Fizan Abdullah, MD, PhD

Community, Population Health, and Outcomes

Research Interests

  • Surgical Outcomes
  • Patient Safety
  • Access to Care
  • Quality of Care

Biography

  • Attending Physician, Pediatric Surgery
  • Orvar Swenson Founders’ Board Chair in Pediatric Surgery, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
  • Program Director, Fellowship in Pediatric Surgery, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
  • Professor of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

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Education and Background

  • Fellowship in Pediatric Surgery, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles 2005
  • Residency in General Surgery, Yale-New Haven Medical Center 2003
  • MD, Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University 1998

Publications

Feb. 16, 2024

Chest Wall Dermatitis Patterns Following Thoracoscopic Intercostal Nerve Cryoablation for Surgical Correction of Pectus Excavatum.

Feb. 08, 2024

Feasibility of Leveraging Consumer Wearable Devices with Data Platform Integration for Patient Vital Monitoring in Low-Resource Settings.

Jan. 08, 2024

Step cadence as a novel objective postoperative recovery metric in children who undergo laparoscopic appendectomy.

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