Dr. Stephanie Anne Kapfer MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
620 John Paul Jones Cir Pediatric Surgery Di Portsmouth VA, 23708About
Dr. Stephanie Kapfer practices Pediatric Surgery in Portsmouth, VA. Dr. Kapfer 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. Kapferdiagnoses, 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
Yale Univ Sch of Med, New Haven Ct 1995
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
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