When you need surgery, you can rely on the team of highly skilled surgeons at Vandalia Health.

Team-centered care approach - primary care and multi-specialty physicians, radiologists, pathologists, nurses and support staff provide a coordinated patient experience.

Welcome Ngoc Thai, MD, PhD

Vandalia Health welcomes Ngoc Thai, MD, PhD, to its highly skilled team of surgical specialists. With more than 20 years of clinical experience and health system leadership, Dr. Thai brings with him a distinguished history of innovation, collaboration and excellence in surgical care.

Dr. Thai comes to Vandalia Health from Holy Name Medical Center in New Jersey, where he served as Chair of the Department of Surgery. He previously held leadership roles at Allegheny General Hospital and Allegheny Health Network in Pittsburgh, including System Chair of the Department of Surgery and Chief of the Division of Transplant Surgery. A veteran of the U.S. Army Reserve Medical Corps, Dr. Thai retired at the rank of Major in 2011. Dr. Thai earned his undergraduate degree in biology from Cornell University.

He holds both a PhD in immunology and an MD from the University of Pittsburgh and completed his general surgery residency at the University of Rochester.

Specialty: General Surgery, Transplant

Medical School: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Residency: Strong Memorial Hospital University of Rochester

Fellowship: Thomas E Starzl Transplantation Institute

Board Certification: American Board of Surgery

Professional Affiliations: American HepatoPancreato-Biliary Association, Center for Organ Recovery and Education (CORE), Transplant Recipient International Organizati

Procedures:

• Amputations
• Appendectomy
• Arteriovenous fistula creation
• Bille duct surgery
• Biopsies
• Colectomy
• Colon resection
• Fistulotomy
• Gallbladder surgery
• Hemodialysis catheter placement/removal
• Hemorrhoid band ligation
• Hemorrhoidectomy
• Hernia repairs
• Liver surgery
• Lumpectomy
• Mastectomy
• Pancreas surgery
• Peritoneal dialysis catheter
• placement/removal
• Pilonidal cyst excision
• Skin Lesion removal
• Sphincterotomy
• Spleen surgery
• Thyroid surgery
• Venous access/ Infusaport devices

Endoscopy Services

• Colonoscopy
• Endoscopy
• Hemerrhoid removal

Abdominal Surgery

• Surgical management of GERD
• GI tract surgery
• Hiatal hernias
• Gallbladder surgery
• Colorectal cancer
• Small bowel pathology
• Upper and lower endoscopy
• Hernias of any sort
• Advanced laparoscopic surgery

Other Surgeries

• Thyroid nodule management
• Parathyroid disorders
• Tracheostomy
• Skin lesions
• Cyst excisions
• Breast surgery

Call 304-637-9302 to learn more about services provided by Davis Health System's General Surgery Team. 

Referrals are not necessary.