 | Dr. R. Lawrence Moss |
Dr. R. Lawrence Moss, the newly named Robert Pritzker Professor of Pediatric Surgery, specializes in general, thoracic and laparoscopic children's surgery, neonatal surgery and the separation of conjoined twins, as well as in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
He has focused his research on necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), an intestinal condition occurring in premature and low birth weight infants, and in exploring outcomes following pediatric surgical procedures. Last year, Moss was the lead author of a study that found that two surgical procedures -- one invasive and the other much less so -- used on infants with intestinal perforation due to NEC produce nearly identical results. The study was the first multi-center randomized controlled trial completed to compare two operations in children. Moss is now working with academic medical centers to collect clinical and biological information for a database to identify which babies with NEC are at greatest risk of perforation.
The pediatric surgeon has also developed and tested a set of clinical research reporting guidelines for surgery that revealed there was a lack of evidence for many surgical procedures in children. The tool was then validated on a large sample of several hundred studies. As a result of this work, the Journal of Pediatric Surgery has adopted the guidelines and is using them for all clinical research published in the journal. Moss' work in this area is representative of his wider interest in the issues of evidence-based surgery, clinical trials, database development and analysis of non-randomized data in surgery.
Moss is surgeon-in-chief at the Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital and chief of pediatric surgery at the School of Medicine. He also serves as program director of the School of Medicine's Fellowship in Pediatric Surgery. He joined the Yale faculty in 2002 after teaching at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and at the Stanford University Medical Center.
Moss earned his B.A. at Stanford University and his M.D. at the University of California, San Diego. He was a surgery resident at the Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle and then was a surgical fellow at Northwestern University in Chicago.
The Yale surgeon has edited three books: "Case Studies in Pediatric Surgery," "Evidence-based Pediatric Surgery" and "Advances in Neonatal Surgery." He serves on numerous national committees and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Pediatric Surgery, among other professional activities.
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