Jerome Canady

Dr. Canady received his BA (German and minor in Russian languages) from Villanova University in Philadelphia, Pa. and a Doctorate of Medicine from Temple University. He completed his general surgery residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC McKeesport Hospital) and his postdoctoral fellowship in Immunology and clinical fellowship in Organ Transplantation at Yale University School of Medicine/Yale New Haven Hospital. He continued his studies as a clinical fellow and visiting surgeon in the department of Visceral and Organ Transplantation, at the Virchow Klinikum Humboldt University in Berlin.

After his fellowship in Berlin, Dr. Canady returned to Pittsburgh as an Advanced Fellow of Multivisceral & Intestinal Transplantation (Adult & Pediatric) at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute and UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.

Dr. Canady is a Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery and certified by the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. He has 25 years of experience in clinical surgery and medicine as well as 29 years of experimental and clinical research in plasma electrosurgery. He is an innovator and was the first to invent argon plasma coagulation for flexible endoscopy (U.S. patent no. 5,207,675). Dr. Canady is currently a Research Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences) at George Washington University (Washington, D.C.), where he also holds the position of Co-Director of the George Washington University/USMI Plasma Initiative Program.