UK HealthCare welcomes Dr. David A. Rodeberg as professor and chief of Pediatric Surgery
The University of Kentucky Department of Surgery and UK HealthCare are pleased to welcome David A. Rodeberg, MD, FACS, a nationally celebrated Pediatric Surgeon, to its providers.
In addition to his surgical practice, Dr. Rodeberg has accepted the role of Division Chief of Pediatric Surgery. He will take the place of Dr. John Draus, the outgoing division chief and colleague who played an instrumental role in Dr. Rodeberg's recruitment. Dr. Draus accepted a new leadership role at a children’s hospital in Jacksonville, Florida
Dr. Rodeberg comes to the University of Kentucky from the East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, where he served as the Verneda and Clifford Kiehn Distinguished Professor and Chief of Pediatric Surgery as well as Surgeon-in-Chief of Maynard Children’s Hospital in Greenville, North Carolina.
His extensive clinical experience includes service as clinical co-director of the Pediatric Surgery Fellowship program at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. He also spent six years as Pediatric Trauma Director at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
Dr. Rodeberg is very familiar with the northern and central Kentucky area. He completed his surgical residency at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center then matched to the Pediatric Surgical Fellowship Program at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.
He has also contributed significantly to basic science and clinical research as lead or co-author to numerous journal articles, book chapters, and invited manuscripts. He is also recognized as an expert in pediatric surgical oncology though his involvement in the Children’s Oncology Group Sarcoma Committee and the International Soft Tissue Sarcoma Consortium.
“The Department of Surgery is elated that Dr. Rodeberg has joined our faculty to serve the Kentucky Children’s Hospital and the pediatric population of the Commonwealth; by all accounts, he is a superstar recruit,” commented William B. Inabnet III, MD, MHA, FACS, Johnston-Wright Endowed Professor and Chair of the UK Department of Surgery.
Dr. Rodeberg's practice is open and accepting new patients. Families may ask their children's doctor for a referral.
