Pediatric Surgery Training Programs

Last updated: 31/10/2024

Program web page URL: https://cumming.ucalgary.ca/departments/surgery/sections/pediatric-surgery/education

The University of Calgary Pediatric Surgery Fellowship Program welcomes well-rounded candidates who wish to become experts and leaders in our field worldwide. The program will provide the clinical exposure required to be facile in the evaluation and management of the full breadth of neonatal and pediatric general surgical conditions. In accordance with the objectives of training outlined by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, trainees will achieve competence as medical experts, communicators, collaborators, managers, health advocates, scholars, and professionals. Candidates will be well supported and mentored to achieve their personal and career goals.

Strengths: Faculty from a variety of training backgrounds, with expertise and leadership positions in quality/patient safety, basic sciences research, clinical/translational/outcomes research, and education.  Lack of residents and Fellows in other pediatric surgical training programs provides ample opportunity to participate in ENT and Urology cases.  Strong partnerships with other care providers across disciplines and specialties.  The ECMO program is one-of-a-kind, where cannulation is completed on site, but the patient is then transferred for the run to be completed at Stollery Children’s Hospital.

Weaknesses: Global health experience not included in current curriculum.  Pediatric cardiac surgery care exclusively at Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton.

Institution Information

Alberta Children’s Hospital
Calgary, AB Canada

Number of beds: 141

Percentage of time at this location: 100%

Training site type: Free standing children’s hospital

The current Alberta Children’s Hospital (ACH) opened in 2006, and is the largest children’s hospital in the Canadian Prairies. Its catchment area includes Southern Alberta and extends to southeastern British Columbia and southwestern Saskatchewan. It is an accredited level 1 pediatric trauma centre, and also has a rescue ECLS program. ACH program development has led to the realization of specialized teams and multidisciplinary clinics which care for intestinal rehabilitation, congenital diaphragmatic hernia, esophageal atresia/tracheoesophageal atresia, oncology, and pediatric complex care patients. The general surgery service performs ~1300-1500 cases per year, and the full department performs in excess of 10,000 cases per year across the breadth of pediatric subspecialties.

The Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute has over 150 members, and offers many funding opportunities to support innovation and advancement of pediatric care. Alberta Children’s Hospital is much beloved and championed by the local community, as evidenced by the annual Caring for Kids Radiothon fundraiser, which in 2019 raised a record-breaking total of $6.6 million.

Faculty Information

Program Director: Andrea Lo

Program Administrator: Bibiana Silva
[email protected]
403-955-2271

Faculty:
P. Paul Beaudry, MD, MSc, FRCSC
Mary Brindle, MD, MPH, FRCSC

Oluwatomilayo (Tito) Daodu, MD, FRCSC

Andrea Lo, MD, FRCSC

Steven Lopushinsky, MD, MSc, FRCSC
Natalie Yanchar, MD, MSc, FRCSC

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: one per year

The University of Calgary participates in the NRMP Match q2y, alternating with a nonMatch trainee.

Current fellow(s):
Robin Wigen

Catalina Ceballos

Previous 5 fellows:
Abdullah Alenazi
2024
Prince Mohammed Medical City
Al Jouf, Saudi Arabia

Brittany Hasty
2024
University of California San Francisco
Oakland, CA

William Hammond
2022
Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center
Idaho Falls, ID

Mercedes Pilkington
2021
Pediatric Surgeon, The Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto, Ontario

Oluwatomilayo (Tito) Daodu
2020
Pediatric Surgeon, Alberta Children’s Hospital
Calgary, Alberta

Curriculum Information

Block schedule

1^st year off-service blocks in NICU and PICU

Call Schedule
1st year: home call no more than q4
2nd year: home call no more than q4

Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Continued Accreditation

Meeting/Training Course policy:

1^st year Fellow attends Transition to Fellowship (Boot Camp), PALS, and APSA

2^nd year Fellow attends CAPS, and Transition to Practice course

Each Fellow will also attend the St. Jude’s Oncology course, and one of the Colorectal courses, once each during their training.

The above-named courses/meetings will be reimbursed by the program.  Additional courses/meetings appropriate to the trainee’s clinical and academic interests are considered.

Financial support for candidate interviews: No

Average total number of cases performed by graduating fellows over the past 5 years: 1030

Board passage rate (3 years): 100%

Fellow salary:

PGY 6 $93 674 CAD, PGY 7 $100 722 CAD, additional call stipend (current as of July 1, 2024).

Last updated: December 2023

Program website: https://www.surgery.northwestern.edu/divisions/pediatric/index.html

Institution Information

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Chicago, IL United States

Number of beds: 360

Percentage of time at this location: 100%

Training site type: Free standing children’s hospital

In the 2020-21 U.S. News & World Report rankings of the Best Children’s Hospitals, Lurie Children’s continues to be the top hospital in Illinois, ranking in all 10 specialties. Lurie Children’s was named a level 1 pediatric surgery center by the American College of Surgeons (ACS), becoming the first children’s hospital in Illinois to earn this status.

Research at Lurie Children’s is conducted through Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute. We focus on improving child health, transforming pediatric medicine and ensuring healthier futures. In partnership with Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, our scientists work in labs, in clinics, at the patient bedside and in the community to unravel the root causes of pediatric and adolescent disease, to understand childhood injury and to find factors that precipitate health problems in childhood and over a lifetime. Our researchers work every day to develop new therapies and prevention strategies.

More than 220,000 children receive the highest-quality medical care at Lurie Children’s each year.

Faculty Information

Program Director: Seth Goldstein, MD, MPhil

Program Coordinator: Chris Peltier
[email protected]
312-227-4734

Faculty:
Amir Alhajjat, MD
Guillermo Ares, MD

Anthony C. Chin, MD
Alexander Dzakovic, MD
Julia Grabowski, MD
Seth Goldstein, MD
Yue-Yung Hu, MD
Rashmi Kabre, MD
Monica Langer, MD
Timothy Lautz, MD
Caroline Lemoine, MD
Mehul Raval, MD

Erin E. Rowell, MD
Aimen F. Shaaban, MD
Riccardo Superina, MD

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: one per year

Current fellow(s):
Courtney Harris, MD

David Grabski, MD

Previous 5 fellows:
Guillermo Ares, MD

Samantha Ahle, MD

Nathaniel Koo, MD
Elliott Pennington, MD
Chethan Sathya, MD

Curriculum Information

Block Schedule:

Program Year 1: 1 month in NICU & 1 month in PICU, rest of time spent with Pediatric Surgery

Program Year 2: Solely spent with Pediatric Surgery

Call Schedule: Split home call

Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Continued Accreditation

Meeting/Training Course policy: Standard courses, with opportunity to individualize as needed

Financial support for candidate interviews: No

Average total number of cases performed by graduating fellows over the past 5 years: 1200

Board passage rate (3 years): N/A

Fellow salary: N/A

Last updated: December 2024

Program website: https://medicine.uams.edu/surgery/fellowships/pediatric-surgery/

As the only free-standing tertiary children’s hospital in the state, ACH provides fellows with the broad-based clinical experiences necessary to practice pediatric surgery independently in a variety of settings. These experiences occur in both the inpatient and outpatient settings exclusively on the ACH campus in Little Rock. Furthermore, trainees achieve this goal in an educational learning environment second to none. Our faculty are close-knit and share a common commitment to the fellows’ acquisition of medical knowledge and continual lifelong learning. ACH has also been verified as both a Level 1 Children’s Surgery center and a Level 1 Children’s Trauma center by the ACS. As such, fellows will develop and actively participate in quality initiatives in a setting emphasizing teamwork.

Institution Information

Arkansas Children’s Hospital
Little Rock, AR United States

Number of beds: 336

Percentage of time at this location: 100%

Training site type: Free standing children’s hospital

ACH is the only free-standing tertiary children’s hospital in Arkansas. The ACH campus spans 36 city blocks and is currently licensed for 336 beds. ACH has the only pediatric ICU in the state with 26 beds, cardiovascular ICU with 30 beds and the only Level IV NICU that is licensed for 104 beds. ACH offers outpatient, inpatient, perioperative, full diagnostic and therapeutic services for patients from micro-preemies to select adults with pediatric medical issues. Arkansas Children’s Hospital offers the only mobile ECMO and pediatric ECMO in the state of Arkansas. ACH has a staff of approximately 505 physicians, and over 200 residents in pediatrics and pediatric surgery. Additionally, the pediatric surgical service performs approximately 2,400 cases yearly.

Faculty Information

Program Director

Deidre Wyrick, MD

Assistant Program Director (if applicable)

Lindsey Wolf, MD

Program manager and email

Jill Hare 501.364.3962

[email protected]

Faculty:
Jeff Burford, MD
Sid Dassinger, MD
Richard Jackson, MD
Todd Maxson, MD
Deidre Wyrick, MD
Lindsey Wolf, MD
Robert Vandewalle, MD

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: one per year

Current fellow(s):
Martha-Conley Ingram, MD
Greg Keefe, MD

Previous 5 fellows:

Elise McKenna, MD PhD

2023

Assistant Professor, New York University

New York, NY

Patrick Bonasso, MD
2022
Assistant Professor of Surgery, West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV

Lori Gurien, MD MPH
2021
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Nemours Children’s Health System
Jacksonville, FL

Mikki Kollisch-Singule MD
2020
Assistant Professor of Surgery, SUNY Upstate
Syracuse, NY

Deidre Wyrick, MD
2019
Assistant Professor of Surgery, UAMS
Little Rock, AR

Curriculum Information

Call Schedule
1st year: Q4
2nd year: Q4

Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Continued Accreditation

Meeting/Training Course policy: We pay for Transition to Fellowship bootcamp, Pectus course, St. Jude course, MIS course, Colorectal course, APSA meeting, AAP meeting plus any additional meetings if fellow presenting own work.

Financial support for candidate interviews: Yes

Average total number of cases performed by graduating fellows over the past 5 years: N/A

Board passage rate (3 years): 100%

Fellow salary: $67,287

Last updated: 09/14/2021

Program website: https://www.bcm.edu/departments/surgery/divisions/pediatric-surgery/education/pediatric-surgery-residency

The Pediatric Surgery Residency Program at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital is one of the top Pediatric Surgery Residency programs in the nation. The Pediatric Surgery Residency Program has continual full accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. The program accepts one resident per year. Applicants must have completed a five-year Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) General Surgery Residency Program and be board-eligible in general surgery.

This two-year residency is primarily at Texas Children’s Hospital, the largest children’s hospital in the nation. Residents are exposed to a broad array of surgical cases and work closely with residents in pediatric medicine in the care of sick infants and children.

The first year includes up to two months of elective time, which may be tailored to the trainee’s special interests and career goals. In addition, the resident spends one month in the neonatal intensive care unit. During the remainder of the year, he or she has senior responsibilities at Texas Children’s Hospital. The second year is spent as chief resident of the program.

The program strives to graduate residents who excel as practitioners of pediatric surgery and become top leaders in the field, whether in academics or the private sector.

Strengths  

• The large clinical volume of index cases allows the fellow to focus on those cases which interest them
• Diverse faculty with variety of experience and interests
• Yearly mock oral exam course provided for current fellows and graduated fellows;
• Dedicated programs in Colorectal, Thyroid, Fetal, Surgical Oncology, and Chest Wall Deformities – none of these programs have fellows of their own to limit experience of the pediatric surgery fellow.

Weaknesses

• Strong Pedi GYN and ENT divisions may limit exposure in these areas, although electives can be arranged
• Fellows not involved in transplant cases.

Faculty Information

Program Director: Mark V. Mazziotti, MD, MEd

Associate Program Director: Jed G. Nuchtern, MD and Kristy Rialon, MD

Program manager: Maelene Phillips
(713) 798-6078
Fax: (713) 798-8941
[email protected]

Faculty:
Sundeep Keswani, MD — Professor and Division Chief
Swathi Balaji, PhD — Assistant Professor
Lily Cheng, MD – Assistant Professor
Alice King, MD — Assistant Professor
Louis Le, MD — Assistant Professor
Timothy C. Lee, MD — Associate Professor
Mark V. Mazziotti, MD, MEd — Professor
Allen Milewicz, MD — Associate Professor
Paul K. Minifee, MD — Associate Professor
Jed G. Nuchtern, MD — Professor
Kristy L. Rialon, MD — Assistant Professor
Ruben Rodriguez, MD, MMSC — Assistant Professor
Sohail R. Shah, MD, MSHA — Associate Professor
Yan Shi, MD – Assistant Professor
Shawn Stafford, MD — Assistant Professor
Adam Vogel, MD — Associate Professor
David Wesson, MD — Professor, retired
Sanjeev A. Vasudevan, MD — Associate Professor

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: one per year

Current fellow(s):
Ross Beckman, MD (1^st year fellow)
Ekene Onwuka, MD (2^nd year fellow)

Previous 5 fellows:
Lily Cheng, MD
2019-2021
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Baylor College of Medicine

Raphael Sun, MD
2018-2020
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Co-Director of Fetal Surgery
Oregon Health & Science University

Ihab Halaweish, MD
2017-2019
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Sara C. Fallon, MD
2016-2018
HCA Healthcare
Houston, TX

Danielle M. Hsu, MD
2015-2017
Assistant Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics
University of Texas

Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Continued Accreditation

Meeting/Training Course policy: Pays for Colorectal Course, Oncology course (St. Jude’s), APSA (first year fellow), AAP Section on Surgery (second year fellow); ECMO Course at UT; Pediatric Surgery Boot Camp (prior to fellowship).

Financial support for candidate interviews: Yes

Average total number of cases performed by graduating fellows over the past 5 years: 1,228

Board passage rate (3 years): 100%

Fellow salary: (2019-2020) PGY6: $69,947; PGY7: $72,306; PGY8: $74,114

Last updated: January 2024

Program website: https://surgery.med.ubc.ca/divisions/pediatric-surgery/

Pediatric surgery fellows are ultimately responsible for the supervision of the pediatric surgical service, including inpatient and outpatient consultations, pre- and post-operative care, as well as operative procedures. They will learn the full breadth of pediatric surgery, and are expected to be ambassadors for our division throughout the hospital and wider community. As such, successful candidates for pediatric surgery fellowship must have a demonstrable track record of interest in the field of pediatric surgery, exemplary communication and leadership skills and a commitment to patient/family-centered care.

The pediatric surgery program at the BC Children’s Hospital is responsible for all tertiary/quaternary level surgical care for children in the province of British Columbia, with an enormous geographical catchment area and a population served approaching 5 million people. As such, we see the full spectrum of congenital, oncologic and pediatric trauma populations, with many routine pediatric procedures (onychectomy, appendectomy, etc…) performed at outside facilities. We take particular pride in servicing our northern, remote and Indigenous communities in a culturally contextualized manner. We also dedicate considerable energy and resources to ensuring a rigorous academic curriculum nested within the educational framework of both the Royal College of Canada as well as the American College of Surgeons (ACS). Our median case volumes remain well within the standards of the ACS, and electives in other surgical subspecialties as well as an international experience are available depending on individual trainee interests and career aspirations.

Institution Information

Training Site #1

BC Children’s Hospital, free-standing children’s hospital, with attached obstetrical center (BC Women’s)
4500 Oak St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3N1

Faculty Information

Program Director: Robert Baird, MD
[email protected] 

Associate Program Director:

Program manager: Shania Linggon
[email protected]

Faculty:
Eric Webber MD
Erik Skarsgard MD
Sonia Butterworth MD
Hannah Piper MD (Division Head)
Shahrzad Joharifard MD

Fellow Information

Number of fellows:
One fellow per year (Matched fellows every other year)

Current fellow(s):
Moses Kasumba
Amanda Phares (Chief)

Previous 5 fellows: 

AlReem Al-Hinai
2023
RBC Rainbow Babies & Childrens

Martina Mudri
2022
Victoria General Hospital, VIHA

AlGhalya AlMaawali
2021
Sultan Qaboos University

Arash Safavi
2020
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles

Anne Shikanda
2019
Norvik Hospital, Uganda

Curriculum Information

Mandatory NICU/PICU rotation in y1; electives available

12 months consecutive PSx in y2

Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Fully Accredited by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 2020 (next accreditation in 2026)

Meeting/Training Course policy:

Financial support for candidate interviews: No

Average total number of cases performed by graduating fellows over the past 5 years: 1000

Board passage rate (3 years): 100%

Fellow salary: https://www.carms.ca/match/r-1-main-residency-match/salary/#1511459599452-6c7d2a84-0f83

Last updated: 1/11/2023

Program website: https://www.childrenshospital.org/departments/surgery/education/pediatric-surgery-fellowship

Boston Children’s Hospital has a long and rich tradition of training the leaders in pediatric surgery. Our fellowship is the crown jewel of a Department steeped in history as the birthplace of pediatric surgery and yet dedicated to pushing our field forward as a leader in education, innovation, research and clinical care. The fellowship is a two-year clinical training program for which we have three ACGME approved positions. One resident is selected to begin training on odd years and two residents to begin training on even years through the National Resident Matching Program administered by the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS). The applicant must have completed a general surgical training program by the time of program matriculation and be eligible to take the qualifying examination in general surgery given by the American Board of Surgery or the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada.

Our fellowship offers exposure to a large volume of ‘bread and butter’ as well as complex cases with liberal use of minimally invasive techniques. Operative experience includes thoracic, abdominal, urologic, oncologic, vascular, endoscopic and transplant surgery. The Fellows’ clinic (Index Clinic) offers residents the opportunity to regularly participate in outpatient evaluation and postoperative follow-up of pediatric surgical diseases.

The program is structured to offer residents a total of 16 months of their 24 month tenure as the chief on one of our two services, working closely with our surgical faculty and their co-fellows in all aspects of patient management on the surgical floors, ICU and NICU. A staff of over 18 pediatric nurse practitioners provide the chief residents with experienced and reliable care of all surgical inpatients 24 hours per day and 7 nights per week. In addition, one of the chief residents functions as the administrative chief resident, helping to organize the operating room schedule, large surgical resident and medical student contingent and a robust educational conference schedule. Administrative staff within the Department help the chief residents with these tasks.

A very close working relationship exists between the surgical faculty and the pediatric surgery residents. In addition to primary surgeons coordinating care of patients with the fellows, a staff surgeon is assigned as the “Surgeon of the Day” for acute consults and another staff surgeon as “Surgeon of the Week” to help care for the inpatient services and serve as sounding boards for the fellows as they make patient care decisions.

In the ICU and NICU, the chief residents collaborate with critical care and neonatology staff to direct the multidisciplinary care of these patients. The general surgery census averages 40-70 inpatients per day.

Institution Information

Boston Children’s Hospital
Boston, MA United States

Number of beds: 477

Percentage of time at this location: 100%

Training site type: Free standing children’s hospital

Boston Children’s Hospital is ranked the number one pediatric hospital in the nation by U.S. News and World Reports. It is home to the world’s largest pediatric research enterprise, and it is the leading recipient of pediatric research funding from the National Institutes of Health. It is the primary pediatric teaching hospital for Harvard Medical School. Boston Children’s Hospital has more than 40 clinical departments and 258 specialized clinical programs. Boston Children’s Hospital has approximately 25,000 inpatient admissions each year and the hospital performed more than 26,500 surgical procedures last year.
http://www.childrenshospital.org/

Faculty Information

Program Director: Biren P Modi, MD, MPH

Associate Program Director: Brent Weil, MD, MPH; Prathima Nandivada, MD

Program manager: Katherine Bryer
[email protected]
617-919-2469

Faculty:
Terry Buchmiller, MD
Catherine Chen, MD, MPH
Alex Cuenca, MD, PhD
Belinda Dickie, MD, PhD
Farokh Demehri, MD
Steven Fishman, MD
Tom Jaksic, MD, PhD
Heung Bae Kim, MD
Eliza Lee, MD
Craig Lillehei, MD
Biren Modi, MD, MPH
Somala Mohammed, MD, MPH
David Mooney, MD, MPH
Prathima Nandivada, MD
Konstantinos Papadakis, MD
Mark Puder, MD, PhD
Shawn Rangel, MD
Robert Shamberger, MD
Khashayar Vakili, MD
Brent Weil, MD, MPH
Christopher Weldon, MD, PhD
Jill Zalieckas, MD, MPH
Ben Zendejas-Mummert, MD

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: other

Current fellow(s):
Woo Do, MD
Patrick Delaplain, MD
Arin Madenci, MD, MPH

Previous 5 fellows:
2022
Danielle Cameron, MD, MPH
Pediatric Surgeon, Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA

Jamie Robinson, MD, PhD
Pediatric Surgeon, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbuilt
Nashville, TN

Hester Shieh, MD
2021
Pediatric Surgeon, John Hopkins All Children’s Hospital
St Petersburg, FL

Somala Mohammed, MD, MPH
2020
Assistant in Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Prathima Nandivada, MD
2020
Assistant in Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Farokh Demehri, MD
2019
Assistant in Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Curriculum Information

Block Schedule
The Pediatric General Surgery Service is divided into two separate teams, the Gross and Ladd Services, in order to group patients/surgeons according to their primary disease process (e.g. Short Bowel Syndrome, Transplant, Oncology, Esophageal Atresia, Colorectal, etc.). There is one pediatric surgery fellow assigned as the chief of each service.

