Our Providers

Education and Training:

• Medical School: University of Minnesota School of Medicine

• Internship:  Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota

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

• Residency in Pediatric Surgery: Department of Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital – Harvard Medical School

• Fellowship: Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota

• Fully trained adult and adolescent weight loss surgeon

Memberships:

• Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons

• Association for Academic Surgery

• American College of Surgeons

• Society of Laparoscopic Surgeons

• International Pediatric Endosurgery

• American Pediatric Surgical Association

• Boston Surgical Society

• American Academy of Pediatrics

• New England Surgical Society

• American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery

• The Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America

Memberships:

• Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons

• Association for Academic Surgery

• American College of Surgeons

• Society of Laparoscopic Surgeons

• International Pediatric Endosurgery

• American Pediatric Surgical Association

• Boston Surgical Society

• American Academy of Pediatrics

• New England Surgical Society

• American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery

• The Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America

Professional Interests:

• Minimally Invasive Surgery

• Surgical Outcomes Research

• Patient Safety/Quality Initiatives

• Resident and Medical Student Education

• Healthcare Policy

Publications:

• ASMBS pediatric metabolic and bariatric surgery guidelines, 2018.

• Postoperative Complications in Children With Crohn Disease Treated With Infliximab.

• Effect of vagotomy during Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery on weight loss outcomes.

• A modern cohort of duodenal obstruction patients: predictors of delayed transition to full enteral nutrition.

• A Single Institution’s Overweight Pediatric Population and Their Associated Comorbid Conditions.

• Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding and hypoglycemia.

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

• A case report of the early results of laparoscopic bariatric surgery in six completely nonambulatory patients.

• Comparison of laparoscopic-assisted and open total proctocolectomy and ileal pouch anal anastomosis in children and adolescents.

• Predictive value of the Pediatric Ulcerative Colitis Activity Index in the surgical management of ulcerative colitis.

• NASPGHAN clinical report on the evaluation and treatment of pediatric patients with internal penetrating Crohn disease: intraabdominal abscess with and without fistula.

• Technique of laparoscopic-assisted total proctocolectomy and ileal pouch anal anastomosis in children and adolescents: a single center’s 8-year experience.

• Use of negative pressure wound therapy for abdominal wounds in neonates and infants.

• Transoral closure of a perforation of the hypopharynx from blunt trauma.

• Congenital intra-abdominal bilateral juvenile granulosa cell tumors of the testis associated with constitutional loss of material from chromosome 4.

• Thoracoscopic aortopexy for treatment of tracheomalacia in infants and children.

• Reduced size liver transplantation from a donor supported by a Berlin Heart.

• Use of a distal arteriovenous fistula in a complex vascular reconstruction after resection of an osteosarcoma in a high-risk child.

• Pediatric tracheal disruption repaired via median sternotomy.

• Laparoscopic stapled left lateral segment liver resection–technique and results.

• Chronic intrauterine pulmonary hypertension compromises fetal pulmonary artery smooth muscle cell O2 sensing.

• Paravalvular leaks around prosthetic valves implanted in the mitral position: technical refinements of the ovine model.

• Contribution of the K(Ca) channel to membrane potential and O2 sensitivity is decreased in an ovine PPHN model.

• Open-lung biopsy guides therapy in children.

• Development of a true primary repair for the full spectrum of esophageal atresia.