Dr. Jay Jeffrey Schnitzer M.D., PH.D.
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
55 Fruit St Pediatric Surgery, W Boston MA, 02114Rating
5/5
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Dr. Jay Schnitzer practices Pediatric Surgery in Boston, MA. Dr. Schnitzer 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. Schnitzerdiagnoses, 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.
Education and Training
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1983
Harvard Medical School 1983
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- MEK-1/2 inhibition reduces branching morphogenesis and causes mesenchymal cell apoptosis in fetal rat lungs.
- Oxidation-reduction (redox) controls fetal hypoplastic lung growth.
- The World Trade Center terrorist attack: changing priorities for surgeons in disaster response.
- Open-lung protective ventilation with pressure control ventilation, high-frequency oscillation, and intratracheal pulmonary ventilation results in similar gas exchange, hemodynamics, and lung mechanics.
- Control and regulation of pulmonary hypoplasia associated with congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
- Earthquake relief--the U.S. medical response in Bam, Iran.
- Distribution of ERK1/2 and ERK3 during normal rat fetal lung development.
- Vitamin A deficiency (VAD), teratogenic, and surgical models of congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH).
- Retinoic acid-mediated differentiation protects against nitrofen-induced apoptosis.
- 2010 DARPA neural engineering, science, and technology forum [guest editorial].
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