Call Schedule
The pediatric surgery fellows take in-house call only on Fridays, as a “pre-attending” with a faculty backup. Otherwise, they take only home call, which does count toward the 80 hour work week limit. In general, the fellows take home call Q3 and work every third weekend. The pediatric surgery fellows have two weeks of vacation each year per ACGME guidelines.

Conference Schedule
The Department provides a number of didactic teaching programs: Advanced Fetal Care Conference, Fellows Index Clinic, Didactic Lecture Series, Combined Gastroenterology/Surgery Conference, Morbidity and Mortality Conference, Oncology Radiology Conference, Professor Rounds, Combined Radiology/Surgery Conference, Surgical Grand Rounds, Trauma Conference, Vascular Anomalies Conference, and Indications Case Conference.

Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Continued Accreditation

Meeting/Training Course policy: Financial support for attendance at APSA, AAP, as well as specialty courses such as MIS, Oncology and Colorectal.

Financial support for candidate interviews: Yes

Average total number of cases performed by graduating fellows over the past 5 years: 1,160

Board passage rate (3 years): 100%

Fellow salary: $120,000 per year

Last updated: December 2024

Program Website - https://med.brown.edu/pedisurg/index.html

Overview of Fellowship

The fellowship program at Brown University was first accredited in 1995 shortly after the opening of the new Hasbro Children’s.  Its previous fellows have had a growing impact on the field of pediatric surgery through their roles as Division Directors, NIH (KO8 and R01)-funded clinician scientists, fetal surgery program directors, trauma program directors and missionary pediatric surgeons.  The Fellowship Program aims to train excellent clinicians who are future leaders of their field.  Hasbro Children’s Hospital, in conjunction with the neighboring 75 bed NICU at Women and Infant’s Hospital, serves a diverse patient population. The setting of Providence, RI provides an energetic and culturally rich background for fellows as they complete their two years of training.

Institution Information

Training site #1:

Name: Hasbro Children’s Hospital

#beds: 85 

Percentage of time at this location: 90%

Children’s hospital within an Adult hospital

Brief description of other hospital information

5000 operations/year
50,000 ER visits/year

Programs:

Fetal Surgery Program
Adolescent Bariatric Surgery Program
Vascular Anomalies Program
Multidisciplinary Bowel Rehabilitation Program
Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center
Level 1 Burn Center
Pediatric ECMO Program
Pediatric Renal Transplant Program
Founding member of NAFNet

Training Site #2:

Name: Women and Infants Hospital 

#beds: 75 

Percentage of time at this location: 10%

Brief description of other hospital information

Member of NICHD, MFMU, and Neonatal Research Network

Faculty Information

Program Director:

Elizabeth Renaud, MD

Assistant Program Director (if applicable):

Julie Monteagudo, MD

Program manager and email:

Bridget Glazier
[email protected]
phone 401-444-3717
fax 401-444-6681

List of Faculty and titles

Francois Luks, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Division Chief, Surgeon in Chief, Hasbro Children’s Hospital

Elizabeth J. Renaud, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics
Pediatric Trauma Medical Director

Julie Monteagudo, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics
Director of Pediatric ECMO

Samantha Ahle, MD, MHS

Assistant Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics

Surgical Residency Program Associate Program Director

Artur Chernoguz, MD, FACS

Assistant Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics

Carl-Christian Jackson, MD, FACS, FAAP

Associates Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics

Fellow Information

Number of fellows:

One every other year

Current fellow(s) names:

Alejandra Casar-Berazaluce, MD

List of previous 5 fellows: name, grad year, current position

Melissa Vanover, MD, 2023. Sutter Medical Foundation- Sutter Medical Group, Sacramento, CA

Inna Lobeck, MD, 2021. American Family Children’s Hospital/University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Julie Monteagudo, MD, 2019.  Hasbro Children’s Hospital/Brown University, Providence, RI

Alexis Smith, MD, 2017. Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite Hospital, Atlanta, GA

Joseph Hartwich, MD, 2015.  Inova Children’s Hospital, Fairfax, VA.

Call schedule

1^st Year – Home call, Q2 with APP coverage

2^nd Year – Home Call, Q2 with APP coverage

Conference Schedule

Tuesday 7 am Surgery Grand Rounds

Wednesday

7 am alternating weeks: Department of Surgery Morbidity and Mortality Conference, Pediatric Surgery M&M

7:45 am Perinatal Management Conference

8 am alternating weeks: Pediatric Surgery Conferences, Tumor Board

Friday 12 PM M.A.D.A.M Conference

Program Information  

RRC accreditation status:  Continued Accreditation

Initial Accreditation:  June 29, 1995

Continued Accreditation: January 7, 2021

Meeting/Training Course policy

Pays for APSA meeting first year, APP meeting second year, St. Jude Course, and Fellowship Bootcamp.  Will also cover any additional meeting if fellow is presenting his/her own work.

Does the program provide financial support for candidate interviews?

No

Optional information

What is the average total number of cases performed by your graduating fellows over the past five years?

Board Passage rate (last ten years)

100%

Fellow Salary

First Year: $85,473.15

Second Year: $ 93,026.85

Last updated: December 2024

Program website: https://www.chla.org/fellowship/pediatric-surgery-fellowship

Children's Hospital Los Angeles offers a comprehensive two-year residency (fellowship) training program in pediatric surgery. This fellowship program, designed for residents who have completed their training and are Board-eligible in general surgery, is accredited by the Residency Review Committee (RRC) of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

The Division of Pediatric Surgery participates in the National Intern and Resident Matching Plan and chooses one fellow each year for the program.

Our fellowship offers a great breadth of cases. Operative cases include extensive experience with neonatal surgery, anorectal malformations, pediatric surgical oncology, hepatobiliary and thoracic surgery. In the first year, junior fellows gain experience in general pediatric surgery, trauma, neonatology and intensive care of older children, pediatric otolaryngology, and urology. They gradually assume a greater role in patient management and administrative duties in the final two months of the year. In the second year, senior fellows participate in virtually all newborn surgery, tumor surgery and non-cardiothoracic surgery while on service and have administrative responsibilities for weekly conferences.

There are weekly lectures led by Pediatric Surgery faculty as well as other faculty members from other specialties such as pediatric oncology, neonatology and pediatric anesthesiology. Each weekly lecture is followed by rounds in the Newborn and Infant Critical Care Unit (NICCU), where fellows, residents and medical students review complex neonatal surgical patients and discuss challenging scenarios to simulate the pediatric surgery boards. Pediatric Surgery and NICCU faculty members lead the rounds.    Attendance at outpatient clinics one half-day a week is required, and a monthly clinic devoted to long-term patient-care follow-up is mandatory throughout the two-year fellowship. Residents can attend specialty clinics such as Vascular Anomalies Clinic, Colorectal Clinic, Trauma Clinic and Aerodigestive Clinic.

At our facility, fellows will have access to the knowledge and expertise of 7 (subject to change) pediatric surgeons who have different backgrounds, teaching methods and interests. Fellows will also be mentored on becoming a successful surgeon in academic medicine.

During the fellowship, the senior fellow is expected to complete the American Board of Surgery qualifying and certification exams in general surgery. Upon completion of the fellowship program, the graduating fellow will be eligible to take the Board exam in pediatric surgery.

Institution Information

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA United States

Number of beds: 413

Percentage of time at this location: 100%

Training site type: Free standing children’s hospital

>17K Discharges/year
>17K surgeries/year

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is one of the nation’s leading pediatric hospitals. True to our mission, we have been creating hope and building healthier futures since 1901. Our medical experts offer more than 350 pediatric specialty programs and services to meet the needs of our patients. Our comprehensive approach ensures that each child is cared for, regardless of circumstances, and makes care as accessible and convenient as possible. We believe every child deserves a healthier future and access to the best care possible is central to this belief. That is why we make our expertise available to children across the globe and why we train the next generation of pediatric specialists.

Our hospital has been ranked as a top health care facility for children by U.S. News & World Report magazine every year since the magazine began ranking pediatric hospitals in 1990. In U.S. News & World Report's most recent rankings, we were ranked the No. 1 hospital in California for caring for children.

The Department of Surgery brings together specialized pediatric knowledge, dedication to excellence and family-centered care in one of the country’s finest, most comprehensive pediatric surgical programs, comprising a full spectrum of surgical specialties. We perform over 15,400 surgical procedures annually for children ranging in age from newborns to adolescents, unlike practices where practice are routinely performed for adults and these approaches are simply adjusted to fit a child. Patients ranging in age from newborns to adolescents are treated in the hospital’s spacious, state-of-the-art Burtie Green Bettingen Surgery Center, which opened in 2001. Our surgeons conduct research and maintain academic affiliations with the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California.

Faculty Information

Program Director: Christopher Gayer, MD, PhD

Associate Program Director: Donald J. Lucas, Jr., MD, MPH, FACS

Program manager:
Monica Del Rio
[email protected]
(323) 361-7097

Faculty:
Dean Anselmo, MD, FACS, FAAP

Christopher Gayer, MD, PhD, FACS, FAAP

Lorraine Kelley-Quon, MD, MSHS, FACS, FAAP

Aimee Kim, MD

Donald Lucas, Jr., MD, MPH, FACS

Nam Nguyen, MD, FACS, FAAP

Arash Safavi, MD, MHSC, FRCSC, FACS, FAAP

Cathy Shin, MD, FACS< FAAP

Ryan Spurrier, MD, FACS

James Stein, MD, MSc, FACS, FAAP

Michael Zobel, MD

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: two, one per year

Current fellow(s):
Kasiemobi (Kasi) Pulliam, MD

Celia Short, MD

Previous 5 fellows:
Michael Zobel, MD

2024

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA

Lauren Baumann, MD, MHS

2023

Intermountain Health Primary Children’s Hospital

Salt Lake City, UT

Gillian Fell, MD, PhD

2022

Stanford Children’s Health, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford

Palo Alto, CA

David Darcy, MD

2021

Golisano Children’s Hospital

Rochester, NY

Willieford Moses, MD

2020

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital

Oakland, CA

Curriculum Information

Call Schedule
1st Year – home

Q2 weekdays

Other – every other weekend

2nd Year – home

Q2 weekdays

Other – every other weekend

Conference Schedule
Weekly: Joint Service M&M Conferences, Thursday Lecture Core Series, NICU Teaching rounds
Monthly: Trauma M&M Conference, Surgical Simulation Workshops
Biannually: Surgical Grand Rounds at USC Keck School of Medicine

Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Continued Accreditation

Meeting/Training Course policy: Junior fellow attends the transition to the Fellowship Bootcamp, APSA conference and the ACGME Leadership Conference. Second year fellow attends the following conference/courses: AAP, Colorectal, Oncology

Financial support for candidate interviews: Yes

Average total number of cases performed by graduating fellows over the past 5 years: 1222

Board passage rate (3 years): 100%

Fellow salary: According to Post Graduate Year

Last updated: 1/11/2023

Program website: https://www.childrensdmc.org/our-services/surgery/meet-the-surgeons

We are interested in candidates who wish to a have a broad scope of experiences in the care or surgical diseases of infants and children with faculty who are committed to their education. Our strengths are in the surgical management of the patients at all levels including having the NICU and PICU surgical patients on our surgical service with our service managing all these patients. We have a robust trauma and burn program. We have an ECMO service which we run. We have a Intestinal Rehabilitation Program. Although we do some clinical research our strength is the clinical experience from the common to the rare diseases of children. https://www.childrensdmc.org/our-services/surgery/meet-the-surgeons.

Faculty Information

Program Director: Scott Langenburg, MD, FACS, FAAP

Associate Program Director: Justin Klein, MD, FACS, FAAP

Program manager: Christine Klimek
[email protected]
313-831-3220

Faculty:
Joseph Lelli, MD — Surgeon-In-Chief
Christina Shanti, MD — Chief of General Surgery
Lydia Donoghue, MD — Trauma Medical Director
Justin Klein, MD — Burn Medical Director
Michelle Veenstra, MD — ECMO Director

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: one per year

Current fellow(s):
Andrew Nordin, MD
Christopher Marenco, MD

Previous 5 fellows:
John Wiersch, MD
Colorado Children’s Hospital

Brenna Fullerton, MD
Orlando Children’s Hospital

Paulette Abbas, MD
Texas Children’s Hospital Dallas

Iljana Gaffar, MD
Northwell Health and King’s County, New York

Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Continued Accreditation

Meeting/Training Course policy: Yes

Financial support for candidate interviews: Yes

Average total number of cases performed by graduating fellows over the past 5 years: N/A

Board passage rate (3 years): 100%

Fellow salary: $60,000/year

Last updated: November 2024

Program website: https://www.chop.edu/pediatric-fellowships/pediatric-general-surgery-fellowship

The training program for the Louise Schnaufer Endowed Fellowship in Pediatric Surgery is two years in duration beginning August 1 of each year. All training occurs at a single site, the Main Campus of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The fellow’s primary training will take place within the Division of Pediatric General, Thoracic and Fetal Surgery. This is a “fellow-centered” clinical service that demands efficiency, ownership, and constant reflection-in-action to build proficiency. The educational program in pediatric surgery includes operating room experience, bedside clinical teaching, and an active conference routine.

Institution Information

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Percentage of time at this location: 100%

Training site type: Free standing children’s hospital

Faculty Information

Program Director: Joy Collins, MD

Associate Program Director: Myron Allukian, MD

Program manager: Kelsey Murray
[email protected]
215-590-5294

Faculty:
Scott Adzick, MD – Surgeon-in-Chief
Joy Collins, MD –Program Director
Myron Allukian, MD – Associate Program Director
Michael Nance, MD – Division Chief
Gary Nace, MD – Attending Surgeon
Alan Flake, MD – Attending Surgeon
Holly Hedrick, MD – Attending Surgeon
Pablo Laje, MD – Attending Surgeon
Peter Mattei, MD – Attending Surgeon
William Peranteau, MD – Attending Surgeon
Emily Partridge, MD – Attending Surgeon
Duy Dao, MD – Attending Surgeon

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: other

Current fellow(s):
Matthew Goldshore, MD
Emily Onufer, MD
Clara Nicolás Martínez, MD

Previous 5 fellows:
Duy Dao,  MD
2024

Patrick McGovern, MD
2023

John Stratigis, MD
2023

Avery Rossidis, MD
2022

Dana Schwartz, MD
2021

Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Initial accreditation

Meeting/Training Course policy: yes

Financial support for candidate interviews: No

Average total number of cases performed by graduating fellows over the past 5 years: N/A

Board passage rate (3 years): N/A

Fellow salary: N/A

Last updated: September 2023

Program website: https://childrensnational.org/research-and-education/healthcare-education/residencies-and-fellowships/fellowship-programs/surgery

Our program seeks highly skilled, dedicated and motivated individuals who are committed to providing the best possible care to patients and their families. The fellows in our program will receive extensive experience and training in the surgery of congenital malformations, oncology, minimally invasive procedures, colorectal and pelvic reconstruction and complex pediatric cases. They manage patients on the pediatric surgery service along with an attending physician.

Institution Information

Children’s National Hospital
Washington, DC United States

Number of beds: 323

Percentage of time at this location: 100%

Training site type: Free standing children’s hospital

Faculty Information

Program Director: Mikael Petrosyan, MD, MBA

Associate Program Director:

Program manager: Yvette Dill
[email protected]
202-476-2151

Faculty:
Anthony D. Sandler, MD – Surgeon-In-Chief and Senior Vice President, Division of General and Thoracic Surgery, Director, Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgery Innovation
Timothy D. Kane, MD – Chief, Division of General and Thoracic Surgery
Mikael Petrosyan, MD – Associate Chief, Division of General and Thoracic Surgery, Director, Surgical Residency Training Program

Marc A. Levitt, MD – Chief, Colorectal and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery
Andrea Badillo, MD – Surgical Director, Fetal Medicine Institute
Randall S. Burd, MD – Chief, Division of Trauma and Burn Services
Arunachalam Thenappan, MD – Director, Surgical Critical Care Fellowship
Christina Feng, MD
Jeffrey R. Lukish, MD
Manuel B. Torres, MD

Kibileri Wiliams, MD

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: one per year

Current fellow(s):
Mark Kovler, MD
Carolyn Gosztyla, MD

Previous 5 fellows:
Adil Shah, MD

2023

Attending Surgeon

Omaha, Nebraska

Kibileri Williams, MD

2022

Attending Surgeon

Children’s National Hospital

Rodrigo Mon, MD

2021

Attending Surgeon

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Georgia

Jun Tashiro, MD

2020

Attending Surgeon

NYU Langone

Jason Sulkowski
2019
Attending Surgeon
Children’s Hospital of Richmond VCU

Curriculum Information

Call Schedule
1st year: Every other Wed and every other Saturday
2nd year: Every other Tuesday and Every other Saturday

Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Continued Accreditation

Meeting/Training Course policy:

Financial support for candidate interviews: No

Average total number of cases performed by graduating fellows over the past 5 years: 1500

Board passage rate (3 years): 100%

Fellow salary: N/A

Last updated: December 2024

Program web page URL  https://medicine.ouhsc.edu/academic-departments/surgery/education-programs/residency-fellowship-programs/pediatric-surgery-residency-fellowship-program

Overview of Fellowship

The University of Oklahoma offers a two-year ACGME-accredited clinical training program, accepting one fellow each year. Fellows in our pediatric surgery program can expect a challenging yet rewarding educational experience. Our graduates complete training with an average of 1,500 cases during fellowship. Board passage rates for our graduating fellows is 100 percent.

Our facility is a regional center for comprehensive, specialized pediatric services and the only fully dedicated, free-standing pediatric hospital in the state, including the only Level Four NICU in the state. More than 2,500 pediatric surgical operations are performed each year by our five full-time pediatric surgeons, and hospital admissions average more than 14,000 per year.

The teaching program emphasizes responsibility, self-directed learning and exposure to a broad spectrum of clinical material. The fellows round twice daily and supervise three general surgery residents, two nurse practitioners, and two medical students assigned to pediatric surgery. Faculty members are available for constant interaction and feedback.

Year one: Pediatric surgery training involves a closely supervised two-year period of education, gradually giving trainees more responsibility and independence. The initial six months of training will expose the resident to clinical care of all common and tertiary pediatric surgery problems. The second six months is focused on directing the trainee to become more independent in his/her patient care management; building a broad base of knowledge in both pediatric physiology and pathobiology and incorporating a collaborative clinical research project with the faculty. Constant communication between the first-year trainee, the attendings and the senior fellow is expected.

