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Section on Surgery

AAP Policy authored by the Section on Surgery
Benson Hsu, MD, MBA, FAAP, FCCM; Alexander Bondoc, MD, FAAP; Alex G. Cuenca, MD, PhD; Kristin Hittle Gigli, PhD, RN, CPNP-AC; Naomi Laventhal, MD, MA, HEC-C, FAAP; Thomas Nakagawa, MD, FAAP, FCCM; COMMITTEE ON HOSPITAL CARE; Daniel Rauch, MD, FAAP; Tania Fontánez Nieves, MD, FAAP; Samantha House, DO, FAAP; Charles Vinocur, MD, FAAP; Nicole Webb, MD, FAAP; Benson Hsu, MD, MBA, FAAP; Melissa Mauro-Small, MD, FAAP; Karen Castleberry; Quinn Franklin, PhD, CCLS; Michael Leonard, MD, FAAP; Kristin Hittle Gigli, PhD, RN, CPNP-AC, CCRN; Nancy Hanson; S. Niccole Alexander, MPP; SECTION ON CRITICAL CARE; Benson Hsu, MD, MBA, FAAP, FCCM; Nicholas Ettinger, MD, PhD, CMQ, CPPS, FAAP, FCCM; Steven Loscalzo, MD, FAAP; Lia Lowrie, MD, FAAP; Elizbeth Mack, MD, MS, FAAP, FCCM; Margaret Satchell, MD, FAAP; Linda Siegel, MD, FAAP, FAAHPM; Vijay Srinivasan, MBBS, MD, FAAP; Benson Hsu, MD, MBA, FAAP, FCCM; Elizabeth Mack, MD, MS, FAAP, FCCM; Shilpa Balikai, DO, FAAP; Steven Loscalzo, MD, FAAP; Melanie Kitagawa, MD, MHA, FAAP; Vijay Srinivasan, MBBS, MD, FAAP; Samir Gadepalli, MS, MD, MBA, FAAP; Tessie October, MD, MPH, FAAP; Robert Francis Tamburro, Jr, MD, FAAP; Michael Agus, MD, FAAP; Mark Hall, MD, FCCM; Nicholas Ettinger, MD, PhD, CMQ, CPPS, FAAP, FCCM; Sue Tellez; SECTION ON SURGERY; Cynthia D. Downard, MD, FAAP; Kenneth William Gow, MD, FAAP; Elizabeth Beierle, MD, FAAP; Marybeth Browne, MD, FAAP; Barbara Gaines, MD, FAAP; Saleem Islam, MD, MPH, FAAP; Katherine Flynn-O’Brien, MD, FAAP; Danielle Walsh, MD, FAAP; Regan Frances Williams, MD, FAAP; Vivian Thorne; COMMITTEE ON BIOETHICS; Naomi Tricot Laventhal, MD, FAAP; Gina Marie Geis, MD, MS, FAAP; Deborah Loeff, MD, FAAP; Kelly N. Michelson, MD, MPH, FAAP; Mary A. Ott, MD, MA, FAAP; Nanette Elster, JD, MPH; Douglas S. Diekema, MD, MPH, FAAP; Maria McGee, MD, MPH; Kavita Arora, MD, MBE, MS; Anjie Emanuel, MPH
10.1542/peds.2023-062923
Faraz A. Khan, MD, FAAP; Tim Jancelewicz, MD, FAAP; Kathleen Kieran, MD, FAAP; Saleem Islam, MD, FAAP; COMMITTEE ON FETUS AND NEWBORN; Eric Eichenwald, MD; Charleta Guillory, MD; Ivan Hand, MD; Mark Hudak, MD; David Kaufman, MD; Camilia Martin, MD; Ashley Lucke, MD; Margaret Parker, MD; Arun Pramanik, MD; Kelly Wade, MD; Michael Narvey, MD; Russell Miller, MD; Wanda Barfield, MD, MPH; Lisa Grisham, APRN, NNP-BC; Jim Couto, MA; SECTION ON SURGERY; Kenneth William Gow, MD, FAAP; Elizabeth Beierle, MD, FAAP; Marybeth Browne, MD, FAAP; Andrew Davidoff, MD, FAAP; Cynthia D. Downard, MD, FAAP; Danielle Saunders Walsh, MD, FAAP; Regan Frances Williams, MD, FAAP; Vivian Thorne; SECTION ON UROLOGY; Nicholas Cost, MD, FAAP; Stephen Canon, MD, FAAP; Gregory Dean, MD, FAAP; Martin Kaefer, MD, FAAP; Andrew Kirsch, MD, FAAP; John C. Pope, MD, FAAP; Elizabeth Yerkes, MD, FAAP; Jen Gorlewski
