Pediatric Surgery at the University of Utah provides specialty expertise for common problems in infants and children, as well as pediatric specialty surgery.
If your child has an illness, injury, or disease that requires surgery, a Pediatric Surgeon has the experience and qualifications to treat your child.
Surgical problems seen by pediatric surgeons are often quite different from those commonly seen by adult or general surgeons. Special training in pediatric surgery is important.
Dale G. Johnson Honorary Lecture - Thursday, April 22, 2010, Huntsman Cancer Institute Eccles Auditorium
Guest Lecturer, Alan W. Flake, M.D. is Director of the Children's Institute for Surgical Science and the Pediatric Surgery Residency Training Program Director at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and is a Professor of Surgery and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He maintains an active surgical practice in pediatric general, and thoracic surgery and has a focused clinical and research interest in fetal surgery. He is director of an active research laboratory located on the 11th floor of the Abramson Research Building investigating fetal stem cell and gene therapy, as well as prenatal correction of specific fetal surgical anomalies.
Message from the Division Chief
The Division of Pediatric Surgery is a close knit group of 7 pediatric surgeons who specialize in general, thoracic, neonatal surgery and trauma. These surgeons are dedicated to providing the children of Utah and the Intermountain West with the very best in pediatric surgical research and clinical care. As University of Utah academic surgeons we are equally dedicated to clinical practice within Intermountain’s flagship children’s hospital, Primary Children’s Medical Center.
Our affiliation with both the University of Utah and Intermountain allows us to offer the very best of both of these healthcare giants to our patients. As University of Utah professors, our partnerships with the University of Utah Medical School, the Department of General Surgery resident teaching program, and the Department of Pediatrics resident teaching program give us the privilege and opportunity of teaching the art of Pediatric Surgery to the surgeons and pediatricians of tomorrow. As dedicated clinicians at Primary Children’s Medical Center we are deeply devoted to our mission …."the child first and always."
Those of us in the Division of Pediatric Surgery today realize the importance of the solid basis of pediatric surgery in the Intermountain West established and nurtured under the direction of the first Chief of the Division, Dale G. Johnson, M.D., beginning in 1971.
Rebecka L. Meyers, M.D.
Chief, Division of Pediatric Surgery
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