Year two: During the second year of training, the trainee is expected to perform in a more independent fashion, making important decisions regarding preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative patient management. The fellow is given additional teaching and administrative responsibilities, as well as additional independent operating room experience as his/her technical skills are developed through one-on-one teaching. Progression of responsibility toward independent performance, especially during the last six months of clinical training, is strongly promoted by faculty. Pediatric surgery attendings continually monitor and provide appropriate feedback to the pediatric surgery fellow throughout his/her clinical training both in and out of the operating room.

Institution Information

Training site #1:

Name: Oklahoma Children's Hospital at OU Medical Center

#beds:   350

Percentage of time at this location: 100%

Brief description of other hospital information: Oklahoma Children’s Hospital is the only freestanding children’s hospital in the state and the only level 1 trauma facility for children.  The pediatric surgical fellowship is well-established and has been in place since 1979.

Faculty Information

Program Director: Dr. Catherine Hunter, M.D.

Assistant Program Director (if applicable): Dr. Alessandra Landmann, M.D. and Dr. Jeremy Johnson, M.D.

Program manager and email: Raven Nelson, [email protected]

List of Faculty and titles

• Catherine Hunter, MD- Division Chief/Fellowship Program Director
• Alex Ruiz-Elizalde, MD- Associate Professor of Surgery/Vice Clinical Surgical Service Chief
• Jeremy Johnson, MD- Associate Professor of Surgery/Trauma Medical Director, Children's Hospital/Co-Director, Third Year Surgical Clerkship
• Alessandra Landmann, MD- Assistant Professor of Surgery/Fourth Year Surgery Clerkship Director/Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Program Director
• Paul McGaha, MD- Assistant Professor of Surgery/ ECMO Pediatric Surgery Medical Director

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: 2

Current fellow(s) names:

• Robert Crum, M.D.
• Kathryn Maselli, M.D.

List of previous 5 fellows: name, grad year, current position

• Ryan Phillips, M.D. (2024) Private Practice, Savannah, GA
• Christie Buonpane, M.D. (2023) Academic Practice, Louisville, KY
• Jonathan Green, M.D. (2022) Academic Practice, U Mass, MA
• Alessandra Landmann, M.D. (2021) Academic Practice, Oklahoma City, OK
• Rodrigo Interiano, M.D. (2020) Private Practice Dallas, TX

Call schedule

Home call shared between fellows.

Conference Schedule

• Clinical Sciences/SCORE Conference (Weekly on Monday mornings)
• Morbidity & Mortality (M&M) Conference (Bi-Weekly on Friday mornings)
• Journal Club (Monthly)
• Radiology Conference (Monthly)
• Multidisciplinary Tumor Conference (Weekly)
• GI/Surgery Conference (Monthly)

Program Information  

RRC accreditation status: Fully acredited

Initial Accreditation: February 01, 1978

Continued Accreditation: January 04, 2024

Meeting/Training Course policy

Fellows are supported to travel to one national meeting per year (APSA 1st year, AAP 2^nd year). Fellows are also supported to attend the St. Jude’s oncology course and one complex colorectal course of their choice.

Does the program provide financial support for candidate interviews? No

Optional information

What is the average total number of cases performed by your graduating fellows over the past five years?

1500

Board Passage rate (last ten years): 100%

Fellow Salary:

Last updated: 10/27/2021

Program website: https://enseignement.chusj.org/fr/Etudiants-en-stage/Fellowships/Fellowship-en-chirurgie-pediatrique https://medpostdoc.umontreal.ca/programmes/chirurgie-pediatrique/

The Pediatric Surgery Training Program at CHU Sainte-Justine is a two-year residency program accredited by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. The reciprocity agreement between the Royal College and ACGME in the United States permits the trainee who successfully completed the program to be qualified for examinations in Pediatric Surgery given by the Royal College and the American Board of Surgery.  The program was founded more than 60 years ago and has trained about a hundred of pediatric surgeons who are now practicing all over the world.

Since August 2020, the program has transitioned to Competency by Design, the Royal College’s model of competency-based medical education. As part of this model, the curriculum is designed to permit the progressive acquisition of the competencies of a pediatric surgeon. The fellows have frequent assessment and meaningful feedback from faculty. The first year include 2 mandatory 1- month rotations (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). During the second year, the fellow works at the level of chief resident in Pediatric Surgery and gain progressive autonomy. A learning plan is tailored toward the needs of the fellow and elective rotations in other pediatric surgical specialties, other pediatric hospital (typically the Montreal Children’s Hospital) or abroad internationally can be organized. The ultimate goal is to train a competent pediatric surgeon ready for an independent practice in an academic or non-academic position.

Faculty Information

Program Director: Ann Aspirot, MD, FRCPC

Associate Program Director:

Program manager: Caroline Dufour
[email protected]
514-345-4688

Faculty:
Marianne Beaudin, MD, MPH, FRCPC
Mona Beaunoyer, MD, FRCPC
Sarah Bouchard, MD, FRCPC, FACS
Rebecca Brocks, MD, FACS
Michel Lallier, MD, FRCPC
Nelson Piché, MD, MSc, FRCPC, FACS
Dickens Saint-Vil, MD, FRCPC, FACS

Fellow Information

Number of fellows:
Alternately, one one year and two the other year for a total of three fellows

Current fellow(s):
James Saltsman
Kristen Calabro
Camille Plourde

Previous 5 fellows:
Dre Catherine K. Beaumier, 2018, Valley Children's Hospital, Merced, CA
Dre Josée Trébichavsky, 2018, CHUS, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Dre Danielle Leblanc, 2019, Blank Children's Hospital, Des Moines, IA
Dre Shahrzad Joharifard, 2020, BC Children's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Canada
Dr Shin Miyata, 2020, SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, MO, USA
Dre Maeve Trudeau, 2021, Montreal Children’s Hospital, University of Montreal, Canada

Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Continued Accreditation

Meeting/Training Course policy: The Pediatric Surgery Academic Funds pays for Transition to Fellowship Bootcamp, MIS, and oncology courses. It also pays for meetings if the fellow is presenting on behalf of the division.

Financial support for candidate interviews: No

Average total number of cases performed by graduating fellows over the past 5 years: 800

Board passage rate (3 years): 100% passed the ABS

Fellow salary: N/A

Last updated: November 2024

Program website: https://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/education/clinical/fellowship/ped-surgery

At Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, the Division of General and Thoracic Surgery offers a two-year residency (fellowship) in pediatric surgery. One new resident is chosen each year through the National Resident Matching Program. The applicant must have completed a general surgical training program and must be eligible to take the qualifying examination given by the American Board of Surgery. To date, more than 50 pediatric surgery fellows have been trained.

The fellowship is a two-year training program that emphasizes diverse clinical experience. In the first year, residents do a month-long rotation in neonatology, pediatric intensive care and colorectal surgery, as well as a two-week rotation in pediatric urology. The second-year chief resident’s responsibilities focus on managing the clinical care team along with the administration of the educational program. There are also two-week rotations in otolaryngology and vascular malformations along with a 4-week rotation in the fetal care center.

With faculty performing over 4100 operations annually, the pediatric surgical trainee gains extensive experience in managing a wide spectrum of common and complex pediatric surgical problems in neonates to young adults. This experience includes training in:

• Thoracic surgery
• Fetal surgery
• Abdominal surgery
• Urologic surgery
• Oncologic surgery
• Trauma surgery
• Transplant surgery
• Endoscopy
• Minimally invasive surgical techniques

The two-year curriculum combines structured rotations, didactic lectures and weekly and monthly educational conferences comprising:

• Pediatric surgery grand rounds
• Basic science lectures
• Radiology conference
• Tumor Board
• Morbidity and Mortality
• Trauma Conference
• Pathology Conference

The resident is also expected to engage in independent study and self-directed learning. He or she is given access to computerized databases, library materials and journals, and given the opportunity to participate in a variety of clinical and basic science research projects as well as Quality Improvement initiatives.

Pediatric surgery faculty members closely mentor the resident throughout training. More details can be found here.

Institution Information

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, OH United States

Number of beds: 625

Percentage of time at this location: 100%

Training site type: Free standing children’s hospital

27k cases/year

Faculty Information

Program Director: Aaron P Garrison, MD

Associate Program Director: Director: Greg M. Tiao, MD

Program manager: Meghan Wiesner
[email protected]
513-803-9226

Faculty:
Alexander J. Bondoc, MD — Associate Professor, Pediatric and Transplant Surgery, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Associate Professor, Surgery, UC Department of Surgery
Rebeccah L. Brown, MD, FACS, FAAP — Associate Director, Trauma Services; Director, Pediatric Trauma Fellowship; Co-Director, Chest Wall Center; Professor, UC Department of Surgery

Rebeccah Brown, MD, FACS, FAAP — Professor, Pediatric Surgery, Co-Director: Chest Wall Center, Pilonidal Center, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Professor, Surgery
UC Department of Surgery

1. Roshni Dasgupta, MD, MPH — Professor, Pediatric Surgery, Surgical Director Vascular Malformations Center, Director, Vascular Malformations Fellowship, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Professor, Surgery, UC Department of SurgerySue Evans, MD — Assistant Professor, Surgery, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
   Assistant Professor, Surgery, UC Department of Surgery

Richard A. Falcone Jr., MD, MPH — Chief of Staff; Professor, Pediatric Surgery, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Professor, Surgery, UC Department of Surgery

Jason S. Frischer, MD — Professor, Pediatric Surgery; Director, Colorectal Center, Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Program, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Professor, Surgery, UC Department of Surgery

Laura Galganski, MD — Assistant Professor, Pediatric Surgery, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Professor, Surgery, UC Department of Surgery

Victor F. Garcia, MD, FACS, FAAP — Professor, Pediatric Surgery, Founding Director, Trauma Services; Co-Director, Chest Wall Center, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Professor, Surgery, UC Department of Surgery

Aaron P. Garrison, MD —  Associate Professor, Pediatric Surgery; Program Director, Pediatric Surgery Fellowship, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Associate Professor, Surgery
UC Department of Surgery

Juan P. Gurria, MD – Assistant Professor, Pediatric Surgery; Program Director, Surgical Critical Care Fellowship, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Assistant Professor, Surgery
UC Department of Surgery

Michael A. Helmrath, MD, MS — Professor, Pediatric Surgery; Surgical Director, Intestinal Rehabilitation; Director of Surgical Research; Associate Director of Clinical Translation, CuSTOM; Co-Director, Center of Bariatric Surgery, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Professor, Surgery, UC Department of Surgery

Meera Kotagal, MD, MPH — Assistant Professor, Pediatric Surgery; Director, Pediatric Surgery Global Health Program, International Fellowship, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Assistant Professor, Surgery, UC Department of Surgery

Foong-Yen Lim MD — Associate Professor, Pediatric Surgery; Surgical Director, Cincinnati Fetal Center, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Associate Professor, Surgery, UC Department of Surgery

Jonathan Merola, MD — Assistant Professor, Surgery, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Assistant Professor, Surgery, UC Department of Surgery

Jose L. Peiro, MD — Associate Professor, Pediatric Surgery; Director, Endoscopic Fetal Surgery Cincinnati Fetal Center, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Associate Professor, Surgery
UC Department of Surgery

Todd A. Ponsky, MD — Professor, Pediatric Surgery; Director, Clinical Growth and Transformation;
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Associate Professor, Surgery, UC Department of Surgery

Nelson G. Rosen, MD — Professor, Pediatric Surgery; Associate Director, Colorectal Center; Director, Colorectal Fellowship, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Professor, Surgery
UC Department of Surgery

Beth A. Rymeski, DO — Associate Professor, Pediatric Surgery, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Associate Professor, Surgery, UC Department of Surgery

Gregory M. Tiao, MD — Division Director, Pediatric Surgery; Associate Program Director, Pediatric Surgery Fellowship; Surgical Director, Liver Transplantation; Frederick C. Ryckman Chair of Pediatric Surgery, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Professor, Surgery, UC Department of Surgery

Daniel von Allmen, MD — Surgeon-in-Chief; Lester W. Martin Chair of Pediatric Surgery; Senior Vice President, Surgical Services; Director, Esophageal Center, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Professor, Surgery, UC Department of Surgery

Paul Wales, BSc, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS — Professor, Pediatric Surgery; Surgical Director, Intestinal Rehabilitation, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Professor, Surgery, UC Department of Surgery

Ashley Walther, MD — Assistant Professor, Pediatric Surgery, Surgical Lead, Aerodigestive and Esophageal Center, Co-Director, Center of Bariatric Surgery, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Assistant Professor, Surgery, UC Department of Surgery

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: one per year

Current fellow(s):
Numa Perez, MD (Senior)
Andrew Hu, MD (Junior)

Previous 5 fellows:

Byron Hughes, MD
2024
C.S. Motts Children’s Hospital

Laura Galganski, MD
2023
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Irene “Iris” Lim-Beutel, MD
2022
Children’s Mercy, Kansas City

Eric Rellinger, MD
2021
University of Kentucky Healthcare

Christina Feng, MD
2020
Children’s National Hospital

Curriculum Information

Call Schedule

1st year: In the first few months of fellowship the junior fellow will do one in house call per week.
The remainder of the year is spent alternative home call with the senior fellow.
2nd year: Home call, alternating with junior fellow – Q2

Conference Schedule
Every Wednesday:
1200 – Radiology Conference, combined Pathology/Surgery Conference, Trauma Case Review Conference
1500 – Morbidity and Mortality
1600 – Grand Rounds

Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Continued Accreditation

Meeting/Training Course policy: Meeting/Training Course policy:  First year Fellows attend APSA and second year Fellows attend AAP.

Financial support for candidate interviews: Yes

Average total number of cases performed by graduating fellows over the past 5 years: 1301

Board passage rate (3 years): 100%

Fellow salary: According to Post Graduate year

Last updated: 09/14/2021

Program website: https://professionals.northwell.edu/graduate-medical-education/fellowship-pediatric-general-surgery-cohen-children-medical-center

The Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra-Northwell offers a two-year clinical fellowship training program in pediatric surgery at the Cohen Children’s Medical Center. The program offers a broad experience in all aspects of pediatric general surgery with extensive training in minimally invasive surgery, pediatric oncology, inflammatory bowel disease and neonatal surgery.

Faculty Information

Program Director: Samuel Soffer, MD

Associate Program Director: Aaron Lipskar, MD

Program manager: Roseanne Milano
[email protected]
718-470-3135

Faculty:
Stephen Dolgin, MD
Richard Glick, MD
Andrew Hong, MD
Barrie Rich, MD
Jose Prince, MD — Division Chief
Chethan Sethya, MD
Larry Bodenstein, MD
Colleen Fitzpatrick, MD
Whitney Mcbride, MD

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: one per year

Current fellow(s):
Charlotte Kvasnovsky, MD
Key Nguyen, MD

Previous 5 fellows:
Naina Bagrodia,MD
2021
Cohen Children’s Medical Center/ Kings County Hospital Center
New Hyde Park, NY

Yan Shi, MD
2020
Texas Children’s Hospital
Houston, Texas

Rohini Olson, MD
2019
East Carolina Children’s Hospital
Greenville, North Carolina

Nathan Heinzerling, MD
2018
Akron Children’s Hospital
Akron, Ohio

Meade Barlow, MD
2017
Tacoma Children’s Hospital
Tacoma, Washington

Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Continued Accreditation

Meeting/Training Course policy: Pays for St Jude Course, MIS course, Colorectral course, AAP surgical section, APSA

Financial support for candidate interviews: No

Average total number of cases performed by graduating fellows over the past 5 years: 1300

Board passage rate (3 years): 100% written, 90% oral

Fellow salary: First Year Fellow: $81,500; Second Year Fellow: $83,000

Last Updated: October 2024

Program Name

Dalhousie University, IWK Health

Program web page URL

https://medicine.dal.ca/departments/department-sites/surgery/divisions/pediatric-surgery.html

Overview of Fellowship
Our Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery program is a 2-year training program affiliated with the Dalhousie University Department of Surgery and accredited by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Prospective candidates have usually completed 5-year General Surgery training in the US or Canada and complete an application through the Electronic Residency Application Services (ERAS). We select a new fellow every other year through the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP).  Training spans from Aug 1^st to July 31^st on even years, which means that we participate on the interview process and the match on odd years.

Our program seeks highly-qualified and motivated individuals whose main goal is to become a clinically strong, academically inclined surgeon capable of:

• Tackling most pediatric surgical conditions in an academic environment.
• Developing solid communication skills and a team-based work mentality.
• Demonstrating empathy and compassion towards patients and their families.

Strengths:

• Large catchment area with no competition for index cases (neonatal surgery, oncology, etc.) in the region due to the nature of the Canadian healthcare system.
• Close and collegial relationship between faculty and fellow, which provides a “junior attending” experience during the fellowship.
• Manageable case load for a single fellow with a high complex-to-simple case ratio.
• Flexibility for involvement with pediatric urology cases and other areas of pediatric surgery (ENT, cardiac) based on interest and career goals.

Weaknesses:

• Low trauma volume.
• Senior / junior fellow interaction not available since one fellow program.
• No exposure to transplant surgery

Institution Information

Training site #1:

Name: IWK Health, Halifax, NS, Canada

Number of Beds: 122 children's beds

Percentage of time at this location: 100%

Training site type: free standing children’s hospital

IWK Health is the only children’s Hospital serving the Eastern Canada Maritime provinces (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island). It is one of the teaching hospitals associated with the 200-year old Dalhousie University and the sole tertiary referral center for pediatric surgery and level I trauma center for the entire region, a catchment area of approximately 2 million people.

Our unique geographic position and distance from other children’s hospitals offer opportunity for excellent clinical experience in index pediatric surgery cases. The IWK enjoys a full complement of pediatric surgical and medical subspecialties with the resulting exposure to the complete spectrum of pediatric conditions and opportunities for multidisciplinary coordination.

Faculty Information

Program Director
Christopher Blackmore
[email protected]

Program manager and contact info
N/A

Faculty:
Christopher Blackmore MD, MSc, FRCSC
Dafydd Davies MD, MPhil, FRCSC
Jessica Mills MD, FRCSC

Karen Milford MD, FRCSC

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: one every other year

Current fellow(s):

Olga Bednarek

List of previous 5 fellows:

Krista Lai 2024: Pediatric Surgeon in Fresno, CA
Mackenzie Lees, 2022: Pediatric surgeon in Des Moines, IA (starting Jan 2023)
Natashia Seeman 2020: Pediatric surgeon in London, ON
Christopher Blackmore 2018: Pediatric surgeon in Halifax, NS
Victoriya Staab 2016: Pediatric surgeon in Neptune City, NJ

Curriculum Information

Block schedule:
1^st year – NICU (4 weeks), PICU (4 weeks) and Pediatric Surgery Service
2^nd year – Pediatric Surgery, electives available based on interest (Urology, ENT / Airway, CV surgery)

Call schedule:
1st year: Q4 home call
2nd year: Q4 home call

Conference Schedule:

Pediatric Surgery Teaching Rounds / Academic halfday

Radiology Rounds

Neonatal quality meeting

Tumor Boards

QI / M&M Rounds

Journal club

Research Rounds

Program Information 

Full Accreditation by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada with next review planned for 2026.

Accredited since 1988.

Meeting/Training Course policy (Does program pay for courses or meetings? e.g. our program would say, “Pays for one meeting and one course per year plus any additional meetings if fellow presenting own work.  Time away subject to RRC regulations governing time in training”)
Our program covers the costs for the following meetings:

• One Pediatric Surgery meeting per year (CAPS or APSA)
• Pediatric Surgery Boot Camp
• Colorectal, and MIS Courses in 1^stor 2^ndyear
• Oncology (St. Jude) course in 2^ndyear
• AAP Job Fair 2^ndyear

One Pediatric Surgery meeting per year (CAPS or APSA) plus additional meetings if presenting own work.

