Dr David Gerber

Dr David Gerber

Christian R. Holmes Professor of Surgery and Chair, Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA

David A. Gerber, MD is the Christian R. Holmes Professor of Surgery and Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Gerber received his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh and completed general surgery training at Emory University in Atlanta, GA with a post-doctoral fellowship in Transplantation Immunology. He subsequently completed his clinical transplant fellowship at the Starzl Transplantation Institute at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Clinically he has expertise in solid organ transplantation with a focus on liver cancer including the integration of navigation into minimally invasive surgery procedures.

Dr. Gerber has received over 25 basic science grants including extramural funding from the National Institutes of Health, the American Liver Foundation, the Roche Organ Transplant Research Foundation, the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, and the American College of Surgeons. He has been principal investigator or co-investigator of more than 40 industry-sponsored clinical trials focusing on advancing patient outcomes in hepatocellular carcinoma and transplantation. He has published over 200 peer reviewed publications, peer-reviewed abstracts and book chapters in the areas of liver cancer, transplantation, stem cell biology, and regenerative medicine. In addition, he has received two patents and has given over 100 national and international presentations in healthcare and biotechnology.

Updated 28 November 2023