Pediatric Surgeons Receive Board Certification
Nemours Enterprise
Wednesday, May 10, 2006 @ 12:00 AM EDT
Stephen Kimmel, MD and Fawn Lewis, MD, pediatric surgeons at Nemours Children’s Clinic Pensacola recently received their board certification in the specialty of pediatric surgery. Both Kimmel and Lewis joined Nemours in August 2004 and are board certified in general surgery.
Stephen Kimmel, MD, received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. General Surgery residency training was completed at the University of California at Irvine Medical Center followed by a Research Fellowship at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Kimmel’s subspecialty training also included a fellowship in Pediatric Surgery at the Schneider Childrens Hospital in New Hyde Park, New York and St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. His interests include the treatment of newborn malformations, advanced minimally invasive (laparoscopic) surgery, and the treatment of congenital anorectal malformations.
Fawn Lewis, MD, received her medical degree from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, she went on to complete her surgery residency training at Tulane School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Lewis also completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship with the Center for Bioenvironmental Astrobiology, Department of Nephrology at the Tulane School of Medicine; an Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Fellowship and Pediatric Surgery Critical Care Fellowship with the Children’s Memorial Hospital at Northwestern University; and a Pediatric Surgery Fellowship with the British Columbia Childrens Hospital in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
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Nemours, one of the nation’s largest pediatric health systems, is dedicated to achieving higher standards in children’s health. Nemours offers an integrated spectrum of clinical treatment coupled with research, advocacy, and educational health and prevention services extending to all families in the communities it serves. Starting with Alfred I. duPont’s bequest over seventy years ago, Nemours has grown into a multi-dimensional organization offering personalized clinical and preventive care focused on children.
Nemours owns and operates the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware and major children’s specialty clinics in Delaware (Wilmington), Florida (Jacksonville, Orlando and Pensacola), Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Bryn Mawr) and New Jersey (Atlantic City and Voorhees). Having recently received preliminary approval from the State of Florida, Nemours will establish a new full-service children’s hospital as part of an integrated pediatric health campus in Orlando. KidsHealth.org, the world’s most visited pediatric health care Web site for parents, kids and teens, is a project of Nemours.
Nemours employs over 4,400 individuals, including 430 pediatric physicians, specialists and surgeons who cared for approximately a quarter of a million children in 2007. The organization’s goal is to align with parents, physicians, community leaders, children’s advocates and elected officials to ensure optimal wellness for every child. Additional information about Nemours can be found at www.nemours.org.
