Dr. Stephen Brian Shew MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
10833 Le Conte Avenue Los Angeles CA, 90095About
Dr. Stephen Shew practices Pediatric Surgery in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Shew treats children who have an illness, injury, or disease that requires surgery. Some of the surgical problems seen by pediatric surgeons are often quite different from those commonly seen by adult or general surgeons. Dr. Shewdiagnoses, treats, and manages childrens surgical needs such as abnormalities of the groin in childhood and, surgical repair of birth defects, surgical care of tumors, transplantation operations, and endoscopic procedures.
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery- 2006
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- 2003
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Growth deficiency and malnutrition in Bloom syndrome.
- The metabolic needs of critically ill children and neonates.
- Hospital differences in short-term outcomes for uncomplicated pediatric patients with gallbladder disease.
- The impact of hospital type and experience on the operative utilization in pediatric intussusception: a nationwide study.
- Surgical concerns in malrotation and midgut volvulus.
- Laparoscopic versus open appendectomy in children: outcomes comparison based on a statewide analysis.
- Hospital readmissions and survival after nonneonatal pediatric ECMO.
- Disparity in management and long-term outcomes of pediatric splenic injury in California.
- Predictors of proctocolectomy in children with ulcerative colitis.
- Does hospital transfer predict mortality in very low birth weight infants requiring surgery for necrotizing enterocolitis?
- Hospital type predicts surgical complications for infants with hypertrophic pyloric stenosis.
- Postoperative complications and health care use in children undergoing surgery for ulcerative colitis.
- Hospital type as a metric for racial disparities in pediatric appendicitis.
- Congenital malformations associated with assisted reproductive technology: a California statewide analysis.
- Complications of pediatric cholecystectomy: impact from hospital experience and use of cholangiography.
Clinical Trials
Awards
- National Institutes of Health - Career Development Award
Fellowships
- Pediatric Surgery, Children's Mercy Hospital 2002
- Infant Nutrition, Baylor College of Medicine 1997
- Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO
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Practice At 10833 Le Conte Avenue
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