The Pediatric Surgical section is based mainly at the Riley Children's Hospital. The staff also cares for children's surgical problems at the Wishard Memorial Hospital, Methodist Hospital, and St. Vincent's Hospital. General Surgery Residents rotate for two month periods during the first, second and fifth years.
Most residents obtain four to six months of pediatric surgery experience.
Extensive preoperative, operative, and postoperative experience is available in the management of neonatal surgery, pediatric oncology, ECMO, pediatric trauma, and pediatric organ transplantation, minimally invasive pediatric surgery, as well as, the more mundane children's surgical problems and ambulatory surgery. There is an approved two-year postgraduate training program in Pediatric Surgery available at the Riley Children's Hospital for one resident per year. Dr. Jay L. Grosfeld is the Director of the section. Other full-time faculty members in the section are Drs. Karen West , Fred Rescorla , Tres Scherer , Scott Engum, and Thomas Rouse.