Nearly 100 years ago, William Ladd, MD, of Boston Children’s Hospital, helped establish pediatric surgery as a medical subspecialty. The recognition that children require unique surgical management hasn’t changed, but the instruments and procedures we use to operate on children have evolved dramatically.
As in words of Dr. William Ladd “The physical signs alone may be all that is available… The surgeons must be able to gain the child’s confidence or acquire the knack of performing the physical examination with sufficient gentleness to avoid frightening the small patient and thereby making his examination almost valueless.”
With safer anesthesia and advanced Pediatric intensive care for Pediatric surgical patients it is now possible to treat even some of the most complex surgical diseases and the long-term outcomes have improved exponentially.

Pediatric Surgical Subspecialties:

  General Pediatric surgery

  Pediatric urology

  Pediatric Endoscopic surgery

  Pediatric Neurosurgery

  Neonatal surgery

  Pediatric GI and HepatoBiliary surgery

  Thoracoscopic surgery

  Pediatric Oncosurgery