Thavam Thambi-Pillai, MD

Experience & Research

• American College of Surgeons (ACS)
• American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS)
• American Society of Transplantation (AST)
• The Transplantation Society (TTS)
• Association for Academic Surgery (AAS)
• International College of Surgeons (ICS)
• Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES)
• American Medical Association (AMA)

Publications
Casserly I, Thambipillai T, Macken M, FitzGerald, MJ: Innervation of the tylotrich-touch dome complexes in rat skin: changing patterns during postnatal development. Journal of Anatomy 185(3):553-563, 1994.

O'Hanlon DM, Thambipillai T, Colbert ST, Keane PW, Given HF: Timing of pre-emptive tenoxicam is important for postoperative analgesia. Canadian Journal of Anaesthesiology 48(2):162-166, 2001.

Frank A, Deng S, Huang X., Velidedeoglu E, Bae Y, Liu C, Abt P, Stephenson R, Mohuiddin M, Thambipillai T, Markmann E, Palanjian M, Sellers M, Naji A, Barker C.F, Markmann JF: Transplantation for Type 1 Diabetes: Comparison of Vascularized Whole Organ Pancreas with Isolated Pancreatic Islets. Annals of Surgery, 240 (4):631-643, 2004.

Tevar AD, Succop P, Schneider CR, Thambi-Pillai, T, Thomas MJ, Neff G, Weber F, Rudich SM, Woodle ES, Buell JF: Liver transplantation for primary and metastatic hepatic malignancy: a single center experience. Surgery 139 (4):535-541, 2006.

Jafri MA, Tevar AD, Lucia, M, Thambi-Pillai T, Karachristos A, Trumbull L, Buell JF, Thomas, MJ, Hanaway MJ, Woodle ES, Rudich SM: Temporary silastic mesh closure for adult liver transplantation – a safe alternative for the difficult abdomen. Liver Transplantation 13:258-265, 2007.

Publications

• Routine physical leads to lifesaving discovery