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Division of Pediatric Surgery


Mission of the Division

“The Child First and Always” is the motto and the motivating spirit within the Primary Children’s Medical Center. This ideal is embraced and considered a professional commitment by the Pediatric Surgeons.

The division is committed to the following goals:

  1. To provide the highest level of surgical care for children that can be attained with present-day knowledge and techniques.
  2. To provide a pediatric surgery training experience for general surgical residents with the goals of developing:
         a. Competence in management of common surgical problems in children.
         b. Recognition of the complex pediatric surgical problems which require referral to a pediatric surgical specialty center.
  3. To maintain interest, faculty involvement, and financial support of clinical and basic science research related to the surgical problems of children.

 

Message from the Division Chief:
The Division of Pediatric Surgery is a close knit group of 7 pediatric surgeons who specialize in general, thoracic, neonatal surgery and trauma. These surgeons are dedicated to providing the children of Utah and the Intermountain West with the very best in pediatric surgical research and clinical care. As University of Utah academic surgeons we are equally dedicated to clinical practice within Intermountain’s flagship children’s hospital, Primary Children’s Medical Center.

Our affiliation with both the University of Utah and Intermountain allows us to offer the very best of both of these healthcare giants to our patients. As University of Utah professors, our partnerships with the University of Utah Medical School, the Department of General Surgery resident teaching program, and the Department of Pediatrics resident teaching program give us the privilege and opportunity of teaching the art of Pediatric Surgery to the surgeons and pediatricians of tomorrow.  As dedicated clinicians at Primary Children’s Medical Center we are deeply devoted to our mission ….the child first and always. 

Those of us in the Division of Pediatric Surgery in 2007 realize the importance of the sturdy basis of pediatric surgery in the Intermountain West nurtured under the direction of the first Chief of the Division, Dale G. Johnson, M.D., beginning in 1971.  Link to Pediatric Surgery History

Rebecka L. Meyers, MD
Chief, Division of Pediatric Surgery

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Dr. Rebecka Meyers