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Charles J. H. Stolar, MD
Charles J.H. Stolar, MD, is the Surgeon-in-Chief and Director of Pediatric Surgery at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital and the Rudolph N. Schullinger, MD, Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. Dr. Stolar graduated from Washington University in St. Louis and from medical school at Georgetown University. He completed his General Surgery training at the University of Illinois in 1976 and was awarded a fellowship in Pediatric Surgery at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. He joined the staff of the Babies & Children's Hospital of New York in 1982. Dr. Stolar is board-certified in both General and Pediatric Surgery. He is currently the Director of Pediatric Surgery, Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian. Dr. Stolar is Associate Director of the Fellowship Training Program in Pediatric Surgery.
Dr. Stolar has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, with a special emphasis on newborn respiratory failure. He has authored multiple book chapters on childhood cancer and congenital diaphragmatic hernia. He maintains an active research laboratory, which focuses on the normal and abnormal formation of vascular networks in the lungs during embryonic development and early infancy. He is also interested in clinical outcomes after neonatal surgery.
Dr. Stolar is internationally recognized for his expertise in the management of congenital diaphragmatic hernia. He has had a central role in developing strategies of life support (Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation, or ECMO) for children with overwhelming respiratory failure. His clinical interests, however, span the broad range of pediatric general surgery, with special emphasis on newborns and children with cancer. Dr. Stolar has participated in the national Children's Cancer Group, and has a special expertise in managing children with tumors of germ cell origin and other solid tumors of childhood.
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