Welcome to the new page for UPMC’s Surgical Oncology fellowship! We’ll be sharing the latest updates and research from our department, fun Pittsburgh facts, and plenty of our love for Surg Onc.

Congratulations to our newest graduates! Proud of all your accomplishments and looking forward to a bright future ahead! 🎇 🥂 #pittfamily #graduates

Big welcome to the newest members of the @PittSurgOnc Family! Congrats!🍾

Kicking off our first Multidisciplinary Journal Club with a deep dive into extremity sarcoma! Grateful for the collaboration between our Med Onc, Surg Onc & Rad Onc fellows—stronger together in tackling rare cancers. @RadOncResidency @UPMCHeme_Onc

35 years, countless memories, and one incredible night at the speakeasy ✨ Honored to celebrate the legacy of our fellowship program with alumni who continue to shape the future of surgical oncology. Here’s to the next 35!! #UPMCAlumni #SurgicalOncology #SSO2025 #JekyllAndHyde

What a great way to spend a Saturday! Surgical oncology fellows, residents, Program Director, and APD supporting and volunteering for the annual Family House Polo event🐎🏇🏆 shout out to Kate Kelly who was even out in the field and doing her part in the match! #FHPolo2024

Congratulations to all our amazing graduates! Here's to new beginnings and excited to see what the future holds! 🎓@MikeWach_MD @MEtherington_MD @emakris_md @AmerZureikatMD @melanieongchin

🔈🎤🎧Check out this podcast with @pmppalsnetwork @melanieongchin @TrangNguyenMD and Dr. Molly Kledzik highlighting the most important people in CRS/HIPEC: our patients. Learn about the challenges they overcome and perspectives on fertility and life after a big operation.

Congratulations to all the residents matching into Surgical Oncology today and a special welcome to the Pitt Surg Onc family for our class of 2025-2027! 🥳🥳🥳

And that's a wrap on the job hunt season! So proud of our senior fellows and the impressive list of what will soon be their new homes. Go out in the world and do great things! 🎉🥂🥳.@MikeWach_MD @MEtherington_MD @emakris_md

Shoutout to our Surgical Oncology division team who raised over $15,000 (🤯) in the @R2C_Cancer this past weekend. All those miles and dollars in honor of our patients who we are so privileged to care for. @melanieongchin @AmerZureikatMD

RT @UPMCHillmanCC: From start to finish-thank you to our riders who supported our cancer research in today’s @R2C_Cancer. Great turnout! Gr….

Sending support to PD @melanieongchin and APD Geoff Nunns this week as they raise money for @UPMCHillmanCC in the Rush to Crush Cancer bike race. Consider donating below and let's hope all those miles don't tire them out for the operating room! 🚴🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️.

Congrats to senior fellow @MEtherington_MD and team on their work examining outcomes for remnant completion cholecystectomy. Don’t three-putt it! ⛳️⛳️⛳️.

Keeping our annual #AHPBA24 tradition alive and well with a UPMC family dinner in Miami. Congrats to Mark Etherington, @emakris_md , and @drliuhao on your presentations! .@AmerZureikatMD @samer_tohme @paniccia_ale

Congrats to Drs. Jim Celebrezze and @MikeWach_MD on their respective debate wins last night at the Southwestern PA American College of Surgeons chapter meeting!

Honored to host Dr. Matthew Katz of @MDAndersonNews for our HPB Grand Rounds today. Amazing discussion of perioperative therapies for pancreatic cancer.

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Average risk individuals should get their first screening colonoscopy at age 45. UPMC fellows train in taking care of patients with all stages and manifestations of CRC and in research towards finding new treatments!.

Congrats to our admin chief on his awesome contract signing!! Go out and do great things!.

RT @SocSurgOnc: Thank you to everyone who made #ACT2024 a success! A special thanks to all the hard work that Advanced Cancer Therapies Com….

Congrats to @MikeWach_MD on an excellent talk at #ACT2024 regarding CRS/HIPEC in patients with colorectal peritoneal metastases and using 🔪 or 🧪 first?