Daniel J. Ledbetter, MD

General Surgery, Oncology, Surgery Pulmonary Follow-Up

On staff since September 2000

Children's Title: Co-Chair, Wound Care Committee

Academic Title: Associate Professor of Surgery

Research Center: Center for Clinical and Translational Research

"I work closely with our neonatologists colleagues to help develop pathways of care to help ensure that the highest quality and safest care is afforded to these tiny infants. I devote a significant amount of time to medical student teaching at the University of Washington, introducing the physicians of tomorrow to the complexity of modern clinical care."

Daniel Ledbetter, MD, is an attending surgeon in the Division of Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery at Seattle Children's Hospital, and an associate professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He also attends at the Seattle Children's Bellevue Clinic and Surgery Center.

He received his MD from University of Florida College of Medicine. Dr. Ledbetter completed his residency at the University of Washington and his fellowship at Seattle Children's Hospital. Dr. Ledbetter's interests include thyroid, parathyroid, and other endocrine surgery, surgical critical care and ECMO extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, a procedure in which an artificial heart-lung machine takes over the work of the lungs, and sometimes also the heart. His interests also include neonatal surgery and general and thoracic surgery of infants and children.

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Overview

Board Certification(s): Pediatric Surgery
Surgery - General
Surgical Critical Care
Medical/Professional School: University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville
Residency: Surgery - General, University of Washington, Seattle
Fellowship: Research, Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle
Pediatric Surgery, Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle
Clinical Interests: Endocrine surgery, Surgical critical care, ECMO, Neonatal surgery, General and thoracic surgery of infants and children
Research Focus Area: Translational Research

Publications

Adrenal insufficiency in newborns with congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
The Journal of pediatrics , 2010 Oct: 696; author reply 696

Complications as a result of the Heimlich maneuver.
The Journal of trauma , 2009 Mar: E34-5

Initial nonoperative management and delayed closure for treatment of giant omphaloceles.
Journal of pediatric surgery , 2006 Nov: 1846-9

Gastroschisis and omphalocele.
The Surgical clinics of North America , 2006 Apr: 249-60, vii

The anomalous splenic vein: a case report and review of the literature.
Journal of pediatric surgery , 2005 Sep: 1492-4

Pyloromyotomy: a comparison of laparoscopic, circumumbilical, and right upper quadrant operative techniques.
Journal of the American College of Surgeons , 2005 Jul: 66-70

Fraternal twins with Morgagni hernias.
Journal of pediatric surgery , 2005 Apr: 725-7

Primary Office

Seattle Children's

OA.9.220 - Surgery
4800 Sand Point Way NE

Seattle, WA 98105

206-987-2794

Additional Offices

Seattle Children's Bellevue Clinic and Surgery Center

CB-11
1500 - 116th Ave NE

Bellevue, WA 98004

425-454-4644

Western Pediatric Specialty Clinic

2618 South Ave W
Pediatric Surgery

Missoula, MT 59804

406-327-4760

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