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Piroska Kopar, MD MBA FACS

Associate Professor
Washington University in Saint Louis
Washington University in Saint Louis

Dr. Piroska Kopar is a trauma surgeon at Washington University in Saint Louis and director of its Center for Humanism and Ethics in Surgical Specialties, also known as CHESS. Having earned her undergraduate degree in philosophy, she received a Woodruff scholarship to Emory Medical School. She trained in general and cardiac surgery at Dartmouth, in Critical and Acute Care Surgery at Yale, and in Medical Ethics at Harvard. She has founded and directs the Surgical Ethics Fellowship at Wash U. Originally from Hungary, Dr. Kopar is specifically interested in the cultural evolution of medical ethics and its specific application to surgery.

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