25 of the Best Pediatric Surgeons Near Me in North Charleston, SC

Dr. Laura Hollinger is a board-certified pediatric surgeon in Charleston, South Carolina who maintains a comprehensive practice in pediatric general surgery covering a wide range of clinical areas including congenital anomalies, neonatal surgery, prenatal consultations, pediatric trauma and emergency care, Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO), and minimally invasive pectus excavatum repair. She treats patients across the spectrum of pediatric general surgery including hernias, ovarian disorders, and cancer, and performs surgeries in a minimally invasive manner. Dr Hollinger's treatment philosophy is to treat every patient as though they were her own in a patient-centered approach.Dr Hollinger received her undergraduate degree from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, and then her medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston at the McGovern Medical School. She completed her internship and residency in general surgery at the Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, including a two-year research fellowship where she studied critical illness and the distant organ effects of kidney ischemia-reperfusion injury. Dr Hollinger completed her fellowship training in pediatric surgery in 2017 at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, Texas. While in Houston, her training included both open and minimally invasive approaches to neonatal and pediatric general surgical diseases.Dr Hollinger joined MUSC as an assistant professor of surgery in 2017. Her primary leadership role at the Shawn Jenkins Children's Hospital is as Medical Director of the pediatric ECMO program where she leads a team of experts in neonatal and pediatric critical illness. Through their comprehensive multidisciplinary approach and dedication to exceptional patient care, the Pediatric ECMO program achieved the Platinum Level ELSO Award for Excellence in Life Support, a designation held by only the top tier of children's hospitals across the United States. Her research interests include congenital diaphragmatic hernia, prenatal consultation, and pediatric ECMO support during critical illness. Dr. Hollinger is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Diaphragmatic Hernia, Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia, Hernia, Pectus Excavatum, and Splenectomy.

Dr. Christian Streck graduated from Duke University in 1994 with a BS in biology and an AB in history. He received his medical degree from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in 1999. He completed general surgery residency in Memphis, Tennessee in 2006. This included a research fellowship studying children's cancer at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. He completed pediatric surgery fellowship at LeBonhuer Children's Hospital in Memphis in 2008. He is currently board certified in general and pediatric surgery. Dr. Streck is a professor of surgery and pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina. He is currently the pediatric trauma medical director and the general surgery residency program director.Dr. Streck's research interests include pediatric trauma and minimally invasive surgery. His clinical interests include minimally invasive surgery for a variety of conditions of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis. His specific interests include cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, pectus excavatum, trauma, appendicitis, and ovarian masses. Dr. Streck is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Sternal Cleft, Pectus Excavatum, Fryns Syndrome, and Donnai-Barrow Syndrome.

Dr. Aaron Cunningham is a board-eligible pediatric surgeon in Charleston, South Carolina who maintains a comprehensive practice in pediatric general and thoracic surgery including the surgical care of neonates, pediatric surgical oncology, and minimally invasive surgery in children with congenital anomalies such as congenital pulmonary airway malformations (CPAM), esophageal atresia (EA/TEF), diaphragmatic hernia or a rare hepatobiliary disorder known as biliary atresia. He was trained with a highly-specialized focus in minimally invasive techniques for small neonates and believes in the comprehensive, multidisciplinary care of children with the goal of improving health over the course of a lifetime. Dr. Cunningham's treatment philosophy is to deliver the specific care that each individual child needs to allow them to live better over the course of their lifetime, as he would for his own family. With the state-of-the-art facilities available at the MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children's Hospital, he is dedicated to providing care, specific to children, that cannot be delivered anywhere else in South Carolina and beyond.Dr. Cunningham was born and grew up in New York where he studied biological engineering at Cornell University. He developed an interest in medicine while working as a clinical neurophysiologist in Georgia and went on to attend medical school there at the Medical College of Georgia. Surgical residency brought him to the west coast where he trained at Oregon Health \& Science University in Portland. During his time there he developed an acute interest in pediatric surgery and completed a research fellowship in pediatric surgical outcomes. His research time was productive and predominantly focused on trauma induced coagulopathy in children and systems approaches to improving pediatric surgical care. Dr. Cunningham then completed his fellowship training in pediatric surgery at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University. The highly-specialized training that he received while at Stanford predominantly focused on minimally invasive surgical techniques in small neonates including minimally invasive approaches to esophageal atresia, CPAM, diaphragmatic hernia, and an advanced endosurgical technique called peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM), which was performed on children in only one other center in the country.Dr. Cunningham joins MUSC as an assistant professor of surgery in 2023. He is passionate about the care of all children but maintains a clinical focus in a rare hepatobiliary disorder known as biliary atresia where the bile ducts form abnormally. He believes that complex diseases, like biliary atresia, are best managed in places where coordinated multidisciplinary care can be offered, like the MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children's Hospital. His research interests include biliary atresia, pediatric trauma and defining systematic barriers to improving pediatric surgical care through quality improvement. His top areas of expertise are Venous Thromboembolism (VTE), Atresia of Small Intestine, Short Bowel Syndrome, Gastrostomy, and Splenectomy.

Julie Neville, PA-C, specializes in Pediatric Surgery and is located in North Charleston, SC.

Aaron Lesher is a Pediatric Surgeon in Charleston, South Carolina. Dr. Lesher is highly rated in 4 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Necrotizing Enterocolitis, Necrosis, Hernia, Gastrostomy, and Hernia Surgery.

Eleta Donelan is a born and raised South Carolinian, who has spent her life residing across the coastal, upstate, and midlands region of the state. She obtained her undergraduate education from the University of South Carolina, Columbia with a B.S. degree in Exercise Science, focusing on the Scientific Foundations track. She graduated from the Medical University of South Carolina's Physician Assistant Program in July of 2020 with a strong clinical and surgical interest in vascular surgery and became board certified in August of 2020.Outside of clinical practice, Eleta is passionate about international medical mission trips that have previously included providing free clinical care to citizens in rural Peru and a month long rotation in Uganda, Africa working in a local hospital offering surgical and medical care. She also developed a love for volunteering at the Ronald McDonald House which began in Columbia and has carried through to the Charleston location.

Kiften Carroll earned her Master's Degree in Nursing from the Medical University of South Carolina in 2010 after working for several years as a registered nurse at the MUSC Children's Hospital. She served as the nurse practitioner for the MUSC Pediatric Surgery team from 2010-2017. She subsequently moved out-of-state and returned to Charleston to re-joined the MUSC Division of Pediatric Surgery in September of 2021.Kiften is dual board-certified as a Family Nurse Practitioner and Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practioner with over ten years of experience caring for pediatric patients. She specializes in the interdisciplinary team care of infants and children with congenital and acquired surgical conditions, burns, and traumatic injuries. Her clinical interests include patient safety and patient and family education.

Alexander Soutter is a Pediatric Surgeon in Summerville, South Carolina. Dr. Soutter is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Umbilical Hernia, Polydactyly, Hypoplasia of the Tibia with Polydactyly, and Appendicitis. Dr. Soutter is currently accepting new patients.

Charles Smith is a Pediatric Surgeon in Charleston, South Carolina.