October 2018 Faculty Arrivals

Anesthesiology
Kevin King, DO joins the Department of Anesthesiology. His most recent position was with UPMC.

Neurosurgery
Shoji Ishigami, MD, PhD joins the Department of Neurosurgery’s pain management division at the Berkeley Medical Center campus. He practiced physical medicine and rehabilitation at George Washington Medical Faculty Associates in Rockville, Md., and completed a pain fellowship at Virginia Spine Physicians.

Pathology
John Ozolek, MD joins the Department of Pathology. He was formerly a pediatric pathologist at UPMC.

Theodore Kieffer, MD joins the Department of Pathology. He was formerly a senior healthcare consultant for Aledo Consulting, in Indianapolis, Ind. He completed a pathology residency at Indiana University as well as training in blood banking/transfusion medicine and clinical microbiology.

Radiology
Larissa Casaburi, MD, PhD, MPH joins the Department of Radiology and will provide advanced cardiac and abdominal imaging services. She trained at UNC Chapel Hill, at Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute in Miami and in Brazil. She has practiced at the University of Virginia and the University of Nebraska.

Urology
Thomas Jaffe, MD joins the Department of Urology. He was formerly an assistant professor of urology and the Director of Magee Urology and Male Reproductive Medicine and Surgery at UPMC. He also served as the Director of the Men’s Health Center at Magee-Women's Hospital in Pittsburgh.