Dr. Nicholas Shorter MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
445 Lenox Rd Brooklyn NY, 11203About
Dr. Nicholas Shorter practices Pediatric Surgery in Brooklyn, NY. Dr. Shorter treats children who have an illness, injury, or disease that requires surgery. Some of the surgical problems seen by pediatric surgeons are often quite different from those commonly seen by adult or general surgeons. Dr. Shorterdiagnoses, treats, and manages childrens surgical needs such as abnormalities of the groin in childhood and, surgical repair of birth defects, surgical care of tumors, transplantation operations, and endoscopic procedures.
Education and Training
Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1979
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
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