George Mazariegos MD, FACS, FAST

Dr. George Mazariegos is Chief of Pediatric Transplantation at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Hillman Center for Pediatric Transplantation, and at the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute. He is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh in the departments of Surgery, Anesthesiology, and Critical Care Medicine and holds the Jamie Lee Curtis Chair in Pediatric Transplantation Surgery.

Dr. Mazariegos serves as Past President for the Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplant Association (IRTA) and Secretary/Treasurer of Studies in Pediatric Liver Transplantation (SPLIT). He is Chair of the OPTN Pediatric Transplantation Committee and an active member of the American Surgical Association and the Society for University Surgeons.

Dr. Mazariegos graduated from Northwestern University Medical School in 1986. After completing his residency training at Michigan State University in 1991, he came to the University of Pittsburgh, where he completed a fellowship in critical care medicine in 1992 and a fellowship in liver and multi-organ transplantation in 1993. He joined the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute in 1994 and came to Children's in 1997 as co-director of pediatric liver and intestine transplantation.