Dr. Jeffrey R Lukish MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
7600 Osler Drive 310 Towson Maryland, 21204About
Dr Lukish is a 1987 graduate of the United States Naval Academy. He attended Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia where he graduated in 1991. He completed his internship and residency in general surgery at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and his pediatric surgery fellowship at the Children’s National Medical Center. As a staff pediatric surgeon, he was assigned to Walter Reed Army and National Naval Medical Centers where he became the division chief of pediatric surgery in 2005. He retired from the military in 2010 and joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins until 2018. He was recruited to Children’s National and is currently a member of the faculty. He holds academic appointments as a Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics from the Uniformed Services University, and Associate Professor of Surgery at George Washington University. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Academy of Pediatrics, and is a member of several prominent professional societies, including the American Pediatric Surgical Society, the International Pediatric Endosurgery Group and the Pediatric Cancer Oncology Group.
He has authored over 100 abstracts, book chapters and publications and is a nationally recognized expert in advanced minimally invasive surgery in infants and children and pediatric surgical innovation. He has received numerous clinical and research awards including the Washington D.C. Academy of Surgery award for clinical and basic science research, the Children’s Research Institute award for scientific and academic achievement, the Harry B. Zehner Travelling Fellowship of the American College of Surgeons and the Society of Pediatric Research basic science research award. He was awarded the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society Clinical Faculty of the year and has received numerous research grants, most notably, the St Baldrick’s Cancer Foundation grant to implement his project focused on ovarian cryopreservation in young girls with cancer.
Voted a Baltimore Top Doctor by his peers, he has been interviewed on Fox News and National Public Radio for his role as a mission director for the World Pediatric Project providing humanitarian pediatric surgical care globally and other clinically relevant surgical issues impacting children and their families.
Most recently, he was awarded the American College of Surgeons/American Pediatric Surgical Society Health Policy Scholarship and will function as the 2019 Health Policy Scholar for these organizations.
Dr Lukish’s goal has always been focused on providing outstanding, timely and effective care to children who require pediatric surgical intervention. He and his wife, Donna, have raised their six children, Nick, Danielle, John, Annamarie, Peter and James, in Maryland. He is an avid little league football, baseball and basketball coach in the community. His love for little league coaching is surpassed only by his passion and energy for the care of children.
Education and Training
United States Naval Academy B.S. Chemistry 1987
Sydney Kimmel School of Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University M.D. 1991
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Growth-factor enhancement of compromised gut function following massive small-bowel resection.
- The use of a bioactive skin substitute decreases length of stay for pediatric burn patients.
- Gastroesophageal intussusception: a new cause of acute esophageal obstruction in children.
- Laparoscopic ligation of the median sacral artery before resection of a sacrococcygeal teratoma.
- Classical positioning decreases the cross-sectional area of the subclavian vein.
- Sonographic appearance of canal of Nuck hydrocele.
- Single site laparoscopic gastrostomy with a 4-mm bronchoscopic optical grasper.
- Video-assisted thoracoscopic ligation of a patent ductus arteriosus in a very low-birth-weight infant using a novel retractor.
- Regarding: Laparoscopic-assisted femoral hernia repair in children.
- Ultrasound-Guided Percutaneous Central Venous Access in Low Birth Weight Infants: Feasibility in the Smallest of Patients.
- Intraluminal Meckel's Duplication Cyst Causing Bowel Obstruction in an Infant: A Role for Laparotomy.
- Prognostic significance of DNA replication errors in young patients with colorectal cancer.
Clinical Trials
Faculty Titles & Positions
- Professor of Surgery Uniformed Services University 2018 - Present
Awards
- Health Policy Scholar 2019-20 3 American College of Surgeons/American Pediatric Surgical Society
- Surgery Basic and Clinical Science Award Washington Academy
- Children's Research Institute Basic and Clinical Science Award
- Officer Research Award The Society of Pediatric Research House
- Innovation Award International Pediatrics Endosurgery Group
- Harry B. Zehner Traveling Fellowship Award American College of Surgeons
- Faculty of the Year Award Alpha Omega Alpha Volunteer Clinical
- Voted Top Doctor 2012-18 Top Doctor of Baltimore
Treatments
- Umbilical Hernia
- Inguinal Hernia
- Specializing in Advanced Minimally Invasive Surgery in Infants
- Circumcision
- Congenital Defect Surgery in Infants
- Fetal Surgery
- Thoracic Surgery
- GI Surgery
- Colorectal Surgery in Infants and Children
- Hirschsprung's Disease Surgery
- Imperforate Anus
- Soft Tissue Reconstructive Surgery in Infants and Children
- Cancer Surgery in Infants and Children
- Undescended Testes Surgery
- Polydactily Surgery
- Appendectomy
- Cholecystectomy
- Liver and Bile Duct Surgery
- Crohns Disease and Ulcerative Colitis Surgery
- Pyloric Stenosis
- Chest Wall Defects
- Pectus Excavatum and Carinatum
- Head and Neck Masses
- Branchial Cleft Anomalies
Professional Memberships
- Board Certified American Board of Surgery General Adult Surgery
- Professional Member American Pediatric Surgical Society
- Professional Member American Academy of Pediatrics
- Professional Member Cancer Oncology Group
- Professional Member American College of Surgeons
- Professional Member International Pediatrics Endosurgery Group
Charities and Philanthropic Endeavors
- Mission Director of Pediatric Surgery, World Pediatric Project
Areas of research
Minimally invasive surgery and techniques to reduce pain associated with the surgery of infants, children and adolescents
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