DeannaMarieBlisardMD

General Surgery • Pittsburgh, PA

Transplantation, Trauma Surgery & Surgical Critical Care

Surgical Critical Care Physician VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System

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university drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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Education & Training

University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate SchoolMBA, Business Administration, 2010 - 2011
UPMC Medical EducationFellowship, Surgical Critical Care, 2004 - 2005
UPMC Medical EducationFellowship, Abdominal Transplant Surgery, 2002 - 2004
St Luke's University HospitalResidency, Surgery, 1997 - 2002
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson UniversityClass of 1997

Certifications & Licensure

PA State Medical License 1999 - 2024
American Board of Surgery Surgery
American Board of Surgery Surgical Critical Care

Clinical Trials

A Prospective Study on the Tolerability and Efficacy of the de Novo Use of Myfortic in Liver Transplant Recipients Start of enrollment: 2006 Nov 01
Completed
Not Applicable
Conversion of CellCept to Myfortic: A Prospective Study in Liver Transplant Recipients Start of enrollment: 2006 Nov 01
Completed
Not Applicable

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

5 citations
Kidney after Extrarenal Transplantation - The Impact of Alemtuzumab Induction.
Ron Shapiro, Amit Basu, Henkie P Tan, Claire Morgan, Vivek Sharma, Deanna Blisard, Parmjeet S Randhawa, Igor Dvorchik, Jerry McCauley, Demetrius Ellis, J Wallis Marsh,...> ;Transplantation. 2008 May 1
28 citations
Alemtuzumab preconditioning with tacrolimus monotherapy-the impact of serial monitoring for donor-specific antibody.
Ron Shapiro, Adriana Zeevi, Amit Basu, Henkie P. Tan, Liise K. Kayler, Deanna Blisard, Ngoc Thai, Alin Girnita, Parmjeet Randhawa, Edward A. Gray, Amadeo Marcos, Thoma...> ;Transplantation. 2008 Apr 27
49 citations
Acute cellular rejection with CD20-positive lymphoid clusters in kidney transplant patients following lymphocyte depletion.
Liise K. Kayler, Fadi G. Lakkis, C. Morgan, A. Basu, Deanna Blisard, Henkie P. Tan, Jerry McCauley, Christine C. Wu, Ron Shapiro, Parmjeet Randhawa> ;American Journal of Transplantation. 2007 Apr 1
8 citations
Transplantation of en bloc pediatric kidneys when the proximal vascular cuff is too short.
Liise K. Kayler, Deanna Blisard, Amit Basu, Henkie P. Tan, Jerry McCauley, Christine C. Wu, Amadeo Marcos, Thomas E. Starzl, Ron Shapiro, Ernesto P. Molmenti> ;Transplantation. 2007 Jan 15
32 citations
Pancreas transplantation under alemtuzumab (Campath-1H) and tacrolimus: Correlation between low T-cell responses and infection.
Ngoc Thai, Deanna Blisard, Kusum Tom, Amit Basu, Cindy Smetanka, Henkie P. Tan, Carol Bentlejewski, Janice Glidewell, J. Britz, Richard Kowalski, Ron Shapiro, John J. ...> ;Transplantation. 2006 Dec 27
36 citations
Alemtuzumab induction and tacrolimus monotherapy in pancreas transplantation: One- and two-year outcomes.
Ngoc Thai, Akhtar Khan, Kusum Tom, Deanna Blisard, Amit Basu, Henkie P. Tan, Amadeo Marcos, John J. Fung, Thomas E. Starzl, Ron Shapiro> ;Transplantation. 2006 Dec 27
No sampling technique was superior for the diagnosis of ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Deanna Blisard, Eric B Milbrandt, Samuel A. Tisherman> ;Critical Care. 2005 Feb 14
6 citations
Institutioning a clinical practice guideline to decrease the rate of normal appendectomies
Deanna Blisard, Joel C. Rosenfeld, Fernando Estrada, James F. Reed> ;The American Surgeon. 2003 Sep 1
Kidney after nonrenal transplantation-the impact of alemtuzumab induction.
Shapiro, R., Basu, A., Tan, H. P., Morgan, C., Sharma, V., Blisard, D., Randhawa, P. S., Dvorchik, I., McCauley, J., Ellis, D., Marsh, J. W., Webber, S., Kurland, G., ...> ;Transplantation. 2009 Sep 27
Long-term outcomes of stereotactic breast biopsies.
Makoske, T., Preletz, R., Riley, L., Fogarty, K., Swank, M., Cochrane, P., Blisard, D.> ;Am Surg. 2000 Dec
Voriconazole pharmacokinetics in liver transplant recipients.
Johnson, H. J., Han, K., Capitano, B., Blisard, D., Husain, S., Linden, P. K., Marcos, A., Kwak, E. J., Potoski, B., Paterson, D. L., Romkes, M., Venkataramanan, R.> ;Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2010 Feb 01
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