Duane D. H. Pitt

Duane D.H. Pitt started his professional education at the University of California at Riverside where he obtained a Bachelors Degree in Biology. This was followed by Medical School at the University of California at Irvine School of Medicine completing his MD Degree in 1994. His general surgery internship followed by an orthopedic surgery residency focused on scoliosis, trauma, deformity, cancer, pediatric and adult spine disorders, at Loma Linda University Medical Center in southern California. He later accepted and completed a post doctorate Spine Fellowship at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where the focus was in spine deformity reconstruction, minimally invasive spinal surgery, and professional athlete sports related spinal injuries.

Education & Medical Training

• Postdoctoral Fellowship in Spine Surgery
  University of Southern California, University Hospital
• Postdoctoral Training in Orthopaedic Surgery
  Loma Linda University Medical Center
• Postdoctoral Training in General Surgery
  Loma Linda University Medical Center
• Medical Doctorate Degree
  University of California Irvine College of Medicine

Dr. Pitt has served as an Aerospace Medicine Flight Surgeon in the United States Air Force Air National Guard and retired as a Lietenant Colonel. He served in support of combat search and rescue for the 129th Medical Group at Moffett Federal Airfield. During his military career, he served as Chairman of the Occupational Health Working Group, Chief of Professional Services (Chief of Staff), Medical Group Comander, and Chief of Aerospace Medicine.

International Surgical Foundation is a non-profit charity founded out of a need to provide to the impoverished populations of the Caribbean and Central America, the very best in surgical treatment of all spine disorders. ISF was founded by Dr. Pitt and is the collaboration of many dedicated professionals, who witness first hand the extreme poverty resulting in profound neglect of many spine related problems. This has left many suffering from major neurologic disorders which could have been prevented with proper clinical and or surgical management. In Sept 2010, Dr. Pitt and 6 members of his surgical team from Scottsdale Health Care was invited as the first spine team to support the Surgical Humanitarian Mission co-sponsored by Fundación HOMS Santiago, Dominican Republic. Dominican Republic shares the same land mass with Haiti. There are many countries all over the world who’s poverty dictates access to medical care, leaving in its wake many of their citizens profoundly disabled, and unable to provide for themselves or their families. Dr. Pitt and ISF’s long term goal is to expand its operation to other countries within the Caribbean and Central America.