Donald W Moorman, MD - Allegheny Surgical Associates

Nathan Bahary MD, PhD received his B.A. from Cornell University, an M.D. from the Cornell University School of Medicine, and his Ph.D. from the Rockefeller University. He completed his residency at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. He did his postgraduate training at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital system before joining the faculty of UPMC as the Director of the Pancreatic Cancer Center. Since 2021, he is the Division Chief of Medical Oncology at AHN Cancer Institute and Director of AHNCI Clnical Research. Amongst his various appointments Dr. Bahary is a member of the NCI Pancreatic Task Force, the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) where he serves on the ECOG GI Steering Committee and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) His basic research interests lie in the intersection between gastrointestinal development, metabolic stress pathways, immunology, and cancer. He has a broad research background in cancer genetics, developmental biology, molecular biology, and clinical investigations, with specific training and expertise in key research areas broadly within the field of gastrointestinal oncology, and specifically within pancreatic cancer. Building on his work at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Bahary is using insights gained by studying vertebrate development to determine how cancers grow. Clinical trials emanating from this research will continue at AHN Cancer Institute and are expected to lead to the development of new targeted agents and immunologic strategies for treating cancer.

Elisa C Taffe, MD, CWSP Dr. Elisa Taffe is the medical director of the Advanced Wound Healing at AHN Allegheny General Hospital. She collaborates with various subspecialists as needed to treat patients with complex wounds. Dr. Taffe is skilled at providing patients with advanced wound therapies including skin substitutes. She is a Certified Wound Specialist Physician (CWSP) and has a certification in vascular medicine and is recognized as a Fellow within the Society of Vascular Medicine She received a medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She also completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She served as the medical director for the Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program at the Community College of Allegheny County and is also an assistant professor of medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine. She speaks English.