Raquel Gonzalez
Advanced in Umbilical Hernia

Dr. Raquel Gonzalez

General Surgery
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Johns Hopkins All Children's Outpatient Care, St. Petersburg
601 5th Street South, Suite 360, Suite 360, 
Saint Petersburg, FL 

Advanced in Umbilical Hernia
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Johns Hopkins All Children's Outpatient Care, St. Petersburg
601 5th Street South, Suite 360, Suite 360, 
Saint Petersburg, FL 
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Overview

Dr. Gonzalez is a pediatric and surgical critical care surgeon at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. She joined the hospital staff in 2017. She was previously the surgical critical care fellowship program director at the Detroit Medical Center and also served as a member of the American Pediatric Surgical Association Surgical Critical Care Committee. Dr. Gonzalez received her medical degree from the University Of Puerto Rico School Of Medicine and trained in general surgery at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, New Jersey. Dr. Gonzalez then completed a surgical critical care fellowship at University of Michigan Health Systems & CS Mott Children’s Hospital and a pediatric surgery fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan. She subsequently completed a Master’s in Health Care Management at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is fluent in Spanish. Videos Meet Raquel González, M.D.

Dr. Gonzalez is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Umbilical Hernia. Her top areas of expertise are Omphalocele, Umbilical Hernia, VACTERL Association, Appendectomy, and Oophorectomy.

Her clinical research consists of co-authoring 31 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, she has co-authored 2 articles in the study of Umbilical Hernia.

Residency
Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center, General Surgery, 2007
Specialties
General Surgery
Licenses
Pediatric Surgery in FL
Board Certifications
American Board Of Surgery
Fellowships
Children's Hospital of Michigan, Pediatric Surgery, 2011
Children's Hospital of Michigan, Surgical Critical Care, 2008
Languages Spoken
English
Spanish
Gender
Female

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Locations

Johns Hopkins All Children's Outpatient Care, St. Petersburg
601 5th Street South, Suite 360, Suite 360, Saint Petersburg, FL 33701
Call: 727-767-4170
Other Locations
Johns Hopkins All Children's Outpatient Care, Pasco
4443 Rowan Road, New Port Richey, FL 34653
Call: 727-767-4170
Johns Hopkins All Children's Outpatient Care, East Lake
3850 Tampa Road, Palm Harbor, FL 34684
Call: 727-767-4170

Clinical Research

Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.


31 Total Publications

Improving Pediatric Surgery Quality by Widely Adopting an Evidence-based Protocol: An Effort of the Pediatric Surgery Quality Collaborative.
Improving Pediatric Surgery Quality by Widely Adopting an Evidence-based Protocol: An Effort of the Pediatric Surgery Quality Collaborative.
Journal: Annals of surgery
Published: June 25, 2025
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