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University of Nebraska Medical Center

W.T. Hillman Terzian, MD, FACS

Assistant Professor, UNMC Department of Surgery, Acute Care Surgery Division
Medical Director, Emergency General Surgery, UNMC Department of Surgery
Medical Director, Surgical Quality, Nebraska Medicine

W.T. Hillman Terzian, MD

Dr. Terzian is an assistant professor in the Acute Care Surgery Division of the UNMC Department of Surgery. He is an acute care surgeon who specializes in trauma, surgical critical care and emergency general surgery with UNMC's primary clinical partner, Nebraska Medicine. He is interested in clinical research, quality improvement and program building.

Within the UNMC Division of Acute Care Surgery, he serves as medical director for:

  • Emergency General Surgery.
  • Advanced Practice Providers.
  • The Advanced Practice Provider Fellowship in Trauma and Surgical Critical Care.

He also is the Physician Assistant Program clinical preceptor for the Acute Care Surgery Division.

Within the Department of Surgery, he is core faculty for the general surgery residency and serves on both the Program Evaluation Committee and Clinical Competency Committee.

Within Nebraska Medicine, he serves as medical director of surgical quality. He also co-chairs the Patient Outcomes Committee and the Perioperative & Procedural Quality Committee, and is a member of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Steering Committee, Robotics Steering Committee and Patient Safety & Quality Steering Committee.

  • MD: Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia
  • Residency: St. Luke's University Health Network, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
  • Fellowship: Surgical Critical Care, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
  • Fellowship: Acute Care Surgery, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
  • Surgery, American Board of Surgery
  • Surgical Critical Care, American Board of Surgery
Dr. Terzian's research interests include emergency general surgery topics such as necrotizing soft tissue infections and small bowel obstructions, as well as quality and process improvement for both trauma and emergency general surgery.
  • American Association for the Surgery of Trauma 
  • American College of Surgeons 
  • Association for Academic Surgery 
  • Eastern Trauma Association 
  • Society of Critical Care Medicine 
  • Surgical Infection Society 
  • Southwestern Surgical Congress