Pediatric Surgery Boot Camp

Colorectal, MIS, Oncology (St. Jude) courses 2^nd year

AAP Job Fair 2^nd year

Does the program provide financial support for candidate interviews? No

Optional information

What is the average total number of cases performed by your graduating fellows over the past five years?: 950 cases

Board Passage rate (last ten years): 100%

Fellow Salary: Updated Contract information can be found at:

https://www.maritimeresidentdoctors.ca

Starting July 30, 2024: PGY 6 – $97,968 CAD; PGY 7 – $103,870 CAD

Last updated: September 2023

Program website: http://www.surgery.emory.edu/specialties-and-programs/pediatric_surgery/pediatric-surgery-residency.html

The pediatric surgery fellowship of the Emory University School of Medicine is an ACGME approved two-year program. During the training period, fellows are responsible for the care of pre- and post-operative patients in both inpatient and outpatient clinic settings. As fellows master increasingly difficult skills and become adept at communicating with children and parents, they are assigned higher levels of responsibility in and out of the operating room. The Division of Pediatric Surgery offers a comprehensive didactic curriculum examining all major topics in pediatric surgery. Fellows participate in weekly conferences on morbidity and mortality, pediatric radiology and pediatric oncology; attend bimonthly lectures on basic science topics; and participate in a monthly pediatric surgical pathology conference and journal club. Pediatric surgery residents present a weekly pediatric surgery conference for surgical and pediatric house officers, pediatric and surgical attendings, and nurses. In addition to clinical efforts, pediatric surgery fellows are expected to participate in the division's research mission. Studies driven by pediatric surgery fellows are strongly encouraged and will ideally result in original work being presented and published on the national/international level.

Institution Information

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Egleston
Atlanta, GA United States

Number of beds: 340

Percentage of time at this location: 95%

Training site type: Free standing children's hospital

On average, ~6500 cases/year including Scottish Rite

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Scottish Rite
Atlanta, GA United States

Number of beds: 325

Percentage of time at this location: 5%

Training site type: Free standing children's hospital

Faculty Information

Program Director: Matthew S. Clifton, MD

Associate Program Director:

Program manager: Nena Buie
[email protected]
404-727-4375

Faculty:
Hanna Alemayehu, MD
Ross Beckman, MD

Amina Bhatia, MD
Alfred Chahine, MD
Matthew Clifton, MD
Megan Durham, MD
Allison Linden, MD
Jonathan Meisel, MD
Paul Parker, MD
Matthew Santore, MD
Heather Short, MD
Alexis Smith, MD

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: one per year

Current fellow(s):
Christina “Nina” Bence, MD

Megan Bouchard, MD

Previous 5 fellows:
Sarah Rinke. MD, 2023

Robert Vandewalle, MD, 2022 (Assistant Professor, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Little Rock, AR)

Heather Short, MD, 2021 (Staff Surgeon, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA)

Morgan Richards, MD, 2020 (Staff Surgeon, St. Luke’s Hospital, Boise, ID)

Irving Zamora, MD, 2019 (Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN)

Curriculum Information

Call Schedule
1st year: Q4
2nd year: Q4

Conference Schedule:

• M&M/Staff Rounds: Weekly review of morbidity and mortality and presentations of pediatric topics geared to the surgical residents.
• Weekly Radiology Conference: Review of interesting cases.
• PedSCORE/Basic Science Conference: Meets three times a month to discuss topics within pediatric surgery and includes guest lecturers from other disciplines; geared to the Fellow.  Score modules used as curriculum for pediatric surgery component and are oral boards format.
• Tumor Board: Weekly multi-disciplinary discussion of current patients with malignancies.
• Neonatology lecture series: at Grady during introduction to neonatology rotation.
• Pathology/Radiology Conference: Multi-disciplinary monthly presentations of the most interesting cases from our service.
• Journal Club: Monthly review of current literature, Friday morning.
• Weekly General Surgery “Grand Rounds.”
• GI/Surgery Conference: quarterly meeting of services to discuss patients that require multi-disciplinary input/care.
• Albatross/Zebra Conference: quarterly meeting to discuss unusual or challenging cases.
• NICU/Surgery Conference: quarterly meeting of services to discuss patient care issues that cross both specialties.

Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Continued Accreditation

Meeting/Training Course policy: (Does program pay for courses or meetings? e.g. our program would say, “Pays for one meeting and one course per year plus any additional meetings if fellow presenting own work.  Time away subject to RRC regulations governing time in training”)

Attendance at both the American Academy of Pediatrics (senior resident) and American Pediatric Surgical Association (junior resident) is supported. Senior residents traditionally attend the Pediatric Anorectal and Colorectal Surgical Workshop, the Advanced Minimally Invasive Surgery Course, and the Pediatric Surgical Oncology Review Course.

Financial support for candidate interviews: No

Average total number of cases performed by graduating fellows over the past 5 years: 1300-1400

Board passage rate (3 years): 100%

Fellow salary:
PGY-6: $75,110
PGY-7: $76,403
PGY-8: $78,397

Last updated: March 2024

Program website: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/all-childrens-hospital/academics/education/office-of-medical-education/fellowships/pediatric-surgery-fellowship

The faculty of the Division of Pediatric Surgery at the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital offer a two year, ACGME-accredited pediatric surgery clinical fellowship for BC/BE general surgeons. One fellow is selected through the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) on a yearly basis.  The fellowship provides a broad exposure to all facets of general pediatric surgery including head & neck surgery, endocrine, oncology, gastrointestinal surgery, gynecology, endoscopy, minimally invasive surgery, thoracic surgery, ECMO, trauma care, vascular anomalies, wound care, congenital diaphragmatic hernia management, and esophageal and airway treatment. Candidates choose JHACH due to the high clinical volume, diverse faculty, and mentorship. Our hospital mission focuses on clinical care, education, quality, and research. Therefore, we favor candidates with 1) a strong background in clinical general surgery, 2) significant evidence of scholarly achievement, and 3) a desire to pursue a career in academic pediatric surgery.

Strengths

• Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Program (only dedicated CDH unit in the nation)
• ECMO program
• Esophageal/airway reconstruction
• Minimally invasive surgery including pediatric single incision laparoscopy, and broad general, neonatal and oncologic surgical exposure

Weakness

• Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital does not perform kidney, liver or intestinal transplantation.

Institution Information

Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
St. Petersburg, FL United States

Number of beds: 259

Percentage of time at this location: 100%

Training site type: Free-standing children's hospital

Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital (JAHC) is a 259 bed free standing children’s hospital and which admits patients from the age of 0-21 years. It is the sponsoring institution for a pediatric residency, child neurology residency, and twelve fellowship programs. Additionally, JHACH is a participating site for three ACGME institutions, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine. HCA Healthcare and Bayfront Health, covering a variety of residency, fellowship, and medical student rotations. The institution is home to a regional pediatric trauma center, a congenital cardiac disease and cardiac transplant center, a pediatric oncology and bone marrow transplant center, a neuroscience institute, a maternal and neonatal diseases institute, as well as the Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia and ECMO Program. The hospital’s divisions of radiology, pathology, critical care, pediatric hospitalist medicine, and emergency medicine are solely focused on pediatric care and operate 24 hours per day. The facility has 97 NICU beds, 28 Cardiovascular ICU beds, 22 PICU beds, 15 congenital diaphragmatic hernia/ECMO beds, 28 specialized surgery-neuroscience ward beds, 28 oncology/bone marrow transplant unit beds, and 41 general medical/surgical beds. The average daily census on the pediatric surgical service is 30 with patients distributed throughout the various units within the hospital. Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital is one of the teaching hospitals of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Although Johns Hopkins has many affiliates around the country and the world, Johns Hopkins All Children’s is one of only six that meet the standards and criteria to be operated by Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Faculty Information

Program Director: Nicole M. Chandler, MD, FACS, FAAP
Associate Program Director: Henry Chang, MD
Program manager: Dawn Jones
[email protected]
727-767-8813

Faculty:
William Adamson, MD
Nicole Chandler, MD
Henry Chang, MD
Paul Danielson, MD
Raquel Gonzalez, MD
Amanda Harrington, MD
Russel Jennings, MD
David Kays, MD
Hester Shieh, MD
J. Charles Smithers, MD
Christopher Snyder, MD
Keith Thatch, MD

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: one per year

Current fellow(s):
Kyle Thompson, MD
Gabriel Ramos Gonzalez, MD

Previous 5 fellows:
Ali Mokdad
July 2023
Cook Children’s Fort Worth, TX

Lindsey Armstrong, MD
July 2022
Advent Health Orlando, FL

Heather Nolan
July 2021
Ascension, Studer Family Children’s Hospital Pensacola, FL

Katherine Gonzalez, MD
July 2020
Division of Pediatric Surgery, St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital Boise, ID

Jason O. Robertson, MD
July 2019
Assistant Professor of Surgery Case Western University, Cleveland Clinic Children’s
Cleveland, Ohio

Christopher W. Snyder, MD
July 2018
Medical Director, Pediatric Trauma Program; Assistant Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital St. Petersburg, Florida

Varun Bhalla, MD
June 2017
Assistant Professor of Surgery University of South Carolina, Prisma Health Children’s Hospital
Columbia, South Carolina

Margaret M. McGuire, MD
June 2016
Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughter Norfolk, VA

Curriculum Information

Call Schedule
The fellows share home call with the senior general surgery resident.  Each fellow takes one in-house shift per month as surgical intensivist in the Center for Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Unit

Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Continued Accreditation

Meeting/Training Course policy: The program will support “away” courses as part of a career development plan (e.g., Surgery board prep, Oncology course, Colorectal course, MIS course, Transition to Fellowship Bootcamp). The fellow will attend one professional society meeting per year (APSA, AAP or ACS) plus any additional meetings if the fellow is presenting scholarly activity from the program. Time away is subject to RRC regulations governing time training.

Financial support for candidate interviews: No

Average total number of cases performed by graduating fellows over the past 5 years: 1327

Board passage rate (3 years): 100%

Fellow salary: PGY-6: $76,083, PGY-7: $80,605
The program provides a $1000/month housing stipend.

Last updated: 08/29/2024

Program website: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/pediatricsurgery/fellowship/

Founded in 1912 as the Harriet Lane Home for Children, the Johns Hopkins Children's Center offers one of the most comprehensive pediatric medical programs in the country, with more than 92,000 patient visits and nearly 9,000 admissions each year. It is Maryland’s largest children’s hospital with 205 beds and the only state-designated Trauma Service and American Burn Association-Accredited Burn Unit for pediatric patients. Patients from age 0-21 are admitted to the Children's Center. The facility is equipped for all aspects of general pediatric care, with a 40-bed intensive care unit (PICU), a 45-bed neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and laboratory and radiology facilities. A pediatric medical and surgical oncology ward (14 beds), psychiatric wards and general pediatric age-determined wards complete the inpatient facility. A suite of 10 operating rooms for children's surgery and a pediatric recovery room adjacent to the PICU are utilized by pediatric general surgery, urology, orthopedics, neurosurgery, and otolaryngology services. The Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center houses the clinical facilities for outpatient visits (approx. 45,000/year). The Park Building, adjacent to the Children's Center, has a pediatric emergency room, oncology and hematology clinics, and a perfusion center.

The pediatric surgical staff at the Johns Hopkins Hospital is under the direction of David J. Hackam, MD, PhD, The Robert Garrett Professor of Pediatric Surgery and co-director of Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. There are also full-time specialty surgeons in pediatric orthopedics, urology, neurosurgery, otolaryngology, plastic and cardiovascular surgery.

Under the direction of Samuel M. Alaish, M.D., the post-doctoral training program in Pediatric Surgery at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the University of Maryland Medical Center is unique in concept, because it utilizes the clinical population of two large university services for a broad clinical experience in pediatric surgery over the prescribed two years. Both divisions of Pediatric Surgery perform more than 3,200 operations annually and have a staff of 14 pediatric surgeons. Completion of the basic two-year program will qualify the trainee to take the examination for a “Certificate of Special Competence in Pediatric Surgery,“ which is given by the American Board of Surgery.

History
Support of pediatric surgery by the Robert Garrett Foundation began in the 1940s. These funds enabled Dr. Alfred Blalock to conduct his animal laboratory experiments on congenital heart disease and helped support Dr. Helen Taussig with her clinical evaluation of children with cyanotic congenital heart disease. These studies led to the development of the Blalock-Taussig shunt and culminated in the first clinical use of their subclavian artery-pulmonary artery anastomosis for a child with tetralogy of Fallot in November 1944. In 1964, Dr. J. Alexander Haller became the first pediatric surgeon-in-charge of The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Chief of the Division of Pediatric Surgery. Later that year, Dr. Haller finished training the first chief resident in pediatric surgery, Dr. James L. Talbert, who left to become the Chief of Pediatric Surgery at the University of Florida in Gainesville. In 1976, Dr. J. Laurence Hill was recruited to the University of Maryland with a joint appointment at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1977. With Dr. Hill’s arrival, the first integrated training program in pediatric surgery was born. In 1991, Dr. Paul M. Colombani was appointed the pediatric surgeon-in-charge and second Garrett Professor of Pediatric Surgery. Following Dr. Colombani’s departure in 2014, Dr. David J. Hackam became the third Garrett Professor of Pediatric Surgery and Co-director of the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. In 2015, Dr. Samuel M. Alaish became the fourth training director, following Dr. Fizan Abdullah’s move to Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.

Since 1965, a long line of talented and accomplished people have graduated from our fellowship. Notable alumni include James Talbert ’65, Paul Colombani ’83, Richard Azizkhan ’85, Francisco Cigarroa ’93 and Jessica Kandel ’95 to name just a few.

Institution Information

Johns Hopkins Children’s Center
Baltimore, MD United States

Number of beds: 205

Percentage of time at this location: 87.5%

Training site type: Children's hospital within adult hospital

University of Maryland Medical Center
Baltimore, MD United States

Number of beds: 800

Percentage of time at this location: 12.5%

Training site type: Children's hospital within adult hospital

Faculty Information

Program Director: Samuel M. Alaish, MD

Associate Program Director: Mark Slidell, MD

Program manager: Katy Bender
[email protected]
410-955-9012

Faculty:
Johns Hopkins University
David Hackam, MD, Garrett Professor of Pediatric Surgery, Co-Director and Surgeon-in-Chief, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center
Samuel Alaish, MD Associate Professor of Surgery, Associate Division Chief of Clinical Operations and Education, Director, Fellowship in Pediatric Surgery, Surgical Director, THRIVE Pediatric Intestinal Rehabilitation Program, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center
Shaun Kunisaki, MD, Professor of Surgery, Associate Division Chief of Strategy and Integration, Director, Pediatric Esophageal Surgery
Isam Nasr, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Director of Pediatric Trauma Program
Alejandro Garcia, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery, Director of ECMO Program
Erica I. Hodgman, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Director, Burn Program
Daniel Rhee, M., Associate Professor of Surgery, Director, Pediatric Surgical Oncology
Clint Cappiello, MD Assistant Professor of Surgery, Director, Pediatric Surgery Residency Education
Mark Slidell, Associate Professor of Surgery, Associate Program Director

University of Maryland
Kimberly M. Lumpkins, MD, Surgeon-in-Chief, Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Maryland Hospital for Children
Eric D. Strauch, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Maryland
James T. Moore, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Maryland
Helena M. Crowley, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Mar
Brian Englum, M.D. Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Maryland

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: one per year

Current fellow(s):
Stephen Niemiec, M.D., Senior fellow
Richard Guyer, M.D., Ph.D., Junior fellow

Previous 5 fellows:

2020
Felipe Pedroso, MD
Miami Children’s Hospital, Miami, FL

2021
Yue Julia Chen, MD
Dell Children’s Medical Center, Austin, TX

2022
Mitchell Ryan Ladd, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC

2023
R. Ellen Jones, MD
Cook Children’s Medical Center, Dallas, TX

2024
Mollie Freedman-Weiss, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY

Curriculum Information

Block Schedule
First Year of Training Program, Senior Resident in Pediatric Surgery
The first year of the training program is designed to expose the resident to general pediatric surgery and a number of surgical and pediatric subspecialties. The first two months are spent at Johns Hopkins Hospital with an August rotation in the pediatric intensive care unit and a September rotation in the neonatal intensive care unit. The next three months are spent on the General Pediatric Surgery service at Johns Hopkins. The following three months are spent as the Chief Resident in pediatric surgery at the University of Maryland Hospital under the supervision of Dr. Lumpkins and staff. Patients admitted to the pediatric surgical service are evaluated and treated under the Chief Resident’s direction. Care of surgical patients in the pediatric and neonatal intensive care units is the responsibility of the surgical housestaff under the supervision of this Chief Resident in pediatric surgery. At the University of Maryland, the Chief Resident is responsible for housestaff and student teaching on rounds and in the operating room. He/she organizes the weekly pediatric surgery conference and professors walk rounds as well as presentation of patients at the weekly General Surgical Morbidity and Mortality Conference, monthly Pathology Conference and monthly Radiology Conference.

The pediatric surgery faculty at the University of Maryland have active clinical and laboratory research projects, and the Chief Resident is encouraged to participate in ongoing research or guided to begin an independent project.

During the last four months, the first-year fellow returns to The Johns Hopkins Hospital on General Pediatric Surgery and works with the senior fellow in the clinical care of patients both inside and outside of the OR.

Second year of Training Program, Chief Resident in Pediatric Surgery
The second year of the two-year program is a diverse clinical year as Chief Resident. The responsibility of the Chief Resident is to supervise and coordinate pre-operative and post-operative care of all children with surgical conditions in the Johns Hopkins Children's Center. The Chief Resident renders direct surgical care to patients with problems in general pediatric, gynecologic, and all non-cardiac thoracic surgery. The Chief Resident coordinates patient care in the statewide regional pediatric trauma center and thus supervises the initial neurosurgical, orthopedic, plastic surgical and critical care for more than 1000 severely injured children each year. He/she provides surgical consultation services for all divisions of the Children's Center and is thus involved in the general management of patients on the medical and surgical subspecialty services. He/she is the consultant for most surgical problems in the pediatric emergency room and outpatient clinics, particularly in the comprehensive child care clinic where more than 18,000 children are seen annually.
The overall management of surgical patients in the pediatric ICU and neonatal ICU is the primary responsibility of the Chief Resident and pediatric surgical housestaff working with the attending pediatric surgeons, staff intensives and neonatologists who attend in these units.

Trauma and Burn patients in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) remain on the pediatric surgery service and are cared for by an integrated housestaff. The responsibility for moment-to-moment ventilator adjustment and respiratory support is delegated to the pediatric intensive care residents, but the overall responsibility for the writing of medication orders and patient management, including cardiorespiratory support, remains with the pediatric surgery housestaff. The physician of record is the Staff Pediatric Surgeon. Neonatal surgical patients are managed in a combined medical and surgical newborn intensive care unit (NICU), which is supervised by full-time neonatologists. Direct patient management is rendered by the pediatric surgical service working with the pediatric housestaff assigned to a particular surgical patient in the NICU.

Both the Chief Resident and Senior Resident share teaching responsibilities with the full-time surgical staff. Housestaff and student teaching on afternoon ward rounds, as well as weekly formal discussions for students, are the responsibilities of the residents in pediatric surgery.

Call Schedule
Fellows share home call at Johns Hopkins. While at the University of Maryland, the junior fellow takes only home call for the University of Maryland. Fellows receive 1 day off each week. Rarely, a fellow may take in-house call at Johns Hopkins to accommodate the schedule.

Conference Schedule
Weekly
General Pediatric Surgery (GPS) Core Curriculum, Morbidity and Mortality Conference, Halsted Surgery Grand Rounds, Fetal Conference, Goals of Care Multidisciplinary Rounds, Pediatric Grand Rounds, Pediatric Nutrition Rounds and Hackam/Alaish/Nasr Combined Lab Meeting, Tumor Board

Biweekly
GPS Clinical Research Conference

Monthly
GPS/Neonatology Conference, Trauma M and M, Trauma QI, Burn M and M, Burn QI, THRIVE Pediatric Intestinal Rehabilitation Multidisciplinary Conference and CDH Multidisciplinary Workshop Conference

Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Continued Accreditation

Meeting/Training Course policy: The fellows have a travel budget to be used to attend meetings of their choice over the two years. Meetings have included the Lurie Children’s MIS course, the St. Jude Pediatric Surgical Oncology course, APSA’s Annual Meeting, the AAP Section on Surgery Meeting and a colorectal course (highly encouraged). Should a fellow have a paper on a program, additional funds will be allotted to pay for travel. We have used other funds in the past to pay for the fellow to attend the Transition to Fellowship and the Transition to Practice Courses.

