Rebeccah L. Brown, MD, a General Surgeon with Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Get to know General Surgeon Dr. Rebeccah L. Brown, who serves patients in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Dr. Brown is the Associate Director of Trauma Services at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Her clinical specialties are pediatric general surgery, chest wall deformities, pectus excavatum, pectus carinatum, necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), splenectomy for congenital blood disorders, muscle biopsies, as well as trauma and injury prevention.
“I became a physician because I love the joy that comes from helping others. Working with children provides a unique opportunity to make a difference for a lifetime for children and their families. Taking care of children and their families is truly a privilege and one of my greatest joys” expressed the doctor.
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is an academic pediatric acute care children’s hospital located in the Pill Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. The hospital has 634 pediatric beds and is affiliated with the University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center.
Among her other roles, Dr. Brown serves as Co-Director of the Chest Wall Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and as Director of the Pediatric Trauma Fellowship and Professor of the UC Department of Surgery at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
Back in the early days of her academic career, she graduated with her medical degree from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in 1990. She then went on to perform her residency in general surgery at the University of Cincinnati Hospital in 1997. She followed this up with a fellowship at Shriners Burns Institute in 1994, an ECMO fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in 1994, and a fellowship in pediatric surgery at Children’s Hospital of Buffalo in 1999.
Licensed to practice medicine in many states, the doctor is board-certified in general surgery and pediatric surgery by the American Board of Surgery (ABS). The ABS is an independent, non-profit organization located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded for the purpose of certifying surgeons who have met a defined standard of education, training, and knowledge.
In good standing with a number of professional organizations, Dr. Brown is a member of the American Medical Association, the American College of Surgeons (Fellow), the American Medical Women’s Association, the American College of Surgeons Ohio Chapter, the Cincinnati Pediatric Society, the Mont Reid Surgical Society, the American Pediatric Surgical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics (Fellow), the American Academy of Pediatrics Surgical Section and Injury Prevention Section, the Eastern Association for Surgery and Trauma, and the Pediatric Trauma Society.
Her research interests are chest wall deformities, pectus excavatum, pectus carinatum, as well as trauma and injury prevention. She has been the Cincinnati Children’s site investigator for large multicenter studies investigating the role of partial versus total splenectomy for congenital blood disorders and laparotomy versus peritoneal drainage for NEC. She is
Interested in research, Dr. Brown loves the challenge of solving important clinical problems that can improve the lives and outcomes for patients. The current research she does involves evaluating the cardiopulmonary impact of pectus excavatum and bracing for pectus carinatum. She is also assessing the best approach to splenectomy for congenital blood disorders and determining the best surgical approach for NEC to provide better clinical outcomes.
General surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, appendix and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland. A general surgeon performs a wide range of abdominal surgeries for many forms of intestinal and abdominal wall neoplasms, gallbladder disease, gastric and pancreatic disease. They follow the patient through critical care and surgical recovery all the way to outpatient care.
Learn more about Dr. Rebeccah L. Brown:
Through her findatopdoc profile, https://www.findatopdoc.com/doctor/2029864-Rebeccah-Brown-Surgeon or through Cinncinatti Children’s, https://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/bio/b/rebeccah-brown
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