HenkiePTanMDPhD, FACS, FAST
General Surgery • Pittsburgh, PAHepatobiliary Surgery, Pancreas, Transplantation, Minimally Invasive Surgery
Surgical Director, Kidney Transplantation, VAPHS; Director of Pancreas Transplantation UPMC to 2012 Director of Living Donor Kidney Transplantation UPMC to 2010
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Office
Veterans Hospital of Pittsburgh
Div of Transplant Surgery
Pittsburgh, PA 15213Phone+1 412-431-9194- Is this information wrong?
Summary
- Dr. Henkie Tan is a multiorgan transplant surgeon in Pittsburgh, PA and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including UPMC Presbyterian and Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System. He received his MD and PhD Medical Scientist Training Program from Loma Linda University School of Medicine and has been in practice 23 years. He did his multiorgan transplant surgery fellowship at Hohn Hopkins. He specializes in hepatobiliary surgery, transplantation, and minimally invasive surgery and is experienced in rejection, minimally invasive surgery, kidney transplantation, transplant surgery, and hepatopancreatobiliary surgery. He wrote the first living donor transplantation textbook in 1986. He was previously chair of American Society of Transplantation Kidney/Pancreas and Organ Donation Committees including multiple American Society of Transplant Surgeons Committees. He is currently VA Transplant Centers Chair of Transplant Surgery Advisory Board, VISN4 Surgery ICC lead, etc
Education & Training
Johns Hopkins UniversityFellowship, Abdominal Transplant Surgery, 1999 - 2001
Loma Linda University Health Education ConsortiumResidency, Surgery, 1994 - 1999
Loma Linda University School of MedicineClass of 1994
Loma Linda University School of MedicinePhD (MD/PhD Medical Scientist Training Program), Microbiology/Immunology , 1988 - 1992
Certifications & Licensure
CA State Medical License 1995 - Present
PA State Medical License 2002 - 2024
MD State Medical License 1999 - 2001- American Board of Surgery Surgery
- American Society of Transplant SurgeonMultiorgan Transplant Surgeon
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Fellow American Society of Transplantation (FAST) American Society of Transplantion, 2015
- Fellow (FACS) American College of Surgeons
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- The living donor evaluation as a life-saving event.Sun-Cheol Park, Ron Shapiro, Deborah Good, Roberto Lopez, Nirav Shah, Puneet Sood, Mark Sturdevant, Henkie Tan, Maureen Vekasy, Martin Wijkstrom, Christine Wu, Abhinav...> ;Clinical Transplantation. 2023 Jan 1
- 6 citationsSystematic review: hepatitis C viraemic allografts to hepatitis C-negative recipients in solid organ transplantationTaaj Raasikh, Taher Jamali, Avegail G. Flores, Ronald T. Cotton, Venkat Ramanathan, Henkie P. Tan, Ruben Hernaez> ;Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 2021 Jul 15
- 4 citationsOutcomes of Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation Using Expanded Criteria Donor Kidneys Following Pulsatile Preservation.Amit Basu, Lisa Rosen, Henkie P. Tan, Joanna Fishbein, Christine M. Wu, J. Donaldson, Susan Stuart, Nirav Shah, Jerry McCauley, Abhinav Humar, Ron Shapiro> ;Cureus. 2019 Jul 7
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