Current Environment:

The Pectus Chest Wall Program at Boston Children’s Hospital is part of one of the largest pediatric surgery programs in the world. Our caregivers have decades of experience caring for patients with chest wall disorders.

Physicians

Farokh Demehri, MD

Attending, Department of Surgery; Associate, Division of Critical Care Medicine

Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Tom Jaksic, MD, PhD

W. Hardy Hendren Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Vice-Chairman of Pediatric General Surgery Boston Children’s Hospital and the Surgical Director of the Center for Advanced Intestinal Rehabilitation

W. Hardy Hendren Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Craig Lillehei, MD

Senior Associate, Department of Surgery; Distinguished Chair in Surgical Education

Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

David P. Mooney, MD, MPH

Director, Trauma Center; Assistant, Department of SurgeryDirector, Trauma Center; Assistant, Department of Surgery

Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Konstantinos Papadakis, MD

Assistant in Surgery, Department of Surgery

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Robert Shamberger, MD

Chief, Emeritus, Department of Surgery

Robert E. Gross Professor of Surgery, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School

Physician Assistant

John Gironda, MPAS, PA-C

Physician Assistant, Department of Surgery

Anesthesiologist

Anjali Koka, MD

Associate in Perioperative Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine

Instructor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School

Advanced Practice Clinicians

Kelly Bartkus, MSN, RN, CPNP-PC

General Surgery Nurse Practitioner, Department of Surgery

Physical Therapist

Eleni Moulis, PT, DPT

Physical Therapist, Department of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy Services

Staff Nurses

Vanessa Griselda, BSN, RN

Registered Nurse

Vanessa Herrera, BSN

Staff Nurse, Department of Surgery

Samantha Pillen, BSN

Staff Nurse, Department of Surgery