Department of Surgery

Hamza Yazdani, MD

  • Research Assistant Professor

Education & Training

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Surgery
  • MSc, Surgery, 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University
  • MD, Harbin Medical University

Representative Publications

Dr. Yazdani's publications can be reviewed through PubMed and NCBI.

Research, Clinical, and/or Academic Interests

  • Liver transplant, liver ischemia-reperfusion, sterile Inflammation
  • Surgical stress in regulating tumor growth, metastasis, and the tumor microenvironment
  • The interaction between innate and adaptive immunity in the setting of surgical stress
  • Exercise training in surgical stress and metastasis
  • Exercise in training innate and adaptive immunity

Research Grants

  • Pittsburgh Liver Research Center (PLRC), Pilot and Feasibility – University of Pittsburgh (PI: Yazdani). Role of Exercise Training in Preconditioning the Liver against Ischemia/ Reperfusion Injury in an Orthotopic Murine Liver Transplant Model, 3/2021 – 3/2022 (P30 DK120531)

Faculty by divisions

Surgical Oncology