Dr. Richard Ricketts, Chief of the Division of Pediatric Surgery, Dept. of Surgery, Emory SOM

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Richard R. Ricketts, MD

Academic Appointments
	Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Emory-Children's Center
	Chief, Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory

Clinical Appointment
	Chief, Division of Pediatric Surgery, Emory Children's Center

Telephone
	404.727.3779

Affiliations
	Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston
	Emory University Hospital Midtown
	Grady Memorial Hospital
	Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite
	Dekalb Medical Center

Board Certification
	American Board of Surgery, 1979, recertified 1995, 2004; Certificate of Special Competency in Pediatric Surgery 1982, recertified 1989, 2001

Medical School
	Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL, Class of 1973

Postgraduate Training
	General Surgery Internship and Residency, LA County-USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1973-1978
	Pediatric Surgery Fellowship, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, 1978-1980

Honors and Awards
	Resident Teaching Award, Department of Surgery, Emory, 1984, 1989
	Pediatric Surgery "Teacher of the Year," 2004, 2005, 2007

Current Organizational Memberships
	American Academy of Pediatrics, Fellow
	American College of Surgeons, Fellow
	American Pediatric Surgical Association
	Association of Pediatric Surgery Resident Training Directors
	Children's Oncology Group
	Pediatric Oncology Group: Membership Committee; Surgical Principal Co-Investigator, Emory
	Southeastern Surgical Congress, Fellow
	Southern Medical Association
	Southern Surgical Association
	British Association of Pediatric Surgeons
	Core Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Committee
	Societe Internationale de Chirurgie, U.S. Chapter
	Georgia Surgical Society
	Greater Atlanta Pediatric Society
	Society of Graduate Surgeons of the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center

Clinical Interests
	Neonatal surgery
	Prenatal consultations
	Necrotizing enterocolitis
	Hirschsprung's disease
	Pediatric oncology
	Thoracic surgery
	Appendectomy
	Biliary tumors
	Bronchoscopy
	Colitis
	Crohn's disease
	Gallbladder surgery
	Gastroesophageal reflux
	Gastrointestinal surgery
	Graves' disease
	Hemangioma
	Hernia
	Inflammatory bowel disease
	Laparoscopic surgery, especially applied to gallbladder, liver tumor, lymphomas, sunken chest, ulcerative colitis

Research Interests
	Neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis
	Pediatric oncology

Year Joined Emory as a Faculty Member
	1980