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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.

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American Academy of Pediatrics
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Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare
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Urology Care Foundation Patient Education
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