Dr. Nick Scott Adzick MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
34th & Civic Center Blvd Philadelphia PA, 19104Rating
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About
Dr. Adzick is the C. Everett Koop Professor of Pediatric Surgery at CHOP and the founder and director of the Hospital's Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment . He also serves as CHOP's Surgeon-in-C ...
Education and Training
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1979
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
DermatologyAmerican Board of DermatologyABD- 1990
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Pediatric surgical workload during the past decade: impact on clinical activity and hospital finance at a children's hospital.
- Relative distribution and crosslinking of collagen distinguish fetal from adult sheep wound repair.
- BAPS Prize--1997. Fetal gene therapy: efficacy, toxicity, and immunologic effects
- The current status and future potential of fetal intervention: image is everything.
- Perinatal management of fetal malformations amenable to surgical correction.
- New developments in fetal lung surgery.
- Congenital hyperinsulinism and the surgeon: lessons learned over 35 years.
- Elevated platelet-derived growth factor-B in congenital cystic adenomatoid malformations requiring fetal resection.
- Open fetal surgery for life-threatening fetal malformations.
- Fetal surgery for myelomeningocele.
- Prospects for fetal gene therapy.
- The essentials of a fetal therapy center.
- Assessment of sensory function in neonatal sheep with somatosensory evoked potentials: methodology and normative data.
- Experimental fetal neurosurgery: effects of in-utero manipulations on somatosensory evoked potentials.
- Subdiaphragmatic pulmonary sequestration: a case report with review of the literature.
Awards
- March of Dimes 2012 Keystone Award
- 2011 Audrey Evans Award of Excellence, Ronald McDonald House
- Chai Lifeline 2011 Community Service Award
- 2011-2015 President-at-Large, International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society
- 2005 Nobel Forum Lecturer, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
- American Association for the Advancement of Science 2003 Fellow
- 2002 Elected into the International Order of the Smile
- 2001 Person of the Year, Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter, March of Dimes
- 2000 President, International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society
- 1999 Presidential Cross for Contributions to the Republic of Poland
- 1998 Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
- 1996 University of Pennsylvania Medical Student Teaching Award
- Honorary Master of Arts Degree, 1995 University of Pennsylvania
- 1993 University of California- San Francisco Surgical Residents' Teaching A
- American Association of Plastic Surgeons 1992 Honorary Award
- 1990-1992 National Kidney Foundation Fellowship
- 1989-1991 American College of Surgeons Fellowship
- 1986-1987 Schering Scholarship, American College of Surgeons
- Young Investigators Award, Surgical Section, AAP 1984 First Place
- National Institute of Health 1983-1985 National Research Service Award
- Massachusetts General Hospital 1983-1984 Marshall K. Bartlett Fellowship
- 1983-1985 American College of Surgeons Scholarship
- 1979 Richard C. Cabot Prize, Harvard Medical School
- 1975 Phi Beta Kappa
- 2012 Philadelphia Super Doctors
- 2010-2012 Philadelphia Magazine's Top Docs
Treatments
- Parathyroid Surgery (parathyroidectomy), Thyroid Surgery (thyroidectomy), Neonatal Surgery And More
Professional Memberships
- Member British Association of Paediatric Surgery
- Member Canadian Association of Pediatric Surgery (honorary member)
- Member International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society
- Member Pacific Association of Pediatric Surgeons
- Member Wound Healing Society
- Member Chilean Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (honorary member)
- Member North American Fetal Therapy Network
- Member American Academy of Pediatrics, Surgical Section
- Member American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Member American College of Physician Executives
- Fellow American College of Surgeons
- Member American Medical Association
- Member American Pediatric Surgical Association
- Member American Surgical Association
- Member Association for Academic Surgery
- Member Association of Pediatric Surgery Training Program Directors
- Member Children's Cancer Study Group
- Member Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
- Member March of Dimes
- Member MGH Surgical Alumni Society
- Member Society of Critical Care Medicine
- Member Society of University Surgeons
Fellowships
- Pediatric Surgery - Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
Experience & Accolades
- MemberEditorial board: Current Problems in Surgery
- Member Editorial board: Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy
- Member Editorial board: Journal of Pediatric Surgery
- Member Editorial board: Annals of Surgery
- Member2000 - 2014 Editorial board
- Member1997 - 2014 Editorial board
- Member1993 - 2014 Editorial board
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