N. Scott Adzick MD, MMM, FACS, FAAP

N. Scott Adzick, MD, MMM, FACS, FAAP, is Surgeon-in-Chief of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the founder and director of the Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment. Dr. Adzick is the C. Everett Koop Professor of Pediatric Surgery and also serves as CHOP’s Director of the Division of Pediatric General, Thoracic and Fetal Surgery, as well as Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Dr. Adzick was the principal investigator for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) “Management of Myelomeningocele Study” (MOMS) at CHOP, which demonstrated that performing fetal surgery for spina bifida results in significantly improved outcomes versus conventional postnatal repair. He is also an active pediatric general and thoracic surgeon, and performs more than 400 operations a year, with much of his work devoted to surgery in newborns.