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Pediatric General, Thoracic & Neonatal Surgery


 University of Utah Pediatric Surgeons

Pediatric Surgery at the University of Utah provides specialty expertise for common problems in infants and children, as well as pediatric specialty surgery.

If your child has an illness, injury, or disease that requires surgery, a Pediatric Surgeon has the experience and qualifications to treat your child.

Surgical problems seen by pediatric surgeons are often quite different from those commonly seen by adult or general surgeons. Special training in pediatric surgery is important.

Message from the Division Chief

The Division of Pediatric Surgery is a close knit group of 7 pediatric surgeons who specialize in general, thoracic, neonatal surgery and trauma. These surgeons are dedicated to providing the children of Utah and the Intermountain West with the very best in pediatric surgical research and clinical care. As University of Utah academic surgeons we are equally dedicated to clinical practice within Intermountain’s flagship children’s hospital, Primary Children’s Medical Center.

Our affiliation with both the University of Utah and Intermountain allows us to offer the very best of both of these healthcare giants to our patients. As University of Utah professors, our partnerships with the University of Utah Medical School, the Department of General Surgery resident teaching program, and the Department of Pediatrics resident teaching program give us the privilege and opportunity of teaching the art of Pediatric Surgery to the surgeons and pediatricians of tomorrow.  As dedicated clinicians at Primary Children’s Medical Center we are deeply devoted to our mission …."the child first and always." 

Those of us in the Division of Pediatric Surgery today realize the importance of the solid basis of pediatric surgery in the Intermountain West established and nurtured under the direction of the first Chief of the Division, Dale G. Johnson, M.D., beginning in 1971.

Rebecka L. Meyers, M.D.
Chief, Division of Pediatric Surgery

More about Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery Expertise

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clinics at Utah Valley, Riverton and St. George

Pediatric Surgery patients can find us at the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, at the new Primary Children's Outpatient Services in Riverton and Dixie Regional Medical Center in St. George. 

Primary Children's Medical Center at Riverton - Open Dec. 2009

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Pediatric Surgery
General Thoracic & Neonatal Surgery
100 North Mario Capecchi Drive, Suite 2600
Salt Lake City, Utah 84113
(801) 662-2950
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