10.1542/peds.2023-062510
Nicholas A. Ettinger, MD, PhD, CMQ, CPPS, FAAP; Vanessa L. Hill, MD, FAAP; Christiana M. Russ, MD, FAAP; Katherine J. Rakoczy, MD, FAAP; Mary E. Fallat, MD, FAAP; Tiffany N. Wright, MD; Karen Choong, MB, BCh, MSc, FRCPC; Michael S.D. Agus, MD, FAAP; Benson Hsu, MD, MBA, FAAP; SECTION ON CRITICAL CARE, COMMITTEE ON HOSPITAL CARE, SECTION ON SURGERY
10.1542/peds.2022-057009
Kasper S. Wang, MD, FAAP; James Cummings, MD, FAAP; Ann Stark, MD, FAAP; Constance Houck, MD, MPH, FAAP; Keith Oldham, MD, FAAP; Catherine Grant, BSN, RN; Mary Fallat, MD, FAAP; SECTION ON SURGERY, COMMITTEE ON FETUS AND NEWBORN, SECTION ON ANESTHESIOLOGY AND PAIN MEDICINE; Gail Ellen Besner, MD; Marybeth Browne, MD; Andrew Davidoff, MD; Cynthia D. Downard, MD; Kenneth William Gow, MD; Saleem Islam, MD; Kristi Watterberg, MD; Ira S. Adams-Chapman, MD; Susan Aucott, MD; Jay P. Goldsmith, MD; Ivan Hand, MD; David Kaufman, MD; Camilia Martin, MD; Karen Puopolo, MD, PhD; Anita Honkanen, MD; Mary Landrigan-Ossar, MD, PhD; Raeford Brown, MD; Christina D. Diaz, MD; Lisa Wise-Faberowski, MD; Stephen Hays, MD; Debnath Chatterjee, MD
10.1542/peds.2020-0708
Sigal Klipstein, MD, FACOG; Mary E. Fallat, MD, FAAP; Stephanie Savelli, MD, FAAP; COMMITTEE ON BIOETHICS; SECTION ON HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY; SECTION ON SURGERY; Aviva L. Katz, MD, FAAP; Robert C. Macauley, MD, FAAP; Mark R. Mercurio, MD, FAAP; Margaret R. Moon, MD, FAAP; Alexander L. Okun, MD, FAAP; Kathryn L. Weise, MD, FAAP; Zora R. Rogers, MD, FAAP; Carl Allen, MD, PhD, FAAP; James Harper, MD, FAAP; Jeffrey Lipton, MD, PhD, FAAP; Cynthia Wetmore, MD, PhD, FAAP; Hope Wilson, MD, FAAP; Amber Yates, MD, FAAP; Frederick J. Rescorla, MD, FAAP; Mary L. Brandt, MD, FAAP; Michael Caty, MD, FAAP; Kurt Heiss, MD, FAAP; George W. Holcomb, MD, FAAP; Rebecca L. Meyers, MD, FAAP; R. Lawrence Moss, MD, FAAP
10.1542/peds.2019-3994
Sylvia Owusu-Ansah, MD, MPH, FAAP; Brian Moore, MD, FAAP; Manish I. Shah, MD, MS, FAAP; Toni Gross, MD, MPH, FAAP; Kathleen Brown, MD, FAAP; Marianne Gausche-Hill, MD, FACEP, FAAP, FAEMS; Katherine Remick, MD, FACEP, FAAP, FAEMS; Kathleen Adelgais, MD, MPH, FAAP; Lara Rappaport, MD, MPH, FAAP; Sally Snow, RN, BSN, CPEN, FAEN; Cynthia Wright-Johnson, MSN, RNC; Julie C. Leonard, MD, MPH, FAAP; John Lyng, MD, FAEMS, FACEP, NRP; Mary Fallat, MD, FACS, FAAP; COMMITTEE ON PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, SECTION ON EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMS SUBCOMMITTEE, SECTION ON SURGERY; Joseph Wright, MD, MPH, FAAP; James Callahan, MD, FAAP; Javier Gonzalez del Rey, MD, MEd, FAAP; Madeline Joseph, MD, FAAP; Natalie Lane, MD, FAAP; Lois Lee, MD, MPH, FAAP; Elizabeth Mack, MD, MS, FAAP; Jennifer Marin, MD, MSc, FAAP; Suzan Mazor, MD, FAAP; Nathan Timm, MD, FAAP
