Harish Lavu, M.D., Joins the Department of Surgery at Jefferson
Harish
Lavu, M.D., recently joined the Department of Surgery at Thomas
Jefferson University Hospital, and was named an assistant professor at
Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. He
specializes in Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery.
Dr.
Lavu was a junior year Alpha Omega Alpha honoree and received his
medical degree from the Albany Medical College in Albany, New York in
2000. He received a Master of Science degree in physiology from
Georgetown University in Washington, DC in 1995, and a Bachelors of
Science degree in both biology and sociology from Syracuse University
in Syracuse, New York in 1994. Dr. Lavu completed a residency in the
department of general surgery at the UCLA School of Medicine in Los
Angeles, California, while working at UCLA from 2000-2007. He
completed a fellowship in Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic surgery at the
Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Dr.
Lavu has experience as an educator and administrator having served as a
clinical lecturer in surgery at the Indiana University School of
Medicine while, at the same time, completing his fellowship there. He
also received the UCLA Department of General Surgery Medical Student
Teaching Award in 2004 and was named administrative chief resident in
the department in 2006.
Dr.
Lavu is board certified with the California State Medical Board, the
Indiana State Medical Board, the Pennsylvania State Medical Board, and
the Drug Enforcement Agency. He is a member of the American College of
Surgeons Candidate Group and the American Association for Cancer
Research.
Dr. Lavu is a resident of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Media Only Contact:
Ed Federico
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Phone: (215) 955-6300
Published: 10/10/2008