Chairman
Robert M. Friedlander, MD

Professors

C. Edward Dixon, PhD (Vice Chairman, Research)
Robert Ferrante, PhD
Peter C. Gerszten, MD, MPH
Michael B. Horowitz, MD
Larry W. Jenkins, PhD
Douglas S. Kondziolka, MD, MSc (Vice Chairman, Education)
L. Dade Lunsford, MD
John J. Moossy, MD (Chief of Neurosurgery, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System)
Ian F. Pollack, MD (Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery; Vice Chairman, Academic Affairs)
Mingui Sun, PhD

Associate Professors

Jeffrey Balzer, PhD
Ajay Niranjan, MD, MBA
Hideho Okada, MD, PhD
David O. Okonkwo, MD, PhD

Assistant Professors

David J. Bissonette, PA-C, MBA (Executive Administrator)
Donald J. Crammond, PhD
Johnathan Engh, MD
Juan C. Fernandez-Miranda, MD
Paul A. Gardner, MD
Avniel Ghuman, PhD
Paola Grandi, PhD
Miguel Habeych, MD, MPH
Brian Jankowitz, MD
Adam S. Kanter, MD
Arlan H. Mintz, MD, MSc
Ava Puccio, PhD, RN
Shengjun Ren, PhD
R. Mark Richardson, MD, PhD
Richard M. Spiro, MD
Mandeep Tamber, MD, PhD
Elizabeth Tyler-Kabara, MD, PhD
Hiroko Yano, PhD
Yu Zhang, PhD

Clinical Professors

Adnan A. Abla, MD
Matt El-Kadi, MD, PhD (Vice Chairman; Chief of Neurosurgery, UPMC Passavant)
Joseph C. Maroon, MD
Daniel A. Wecht, MD, MSc (Chief of Neurosurgery, UPMC St. Margaret and UPMC McKeesport)

Clinical Professor Emeritus

Peter Sheptak, MD

Clinical Associate Professor

Michael J. Rutigliano, MD, MBA (Chief of Neurosurgery Latrobe and Westmoreland Hospitals)

Clinical Assistant Professors

Pedro J. Aguilar, MD
Eric M. Altschuler, MD
J. William Bookwalter III, MD
Daniel M. Bursick, MD
David J. Engle, MD
Stephanie Greene, MD
David L. Kaufmann, MD
Parthasarathy D. Thirumala, MD
Matthew M. Wetzel, MD

Research Assistant Professors

Diane L. Carlisle, PhD
Yue-Fang Chang, PhD
Wendy Fellows-Mayle, PhD
Esther Jane, PhD
Wenyan Jia, PhD
Hideyuki Kano, MD, PhD
Daniel Premkumar, PhD
Hong Qu Yan, MD, PhD

Clinical Instructors

Jeff Bost, PA-C
Peter Kim, MD, PhD
Alessandro Paluzzi, MD

Faculty with Secondary Appointments in Neurosurgery

Anto Bagic, MD, MSc (Neurology)
Michael Bell, MD (Critical Care Medicine)
Clifford E. Brubaker, MD (Health Rehab Sciences)
Karin E. Byers, MD, MS (Medicine)
William Donaldson, MD (Orthopedic Surgery)
John C. Flickinger, MD (Radiation Oncology)
Ferenc E. Gyulai, MD (Anesthesiology)
Barry E. Hirsh, MD (Otolaryngology)
Tudor G. Jovin, MD (Neurology)
Steven L. Kanter, MD (Senior Associate Dean, Medicine)
Mark R. Lovell, MD (Orthopedic Surgery)
Margaret Reidy, MD (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation)
William F. Rothfus, MD (Radiology)
Walter Schneider, PhD (Psychology)
Paula R. Sherwood, PhD, RN, CNRN (Nursing)
Carl H. Snyderman, MD (Otolaryngology)
S. Tanya Stefko, MD (Ophthalmology)
Peter L. Strick, PhD (Neurobiology)
Lawrence R. Wechsler, MD (Neurology)
Steven L. Whitehurst, MD (Anesthesiology)