10.1542/peds.2019-3308
Christopher F. Bolling, MD, FAAP; Sarah C. Armstrong, MD, FAAP; Kirk W. Reichard, MD, MBA, FAAP; Marc P. Michalsky, MD, FACS, FAAP, FASMBS; SECTION ON OBESITY, SECTION ON SURGERY; Matthew Allen Haemer, MD, MPH, FAAP; Natalie Digate Muth, MD, MPH, RD, FAAP; John Conrad Rausch, MD, MPH, FAAP; Victoria Weeks Rogers, MD, FAAP; Kurt F. Heiss, MD, FAAP; Gail Ellen Besner, MD, FAAP; Cynthia D. Downard, MD, FAAP; Mary Elizabeth Fallat, MD, FAAP; Kenneth William Gow, MD FACS, FAAP
10.1542/peds.2019-3224
Sarah C. Armstrong, MD, FAAP; Christopher F. Bolling, MD, FAAP; Marc P. Michalsky, MD, FACS, FAAP, FASMBS; Kirk W. Reichard, MD, MBA, FAAP, FACS; SECTION ON OBESITY, SECTION ON SURGERY; Matthew Allen Haemer, MD, MPH, FAAP; Natalie Digate Muth, MD, MPH, RD, FAAP; John Conrad Rausch, MD, MPH, FAAP; Victoria Weeks Rogers, MD, FAAP; Kurt F. Heiss, MD, FAAP; Gail Ellen Besner, MD, FAAP; Cynthia D. Downard, MD, FAAP; Mary Elizabeth Fallat, MD, FAAP; Kenneth William Gow; MD FACS, FAAP
10.1542/peds.2019-3223
Katherine Remick, MD; Marianne Gausche-Hill, MD; Madeline M. Joseph, MD; Kathleen Brown, MD; Sally K. Snow, BSN; Joseph L. Wright, MD; AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Section on Surgery; AMERICAN COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS Pediatric Emergency Medicine Committee; EMERGENCY NURSES ASSOCIATION Pediatric Committee; Terry Adirim, MD; Michael S.D. Agus, MD; James Callahan, MD; Toni Gross, MD; Natalie Lane, MD; Lois Lee, MD; Suzan Mazor, MD; Prashant Mahajan, MD; Nathan Timm, MD; Kurt F. Heiss, MD; Elizabeth Beierle, MD; Gail Ellen Besner, MD; Cynthia D. Downard, MD; Mary Elizabeth Fallat, MD; Kenneth William Gow, MD; Kiyetta Alade, MD; Christopher Amato, MD; Jahn T. Avarello, MD; Steven Baldwin, MD; Isabel A. Barata, MD; Lee S. Benjamin, MD; Kathleen Berg, MD; Jeffrey Bullard-Berent, MD; Ann Marie Dietrich, MD; Phillip Friesen, DO; Michael Gerardi, MD; Alan Heins, MD; Doug K. Holtzman, MD; Jeffrey Homme, MD; Timothy Horeczko, MD; Paul Ishimine, MD; Samuel Lam, MD; Katharine Long; Kurtis Mayz, JD; Sanjay Mehta, MD; Larry Mellick, MD; Aderonke Ojo, MD; Audrey Z. Paul, MD; Denis R. Pauze, MD; Nadia M. Pearson, DO; Debra Perina, MD; Emory Petrack, MD; David Rayburn, MD; Emily Rose, MD; W. Scott Russell, MD; Timothy Ruttan, MD; Mohsen Saidinejad, MD; Brian Sanders, MD; Joelle Simpson, MD; Patrick Solari, MD; Michael Stoner, MD; Jonathan H. Valente, MD; Jessica Wall, MD; Dina Wallin, MD; Muhammad Waseem, MD; Paula J. Whiteman, MD; Dale Woolridge, MD; Tiffany Young, BSN; Joyce Foresman-Capuzzi, MSN; Rose Johnson, RN; Heather Martin, DNP; Justin Milici, MSN; Cam Brandt, MS; Nicholas Nelson, MS
