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Anita P. Courcoulas, MD, MPH, FACS, is a minimally invasive general surgeon certified in surgery by the American Board of Surgery. She is a professor of surgery and chief of the Division of Minimally Invasive Bariatric and General Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Courcoulas attended Brown University, where she graduated with honors and completed her medical degree at Boston University School of Medicine, also with honors. She completed her general surgery internship and residency, pediatric surgery post-graduate research fellowship, and minimally invasive surgery post-graduate fellowship training all at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. In addition, she obtained a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health during her surgical training program. Dr. Courcoulas specializes in minimal access general surgery, abdominal surgery during pregnancy, and bariatric and metabolic surgery. Her research focuses on surgical outcomes, clinical trials, and emerging technologies in bariatric surgery.Dr. Courcoulas is active within many national surgical and obesity organizations, serves on the editorial boards of leading scientific journals, and has published more than 230 peer-reviewed manuscripts, abstracts, and book chapters.View Dr. Courcoulas' full list of publications from PubMed. Dr. Courcoulas is highly rated in 5 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes (T2D), Obesity in Children, Gastric Bypass, and Sleeve Gastrectomy. Dr. Courcoulas is board certified in American Board Of Surgery. Dr. Courcoulas is currently accepting new patients.

Jose Oliva is a Gastroenterologist and a Cardiologist practicing medicine in Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania. Dr. Oliva is highly rated in 13 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Visceromegaly, Cirrhosis, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Liver Transplant, and Endoscopy. Dr. Oliva is board certified in American Board Of Internal Medicine - Transplant Hepatology.

Dr. Lister is Chief of the Division of Hematology and Cellular Therapy, AHN Cancer Institute. He is an experienced transplant physician who participated in his first bone marrow transplant in 1979. Since that time, he has been involved in more than a thousand transplants and has contributed to many clinical studies and made original contributions in the literature. Dr. Lister received his initial exposure to marrow transplantation as a trainee at McGill University and received further training at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. Subsequently, as Terry Fox Fellow of the National Cancer Institute of Canada, he received additional clinical and laboratory training in marrow transplantation at the Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital at the University of Toronto. He returned to McGill and actively participated in transplant for the next five years before accepting a position in the Division of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation at The University of Pittsburgh. In 1997, he joined the faculty at West Penn Hospital. Dr. Lister is a Professor of Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, and serves on numerous scientific and administrative committees, including the Lymphoma Committee of the CIBMTR. He is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Western Pennsylvania. Dr. Lister is highly rated in 23 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), Multiple Myeloma, Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia without Maturation, Bone Marrow Transplant, and Bone Marrow Aspiration. Dr. Lister is board certified in American Board Of Internal Medicine - Hematology and Medical Oncology, American Board Of Internal Medicine.