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Topic: Role of Artificial Intelligence in HPB Surgery

Henry A. Pitt, MD

Henry A. Pitt, MD is the Chief of Oncologic Quality for the Rutgers Cancer Institute and
a Distinguished Professor of Surgical Oncology at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson
Medical School. Dr. Pitt graduated AOA from Cornell University Medical College in 1971.
He trained in surgery at Johns Hopkins and began his career as a hepato-pancreato-biliary
(HPB) surgeon at UCLA in 1979. In 1985 he returned to Johns Hopkins as Vice Chairman
of Surgery and rose to the rank of Professor. In 1997 he was appointed Chairman of Surgery
at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Surgeon-in-Chief at the Froedtert Memorial
Hospital. In 2004 he joined colleagues from Johns Hopkins at Indiana University where
he helped to grow a premier HPB clinical and training program and became the University
Hospital’s Chief Quality Officer. From 2013-20 he was the Chief Quality Officer for the
Temple University Health System and Associate Vice Dean for Clinical Affairs at the Lewis
Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. Dr. Pitt has been President of the Society
of Clinical Surgery, the AHPBA, the IHPBA, the IHPBA Kenneth Warren Foundation and
the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery. Dr. Pitt has received peer-reviewed funding for 30
years, has served on multiple Editorial Boards, has published 563 manuscripts and 151 book
chapters and also has edited 22 books. He is a Fellow of The Royal College of Surgeons of
Edinburgh and an Honorary Professor of three Chinese medical schools.

Derek A. O’Reilly, MD

Dr. O’Reilly received his medical degree from Trinity College Dublin in 1992, and was
later awarded a PhD in Molecular Medicine from the University of Plymouth, United
Kingdom. In 2006, he received his Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
in General Surgery. Dr. O’ Reilly completed his residency in the United Kingdom in General
Surgery, where he rotated through inpatient and outpatient wards and developed expertise in
managing conditions ranging from liver, pancreatic, gallbladder and other digestive diseases
to the treatment of abdominal wall hernias.
Before joining UFH facility, Dr. O’ Reilly served in the University of Manchester as a
Professor of Surgery, and as an expert in the production of clinical guidelines for the National
Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE).
Dr. O’Reilly has over 30 years of clinical experience. In addition to specializing in the
treatment and diagnosis of general surgical, he also completed a fellowship in liver and
pancreatic diseases. In addition to his clinical work, Dr. O’Reilly has published over 90
papers in prominent peer-reviewed medical journals.

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