Financial support for candidate interviews: No

Average total number of cases performed by graduating fellows over the past 5 years: 1342

Board passage rate (10 years): 95%

Fellow salary: The 2023-2024 academic year annual compensation levels are as follows: PGY 6 (Year 1 Fellow) $89,458; PGY 7 (Year 2 Fellow) $92,536

Last updated: September 2023

Program website: http://uthsc.edu/surgery/pediatric-surgery/index.php

The Pediatric Surgery fellowship program at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in conjunction with Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital seeks diverse candidates who have completed an ACGME‐accredited (or its equivalent) general surgery training program and is interested in advancing their knowledge and training in the surgical management of infants and children. The goals of the program are to teach fellows the skills necessary to consistently deliver excellent and state‐of‐the‐art patient care, to appraise and assimilate new scientific evidence, to grow professionally with constant self‐evaluation and life‐long learning, and to participate in the process of research and discovery to advance patient care for the future. The faculty provides training in an environment that is sensitive to cultural diversity and seeks to be responsive to health care disparities. At the completion of this education, fellows will function as successful independent pediatric surgeons and can excel both in academic and private practice settings.

Institution Information

Training Site #1:
Le Bonheur Children's Hospital
Memphis, TN United States

Number of beds: 255

Percentage of time at this location: 83.3%

Training site type: Free standing children's hospital

Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital offers top‐tier pediatric training programs in a patient‐ and family‐centered environment. Named a “Best Children’s Hospital” by U.S. News & World Report for nine consecutive years, our 255‐bed state‐of‐the‐art facility has more than 750 medical staff and 45 pediatric specialties. Le Bonheur is designated as a Level 1 pediatric trauma center by the American College of Surgeons. The only Level 1 pediatric trauma center in the state and one of only 33 in the Country. It is also a Magnet‐designated hospital, a distinction given by the American Nurses Credentialing (ANCC), which is the ultimate credential for high‐quality care, nursing excellence and innovations in professional nursing practice. Our academic affiliation with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) in Memphis, along with our premier academic partner, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, delivers a transformational education experience for our fellows. Because of our strong commitment to quality improvement, patient safety and transparency in health care, we participate in Children’s Hospitals Solutions for Patient Safety and many other collaboratives and registries. In 2017, we were named a Leapfrog Top Hospital, which is widely regarded as the most competitive designation for quality and patient safety among hospitals. More information is available at www.lebonheur.org.

Training Site #2:
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis, TN United States

Number of beds: 78

Percentage of time at this location: 12.5%

Training site type: Free standing children's hospital

Integrally associated with Le Bonheur is St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Founded in 1962 by the late entertainer Danny Thomas, this unique institution is a world‐renowned institution in the clinical care and research of children’s cancer. In 1996 St. Jude opened its state‐of‐the‐art surgical complex and established a Department of Surgery. Since then our surgeons have been an integral part of the diagnosis and treatment team that includes oncologists, radiation therapists, pathologists, radiologists, hematologists, and basic scientists. The inpatient unit has 73 beds for acute medical and surgical care.

There are 3 state‐of‐the‐art operating rooms, a 6 bed recovery area, and an 8 bed Intensive Care Unit on the 3rd floor of the patient care center. Over 1,800 cases are performed in the operating room complex each year. A dedicated pediatric surgical nursing staff and 11 pediatric anesthesiologists staff the operating room complex. Children referred to St. Jude receive complete diagnostic testing and are assured that all of the necessary biological studies are performed to properly diagnose and manage childhood tumors. More information is available at www.stjude.org.

Training site #3: Sheldon B. Korones Newborn Center at Regional One Health, Memphis, TN United States

Number of beds: 65 (NICU)

Percentage at this hospital: 4.2%

Training site type: Free standing children's hospital

The Newborn Center is a 65 bed level III NICU with about 1350 admissions a year and over 3000 deliveries. A significant number of high risk neonates are delivered at Regional One as this is the regional referral center for West Tennessee. The NICU is staffed by attending neonatologists, fellows, Pediatric/Med‐Peds residents and NNPs. Over 100 staff RNs and 12 respiratory therapists cover the inpatient services. The center is also supported by social workers, nutritionists, pharmacists, speech and occupational therapists and research nurses. Our NICU rotation allows our fellows to participate in high risk deliveries, resuscitation, stabilization, and management of premature and complex neonates. The collaborative work of our maternal fetal medicine specialists and pediatric subspecialists through the Le Bonheur Fetal Center allows our fellows to participate in prenatal evaluation and management.

Faculty Information

Program Director: Ying Weatherall, MD

Associate Program Director: Tim Jancelewicz, MD, MA, MS

Program manager: Shannae Staten
[email protected]
901-287-6300

Faculty:
James W. Eubanks, III, MD
Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Chief, Division of Pediatric Surgery
Surgeon in Chief, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

Alexander Feliz, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics
Program Director, General Surgery Residency
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Program Director, Pediatric Surgical Critical Care Fellowship
Director, Center for Health Equity
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

Tim Jancelewicz, MD, MA, MS
Associate Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics
Associate Program Director, Pediatric Surgery Fellowship
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Surgical Director, ECMO and CDH
Pediatric Surgical Director, Fetal Center
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

Rachel Landisch, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery and Pediatrics
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

Ying Z. Weatherall, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics
Program Director, Pediatric Surgery Fellowship
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Director, Adolescent Bariatric Surgery Program
Surgical Director, Healthy Lifestyle Clinic
Director, Burn Task Force
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

Regan Williams, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics
Associate Program Director, General Surgery Residency
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Director, Trauma Services
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: one per year

Current fellow(s):

Akshita ‘Jade’ Kumar, MD

Brian Hosfield, MD

Previous 5 fellows:
Cory McLaughlin, MD

August 2021-July 2023

Assistant Professor, Pediatric Surgery

Children’s Hospital Colorado, Colorado Springs

Sara Mansfield, MD
Aug 2020-July 2022
Pediatric Surgeon, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Columbus, OH

Daniel Lodwick, MD
Aug 2019-July 2021
Pediatric Surgeon, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Cook Children’s Medical Center
Fort Worth, TX

Erica Hodgeman, MD
Aug 2018-July 2020
Assistant Director, Pediatric Burn Program, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center
Baltimore, MD

Alpin Malkan, MD
Aug 2017‐July 2019
Pediatric Surgeon, Children’s Hospital of Saint Francis
Tulsa, OK

Donald Lucas, Jr., MD, MPH
Aug 2016‐July 2018
Chief, Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of General Surgery, Naval Medical Center San Diego; Assistant Professor of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
San Diego, CA

Curriculum Information

Block Schedule
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Call Schedule
1st year: home call, approximately Q3
2nd year: home call, approximately Q3

Conference Schedule
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Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Continued Accreditation

Meeting/Training Course policy: Fellows are provided funds to attend the following:

• Transition to Fellowship Bootcamp
• APSA meeting
• AAP meeting
• MIS course
• Colorectal Course
• Jude Oncology course
• Any additional meetings if fellow is presenting their own work

*Time away subject to ACGME RRC and ABS regulations governing time required in training.

Financial support for candidate interviews: No

Average total number of cases performed by graduating fellows over the past 5 years: 1254.2 cases

Board passage rate (3 years):
Qualifying exam – 100%; Certifying exam – 67% first time

Fellow salary: PGY-6: $67,980: PGY-7: $70,464

Last updated: 10/22/2022

Program website: https://lluh.org/health-professionals/gme/resident-fellow/pediatric-surgery-fellowship

The program is designed for well-rounded individuals able to function independently and interested in whole patient and family care.

Strengths

• Our one-Fellow program gives immediate exposure to index cases and a two-year supervised experience of primary management of all ages of pediatric surgery patients

Weaknesses

• Working to improve access to ENT and Urology cases

Faculty Information

Program Director: Edward Tagge, MD

Associate Program Director:

Program manager: Tinesha Charles
909-558-4619
[email protected]

Faculty:
Donald Moores, MD – Chief of Pediatric Surgery
Edward Tagge, MD – Professor of Surgery
Faraz Khan, MD – Assistant Professor of Surgery
Andrei Radulescu, MD – Assistant Professor of Surgery
Ali Mejjadam, MD

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: one every other year

Current fellow(s):
Steven Raymond, MD

Previous 5 fellows:
Shannon Longshore, MD – 2013 Assistant Professor of Surgery
Erin Perrone, MD – 2015 Assistant Professor of Surgery
Arul Thirumoothi, MD – 2017 Assistant Professor of Surgery
Victoria Pepper, MD – 2019 Assistant Professor of Surgery
Laura Goodman, MD – 2021

Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Continued Accreditation

Meeting/Training Course policy: Our program pays for the following:

1. Nationwide Colorectal Course
2. Fellow Yr 1 APSA
3. Fellow Yr 2 AAP
4. St. Jude Oncology course
5. Conference if fellow is presenting own work

Financial support for candidate interviews: No

Average total number of cases performed by graduating fellows over the past 5 years: N/A

Board passage rate (3 years): Qualifying exam – 100% (4 out of 4); Certifying exam – 67% first time (3 out of 4) & 100% second time (3 out 4)

Fellow salary: PGY6: $71,893  PGY7: $77,165

Last updated: October 2023

Program website: http://phoenixchildrens.org/graduate-medical-education/fellowship-programs/pediatric-surgery-fellowship

The Pediatric Surgery Fellowship is a robust training program for individuals interested in pursuing a career in pediatric surgery. The fellowship is supported by the graduate medical education infrastructure at both the Mayo Clinic in Arizona (program sponsor) and Phoenix Children's (clinical site). Phoenix Children’s and the Mayo Clinic in Arizona are committed to the medical education of pediatric surgeons, providing an environment of academic enrichment, research and a comprehensive educational experience for clinical pediatric surgery fellowship training. Full-time pediatric surgeons serve as faculty with a diverse background including advanced MIS, trauma/critical care, oncology and neonatal surgery. In addition, the fellowship and faculty actively participate in research within the institution as well as serving as the primary investigator in multi-institutional research projects. Fellows finishing the program will be competitive for any potential employment opportunities that they pursue.

Strengths

• The program has an experienced faculty with nationally recognized expertise.
• The program is fellowship focused with high value assigned to surgical training.
• General Surgery and advanced practice providers afford significant leadership opportunities and strong support to fellows.
• Trauma exposure is limited by the use of a fully-staffed Trauma Service.
• In-house General Surgery residents take first calls.

Weaknesses

• Surgery is a very busy service with a high census and case volume and a large faculty.
• Call is q2 from home (and in-house moonlighting is available).

Institution Information

Training Site #1:

Phoenix Children’s
1919 E. Thomas Road
Phoenix, Arizona 85016

Number of beds: 433

Percentage of time at this location: 95%

Training site type: Free standing children's hospital

With a medical staff of nearly 1,000 specialists, Phoenix Children’s is one of the largest pediatric healthcare systems in the country, and the most comprehensive children's care facility in the state. The hospital provides inpatient, outpatient, trauma and emergency care across more than 75 subspecialties. Last year the hospital had more than 13,000 discharges and more than 23,000 surgical cases.

St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center
Phoenix, AZ United States

Number of beds: 595

Percentage of time at this location: 5%

Training site type: Children's hospital within adult hospital

St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, which is located less than three miles away from Phoenix Children’s Hospital, is a nationally recognized center for quality tertiary care, medical education and research. It includes the internationally renowned Barrow Neurological Institute, the Norton Thoracic Institute, Center for Women's Health, University of Arizona Cancer Center at St. Joseph’s, and a Level I Trauma Center verified by the American College of Surgeons. The hospital is also a respected center for orthopedics, internal medicine, primary care and many other medical services.

Training Site #2

Name and Location:
St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center
350 W. Thomas Road
Phoenix, Arizona 85013

Number of Beds: 595

Percentage of Time at this Location: 5%

Training Site Type: Adult Hospital

St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, which is located less than three miles away from Phoenix Children’s Hospital, is a nationally recognized center for quality tertiary care, medical education and research. It includes the internationally renowned Barrow Neurological Institute, the Norton Thoracic Institute, Center for Women's Health, University of Arizona Cancer Center at St. Joseph’s, and a Level I Trauma Center verified by the American College of Surgeons. The hospital is also a respected center for orthopedics, internal medicine, primary care and many other medical services.

Faculty Information

Program Director: David M. Notrica, MD

Associate Program Director: Mark S. Molitor, Jr, MD

Program manager:
Amy Bailey
[email protected]
(602) 933-7209

Faculty:
Bae, Jae-O, MD
Egan, J Craig, MD
Garvey, Erin M, MD
Hansen, Eric, MD

Harris, Jamie C, MD
Jamshidi, Ramin, MD
Lee, Justin, MD
McMahon, Lisa E, MD
Molitor, Mark S, MD
Notrica, David M, MD
Ostlie, Daniel J, MD
Padilla, Benjamin, MD
Rowe, Dorothy H, MD
van Leeuwen, Kathleen D, MD

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: one per year

Current fellow(s):
Anthony Ferrantella, MD

James Prieto, MD

Previous 5 fellows:

2023 Zens, Tiffany MD , Clinical Instructor, University of Michigan General Surgery, Ann Arbor, Michigan

2022 Velazco, Cristine, MD, Surgeon, Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital—Pediatric Surgery, Orlando, Florida

2021    Gurria Juarez, Juan, MD, Surgeon, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

2020    Schall, Kathy, MD, Surgeon, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, Nebraska

2019    Alhajjat, Amir, MD, Surgeon, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Curriculum Information

Block schedule (enter text or provide document to APSA)

Call Schedule
Fellows are on service Monday through Friday and alternate on the weekends. Fellows only take call from home.

Conference Schedule
Every Tuesday morning

Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Continued Accreditation

Meeting/Training Course policy: The program pays for Transition to Fellowship Boot Camp, Advanced Pectus course, MIS course, Colorectal course, and APSA meeting.

Financial support for candidate interviews: None

Average total number of cases performed by graduating fellows over the past 5 years: 833

Board passage rate (3 years): 75%

Fellow salary:

PL-6 $79,216

PL-7 $83,238

PL-8 $87,125

Last updated: September 2023

Program website: https://surgery.mcmaster.ca/divisions/pediatric-surgery

The Division of Pediatric Surgery at McMaster Children's Hospital is committed to quality patient care, education and research. As a group of 5 active clinical pediatric surgeons, we are dedicated to supporting and mentoring our fellows to achieve their professional goals.  The program will provide the clinical exposure required to be competent in the evaluation and management of the full breadth of neonatal and pediatric general surgical conditions in accordance with the objectives of training outlined by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

We seek candidates who are passionate about their career in pediatric surgery and dedicated to the pursuit of developing knowledge and skills in this domain. Trainees in the McMaster program benefit from a dedicated academic half-day with organized teaching seminars and quarterly evaluations.

Strengths

• Rich and diversified case volumes
• Strong program and career support
• Transition to practice program offered in last six months of training
• Research infrastructure and support available for trainees to achieve academic success
• Global health initiative available to pediatric surgery residents for education and research
• Flexible program that meets Training requirements and individual career objectives

Weaknesses

• Non-ECLS centre
• Penetrating trauma volume low

Institution Information

McMaster Children’s Hospital at Hamilton Health Sciences
Hamilton, ON Canada

Number of beds: 165

Percentage of time at this location: 100%

Training site type: Free Standing Women and Children’s Hospital

McMaster Children’s Hospital sees 210,000 visits per year, with 11, 363 admissions.  It houses the largest neonatal intensive care unit in Canada and has its own dedicated surgical ward as well as a level 1 pediatric trauma center.    It is the second largest children’s hospital in Ontario, Canada.  Excluding the NICU and PICU consults, the surgery service averages 1,552 admissions per year and 52,000 emergency department visits.  The average case logs for our graduating fellows is 1100 cases (this number has changes over the COVID pandemic but has still exceeded 800).

Faculty Information

Program Director: Lisa VanHouwelingen, MD, MPH, FRCSC

Associate Program Director:

Program manager: Carol Dow
[email protected]

Faculty:
Karen Bailey, MD, MHM, FRCSC
Peter Fitzgerald, MD, MA, FRCSC
Helene Flageole, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS
Michael Livingston, MD, MSc, FRCSC
Lisa VanHouwelingen, MD, MPH, FRCSC
Mark Walton, MD, FRCSC

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: One every year
At McMaster we have an Ontario Ministry of Health funded fellowship position every other year.  Both fellows are taught the same curriculum and with the same expectations.  This program is a two-fellow program.

Current fellow(s):
Fahd Alsaleh (2021-2024)

Nadia Safa (2023-2024)

Hanan Alansari (2023-2026)

Previous 5 fellows:
Dr. Nathalie Carey July 2021 - June 2023 McMaster University

Dr. Luai Jamal July 2020 - June 2022 Consultant Pediatric Surgeon, Assistant Professor of Surgery, King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, KSA

Dr. Gilgamesh Eamer July 2019- June 2021 Assistant Professor Children’s Hospital Ottawa
Dr. Noora Al-Shahwani July 2018- June2020 Assistant Professor Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar
Dr. Michael Livingston July 2017- June 2019  Assistant Professor McMaster Children’s Hospital

Curriculum Information

Block schedule:
1st Year: 10 months of Pediatric General Surgery, 1 month of NICU, 1 month of PICU
2nd year: 6 months Core Pediatric General Surgery, 6 Months of Transition to Practice

Call schedule:
1st Year – Q4
2nd Year – Q4

• Wherever Possible call will be home call. However, given increasing shortages of human resources, there are times when call may be in house and less than Q4.

Conference Schedule:
1st Year: Fellowship boot camp, APSA or CAPS, Colorectal Course, PALS
2nd year: MIS course (when offered), Oncology, APSA or CAPS

Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Continued Accreditation

Meeting/Training Course policy: Fellowship program provides 3000$ yearly to the fellows to help compensate for costs associated with courses (PALS/TRIK), educational conferences (fellowship boot camp, MIS course, oncology) and meetings (APSA, CAPS).

Financial support for candidate interviews: No

What is the average total number of cases performed by your graduating fellows over the past five years? 1000

Board passage rate (10 years): 100%

Fellow salary: https://myparo.ca/your-contract/

PGY 6 – 88, 452.95$
PGY 7 – 91, 848.99$
PGY 8 – 96,908.04$

Please note that this fellowship position is compensated by the Ontario Ministry of Health financially supporting all landed immigrants and Canadian citizens.  All non-Canadian citizen’s wishing to participate in our fellowship program will need to provide their own external funding.

Last updated: September 2023

Program website: https://www.mcw.edu/departments/surgery/education/fellowship-programs/pediatric-surgery-fellowship

The Pediatric Surgery Fellowship of The Medical College of Wisconsin at the freestanding Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin is a two-year clinical training program approved in 2002 by the ACGME. It was last reviewed in August, 2012 with ACGME continued accreditation through 2023. The curriculum includes comprehensive coverage of the scientific principles that are the basis for the practice of pediatric surgery. These are combined with structured operative and perioperative management of infants, children, and adolescents with problems managed in the contemporary practice of general and thoracic pediatric surgery. The clinical experience encompasses newborns, congenital anomalies, pediatric trauma, burns, critical care, surgical oncology, GI diseases, and the entire spectrum of abdominal, non-cardiac thoracic, urologic, and other clinical problems that fall within the scope of practice for pediatric surgery in the United States.

