Faculty, Vanderbilt Department of Pediatric Surgery, Nashville, Tennessee

Services Provided:
● Clinical
● Outpatient/Inpt

Faculty

All of our faculty have special interest and training in pediatric general and thoracic surgery, including airway problems, newborn surgery, management of burns and injuries, and pediatric tumors. In addition, the new modalities of laparoscopy and thoracoscopy are also being utilized in children's surgery.

Wallace W. Neblett, III, M.D.
Chairman, Department of Pediatric Surgery
Professor of Surgery

Dr. Neblett received his MD degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1971 and conducted his postgraduate training in General Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

James A. O'Neill, Jr., M.D.
Professor of Surgery

Dr. O'Neill received his MD degree from Yale University School of Medicine in 1959. His postgraduate training was conducted at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Columbus Children's Hospital. He is Chairman Emeritus of the Vanderbilt Department of Surgery and Section of Surgical Sciences.

John B. Pietsch, M.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics

Dr. Pietsch received his MD degree from the University of Michigan School of Medicine in 1972. His postgraduate training was conducted at the University of Michigan Medical Center and McGill University, Montreal Children's Hospital, Montreal, Canada.
The following case managers work directly with Dr. Pietsch and his patients:
Amy Thomas, RN
Elizabeth Vaughn, RN

Harold N. Lovvorn, III, M.D.
Assistant Professor Surgery

Dr. Lovvorn received his MD degree from the University of Tennessee, Memphis in 1993. He completed his postgraduate training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and the Children's Institute of Surgical Science of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Lovvorn also completed a clinical fellowship in Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery at LeBonheur and St. Jude Children's hospitals in Memphis, Tennessee.

Walter M. Morgan, III, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics

Dr. Morgan received his medical degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1982. His postgraduate training in surgery and pediatric surgery was conducted at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Stephen E. Morrow, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatric Surgery

Dr. Morrow received his medical degree, Alpha Omega Alpha, in 1985 from the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD. He interned in General Surgery at the Naval Regional Medical Center in San Diego, CA. In 1987 he completed the US Navy Flight Surgery School at the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute in Pensacola, FL. In 1993 he completed his General Surgery residency at the Naval Regional Medical Center. In 1998 he completed a two-year fellowship in Pediatric Surgery at the The Children’s Mercy Hospital, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine.

Edmund Yang, M.D, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery

Dr. Yang received his MD degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1993. In 1992 he completed his PhD in Cell Biology from the Medical Scientist Training Program in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. His postgraduate training in General Surgery was conducted at the University of California, San Francisco. He then completed his postgraduate training in Pediatric Surgery at the Children's Hospital, Boston MA.

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