Matthew Neal

Dr. Neal is the Roberta G. Simmons Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh, and he is a general surgeon and faculty at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center specializing in complex hernia surgery, gastrointestinal surgery, trauma, and emergency general surgery. He is the director of the Pittsburgh Trauma Research Center and he manages an active research team in translational research in bleeding control coagulopathy, massive transfusion, and outcomes following trauma and critical illness. His lab is funded by multiple awards from the NIH, DoD, and private industry. He is heavily involved in several basic research and clinical studies in the areas of pre-hospital interventions for traumatic bleeding including the PAMPer and STAAMP trials. Dr. Neal is also the principal investigator of a large adaptive randomized controlled trial in surgical rehabilitation for high risk surgical patients and is a co-director of the UPMC REMAP clinical trials program.