Institution Information

Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI United States

Number of beds: 298

Percentage of time at this location: 100%

Training site type: Free standing children's hospital

Faculty Information

Program Director: Casey M. Calkins, MD

Associate Program Director: Dave R. Lal, MD

Program manager: Teresa Hauser
[email protected]
414-266-6557

Faculty:
John Aiken, MD
Casey Calkins, MD
Brian Craig, MD
John Densmore, MD
Katy Flynn-O’Brien, MD, MPH
David Gourlay, MD
Dave Lal, MD, MPH
Caroline Maloney, MD, PhD

Jose Salazar Osuna, MD, PhD
Jack Schneider, MD
Amy Wagner, MD

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: one per year

Current fellow(s):
Senior – Alexander Peters, MD
Junior – Abby Larson, MD

Previous 5 fellows:
Caroline Maolney, MD

2023

Ali Mejaddam, MD

2022

Jose Salazar Osuna, MD, PhD
2021

Shannon Koehler, MD, PhD
2019

Veronica Sullins, MD
2018

Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Continued Accreditation

Meeting/Training Course policy:

Weekly educational conferences 2-3 hours/week, support for national meeting attendance and other educational conferences (fellow boot camp, colorectal, oncology, etc). More details on website.

Financial support for candidate interviews: No

Average total number of cases performed by graduating fellows over the past 5 years: 1400

Board passage rate (3 years): 100%

Fellow salary: $75,710

Last updated: November 2023

Program website: http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/pediatricsurgery/fellowships_gensurgery.htm

The pediatric surgery training program is based at the Montreal Children's Hospital [MCH] of the McGill University Health Centre. It is a two-year residency training program provided to candidates who have completed their training in general surgery at a Royal College of Surgeons of Canada or ACGME-accredited program. All academic faculty involved in the training program are board-certified pediatric surgeons passionate about surgical education.

The scope of training involves a comprehensive program with exposure to pediatric general and non-cardiac, thoracic surgery (with a particular focus on neonatal and congenital malformation surgery), as well as head and neck, gynecological/genitourinary surgery, trauma, oncologic and colorectal surgery. Patients' ages range from the premature to the older adolescent (<18 years). Successful completion of training allows the candidate to sit for the pediatric surgery examinations of the Royal College of Surgeons and the American Board of Surgery. The training objectives can be found on the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada website. As per Royal College's requirement, the program transitioned to a competency-based model of surgical education using “entrustable professional acts” (EPAs). The first year of training consists of 10 months of pediatric general and thoracic surgery and mandatory rotations in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) and Pediatric Intensive Care Units (PICU), which are one month each. The second year of training consists of 12 months of clinical pediatric general and thoracic surgery at the chief resident level. Elective rotations in Pediatric Urology (1 month) or Pediatric Surgery at Hôpital Ste-Justine (1 month) can be organized during the second year.

Overview/History of Institution:

The Montreal Children’s Hospital (MCH) was founded in 1903 by Dr. Alexander Mackenzie Forbes as a 10-bed unit primarily treating children with orthopedic issues. The establishment of McGill University affiliation in 1920 led to the vision of training surgeons specialized in the care of children. The hospital moved to Tupper Street in 1956 under the leadership of Dr. David Murphy (1953-1974), its first Surgeon-in-Chief, where it remained for nearly 60 years. Dr. Harvey Beardmore (program director 1974-1981) spearheaded efforts to recognize pediatric surgery as a distinct specialty of the American Board of Surgery. Thus, the MCH became one of the “original 5” pediatric surgery training programs in North America under the directorship of Dr. Herbert Owen (1974-1981). Dr. Frank Guttman (1981-1996) took over both the Division and Program Directorships and was succeeded in this role by Dr. Jean-Martin Laberge in 1996. In 2008, after 14 years of unprecedented growth, the Division and Program Directorships were split into two distinct entities under Dr. Sherif Emil and Dr. Pramod Puligandla, respectively.

On May 24, 2015, the MCH underwent its most significant transformation as it moved from a free-standing children’s hospital to a “hospital within a super-hospital” at the McGill University Health Centre Glen Site on Decarie Boulevard. The Division currently consists of 8 board-certified pediatric surgeons with varying interests and expertise, including pediatric critical care. The Division has many interdisciplinary clinics (e.g. EATEF, CDH, chest wall anomalies) and will launch a colorectal center of excellence (COCOE) in September 2024. In addition, Division members dedicate significant personal and academic time to global surgery and indigenous health. The program also has a close working relationship with the Shriner’s Hospital for Children, located immediately adjacent to the MCH, the only Shriner’s hospital outside of the USA. As of 2023, the MCH has trained 60 surgeons from North America and worldwide.

Institution Information

Montreal Children’s Hospital
Montreal, QC Canada

Number of beds: 156, with 52 NICU and 18 PICU beds

Percentage of time at this location: 100%

Training site type: Free-standing children's hospital

Faculty Information

Program Director: Hussein Wissanji, MD, MPH

[email protected]

Program manager: Alessia Umana, Program Coordinator
[email protected]

Faculty, Harvey E. Beardmore Division of Pediatric Surgery:

Sherif Emil, MD, CM
Mirella & Lino Saputo Foundation Chair in Pediatric Surgical Education and Patient and   Family-Centred Care
Professor of Pediatric Surgery, Surgery, and Pediatrics Associate Chair for Education &      Departmental Citizenship Department of Pediatric Surgery
McGill University Faculty of Medicine
Director: Harvey E. Beardmore Division of Pediatric Surgery
The Montreal Children's Hospital
McGill University Health Centre

Jean-Martin Laberge, MD
Professor of Surgery and Paediatric Surgery
Department of Pediatric Surgery
McGill University Faculty of Medicine

Pediatric Surgeon, Harvey E. Beardmore Division of Pediatric Surgery
The Montreal Children's Hospital
McGill University Health Centre

Dan Poenaru, MD, MHPE, PhD
Professor of Surgery and Pediatric Surgery
FRQS Clinical Research Scholar
McGill University Faculty of Medicine
Pediatric Surgeon, Harvey E. Beardmore Division of Pediatric Surgery
The Montreal Children’s Hospital
McGill University Health Centre

Pramod S. Puligandla, MD, MSc
Professor of Pediatric Surgery, Pediatrics and Surgery
McGill University Faculty of Medicine
Department of Pediatric Surgery
Pediatric Surgeon, Harvey E. Beardmore Division of Pediatric Surgery
Pediatric Intensivist, Division of Pediatric Critical Care
The Montreal Children’s Hospital
McGill University Health Centre

Kenneth S. Shaw, MD, CM
Assistant Professor of Surgery and Pediatric Surgery
Medical Director, Pediatric and Adolescent Trauma Program
Department of Pediatric Surgery

McGill University Faculty of Medicine

Pediatric Surgeon, Harvey E. Beardmore Division of Pediatric Surgery
The Montreal Children’s Hospital
McGill University Health Centre

Etienne St-Louis, MD CM, PhD, FRCSC (Start date summer 2024)

Assistant Professor of Pediatric Surgery

Department of Pediatric Surgery

McGill University Faculty of Medicine

Pediatric Surgeon, Harvey E. Beardmore Division of Pediatric Surgery
The Montreal Children’s Hospital
McGill University Health Centre

Maeve O'Neill Trudeau, MD CM, MPH, FRCSC

Assistant Professor of Pediatric Surgery

Department of Pediatric Surgery

McGill University Faculty of Medicine

Pediatric Surgeon, Harvey E. Beardmore Division of Pediatric Surgery
The Montreal Children’s Hospital
McGill University Health Centre

Hussein Wissanji, MD, MPH, FRCSC

Assistant Professor of Surgery and Pediatric Surgery

Program Director, Pediatric Surgery Fellowship

Director, Colorectal Center of Excellence (COCOE)

Department of Pediatric Surgery

McGill University Faculty of Medicine

Pediatric Surgeon, Harvey E. Beardmore Division of Pediatric Surgery
The Montreal Children’s Hospital
McGill University Health Centre

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: one per year

Current fellow(s):
 Carolina Pinzon-Guzman, MD, PhD (senior fellow)
Samantha Knight, MD (junior fellow)

Previous five fellows:

Etienne St-Louis, MD, CM, PhD

2023

Current position: Bariatric Surgery subspecialization - Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada, followed by staff Pediatric Surgeon at Montreal Children’s Hospital, McGill University, Quebec, Canada

Yasmine Yousef, MD, CM, PhD
2022
Current Position: Fetal surgery specialization, Hôpital Necker Enfants malades AP-HP, followed by staff Pediatric Surgeon at Joe Di Maggio Hospital, Hollywood, Florida

Amanda Hall, MD, PhD
2021
Pediatric Surgeon, Assistant Professor – University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK

Eileen Duggan, MD, MPH
2019
Pediatric Surgeon, Assistant Professor - University of Louisville School of Medicine
Louisville, KY

Hussein Wissanji, MD, MPH
2018
Pediatric Surgeon, Assistant Professor - McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Curriculum Information

Call Schedule

1^st Year - home call Q2

Fellows are not called for appendicitis or abdominal pain consults, as these are managed by the staff on call with the junior resident. Fellows will receive calls from the PICU/NICU or significant trauma activations.

2^nd Year - home call Q2
Fellows are not called for appendicitis or abdominal pain consults, as these are managed by the staff on call with the junior resident. Fellows will receive calls from the PICU/NICU or significant trauma activations.

Conference Schedule

• Tuesday
  • NICU-Surgery Rounds – weekly
    • Journal club
  • GI/Surgery Rounds – weekly
    • Case conference/review of common patients
  • Wednesday – Academic Half Day
    • Senior Teaching – SCORE (07h00-08h00, 12h00-13h30)
    • Surgery-Radiology-Pathology (SRP) – 08h00-09h00
    • Resident’s clinic (09h00-12h00)
    • PICU Teaching (PM) – open invitation (ECLS wet labs, special topics, inter-disciplinary rounds)
  • Thursday
    • Departmental M+M grand rounds – every other month
    • Trauma rounds – 3^rdweek of block
    • Pediatric Surgical Grand Rounds – 1^stweek
    • Tumor Board – weekly
  • Friday
    • Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy Group (every week)

Special Conferences:

• Northeastern Rounds
  • Three times a year with CHEO, HSJ, Quebec, Kingston, +/-London, +/- Toronto
  • Guttman Day – June every year
• Bass Rounds
  • Eight times a year with Canadian Pediatric Surgery training programs

Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Continued Accreditation

Meeting/Training Course policy: Fellows' travel and lodging are covered for most post-graduate courses:

1. Transition to Pediatric Surgery Fellowship Course
2. MIS course
3. Jude Oncology Course
4. AAP Resident Retreat
5. Colorectal Course

Vacation and time away are recorded and confirmed with “time away” regulations set by the RRC

Financial support for candidate interviews: No

Average total number of cases performed by graduating fellows over the past five years: 900

Board passage rate (3 years): 100%

Fellow salary: N/A

Last updated: December 2024

Program web page URL  https://www.nationwidechildrens.org/for-medical-professionals/education-and-training/fellowship-programs/pediatric-surgery-fellowship

Overview of Fellowship

The Nationwide Children’s Hospital Pediatric Surgery Fellowship program seeks candidates from a diverse background who are eager to pursue a career in pediatric surgery. The goal of the program is to provide the mentoring and training needed to develop expertise in the diagnostic, operative and perioperative care for children with congenital and acquired anomalies and diseases, be they developmental, inflammatory, neoplastic or traumatic. The scope of the training is broad, with a curriculum that encompasses surgical problems in utero, infancy, childhood, adolescence and young adulthood. The educational component prepares our trainees to function independently as board-certified subspecialists and provide them with skills necessary for delivery of surgical care in the tertiary setting, including team management, continuous performance improvement, application of new technology and participation in research. Upon completion, the fellow will have acquired the knowledge, skills, and an enthusiasm for life-long learning, teaching and practice of the pediatric surgery subspecialty. Candidates choose the NCH program due to the pediatric focus, high clinical volume and diverse faculty. The faculty have varied backgrounds and expertise and are at different stages in their careers.

Strengths

• Large volume of colorectal cases, alternate coverage of esophageal foreign bodies (airway FB by ENT)
• Alternate coverage of emergency GYN cases with pediatric adolescent GYN
• ENT rotation
• Specialist fellows help cover cases and calls, strong program support for career development of all trainees

Weakness

• Fellows not involved with transplant cases, (however, fellows responsible for all non-transplant HPB cases)

Institution Information

Training site #1:

Name Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Columbus, OH United States

#beds 673

Percentage of time at this location: 100%

Brief description of other hospital information  Named to the Top 10 Honor Roll on U.S. News & World Report’s 2023-24 list of “Best Children’s Hospitals,” Nationwide Children’s Hospital is one of America’s largest not-for-profit freestanding pediatric health care systems providing wellness, preventive, diagnostic, treatment and rehabilitative care for infants, children and adolescents, as well as adult patients with congenital disease. Nationwide Children’s has a staff of more than 13,000 providing state-of-the-art pediatric care during more than 1.6 million patient visits annually. As home to the Department of Pediatrics of The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Nationwide Children’s physicians train the next generation of pediatricians and pediatric specialists. The Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital is one of the Top 10 National Institutes of Health-funded freestanding pediatric research facilities. More information is available at NationwideChildrens.org.

Faculty Information

Program Director – Benedict C. Nwomeh, MD, MPH

Assistant Program Director (if applicable) – Gail E. Besner, MD

Program manager and email – Mindy Osborne – [email protected]

List of Faculty and titles

Benedict C. Nwomeh, MD, MPH
Brian D. Kenney, MD, MPH
Christopher K. Breuer, MD
Cory N. Criss, MD
Dana Schwartz, MD
Gail E. Besner, MD
Ihab Halaweish, MD
Jaimie Nathan, MD

James Geiger, MD
Jennifer H. Aldrink, MD
Karen A. Diefenbach, MD
Kyle Van Arendonk, MD
Marc P. Michalsky, MD

Marcus Jarboe, MD

Matthew Ralls, MD
Oluyinka O Olutoye, MD, PhD
Rajan K. Thakkar, MD
Renata B. Fabia, MD
Richard J. Wood, MD
Sara Mansfield, MD
Sara K. Rasmussen, MD

Steven Bruch, MD

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: One per year

Current fellow(s) names:

Steven Scoville, MD

Jack Vernamonti, MD

List of previous 5 fellows: name, grad year, current position

Liese Pruitt, MD; July 2023 – Colorectal Fellow/Faculty, Nemours Children’s

Joseph Drews, MD; July 2022 – Faculty, WV University

Jamie Golden, MD; July 2021 – Faculty, King’s Daughters

Dani Gonzalez, MD; July 2020 – Faculty, Dell Children’s

Afif Kulaylat, MD; July 2019 – Faculty, Penn State Children’s

Program Information  

RRC accreditation status: Continued Accreditation

Continued Accreditation: Yes

Meeting/Training Course policy Pays for Transition to Fellowship bootcamp, general surgery board prep, St. Jude course, MIS course, Colorectal course, APSA meeting, AAP meeting plus any additional meetings if fellow presenting own work.  Time away subject to RRC regulations governing time in training.

Does the program provide financial support for candidate interviews? Yes

Optional information

What is the average total number of cases performed by your graduating fellows over the past five years?

1300

Board Passage rate (last ten years) 100%

Fellow Salary

PGY-8 = $85,717.69; PGY-9 = $89,963.73; PGY-10 = $93,566.40

Last updated: December 2024

Program website: https://columbiasurgery.org/education-training/pediatric-surgery-fellowship

The NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia Pediatric Surgery Fellowship Program is a two-year program designed to provide a broad intensive education in all aspects of pediatric general surgery. The education is focused on, but not limited to, pediatric surgical oncology, congenital and acquired conditions of the newborn, non-cardiac thoracic surgery, and all aspects of pre- and post-operative care of infants and children. Multidisciplinary programs in Trauma, ECMO, Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia, Oncology, Thyroid disease, Obesity and Esophageal Atresia provide focused education in these areas. The integrated program in prenatal pediatrics provides the fellow exposure to diagnosis, treatment, and counseling of the fetal patient/family as well. The goal of our training program is to graduate surgeons who can independently evaluate and treat the full scope of pediatric surgical diseases, manage the consequences of treatment, and know when to seek appropriate consultation and advice.

Institution Information

NYP Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital
New York, NY United States

Number of beds: 284

Percentage of time at this location: 90%

Training site type: Free standing children's hospital

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY United States

Percentage of time at this location: 5%

Training site type: Children's hospital within adult hospital

Faculty Information

Program Director: William Middlesworth, MD, Professor of Surgery

Associate Program Director: Erica Fallon MD,

[email protected]

Program manager: Yesenia Suarez
[email protected]
212-342-8585
Fax: 212-342-2138

Melissa Molina

[email protected]

Pediatric Surgery NewYork Presbyterian (Columbia Campus)
Phone number: 212-342-8585
Fax Number: 212-342-2138

Faculty:
Jennifer DeFazio, MD: Assistant Professor of Surgery
Vincent Duron, MD: Assistant Professor of Surgery
Erica Fallon, MD: Assistant Professor of Surgery
Jeffrey Zitsman, MD: Professor of Surgery

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: other

Current fellow(s):
Roxanne Massoumi, MD

Claire Gerall, MD

Previous 5 fellows:
Matthew S Alexander

2023

Pediatric Surgeon Unity Point Health

Meredith A Baker

2022

Pediatric Surgeon at MaineHealth

Sandra K Kabagambe

2021

Assistant Professor Pediatric Surgery at UVA Health

Cornelia Griggs

2020

Pediatric Surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital

Jennifer Defazio, MD
2019
Assistant Professor in Surgery NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Curriculum Information

Block Schedule
PGY6

PGY7

(GPS) General Pediatric Surgery (both in-patient and outpatient Fellows manage a weekly clinic as part of their curriculum) Site 1
(MSKCC) Pediatric Surgical Oncology (both in-patient and outpatient) Site 2
(Urology) Pediatric Urology (both in-patient and outpatient) Site 1
(NICU)  NICU (Nutritional Management/ Ventilator Management) Site 1
(PICU)  PICU (Nutritional Management/ Ventilator Management) Site 1

NOTE: Vacation is coordinated amongst the 2 Pediatric Surgery Fellows based on coverage. Pediatric Surgery Fellows are allowed 4weeks every academic year.

Call Schedule
1^st Year – home call only
2^nd Year – home call only

Conference Schedule
Weekly: Chairman's Conference, Radiology, Morbidity and Mortality, Pediatric Solid Tumor Conference, Journal club/Resident topic Presentations

Monthly/Quarterly: Pathology, Trauma Simulation, Surgical Skills simulation, Joint Neonatlogy/Surgery Conference

Full academic year conference schedule example below.

Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Continued Accreditation

Meeting/Training Course policy: Program pays for all required conference and conferences at which the fellow is presenting.

Financial support for candidate interviews: No

Average total number of cases performed by graduating fellows over the past 5 years: N/A

Board passage rate (3 years): N/A

Fellow salary: NewYork Presbyterian Hospital Graduate Medical Education Graduate Staff Salary Analysis: Graduate Staff Level 2019-2020; Graduate Staff Level 6: $90,209; Graduate Staff Level 7: $92,925

Last updated: 02/07/2020

Program website: https://www.nicklauschildrens.org/medical-professionals/medical-education/graduate-medical-education-gme/b-gme-fellowship-training-programs/pediatric-surgery-fellowship

The Department of Pediatric Surgery offers a two-year ACGME-Accredited fellowship training program in pediatric surgery to Board Eligible or Certified general surgeons who are looking to gain experience in the surgical care of children. The mission of the program is to provide comprehensive training in an environment that emphasizes diverse clinical experience and excellence. The Department of Pediatric Surgery responds to the surgical needs of a very busy emergency department with 100,000 visits a year. The surgical team is an integral part of the Nicklaus Children's Hospital solid tumor program which is a Children's Oncology Group (COG) affiliate. We serve a busy neonatal intensive care unit and treat a broad spectrum of tertiary cases and a full array of common surgical problems in children ranging from the newborn period to age 21. The training program includes integration of didactic, clinical and operative instruction. Clinical education encompasses both inpatient and outpatient bedside teaching. The Training Program follows the ACGME guidelines for Fellowship in Pediatric Surgery and includes conferences in Radiology, Surgical Pathology, Trauma, Tumor Board, GI, Endocrinology, as well as Vascular Malformations Multidisciplinary Rounds, Core Curriculum, Journal Club and a bi-monthly Mortality and Morbidity Conference. The pediatric surgical fellow has the opportunity to become proficient in a broad range of surgical skills during the training program.

