Pediatric General & Thoracic Surgery

The MUSC Children's Health Pediatric Surgery team treats children from the newborn stage through late adolescence. The unique nature of medical and surgical care of children requires rigorous residency and fellowship training.

We collaborate with pediatric anesthesia, emergency medicine, ICU, gastroenterology and other pediatric subspecialists. We also work closely with specialty nursing staff, physical and occupational therapy, child life experts and other Children’s Hospital resources to allow our team to provide high quality, patient-focused care.

Over the years, many new and advanced surgical techniques were developed by surgeons in our division and passed-on to residents and surgeons in-training.

• We received ACS Level 1 Children's Surgery Verification
• Nationally accredited Program to perform weight loss surgery on adolescents
• #1 Children's Hospital in SC
• Pediatric ECMO platinum-level Award for Excellence in Life Support from the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO)

We are proud to be part of the subspecialty teams ranked highly by U.S. News & World Report (USNWR) in recent years

2024 – 2025 rankings

SJCH is ranked among the best in the nation for four specialties:

• Cardiology & Heart Surgery: Ranked number two in the nation
• Nephrology: Ranked number 24 in the nation
• Gastroenterology & GI Surgery: Ranked number 30 in the nation
• Cancer: Ranked number 38 in the nation

Services We Offer

• Bowel management
• Broviacs and ports
• Chest wall deformity center (destination program for pectus patients)
• ECMO (Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation)
• Endoscopic and minimally invasive procedures (thoracoscopy and laparoscopy)
• Feeding tubes (button and PEG)
• Level one pediatric trauma center
• Minimally invasive laparoscopic, thoracoscopic, and robotic surgery
• Only pediatric burn service center in South Carolina
• Reflux surgery (Nissen fundoplication)
• Telemedicine program available for surgical consults
• Weight loss surgery for adolescents with severe obesity

Surgical Conditions We Treat

• Appendicitis
• Burns
• Chest wall deformities or pectus
• Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
• Congenital lesions (hemangiomas and lymphangiomas)
• Congenital lung lesions
• Gallstones
• GYN and ovarian pathology in children
• Hernias (inguinal and umbilical)
• Hirschsprung's disease
• Hydroceles
• IBD (Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis)
• Imperforate anus
• Intestinal atresias
• Lumps and skin lesions
• Neck and thyroid lesions
• Obesity
• Pancreatitis
• Pediatric trauma
• Pediatric tumors: Wilms', sarcomas, neuroblastoma
• Prenatal consults
• Pyloric stenosis
• Undescended testis

Related Services

Adolescent Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery Program
The MUSC Health Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery Program offers surgical weight loss for adolescents with severe obesity.

Pediatric Burn Center

More Care Team Members

Julie Neville| Physician Assistant

Jesica Archie | Nurse Practitioner

Kiften Carroll | Nurse Practitioner

Tiffany Smith | Burn Nurse

Kathy Chessman | Pharm D

Julie Caraway | Administrative Support

Scott Lopez | Administrative Support

Sean Sadowski | Administrative Support