Nancy Gantt, M.D., has been appointed interim chair of the Department of Surgery. As a clinical department chair, Dr. Gantt will provide oversight for faculty appointments, promotions, and evaluations for surgery clinical faculty. She is actively involved in mentoring NEOMED students serving as the Surgery Interest Group Advisor, Association of Women Surgeons medical student chapter advisor, and the M4 surgical specialty advisor.

Dr. Gantt is a general surgeon and co-director of the Joanie Abdu Comprehensive Breast Care Center at Bon Secours Mercy Health in Youngstown. She is a professor of surgery and has served as both an M3 surgery clerkship site director and the overall M3 curriculum director for surgery.

Dr. Gantt is a graduate of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and completed her general surgery residency at the University of Pittsburgh.