirrhosisDr. Humar isAdvanced. Learn about Alcoholic Cirrhosis.
- CirrhosisDr. Humar isAdvanced. Learn about Cirrhosis.
- HepatectomyDr. Humar isAdvanced. Learn about Hepatectomy.
- Hepatitis CDr. Humar isAdvanced. Learn about Hepatitis C.
- Hernia SurgeryDr. Humar isAdvanced. Learn about Hernia Surgery.
- Islet Cell TransplantationDr. Humar isAdvanced. Learn about Islet Cell Transplantation.
- Experienced
- Autoimmune HepatitisDr. Humar isExperienced. Learn about Autoimmune Hepatitis.
- Bone Marrow TransplantDr. Humar isExperienced. Learn about Bone Marrow Transplant.
- CholangitisDr. Humar isExperienced. Learn about Cholangitis.
- Enlarged LiverDr. Humar isExperienced. Learn about Enlarged Liver.
- GastrostomyDr. Humar isExperienced. Learn about Gastrostomy.
- Hepatic IschemiaDr. Humar isExperienced. Learn about Hepatic Ischemia.