David J. Schmeling, MD

Clinic Locations:

• Children’s Hospital and Clinics – Minneapolis
• Children’s Hospital and Clinics – St. Paul
• Maple Grove 

Board Certifications:

• Diplomate, National Board of Medical Examiners
• Diplomate, American Board of Surgery
• American Board of Surgery, Certificate of Special Qualifications in Pediatric Surgery
• Recertification in Pediatric Surgery, Special Qualifications
  
  

Education and Training:

• Medical School: University of Minnesota Medical School
• Internship:  University of Michigan Hospitals
• Residency in General Surgery: University of Michigan Hospitals
• Fellowship in Pediatric Surgery: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Memberships:

• Fellow, American College of Surgeons
• Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics, Surgical Section
• American Pediatric Surgical Association
• Frederick A. Coller Surgical Society
• Lilliputian Surgical Society
• Minnesota Medical Association
• Hennepin County Medical Society
• Ramsey County Medical Society
• Minneapolis Surgical Society
• Pediatric Surgery Board/American Board of Surgery
• Children’s Oncology Group, Surgery Committee

Publications:

• Are Antibiotics a Feasible Therapeutic Option for Appendicitis?
• Protocolized management of infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia: effect on survival.
• The management of pediatric appendicitis: a survey of North American Pediatric Surgeons.
• Cytoprotection by diclofenac sodium after intestinal ischemia/reperfusion injury.
• Current surgical management of Crohn’s disease in childhood.
• Experimental obliterative cholangitis. A model for the study of biliary atresia.
• Hormonal and metabolic response to operative stress in the neonate.
• Histamine: a promoter of xanthine oxidase activity in intestinal ischemia/reperfusion.
• Evidence for neutrophil-related acute lung injury after intestinal ischemia-reperfusion.
• The beneficial effects of ibuprofen on a lethal live E. coli septic shock model and the relationship of these effects to superoxide radical production.
• The biochemistry of opsonization: central role of the reactive thiolester of the third component of complement.
• Effect of staphylococcal alpha-toxin on phagocytosis of staphylococci by human polymorphonuclear leukocytes.
• Chemotaxigenesis by encapsulated Staphylococcus aureus M.
• Chemotaxigenesis by cell surface components of Staphylococcus aureus.