Abhinav Humar, MD, is the clinical director of the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute and chief of the division of abdominal transplantation surgery at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He is a professor in the department of surgery at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and a staff physician at Pittsburgh VA Medical Healthcare System. MedSchool.Pitt.edu
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