George Kingsley Gittes MD

Dr. George Gittes is the Benjamin R. Fisher Chair of Pediatric Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Director of Surgical Research, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, and Professor of Surgery and Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Dr. Gittes received his MD from Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. He completed his surgical internship and residency at the University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA. He completed a fellowship at the Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO. Dr. Gittes came to Pittsburgh in 2005 from Children’s Mercy Hospital and the University of Missouri Kansas City School Hospital and the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine, where he held the Thomas M. Holder/Keith W. Ashcraft Chair in Pediatric Surgical Research. He has long been actively involved in mentoring the next generation of scientific researchers.