Associate Professor of Surgery and Critical Care
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
A talented surgeon, a gifted educator and a passionate clinician who truly strives to make his learners and his own practice balance contemporary literature with practical nuances.
Michael Ditillo, DO, FACS
Associate Professor, Surgery
General Surgery Residency Program Director
Co-Director, Faculty Instructional Development University of Arizona COM
Michael Ditillo, DO, FACS, is an associate professor of surgery with the Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma, Critical Care, Burns and Emergency Surgery at the University of Arizona. He is the program director of the General Surgery Residency Program.
Dr. Ditillo earned his undergraduate degree from Long Island University and his medical degree from the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed his residency in general surgery at the Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, and was fellowship-trained in trauma and surgical critical care at The R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore.
After finishing his fellowship, Dr. Ditillo served as assistant professor of surgery at the Yale School of Medicine/Yale New Haven Hospital for five years before moving to Pittsburgh. In Pittsburgh, he served as an assistant professor of surgery at Allegheny General Hospital in the Division of Trauma, Acute Care Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care. He was also the director of the Trauma Critical Care Unit, the associate director of the critical care fellowship program, and the assistant residency director of the general surgery fellowship program.
Dr. Ditillo’s clinical interests are in geriatric trauma, management of blunt thoraci trauma, coagulopathy in trauma, and hemostatic resuscitation.
Transfusion Practices in Trauma: How Contemporary Literature Can and Should Change What We Do!
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
10:00am – 10:45am CT
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