Pediatric Surgery

Message from the Division Chief

Our Level I Pediatric Trauma Program at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital was verified by the American College of Surgeons in 2011. It was the first ACS verified Level I Trauma Center in the state of Tennessee.  That program is under the direction of Regan Williams, MD.

While the pediatric surgical team sees most of our patients at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, we also see patients at the following locations: Le Bonheur Outpatient Center-East, Le Bonheur Outpatient Center-Jackson, TN, Le Bonheur Outpatient Center-Tupelo, MS, Le Bonheur East Surgery Center and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Our faculty are pursuing new ways to cure childhood illnesses and improve pediatric surgical care through innovative clinical and basic science research. Through our partnership with the Children’s Foundation Research Institute, our team has the foundational tools necessary to successfully investigate new surgical approaches to childhood diseases and improve the outcomes of children in the future.

Our ACGME accredited Pediatric Surgery Fellowship program was established in 1991. Under the direction of Ying Weatherall, MD, our fellows train at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital where they learn the newest techniques in surgical care. We graduate one pediatric surgery fellow per year. 

We also train one fellow per year in Pediatric Surgical Critical Care under the direction of Alexander Feliz, MD. This program, which was accredited in 2018 by the ACGME, is one of the few programs in the country focused on teaching surgeons how to take care of the most critically ill and injured children.

Additionally, we train UTHSC medical students and general surgery residents. We also provide pediatric surgery training for general surgery residents at the University of Tennessee-Nashville.