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Jeffrey Zitsman, MD
Dr. Zitsman graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a degree in natural sciences, and received his M.D. degree from Tufts University Medical School in 1976. He received his training in General Surgery at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston, and completed his Pediatric Surgery training at the Babies & Children's Hospital of New York. He is Board-Certified in General Surgery and Pediatric Surgery, and also holds a Certificate of Special Competence in Surgical Critical Care.
Dr. Zitsman has maintained an active clinical practice in pediatric surgery in the New York area since 1985. He has been appointed Associate Clinical Professor in the department of Surgery at the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University. His areas of interest include applications of minimal access techniques in pediatric surgery, pediatric colorectal disease, intestinal obstruction, chest wall deformities, and obesity surgery in adolescents. He has performed over 500 minimal access procedures, including appendectomy, anti-reflux surgery, thoracic procedures, pull-through for Hirschsprung's disease, and evaluation of chronic abdominal pain. His publications include use of laparoscopy to evaluate the opposite "silent" side of the child with a single groin hernia.
Dr. Zitsman is Director of Minimal Access Surgery at the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian. He is Principal Investigator for the Adolescent Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding Study.
Dr. Zitsman maintains offices in Scarsdale (914-722-6737) and Manhattan (212-305-0678). For information regarding adolescent obesity surgery, please call 212) 305-8862.
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