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Office
3459 5th Ave
# N725
Pittsburgh, PA 15213Phone+1 412-647-5730
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
- 124 citationsKidney transplantation under minimal immunosuppression after pretransplant lymphoid depletion with thymoglobulin or campathRon Shapiro, Amit Basu, Henkie P. Tan, Edward A. Gray, Akhtar Kahn
Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2005-04-01 - 26 citationsPutative episodes of T-cell-mediated rejection in patients with sustained BK viruria but no viremia.Kosuke Masutani, Ron Shapiro, Amit Basu, Henkie P. Tan, Toshiharu Ninomiya
Transplantation. 2012-07-15 - 81 citationsAntibody-Mediated Rejection in Kidney Transplantation: A ReviewChethan Puttarajappa, Ron Shapiro, Henkie P. Tan
Journal of Transplantation. 2012-04-10
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