Biography

  • Attending Physician, Pediatric Surgery, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
  • Director, The Chicago Institute for Fetal Health, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicagov
  • Professor of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

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Education and Background

  • Fellowship in general and thoracic pediatric surgery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia 2000-2002
  • William Maul Measey Fellow in Fetal Surgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia 1999-2000
  • Postdoctoral fellow in fetal surgery research, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia 1996-1999
  • Residency in general surgery, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics 1991-1996
  • MD, University of Illinois College of Medicine 1991

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