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APSA Statement on Children and US Immigration Policy

The American Pediatric Surgical Association joins our colleagues in the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Surgeons, the American Medical Association, and the American Nurses Association in a unified condemnation of the inhumane treatment of...

In Memoriam: J. Alex Haller, Jr.

We have lost another one of APSA’s Founding Members and a past President, Dr. J. Alex Haller, Jr., who died June 13 surrounded by his family. Haller was the Children’s-Surgeon-in-Charge of Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1964 until 1997. He had a special focus...

In Memoriam – E. Thomas Boles, Jr.

Dr. Boles was a founding member of APSA. In 1969, he and Dr. Lucian Leape determined that pediatric surgery was sufficiently mature to have its own professional society. Within a year, they had organized a group of pediatric surgeons to create APSA.  Dr. Boles served...

New Surgical Oncology Resources

APSA’s Cancer Committee has added a new page to the website intended to facilitate ready access to frequently used references for common pediatric malignancies. In addition, the Renal Tumors handbook has been updated and a Germ Cell Tumors handbook has been...