10.1542/peds.2018-2459
Mary E. Fallat, MD; Courtney Hardy, MD; SECTION ON SURGERY; SECTION ON ANESTHESIOLOGY AND PAIN MEDICINE; COMMITTEE ON BIOETHICS; Rebecka L. Meyers, MD; Gail Ellen Besner, MD; Andrew Davidoff, MD; Kurt F. Heiss, MD; Rita Agarwal, MD; Joseph Tobias, MD; Raeford Eugene Brown, Jr, MD; Nina A. Guzzetta, MD; Anita Honkanen, MD; Mary Landrigan-Ossar, MD; Aviva L. Katz, MD; Naomi Tricot Laventhal, MD; Robert C. Macauley, MD; Margaret Rusha Moon, MD; Alexander L. Okun, MD; Douglas J. Opel, MD; Mindy B. Statter, MD
10.1542/peds.2018-0598
SECTION ON SURGERY; COMMITTEE ON BIOETHICS; AMERICAN PEDIATRIC SURGICAL ASSOCIATION NEW TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE; Michael G. Caty, MD; Gail Ellen Besner, MD; Andrew Davidoff, MD; Mary Fallat, MD; Kurt F. Heiss, MD; Rebecka L. Meyers, MD; R. Lawrence Moss, MD; Aviva L. Katz, MD; Naomi Tricot Laventhal, MD; Robert C. Macauley, MD; Margaret Rusha Moon, MD; Alexander L. Okun, MD; Douglas J. Opel, MD; Mindy B. Statter, MD; Christopher K. Breuer, MD; Erik D. Skarsgard, MD; Sean J. Barnett, MD; Sanjeev Dutta, MD; Timothy J. Fairbanks, MD; Marcus Jarboe, MD; Stefan Scholz, MD; Steven Teich, MD; Russell K. Woo, MD; James K. Wall, MD
10.1542/peds.2016-3437
COMMITTEE ON PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, COUNCIL ON INJURY; VIOLENCE, AND POISON PREVENTION, SECTION ON CRITICAL CARE, SECTION ON ORTHOPAEDICS, SECTION ON SURGERY, SECTION ON TRANSPORT MEDICINE, PEDIATRIC TRAUMA SOCIETY, AND SOCIETY OF TRAUMA NURSES PEDIATRIC COMMITTEE; Joan E. Shook, MD; Thomas H. Chun, MD; Gregory P. Conners, MD; Edward E. Conway, Jr, MD; Nanette C. Dudley, MD; Susan M. Fuchs, MD; Natalie E. Lane, MD; Charles G. Macias, MD; Brian R. Moore, MD; Joseph L. Wright, MD; Kyran Quinlan, MD; Phyllis F. Agran, MD; Michele Burns, MD; Sarah Denny, MD; Michael Hirsh, MD; Brian Johnston, MD; Kathy Monroe, MD; Elizabeth C. Powell, MD; Judith Schaechter, MD; Mark R. Zonfrillo, MD; Edward E. Conway, Jr, MD; Michael S.D. Agus, MD; Benson S. Hsu, MD; Susan R. Hupp, MD; W. Bradley Poss, MD; Jana A. Stockwell, MD; John P. Straumanis, MD; Donald D. Vernon, MD; Norman Y. Otsuka, MD; Joshua M. Abzug, MD; Theodore Ganley, MD; Martin Herman, MD; Joshua E. Hyman, MD; Lee Segal, MD; Brian A. Shaw, MD; Richard M. Schwend, MD; Michael G. Caty, MD; Gail Besner, MD; Andrew Davidoff, MD; Mary E. Fallat, MD; Kurt F. Heiss, MD; Rebecka L. Meyers, MD; R. Lawrence Moss, MD; Keith