Katherine J. Deans, MD, MHSc, and Peter C. Minneci, MD, MHSc, have joined the Department of Pediatric Surgery at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and will co-direct the new Center for Surgical Outcomes Research (CSOR) at Nationwide Children’s. Both also hold faculty appointments in The Ohio State University College of Medicine.
Drs. Deans and Minneci will be responsible for developing and leading the Center for Surgical Outcomes Research (CSOR) at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. The CSOR will be a comprehensive surgical outcomes research program which will employ a wide range of methodologies in order to determine optimal interventions for the management of surgical diseases and the minimization of post-operative complications. This center will become one of the largest children’s surgery clinical research centers in the United States.
In addition, Drs. Deans and Minneci will offer the full range of clinical services in pediatric surgery. They both have extensive experience in the evaluation of the fetus and neonate with congenital anomalies and they will play important roles in developing the Columbus Fetal Medicine Collaborative. Dr. Minneci is an accomplished minimally invasive surgeon and will further expand Nationwide Children’s ability to offer laparoscopic and thoracoscopic approaches to pediatric surgical problems.
Prior to their arrival in Columbus, Dr. Deans served as an Assistant Professor of Surgery and Dr. Minneci was an Instructor of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Dr. Deans graduated from Dartmouth Medical School and completed a surgery residency and research fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the National Institutes of Health. She is board certified by the American Board of Surgery in Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, and Pediatric Surgery. She is a member of the American College of Surgeons, Society of Critical Care Medicine, and the American Pediatric Surgical Association.
Dr. Minneci graduated from New York University School of Medicine and completed a surgery residency and research fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the National Institutes of Health. He is board certified by the American Board of Surgery in Surgery and Surgical Critical Care and is a member of the American College of Surgeons, Society of Critical Care Medicine, and Alpha Omega Alpha.
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