Dr. Zitsman
graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a degree in natural sciences,
and received his M.D. degree from Tufts University Medical School in 1976.
He received his training in General Surgery at Tufts-New England Medical
Center in
Boston, and completed his Pediatric Surgery training at the Babies & Children's
Hospital of New York. He is Board-Certified in General Surgery and Pediatric
Surgery, and also holds a Certificate of Special Competence in Surgical Critical
Care.
Dr. Zitsman has maintained an active clinical practice in pediatric surgery in
the New York area since 1985. He has been appointed Associate Clinical Professor
in the department of Surgery at the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia
University. His areas of interest include applications of minimal access
techniques in pediatric surgery, pediatric colorectal disease, intestinal obstruction,
chest wall deformities, and obesity surgery in adolescents. He has performed over 500 minimal access procedures,
including appendectomy, anti-reflux surgery, thoracic procedures, pull-through
for Hirschsprung’s disease, and evaluation of chronic abdominal pain. His publications include
use of laparoscopy to evaluate the opposite “silent” side of the
child with a single groin hernia. Dr. Zitsman is Director of Minimal Access Surgery at the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital
of NewYork-Presbyterian. He is Principal Investigator for the Adolescent Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding Study at MSCHONYP.
Dr.
Zitsman maintains offices in Scarsdale (914-722-6737) and Manhattan (212-305-0678).
For information regarding adolescent obesity surgery, please call (212) 305-8862.
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