Strengths

• The program provides wide spectrum of complex cases and programmatic opportunities including fetal care, oncology, colorectal, endocrine and vascular malformations/ anomalies.
• Diverse patient population and very active global health office
• Training is concentrated in one site, with the opportunity for national or international electives.
• Strong Faculty Commitment to the program and comprehensive didactics
• Advance minimally invasive approach to neonatal anomalies and one of the busiest pediatric robotic programs in the country
• We have a strong support team composed of ARNPs, PAs and rotating residents from four different general surgery programs.

Weaknesses

• No exposure to Transplant cases
• Lack of basic science research (at this time)

Faculty Information

Program Director: Fuad Alkhoury, M.D.

Associate Program Director: Cathy Anne Burnweit, MD

Program manager: Ana Otero, C-TAGME
[email protected]
786-624-2891

Faculty:
Leopoldo Malvezzi, MD
Juan L Calisto, MD
Shahab Ahmad Shaffiey, MD, MSc

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: one per year

Current fellow(s):
John Tackett, MD
Randi Lassiter, MD

Previous 5 fellows:
Kyle Glithero, MD
2019
Maimonides Medical Center
Brooklyn, NY

Carmelle Romain, MD
2018
University of Chicago Medical Center/ NorthShore University Health System
Chicago, IL

Lynn Model, MD
2017
Maimonides Medical Center
Brooklyn, NY

Gavin Falk, MD
2016
Kalispell Regional Medical Center
Kalispell, MT

Tara Loux, MD
2015
St Joseph's Children's Hospital
Tampa, FL

Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Continued Accreditation

Meeting/Training Course policy: no, unless fellows are presenting

Financial support for candidate interviews: No

Average total number of cases performed by graduating fellows over the past 5 years: 1200

Board passage rate (3 years): 90%

Fellow salary: PGY 6: $75,857.60, PGY 8: $82,409.60, PGY 9: $84,864.00

Last updated: December 2024

Program website: https://www.ohsu.edu/school-of-medicine/surgery/pediatric-surgery-fellowship-department-surgery

The Pediatric Surgery Fellowship Program in the OHSU School of Medicine is an ACGME-accredited two-year training program. Our fellows rotate between two primary sites, Doernbecher Children's Hospital and Legacy Emanuel Randall Children's Hospital, which have the only two Level 1 pediatric trauma centers, Level IV NICUs, and Level 1 Children’s Surgery Verification (CSV) centers in Oregon.  The pediatric surgery faculty at Doernbecher Children's Hospital and Randall Children's Hospital collaborate both clinically and academically.  The two hospitals are five miles apart, which allows the teams at both sites to meet together for weekly clinical/educational meetings.  The service encourages progressive responsibility for patient management and offers a diverse experience in clinical pediatric surgery. This broad experience includes exposure to advanced minimally-invasive surgery, chest wall reconstruction, fetal surgery, surgical oncology, ECMO, quality improvement projects, and outcomes research. Fellows typically complete 1,000 – 1,200 cases during their fellowship and exceed all required case minimums.  The fellowship training includes mandatory and elective rotations in the NICU, PICU, Anesthesia, Urology, and ENT.

Institution Information

Training Site #1: Doernbecher Children’s Hospital – Portland, Oregon

Number of beds: 154

Percentage of time at this location: 50%

Training site type: Children’s hospital within adult hospital

Doernbecher Children's Hospital is an academic teaching children's hospital associated with Oregon Health & Science University located in Portland, Oregon. Established in 1926, it is the first full-service children's hospital in the Pacific Northwest, and provides full-spectrum pediatric care.

Training Site #2: Legacy Emanuel Hospital

Number of beds: 165

Percentage of time at this location: 50%

Training site type: Children’s hospital within adult hospital

Randall Children's Hospital offers a variety of pediatric services including burns, oncology, dentistry, ENT, emergency medicine, eye care, orthopedics, surgical, a neonatal ICU, audiology, urgent care, sleep disorders, rheumatology, and radiology, amongst other

Faculty Information

Program Director: Mubeen Jafri, MD, FACS, FAAP

Associate Program Director: Constance Lee, MD and Lucas McDuffie, MD

Program manager: Kate Manelis
[email protected]

Faculty:
Kenneth Azarow, MD, FACS, FAAP, Chair of Department of Surgery

Benjamin Carr, MD, Assistant Professor

Elizabeth Fialkowski, MD, FACS, FAAP, Associate Professor

Cynthia Gingalewski, MD, Randall Children’s Hospital Medical Director

Mubeen Jafri, MD, FACS, FAAP, Professor

Sanjay Krishnaswami, MD, FACS, FAAP, Professor and Doernbecher Surgeon-in-Chief

Constance Lee, MD, Assistant Professor

Lucas McDuffie, MD, Assistant Professor

Raphael Sun, MD, FACS, FAAP, Assistant Professor

Andrew Zigman, MD, Affiliate Professor (Kaiser Permanente)

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: one per year

Current fellow(s):
Danny Labuz, MD (2^nd year)

Maria Tecos, MD (1^st year)

Previous 5 fellows:
Devin Halleran, 2024, Pediatric Surgeon, UPMC Children’s Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
Mike Arnold, 2023, Pediatric Surgeon, Golisano Children’s Hospital of SW Florida, Fort Meyers, FL
Wesley Barry, 2022, Pediatric Surgeon, Providence, Anchorage, AK
Colin Gause, 2021, Pediatric Surgeon, Providence St Vincent, Portland, OR
Stephanie Polites, 2020, Pediatric Surgeon, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Curriculum Information

Block Schedule
2023 Block Diagram

Call Schedule
1st year: Q2
2nd year: Q2

Block Schedule
Click here to view the block schedule.

Conference Schedule
Educational Conference Monthly Schedule

Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Continued Accreditation

Initial Accreditation: 6/22/2006

Meeting/Training Course policy: OHSU pays for conference registration, airfare and hotel for three conferences for our senior fellow and for two conferences for our junior fellow.

Financial support for candidate interviews: No

Average total number of cases performed by graduating fellows over the past 5 years: 1266

Board Passage rate (last ten years): 90% passage of QE and 100% CE on first attempt since 2014

Fellow salary: 2025-2026

$94,177 PGY 6

$97,698 PGY 7

Last updated: 10/02/2024

Program website: https://www.rchsd.org/programs-services/pediatric-surgery/fellowship/

Overview

We seek trainees interested in learning to manage the full spectrum of general pediatric surgical conditions in any practice setting whilst employing their humanity and individuality to enhance our profession.

Strengths

• Large case volume and complexity
• Diverse faculty, 9 faculty members
• Free standing USNWR Top Ten children'shospital with many nationally ranked subspecialties supported by accompanying fellowships offering a wide array of specialty trainee programs.
• Pediatric Surgical critical care fellowship

Institution Information

Rady Children's Hospital
San Diego, CA United States

Number of beds: 524

Percentage of time at this location: 100%

Training site type: Free standing children's hospital

• 90% of pediatric care in San Diego. -99% of complex care.
• Provides care to c >225,000 children yearly.
• Yearly c >20,000 admissions.
• Yearly c 250,000 outpatient visits.
• Yearly c 900 trauma patients.
• Yearly c 100,000 emergency care visits and c 50,000 urgent care visits. (c 400/day)
• Yearly c >20,000 surgeries.
• Yearly c 300 newly diagnosed cancer patients.
• Pediatric Surgery volume: 3500 – 4300 cases/year.
• Genomics Institute has sequenced >1000 patient/family genomes.

Faculty Information

Program Director: Karen Kling, MD, FACS

Associate Program Director: Timothy Fairbanks, MD, FACS

Program manager:
Janelle Lagler
[email protected] email is best
858 966 1700 X224292

Faculty:
Stephen Bickler, MD, DTM - Professor
Timothy Fairbanks, MD, MBA - Associate Professor

Gerry Gollin, MD - Professor
Romeo Ignacio, MD, CPT USN - Professor
Benjamin Keller, MD - Assistant Professor
Karen Kling, MD - Professor
David Lazar, MD - Associate Professor
Hariharan Thangarajah, MD, MS - Associate Professor

Kyle Thompson, MD - Assistant Professor

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: one per year

Current fellow(s):

Keon Young Park, MD phD

Megan Birkhold, MD

Previous 5 fellows:

Tim Tirrell, MD PhD
2024
Assistant Professor, Stanford University

Amanda Harrington, MD Mph
2023
Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital

Shunpei Okochi, MD
2022
Assistant Professor and Director of ECMO and Pediatric Surgical Critical Care
Mount Sinai Hospital Health

Jonathan Halbach, DO LCDR
2021
Chief, Naval Hospital, Edward Herbert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University
Portsmouth, VA

Benjamin Keller, MD
2020
Assistant Professor and Program Director Pediatric Surgical Critical Care
Rady Children's Hospital University of California, San Diego School of Medicine

Bhargava Mullapudi, MD
2018
Associate Professor and Director of Pediatric Transplantation
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine.

Katherine Davenport, MD
2015
Associate Professor and Director of Pediatric Trauma
Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters

Curriculum Information

Call Schedule
1st year: q 4 call
2nd year: q 4 call

Conference Schedule

Click here to view the conference schedule. 

Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Continued Accreditation

Initial accreditation: 2015

Continued accreditation: Yes

Meeting/Training Course policy: APSA, AAP, boot camp, ECMO course, 2 other courses during the fellowship

Financial support for candidate interviews: No

Average total number of cases performed by graduating fellows over the past 5 years: 1200-1300

Board passage rate (3 years): 100%

Fellow salary: https://meded.ucsd.edu/index.cfm/gme/house_officer

book funds, meal stipend, housing stipend, fellow offices and call room with computers, clinical workroom embedded in patient care area

Last updated: September 2023

Program website: https://medicine.iu.edu/departments/surgery/education-programs/fellowship/pediatric-surgery/

It is the Mission of the Riley Hospital for Children/Indiana University School of Medicine, Pediatric Surgery program to:

• Advance the health of children through quality surgical care
• Advance pediatric surgical care through basic science and clinical outcomes research
• Advance delivery of pediatric surgical care through quality education of its trainees

The Aims of the Pediatric Surgery Fellowship Program at Indiana University School of Medicine are to:

• Provide post-graduate, board-eligible general surgeons the training to become competent surgeons in the delivery of specialized, high-quality pediatric surgical care.
• Provide a collegial environment that allows collaborative work with professionals across the disciplines of pediatric medicine, while emphasizing the importance of interprofessional collaboration and teamwork in patient care.
• Provide a supportive learning environment that fosters trainee development of self-directed, lifelong learning

Strengths

• Collegial training environment
• Diverse faculty perspective and surgical technique utilized in training fellows
• High volume center at the only academic training center in the state
• Significant supportive resources, including General and Trauma nurse practitioner support
• Level 1 Trauma center
• ELSO designated Platinum level ECMO center with robust ECMO training for fellows
• Contemporary hospital and operating room technology and facilities
• Diverse educational experience, including frequent multinational teleconferences with peer hospitals in Kenya
• Fetal diagnosis and therapeutic center
• Potential fellow elective rotation in Kenya
• Excellent history of graduates attaining desirable job post-fellowship
• Graduate jobs range from private practice to surgeon scientists and academic centers

Weakness

• Surplus of index cases, leaving some covered by senior residents instead of fellows

Institution Information

Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health
Indianapolis, IN United States

Number of beds: 325

Percentage of time at this location: 100%

Training site type: Free standing children's hospital

Annual Emergency Department Visits                    >47,000
Annual Hospital Operative Volume                         >19,000
2018 Division of Pediatric Surgery Volume             >3,000

Centers of Care:

• Colorectal/Motility
• Maternal/Fetal Medicine
• Chest Wall
• Intestinal Rehabilitation
• Biliary Atresia
• ECMO Center of Excellence

Faculty Information

Program Director: Brian Gray, MD

Associate Program Director: Alan Ladd, MD MBA

Program manager: Stacy Faletic
(o) 317-944-7611
(f) 317-944-9740
[email protected]

Faculty:

1. Cartland Burns, MD, Children’s Surgical Verification Director
   Megan Coughlin, MD
   Barrett Cromeens, DO, PhD

Brian Gray, MD, Program Director, ECMO Director

Britney Grayson, MD, PhD, BethanyKids, Kijabe, Kenya

Alan Ladd, MD, Division Chief, Associate Program Director
Matthew Landman, MD, MPH, Trauma Director
Troy Markel, MD, Research Director
Jacob Olson, MD
Frederick Rescorla, MD, Former Division Chief

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: one per year

Current fellow(s):

Sarah Tracy MD
Residency – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Benjamin Many MD

Residency - Northwestern University

Previous 5 fellows:

Amanda Jensen, MD, MS, 2023 - Transplant Surgery Fellow, Stanford University

Eric Groh, MD, 2022 – Pediatric Surgeon, Pediatric Surgeons of West Michigan, Grand Rapids

Barrett Cromeens, DO, PhD, 2021 – Assistant Professor of Surgery at Indiana University

Lucas McDuffie, MD, 2020 – Assistant Professor, Oregon Health Sciences University

Britney Grayson, MD, PhD, 2019 – Assistant Professor of Surgery at Indiana University; BethanyKids, Kijabe, Kenya

Curriculum Information

Call Schedule
1^st Year – In-House Q4
2^nd Year - In-House Q4

Conference Schedule

Monday - ECMO M&M or education monthy

Tuesday – Neonatology-Surgery conference monthly, Resident teaching conference weekly

Wednesday – M&M*, Department of Surgery Grand Rounds, and/or invited lecturer* (2 AM hours weekly); tumor board weekly

Thursday – Fellow SCORE conference*, Multi-disciplinary fetal conference, or journal club* (1 AM hour weekly); GI-Surgery-Radiology conference* monthly

Friday – Trauma Multi-disciplinary conference monthly, multinational case conference with 2 partner hospitals in Kenya monthly, operative case review conference* monthly

*fellow led conferences

Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Continued Accreditation

Meeting/Training Course policy: Pays for one meeting and one course per year plus any additional meetings if fellow is presenting own work. Time away subject to RRC regulations governing time in training.

Financial support for candidate interviews: No

Average total number of cases performed by graduating fellows over the past 5 years: 1719

Board passage rate (10 years): 100%

Fellow salary: PGY level salary commensurate with University/School of Medicine Policy

Last updated: 01/12/2022

Program website: https://www.nemours.org/education/gme/fellowships/surgery.html

This fellowship will help you prepare for certification by the American Board of Surgery, and is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). The Pediatric Surgery Fellowship aims to:

1. Train a well-rounded, empathetic, safe pediatric surgeon who is confident managing all aspects of the surgical care of children.
2. Steward our fellow in quality improvement projects and methodology, and provide research opportunities.
3. Provide a rigorous didactic curriculum for our fellow utilizing 360 degree feedback.
4. Cultivate opportunities for our fellow to educate residents and students.
5. Encourage our fellow to collaborate across specialties.
6. Develop our fellow’s presentation skills during M&M conferences and multi-disciplinary educational meetings.

The program features the full participation of all nine of the Pediatric Surgery Division’s full-time faculty members. Each of these physicians have unique backgrounds and interests and will contribute greatly to your education. Your training will include a rigorous operating room and outpatient clinic experience, as well as bedside evaluation of children. You will be expected to be the leader of the Pediatric Surgery team and have ample opportunities for teaching rotating residents and medical students. You will also play a role in the organization of formal teaching conferences, which are held weekly. Formal rotations will be spent on Pediatric Urology and Neonatology during the first 12 months, with opportunities to spend time with Pediatric ENT. The last year will be spent entirely on the Pediatric Surgical Service.

The majority of your inpatient consultative time will take place at Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children (AIDHC), a freestanding children’s hospital in Wilmington, DE located on the verdant 300-acre Nemours Estate. The hospital is nationally ranked by U.S. News & World Report in four pediatric specialties, including Pediatric GI Surgery. The Hospital has been expanded in the last decade, and now includes 260 beds and state of the art PICU, level IV NICU, and OR facilities. There are more than 14,000 surgical procedures performed each year in our operating rooms (over 1,500 by the Division of Pediatric General Surgery), and there are 60,000 annual visits to our Emergency Department (ED).

Nemours/Alfed I. duPont Hospital for Children is accredited by the American College of Surgeons as the only Level One Pediatric Trauma Center in Delaware, with nearly 1,000 trauma patient visits per year. AIDHC is in the process of seeking Level 1 American College of Surgeons Children’s Surgery Verification (CSV) status. Additionally, the Advanced Delivery Program (ADP) offers onsite delivery of newborns with a wide spectrum of congenital anomalies who require immediate NICU and pediatric surgical care. We also offer the only regional mobile Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) program with the ability to both cannulate at regional hospitals and transport patients on ECMO.

• Program self-reported strengths

• • Large attending staff with diverse training backgrounds and interests
  • Program can adapt to the needs and interests of the current fellow
  • Exposure to complex hepatobiliary surgery and liver transplant (optional)
  • ECMO experience (we are a high volume ECMO center and the only regional center that performs ECMO transport)
  • Intestinal failure program
  • Pediatric surgical specialty programs including minimally invasive bariatric surgery, chest wall deformities, and endocrine surgery
  • Level IV NICU (only one in state of DE) with high volume and wide range of neonatal surgical disease
  • Advanced Delivery Program – onsite delivery program
  • Emphasis on exposure to prenatal consultation
  • Opportunity for meaningful fellow involvement in QI projects

• Program self-reported weaknesses

• • Single fellow program (this can be considered a weakness or strength depending on how you look at it)

Faculty Information

Program Director: Loren Berman, MD, MHS

Associate Program Director: Matthew Boelig, MD

Program manager: Nina Tarabicos-Dowd, BS
[email protected]
(302) 651-5159

Faculty:
Loren Berman, MD – PD
Matthew Boelig, MD – APD
Brian Duffy, MD
Stephen Dunn, MD – Chair, Department of Surgery
Erika Lindholm, MD
Charles Paidas, MD – Chief, Division of Pediatric General Surgery
Kirk Reichard, MD
Erin Teeple, MD

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: one every other year

Current fellow(s):
Mubina Isani, MD

Previous 5 fellows:
Allison Linden, MD, MPH (Graduated 2020)
Assistant Professor of Surgery – Emory University School of Medicine
Pediatric Surgeon - Division of Pediatric Surgery
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Atlanta, GA

Michael Phillips, MD (Graduated 2018)
Assistant Professor of Surgery – University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Pediatric Surgeon - Division of Pediatric Surgery
North Carolina Children’s Hospital
Chapel Hill, NC

Erin Teeple, MD (Graduated 2016)
Assistant Professor of Surgery – Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University
Pediatric Surgeon – Division of General Surgery
Nemours/AI duPont Hospital for Children
Wilmington, DE

Curriculum Information

Call schedule:
1st Year - in-house/home and
Q2
Q3
Q4
Other: Fellow takes home call every Tuesday and Wednesday evenings and every other weekend; when on call, Fellow takes calls for new NICU/PICU consults and will respond as appropriate; when on call, Fellow will come in for index type cases and additional cases at his/her discretion

2nd Year - in-house/home and
Q2
Q3
Q4
Other: Fellow takes home call every Tuesday and Wednesday evenings and every other weekend; when on call, Fellow takes calls for new NICU/PICU consults and will respond as appropriate; when on call, Fellow will come in for index type cases and additional cases at his/her discretion

Conference Schedule: Conferences are held every Wednesday AM and include:

• Mock Oral Exams (every other week, two faculty examiners per session)
• Patient Review with NICU and PICU (weekly, led by fellow)
• Core Curriculum Lectures (weekly, delivered by faculty and residents)
• Pediatric Surgery Division Morbidity and Mortality (every other week, led by fellow)
• Monthly Multidisciplinary Conferences (led by fellow): Surgery-Pathology, Surgery-Radiology
• Journal Club (Monthly, led by faculty and fellow)
• Enterprise Wide Interesting Case/Topic Conference - Nemours Delaware, Jacksonville, Orlando (led by faculty)
• Trauma Case and Peer Review (every other week, led by faculty)

Other Conferences for Fellow involvement:

• Weekly Tumor Board
• Weekly Fetal Management Conference

Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Continued Accreditation

Meeting/Training Course policy: Pays for Transition to Fellowship boot camp, MIS course, Colorectal course, APSA meeting, AAP meeting plus any additional meetings if fellow presenting own work. Time away subject to RRC regulations governing time in training.