Meyer, MD; Howard S. Heiman, MD; Robert G. Holcomb, Jr, MD; Michael T. Meyer, MD; Jay K. Pershad, MD; Michael H. Stroud, MD; Michele M. Walsh, MD; M. Michele Moss, MD; Webra Price Douglas, PhD; Richard Falcone, Jr, MD; Barbara Gaines, MD; Lynn Haas, RN; Laura Cassidy, MS; Terri Elsbernd, RN; Garet Free, EMT-P; Lisa Gray, RN; Jonathan Groner, MD; Kathy Haley, MS; Robert Letton, Jr, MD; William Millikan, Jr, MD; Michael Nance, MD; Pina Violano, RN; Lisa Gray, MHA; Linda Roney, MSN; Chris McKenna, MSN; Mary Jo Pedicino, MSN; Susan Rzucidlo, MSN; Sally K. Snow, BSN; Lisa Reichter, BSN
10.1542/peds.2016-1569
Kasper S. Wang, MD; THE SECTION ON SURGERY; THE COMMITTEE ON FETUS AND NEWBORN; THE CHILDHOOD LIVER DISEASE RESEARCH NETWORK; R. Lawrence Moss, MD; Michael G. Caty, MD; Andrew Davidoff, MD; Mary Elizabeth Fallat, MD; Kurt F. Heiss, MD; George Holcomb, III, MD; Rebecka L. Meyers, MD; Kristi L. Watterberg, MD; Susan Aucott, MD; William E. Benitz, MD; James J. Cummings, MD; Eric C. Eichenwald, MD; Jay Goldsmith, MD; Brenda B. Poindexter, MD; Karen Puopolo, MD; Dan L. Stewart, MD; Kasper S. Wang, MD; Nanda Kerkar, MD; Saul J. Karpen, MD; Ronald J. Sokol, MD; Kathleen B. Schwarz, MD; Douglas B Mogul, MD; Sanjiv Harpavat, MD
10.1542/peds.2015-3570
Kasper S. Wang, MD; COMMITTEE ON FETUS AND NEWBORN; SECTION ON SURGERY; Lu-Ann Papile, MD; Jill E. Baley, MD; William Benitz, MD; James Cummings, MD; Waldemar A. Carlo, MD; Praveen Kumar, MD; Richard A. Polin, MD; Rosemarie C. Tan, MD; Kristi L. Watterberg, MD; Mary L. Brandt, MD; Robert C. Shamberger, MD; Michael G. Caty, MD; Kurt F. Heiss, MD; George W. Holcomb, III, MD; Rebecka L. Meyers, MD; R. Lawrence Moss, MD; Frederick J. Rescorla, MD
10.1542/peds.2012-2008
Committee on Hospital Care, Section on Surgery, and Section on Critical Care
10.1542/peds.2010-0081
Mary E. Fallat, MD; John Hutter, MD; the Committee on Bioethics, Section on Hematology/Oncology, and Section on Surgery
10.1542/peds.2008-0593
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS; Section on Orthopaedics, Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Section on Critical Care, Section on Surgery, Section on Transport Medicine, Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine; PEDIATRIC ORTHOPAEDIC SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA
10.1542/peds.2008-0094
Section on Surgery and the Committee on Fetus and Newborn
10.1542/peds.2007-3282
American Academy of Pediatrics; Committee on Fetus and Newborn and Section on Surgery; Section on Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine; Canadian Paediatric Society; Fetus and Newborn Committee
10.1542/peds.2006-2277
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