 The Pediatric Surgery Program at The Children’s Hospital is the second most experienced pediatric surgery program in New Jersey. Each year, we perform more than 2,000 pediatric surgical procedures, including life-saving emergency surgeries and routine procedures on an inpatient and outpatient basis.
Same-Day surgery is performed at The Cranmer Ambulatory Surgery Center, which features a full array of amenities specifically designed for children, including private pre- and post-operative rooms, a play room and child life services.
Conveniently located on the hospital campus just off the main lobby, The Cranmer Center has immediate access to the full services of The Children’s Hospital, if needed. Professional staff includes a the region’s only full –time anesthesiologist who is specially trained in pediatrics, along with registered pediatric nurses trained in advanced cardiac life support.
To relieve anxieties or fears about surgery, our Pediatric Preoperative Program, led by Child Life Specialists, features orientation tours, interactive presentations, medical play, and opportunities for children to ask questions.
Special training in pediatric surgery is important and our medical
team is led by well-known and well-respected Chairman
I. Thomas Cohen, M.D., who has more than thirty years experience
as a pediatric surgeon in academic practice.
The Children’s Hospital offers a variety of pediatric surgical procedures – from routine surgery to more complicated cases – for children of all ages, including:
- General surgery
- Surgery of congenital defects in newborns
- Laparoscopic surgery: including appendectomy, cholecystectomy, splenectomy, surgical treatment of gastro-esophageal reflux disease (fundoplication) and hernia
- Thoracic surgery: including surgery of the lung, diaphragm and mediastinum
- Surgical repair of pectus excavatum (PE or funnel chest) and pectus carinatum (PC or pigeon chest)
- Thoracoscopy a minimally invasive procedure for empyema and lung lesions
- Tracheal surgery: including tracheostomy, tracheal resection and reconstruction with cartilage graft
- Diagnostic and therapeutic rigid esophagoscopy and bronchoscopy including removal of a foreign body
- Excision of malignant tumors of chest and abdomen: including Wilms’ Tumor, neuroblastoma, and lymphoma
- Surgery of the head and neck: including thyroid, parathyroid and throyglossal duct cyst
- Surgery for removal of Baker’s cyst and ganglions
- Surgery for torsion of testes and undescended testes
Pediatric surgeon I. Thomas Cohen, M.D., who has more than 30
years experience as a pediatric surgeon in academic practice, joins
The Children's Hospital at Monmouth Medical Center from the University
of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey/New Jersey Medical School,
Newark, where he served as chief of the Division of Pediatric Surgery.
Prior to that, he served as chief of the division of pediatric
surgery at Albany Medical College. He is a fellow of the American
College of Surgeons, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh,
United Kingdom, and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Canada. He also is a diplomate of the American Board of Nutrition
and holds specialist status in clinical nutrition.
He trained in general surgery at Johannesburg General Hospital
and University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and completed
specialty rotations at Hammersmith Hospital and Royal Postgraduate
Medical School, London, and St. Peter’s Hospital, Chertsey,
Surrey, United Kingdom. He completed a pediatric surgical fellowship
at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and University
of Cape Town and Transvaal Memorial Hospital for Children and University
of the Witwatersrand. He is fellowship trained in pediatric surgical
oncology from the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles and
University of Southern California.
His professional affiliations include the American Academy of
Pediatrics, where he is a surgical fellow and a member of the section
on oncology/hematology, and the American College of Nutrition,
where he also holds fellowship status. His research interests include
pediatric surgical oncology, pediatric nutrition, nutrition and
cancer, neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis and embryology/anatomy
of the ductus venosus.
At Monmouth Medical Center, Dr. Cohen serves as Chairman of Surgery
for the Children’s Hospital and is expanding the service
as a full-time pediatric surgeon, with an office located on the
ground floor of the Maysie Stroock Pavilion in Suite ST021. He
provides inpatient and emergency department pediatric surgery consultations,
and as section chief, he also will direct and develop the Pediatric
Surgery Division, including the general program and educational
program for residents and students at The Children’s Hospital
at Monmouth Medical Center.
Dr. Cohen, in collaboration with surgeon Frank Borao, M.D., the
medical director of The Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery at
Monmouth Medical Center, is able to provide various laparoscopic
and thoracoscopic procedures in infants and children, including
cholecystotomy (gall bladder surgery), splenectomy (removal of
the spleen), gastro-esophageal reflux surgery (anti-reflux surgery)
and diagnostic procedures. He also brings to Monmouth a minimally
invasive treatment option for pectus excavatum (funnel chest),
as he received specialty training in the Nuss procedure, considered
the state-of-the-art surgical care for these patients.
Dr. Cohen specializes in abdominal, non-cardiac thoracic and head
and neck surgeries. He is highly trained and experienced in the
diagnosis, treatment and management of children’s surgical
needs, including:
• Surgical repair of birth defects, including a minimally
invasive treatment option for pectus excavatum.
• Evaluation and management of acute abdominal pain.
• Serious injuries that require surgery or non-operative management.
• Diagnosis and surgical care of solid tumors.
• Endoscopic procedures (bronchoscopy, esophagoscopy and removal of foreign
bodies).
• All other surgical procedures for children,
including hernia and hydroceles (backup of fluid in a testicle)
repairs and orchidopexy (surgical repair of undescended
testicle).
To learn more about Dr. Cohen or to schedule a consultation, call
The Children’s Hospital at 732-923-6091.
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