Mazen S. Zenati, MD, MPH, PhD

  • Associate Professor of Surgery and Epidemiology
  • Associate Director, Multidisciplinary Acute-Care Clinical Research Organization (MACRO)

Education & Training

  • MD, University of Damascus
  • MPH, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
  • PhD, University of Pittsburgh

Representative Publications

Dr. Zenati's publications can be reviewed through PubMed.

Research Interests

  • Injury prevention (epidemiology and control)
  • Epidemiology of infectious disease in acute critical care setting
  • Clinical research methodology
  • Surgical oncology; pancreatic cancer
  • Research in organ transplant surgery
  • Nutrition in the critically ill patients
  • Public health research: risk factors for chronic disease in individual and community
  • Co-morbidity (chronic pre-existing illness) in the critically ill and trauma patients
  • Transfusion practices and coagulations problems in surgical and trauma patients
  • Injury, trauma, hypovolemic shock, hypothermia in ICU
  • Multiple organ dysfunction failure: spleen Injury, liver Injury, head, and facial injury
  • Nasal and gastric feeding tube research
  • Cardiothoracic surgery and cardiac transplant
  • Abdominal mesothelioma surgical research
  • Intravascular thoracic aortic repair in vascular surgery research\
  • Pancreatic cancer research including robotic surgery research
  • Adipose tissue and skin transplant in plastic surgery
  • Trauma recidivism
  • Quality assurance in hospitals and health services
  • Emergency department data systems, surveillance, and registry
  • Large data base creation and management
  • Trauma rehabilitation, PTSD
  • Global health and public health outreach 

Faculty by divisions

General/Vascular Surgery Research