Financial support for candidate interviews: No – all interviews currently conducted remotely via Zoom

Average total number of cases performed by graduating fellows over the past 5 years: 1268

Board passage rate (3 years): Qualifying Exam - 100%; Certifying exam - 67% first pass

Fellow salary: PGY 6 $74,419, PGY 7 $77,078

Last updated: December 2024

Program Name and location:

University at Buffalo Pediatric Surgery Fellowship

Program website: http://medicine.buffalo.edu/departments/surgery/education/fellowship/pediatric-surgery.html

Overview of Fellowship:
The Pediatric Surgery Fellowship Program offered through the University at Buffalo is an ACGME-accredited two-year program. Our one-fellow program provides a focused experience and opportunity to participate in most cases, including advanced MIS exposure. The fellow is fully immersed in inpatient and outpatient care during the program and is both a team leader and educator from day one.

We seek candidates who a motivated, self-learners who are interested in MIS innovation, able to run a service well as single fellow, and have a big-picture view of pediatric surgical care delivery.

Strengths

• Advanced MIS exposure
• Diverse faculty
• Teaching conferences
• New hospital
• Single-fellow program
• No night call
• Ample APP support

Weaknesses

• Single fellow program
• Lack of depth in hepatibiliary
• Inconsistent PICU/NICU/pediatric specialty support

Institution Information

Training Site #1:

John R. Oishei Children’s Hospital
Buffalo, NY United States

Number of beds: 180

Percentage of time at this location: 95%

Training site type: Free standing children’s hospital

John R. Oishei Children’s Hospital has 45,000 annual ED visits, 20,000 annual cases and is the only free-standing children’s hospital in the area and one of two level 1 pediatric trauma centers in New York State. Multidisciplinary surgery programs include: thyroid tumor board, intestinal rehab, obesity/weight wellness, vascular anomalies, chest wall deformities, and bowel management.

Training Site #2:

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY United States

Percentage of time at this location: 5%

Training site type: Children’s hospital within adult hospital

Our fellow completes a 1-month pediatric oncology rotation within the first year of the program.

Faculty Information

Program Director: Kaveh Vali, MD

Associate Program Director: Ben Ham, MD

Program manager and contact info:
Sydney Rojek
Training Program Administrator
[email protected]

Faculty:
Kaveh Vali, MD — Program Director, Clinical Assistant Professor
Ben Ham, MD — Associate Program Director, Assistant Professor
Carroll Mac Harmon, MD, PhD — Chief of Pediatric Surgery and Surgeon in Chief

Andrew Nordin, MD – Clinical Assistant Professor, Trauma Medical Director

Peter Kim, MD- Vice Chair Research and Innovation Department of Surgery Professor of Surgery

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: Once fellow, every other year (Start Dates; Aug 2026, Aug 2028, Aug 2030 etc.)

Current fellow(s):
Hector Osei, MD

Previous 5 fellows:
Maria Chulkov, MD

2024

Pediatric Surgeon, Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital

Roanoke, VA

Ruchi Amin, MD

2022

Pediatric Surgeon, Broward Health Coral Springs

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Ben Ham, MD
2020
Faculty, University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY

Anthony Savo, MD
2018
locum tenens

Ben Tabak, MD
2017
Pediatric Surgeon, Tripler Army Base
Honolulu, Hawaii

Curriculum Information

Block Schedule
The fellow is on the Pediatric Surgery service at Oishei Children’s Hospital for majority of the program, but has the opportunity to complete 1-month rotations in the hospital’s NICU and PICU, as well as a 1-month rotation at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for exposure to pediatric oncology cases.

Call Schedule
1st year: no in house call; home call and comes in at discretion of attending *
2nd year: no in house call; home call and comes in at discretion of attending *
*(no direct calls from anybody else)

Conference Schedule Elaborate conference schedule consisting of but not limited to:

tumor board, mock trauma, morbidity and mortality conference, case conference, neosurgery conference, pediatric GI conference, aerodigestive conference, multidisciplinary thyroid conference, journal club, trauma conferences, NSQIP conference, fetal care conference, ED/Peds Surg conference, PICU/Peds Surg conference, skills sessions, surgery/pathology/radiology conference, and pediatric surgery grand rounds

Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Continued Accreditation

Meeting/Training Course policy: Program pays for AAP, APSA, Colorectal Course, St Jude Oncology update, Chicago MIS course.

Financial support for candidate interviews: No

Average total number of cases performed by graduating fellows over the past 5 years: Around 1500

Board passage rate (3 years): 100%

Fellow salary:PGY-6: $68,192

PGY-7: $68,359

Plus estimated ~$3,000 in benefits each AY

Last updated: November 2024

Program website: https://surgery.uchicago.edu/education/pediatrics-surgery-fellowship

This two-year fellowship is an ACGME-accredited program that consists of extensive clinical and surgical training in pediatric surgery, including trauma, ECMO, oncology, congenital abnormalities, minimally invasive surgery, subspecialty and critical care services. Applicants must have completed training in general surgery and be eligible to take the qualifying examination in general surgery given by the American Board of Surgery or the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada. Interested applicants should apply to the program via the Electronic Residency Application Services (ERAS). One fellow is selected every other year through the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP). The program start date is August 1, and the end date is July 31 of the second year.

Institution Information

The University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital
Chicago, IL United States

Number of beds: 172

Percentage of time at this location: 100%

Training site type: Free standing children’s hospital

Welcome to the University of Chicago Section of Pediatric Surgery. We are proud to be a part of one of America’s premier universities and to share with you our rich surgical history matched only by our ongoing commitment to excellence in patient care, research and teaching. The Pediatric Surgical Subspecialty group at the University of Chicago performs more than 4,000 operations each year for a variety of childhood diseases. The clinical faculty offers world-renowned expertise in all aspects of pediatric surgical care with complete, well-balanced programs in General Surgery, Otolaryngology, Neurosurgery, Plastic Surgery, Orthopedics and Urology. The hallmark of the Pediatric General Surgery program is an AGCME-accredited, two-year fellowship training program in Pediatric General Surgery. The program has a broad clinical emphasis with clinical programs in minimally invasive surgery (MIS), Vascular Anomalies, Colorectal Reconstruction, Aerodigestive Disease, Chest Wall Deformities, Median Arcuate Ligament Syndrome (MALS), Hyperthermic Intra-Peritoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC), Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center, and Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO). In addition to these unique programs, the general surgery group performs traditional pediatric surgical procedures ranging in complexity from high index neonatal surgery to routine hernia surgery. Our fellows receive a broad-based training from faculty that are deeply invested in the education of future pediatric surgeons. The Otolaryngology group provides a vast range of complex services from endoscopic sinus surgery and cochlear implantation to traditional myringotomy tubes for otitis media. There is ongoing seminal research in allergic rhinitis supported by NIH funding. The Neurosurgery group supports all aspects of pediatric surgery including neuro-oncology, neurovascular surgery, functional neurosurgery, epilepsy and minimally invasive surgery, allowing unprecedented access to innovative treatments. There is ongoing research in hydrocephalus physiology supported by NIH funding. The Orthopedics group performs a wide range of procedures ranging in complexity from complicated scoliosis surgery to routine fracture care. The Urology group has a renowned national expert in bladder reconstruction and complex congenital urological anomalies who performs a wide range of minimally invasive procedures including robotic surgery ranging from innovative/complicated urological reconstruction to traditional hypospadias repair.  Along with our clinical and research activities, we emphasize a rich and vibrant academic environment for the education of medical students, residents, and fellows. We seek to create an environment that will foster the development and growth of our future medical leaders.

Faculty Information

Program Director:
Manish Raiji, MD
[email protected]
(773) 702-6175

Associate Program Director:
Grace Mak, MD
[email protected]

(773) 702-6175

Program manager:
Selena Gonzalez
[email protected]
(773) 641-7478

Faculty:

Grace Mak, MD – Professor; Chief, Section of Pediatric General Surgery; Surgeon-in-Chief, Comer Children’s Hospital

Jessica Kandel, MD — Mary Campau Ryerson Professor of Surgery

Thomas Lee, MD — Professor
Marion Henry, MD, MPH – Professor
Brian Jones, MD — Associate Professor
Deborah Loeff, MD — Associate Professor

Manish Raiji, MD, MA — Associate Professor

Bethany Slater, MD, MBA  – Associate Professor
Charlotte Kvasnovsky, MD – Assistant Professor

Carmelle Romain, MD — Assistant Professor
Baddr Shakhsheer, MD – Assistant Professor

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: One every year

Current fellow(s):
Laura Rausch, MD
Vanderbilt University Hospital

Previous 5 fellows:
Saunders Lin, MD
2024
Assistant Professor, La Bonheur Children’s Hospital
Memphis, TN

Frances Okolo, MD
2022
Assistant Professor, East Carolina University Health
Greenville, NC

Marielena Bachier-Rodriguez, MD
2021
Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

Minna Wieck, MD
2020
Assistant Professor , University of California at Davis
Sacramento, CA

Lindsay Talbot, MD
2018
Assistant Professor, St Judes Children’s Hospital
Memphis, TN

Curriculum Information

Call Schedule
1st year: In-house every other Saturday, Home call one night

2nd year: Home call — once per week and every other weekend

Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Continued Accreditation

Meeting/Training Course policy: Each fellow will have the opportunity to attend the following courses/conferences:

• American Pediatric Surgical Association (APSA)
• Pediatric Colorectal Course (Pena) in Colorado
• Course for Advanced Minimally Invasive Surgery (Northwestern) as well as an additional course of the fellow’s choosing

Financial support for candidate interviews: No

Average total number of cases performed by graduating fellows over the past 5 years: 1100

Board passage rate (3 years): 100%

Fellow salary: N/A

Last updated: December 2024

Program website: https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/surgery/surgical-specialties/pediatric-surgery/training

At Michigan Pediatric Surgery Fellowship Programs, we’re looking for leaders and innovators who want to change the way pediatric surgery is practiced and delivered. Whatever your future goals are as a surgeon, we’ll give you the training and resources to get there. We offer fellowship programs in pediatric surgery, pediatric surgical critical care, medical innovation in pediatrics, fetal diagnosis and treatment, and clinical research in pediatric surgery. Your training ground is the University of Michigan’s high-volume academic medical center, Michigan Medicine, home to C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, a modern 12-story facility featuring a dedicated pediatric emergency and trauma care center, as well as an operating suite featuring the latest technologies, including intra-operative MRI capability.

Here’s why training at Michigan will prepare you to lead in the profession:

• Training across the spectrum of specialties: Our physicians are internationally recognized experts in a broad range of pediatric surgery specialties, with core strengths in oncology, minimally invasive surgery including interventional radiology, critical care including ECMO, and neonatal surgery. You’ll benefit from working with an adept and caring faculty whose diverse experiences and areas of interest will spark and complement your own.
• Meaningful and immediate feedback: Faculty in the section provide frequent and timely feedback to fellows through in-person assessment as well as a novel smartphone-delivered survey. You’ll learn more, faster, through this ongoing feedback loop, building your autonomy as a surgeon as your training progresses.
• Extensive research opportunities: With more than $2 million in annual external sponsorship for Pediatric Surgery primary investigators, as well as longstanding partnerships across institutions, our research network is vast. Fellows will have their pick of opportunities to participate in research, from basic science to health services.
• Foundational knowledge in engaged settings: Fellows integrate quickly into the clinical rhythms of the department by participating in weekly conferences, including a pediatric tumor board, a multi-site patient management conference, a radiology/pathology conference, a PedScore lecture series, Pediatric Surgery Grand Rounds, morbidity/mortality conference, and multidisciplinary conferences in vascular anomalies, inflammatory bowel disease, neonatology, ECMO, and fetal management. You’ll learn clinical decision-making from physicians across multiple disciplines, and gain experience by presenting your own cases and receiving feedback.
• Research Education: We offer training for research in the field of pediatric surgery, giving our trainees time to develop advanced investigative skills and explore research projects. Our faculty work with trainees pursuing research throughout the University of Michigan, from fellows in our specialized Pediatric Surgery Research Fellowship to undergraduates in the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP). Throughout your time at Michigan, you’ll form friendships with peers and mentors that will invigorate your career trajectory now and into the future.

Institution Information

University of Michigan CS Mott Children's Hospital
Ann Arbor, MI United States

Number of beds: 302

Percentage of time at this location: 100%

Training site type: Free standing children’s hospital

U.S. News & World Report ranked Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital among the nation’s best children’s hospitals. U-M the only children’s hospital ranked in all ten categories, but Michigan is also ranked higher than every other children’s hospital in the state in every category evaluated. In 2017, University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital received verification as a Level 1 Children’s Surgery Center by the American College of Surgeons. The ACS Children’s Surgery Verification Quality Improvement Program was developed to improve the quality of children’s surgical care by creating a system that helps match each child’s individual surgical needs with the best care environment. With this designation, Michigan became one of the first level 1 children’s surgical centers in the nation. At Michigan Pediatric Surgery, we’re proud of the well-rounded enterprise we’ve built — performing nearly 2,500 operations a year in our fast-growing specialty practice; advancing pediatric surgery knowledge and practice through NIH-funded research; and offering collegial and unique fellowship training experiences. We’re motivated by providing the very best care to our patients while improving the health of children everywhere as we help create the future of pediatric surgery.

Faculty Information

Program Director: Samir Gadepalli, MS, MD, MBA

Associate Program Director:

Joe Church, MD

Byron Hughes, MD

Program manager: Megan Conard
[email protected]

Faculty:
Erika A. Newman, MD – Section Chief
Meghan Arnold, MD
Joseph Church, MD
Peter Ehrlich, MD
Samir Gadepalli, MD
Ronald B. Hirschl, MD
Byron D. Hughes, MD
George B. Mychaliska, MD
Erin E. Perrone, MD
Robin T. Petroze, MD
K. Elizabeth Speck, MD
Arul S. Thirumoorthi, MD

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: one per year

Current fellow(s):
Abigail Engwall-Gill, MD
Brittany Johnson, MD

Previous 5 fellows:

Aaron Beckwith, MD
2024
Dell Children’s Medical Center
Austin, Tx

Aimee Kim, MD
2023
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Children’s Hospital
Los Angeles, CA

Cory Criss, MD
2022
General Pediatric Surgery, Nationwide Children’s
Columbus, OH

Joseph Church, MD
2021
Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

Natasha Corbitt, MD
2020
Assistant Professor of Surgery, UT Southwestern
Dallas, Tx

Curriculum Information

Call Schedule
1st year: no in house call back up at home 1 in 2 come in for level 1 traumas
2nd year: no in house call back up at home 1 in 2 come in for level 1 traumas

Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Continued Accreditation

Meeting/Training Course policy: Program will pay for APSA and colorectal conference in years 1 and AAP and one other conference in year 2

Financial support for candidate interviews: No

Average total number of cases performed by graduating fellows over the past 5 years: 1247

Board passage rate (3 years): 100%

Fellow salary: $87,934 (2024-PGY 6)

Last updated: December 2024

Program web page URL  Pediatric Surgery Fellowship | Children's Mercy Kansas City

Overview of Fellowship

The pediatric surgery program at Children’s Mercy Hospital is a recognized as a leader in innovative clinical care, minimally invasive surgery, and research excellence. The fellowship will allow each to gain knowledge and experience in physiology, the disease processes, and the preoperative, intra-operative, postoperative care of infants and children. In addition, fellows have the luxury of practicing in a model with evidence based clinical pathways and protocols with a low level of variation in care. To that end, we look for a fellow with a strong clinical and research background.

Institution Information

Children’s Mercy Kansas City
2401 Gillham Road
Kansas City, MO United States

Training site #1:

Name free standing children’s hospital

#beds 390

Percentage of time at this location: 100%

Brief description of other hospital information

Children’s Mercy is verified as a Level 1 Children’s Surgery Center and Level 1 Trauma Center accredited by the American Board of Surgeons

Faculty Information

Program Director: Rebecca Rentea, MD

Assistant Program Director (if applicable): Rich Hendrickson, MD

Program manager and email: Danelle Vogt, MBA
[email protected]

List of Faculty and titles

Shawn St. Peter, MD – Senior Vice President; Surgeon-in-Chief; Chair Department of Surgery
Charles Snyder, MD – Chief, Division General Surgery
Richard Hendrickson, MD – Associate Program Director Pediatric Surgery Program, Director, Surgical Director Intestinal Rehabilitation; Surgical Director, Prenatal Consultation
Pablo Aguayo, MD – Director Burn Program; Program Director Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Program
Tolulope Oyetunji, MD – Director, Surgical Scholars Program, Director Health Outcomes Research
Rebecca Rentea MD –Program Director Pediatric Surgery Program, Director Comprehensive Colorectal Center
Bhargava Mullapudi, MD - Chief, Section of Transplant Surgery and Co-Director of the Brendan Elam Transplant Center
Iris Lim-Beutel, MD, MPH – Surgical Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinic; Associate Director, Comprehensive Colorectal Center

Fellow Information

Number of fellows: one per year and one every other year (January)

Current fellow(s) names:

Mimi Denning, MD

Nathan Rubalcava, MD

AJ Gonzalez Salazar, MD

List of previous 5 fellows: name, grad year, current position

Charlene Dekonenko, MD

2022-2024

Christus Children's, San Antonio, TX

Christopher Laird, MD
2022-2024

Children’s Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

Angela Kao, MD
2021-2023
Inova Fairfax Hospital, Fairfax, VA

Omar Nunez-Lopez MD
2020-2022
Valley Children’s Hospital, Fresno, CA

Justin Sobrino, MD
2019-2021
Saint Louis University/Cardinal Glennon Hospital, St Louis, MO

Call schedule

Fellows take on average one in five nights in house call. The 80-hour work week and all ACGME regulations are strictly agreed to.

Conference Schedule

Rotating conferences 3 morning per week including M&M, fellow conference (mock oral boards), journal club, core curriculum lectures, trauma review, trauma radiology, neonatal conference, surgery/GI conference

Program Information

RRC accreditation status: Continued Accreditation

Meeting/Training Course policy: Time away subject to RRC regulations governing time in training. Program pays for all traditional fellow courses: colorectal, MIS, oncology, APSA, AAP and any other meetings where the fellow presents their research.

Financial support for candidate interviews: Yes

Average total number of cases performed by graduating fellows over the past 5 years: 1777

Board passage rate (last 10 years): N/A

Fellow salary: Pediatric Surgery Fellowship | Children's Mercy Kansas City (childrensmercy.org)

2023-24 salaries:

PGY 6: $78,852.80

PGY 7: $81,224.00

PGY 8: $83,626.40

PGY 9: $85,342.40

PGY 10: $87,049.25

Benefits for fellows

$1,500 Educational stipend per academic year for books, travel and other educational materials
$2,250 Professional stipend for academic year to present scholarly activity
Health and dental insurance for trainee and dependents with no premiums
Hospital-issued iPad or laptop
Free parking
Moving allowance
20 days of vacation
Paid sick time
Paid board exam
Access to clinical and research librarians, statisticians, scientific writers and learning specialists
Tuition allowance of $5,250 per year
On-site fitness center and wellness center