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Subspecialties of pediatric surgery itself include: neonatal surgery and fetal surgery. Other areas of surgery also have pediatric specialties of their own that require further training during the residencies and in a fellowship: pediatric cardiothoracic (surgery on the child's heart and/or lungs, including heart and/or lung transplantation), pediatric nephrological surgery (surgery on the ...
Andrea A. Hayes Dixon (born 1965) is an American surgeon. She was the first pediatric surgeon to perform a high-risk, life-saving procedure in children with a rare form of cancer and developed the first orthotropic xenograft model of metastatic Ewing's sarcoma.
Stephen E. Dolgin (born 1949 in Staten Island, New York City) is an American pediatric surgeon, and professor of Surgery at Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He is a consultant at Cohen Children’s Medical Center , the pediatric hub of Northwell Health.
Annabel Kirsten Finucane CNZM ONZM is a New Zealand pediatric heart surgeon, and was Chief Surgeon of the Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Service at Starship Hospital in Auckland for twenty years. In 2009 Finucane was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to medicine, in particular paediatric heart surgery.
Carson became the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center in 1984 at age 33, then the youngest chief of pediatric neurosurgery in the United States. [6] In 1987, he gained significant fame after leading a team of surgeons in the first-known separation of conjoined twins joined at the back of the head.
Diana L. Farmer is an American pediatric surgeon. She is the Pearl Stamps Stewart Professor of Surgery and chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of California, Davis and surgeon-in-chief of UC Davis Children's Hospital.
Paul Michael Colombani is an American pediatric surgeon.. Colombani earned his medical degree from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and completed residencies specializing in general surgery and pediatric surgery at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, respectively.
In 1992, Anderson was named surgeon-in-chief and vice president of surgery at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles, California. The same year, she became secretary and the first woman officer of the American College of Surgeons. From 1999 to 2000, she served as the first woman president of the American Pediatric Surgical Association.