Foong-yen Lim MD

Foong-Yen Lim, MD, a pediatric and fetal surgeon, leads the Fetal Team as the Surgical Director of the Cincinnati Fetal Center (CFC). He has performed more than 500 fetoscopic procedures and various open fetal surgeries at CFC. Besides his leadership role locally, he currently serves on the Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment Committee of the American Pediatric Surgical Association; and the Board of Directors of the North American Fetal Therapy (NAFTNet). He also served as the Program Director of the 30th Annual International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society (IFMSS) Conference.

Dr. Lim continues to expand his expertise in Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery with an emphasis on congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH); congenital lung lesions such as congenital pulmonary airway malformation (CPAM); Bladder Outlet Obstruction (BOO); and bronchopulmonary sequestration (BPS); congenital high airway obstruction syndrome (CHAOS); and congenital tumors including giant cervical teratoma, and sacrococcygeal teratoma. In addition to serving as one of the attending physicians on the CDH Team that is dedicated to the care and management of all CDH patients, he is leading the clinical and research projects related to CDH and congenital lung lesions at Cincinnati.