Our Providers

Education and Training:

• Medical School: Vanderbilt University

• PhD Surgery: University of Minnesota

• Fellowship in General Surgery: Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota

• Fellowship in Surgical Infectious Diseases: Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota

• Fellowship in Pediatric Surgery: Children’s Hospital Medical Center – Cincinnati

Memberships:

• Associate Fellow, American College of Surgeons

• American Pediatric Surgical Association

Professional Interests:

• Fetal Surgery

• Minimally Invasive Pediatric Surgery

• Surgical Infectious Diseases

• Pediatric Trauma

Publications:

• Early results of an objective feedback-directed system for the staged traction repair of long-gap esophageal atresia.

• Diagnosis and management of pediatric endocrine neoplasms.

• A deeply invasive Phoma species infection in a renal transplant recipient.

• Distant processing of pancreas islets for autotransplantation following total pancreatectomy.

• Transcontinental shipping of pancreatic islets for autotransplantation after total pancreatectomy.

• Retroperitoneal fibrosis: a report of complete colonic obstruction.

• The defective glucagon response from transplanted intrahepatic pancreatic islets during hypoglycemia is transplantation site-determined.

• Total lymphoid irradiation, without intrathymic injection of donor cells, induces indefinite acceptance of heart but not islet or skin allografts in rats.

• Allograft tolerance by intrathymic donor splenocyte transfer: an age-dependent, species-specific phenomenon?

• Islet Autotransplantation after total pancreatectomy in a child.

• Mycoplasma hominis infections occurring in cardiovascular surgical patients.

• Decreased chronic failure of intraperitoneal impure islets versus intrahepatic pure islets in a canine autograft model.

• Clinical islet autotransplantation after pancreatectomy: determinants of success and implications for allotransplantation?

• Autologous islet transplantation to prevent diabetes after pancreatic resection.

• T cell vaccination fails to prolong survival of skin allografts in mice.

• Pancreatic endocrine sufficiency does not inhibit engraftment of unpurified autologous islets in dogs

• Pregnancy after total pancreatectomy and autologous islet transplantation.

• The peritoneal cavity: an alternative site for clinical islet transplantation?

• Characterization and impact of wound infection after pancreas transplantation.

• Free intraperitoneal islet autografts in pancreatectomized dogs–impact of islet purity and posttransplantation exogenous insulin.

• Intraperitoneal transplantation of microencapsulated canine islet allografts with short-term, low-dose cyclosporine for treatment of pancreatectomy-induced diabetes in dogs.

• Effect of pancreatic islet allografts on kidney allograft rejection incidence in simultaneous islet/kidney and islet after kidney recipients.

• Evolution of kidney, pancreas, and islet transplantation for patients with diabetes at the University of Minnesota.