Robert Foglia, MD

Professor
Endowed Title: Helen J. and Robert S. Strauss and Diana K. and Richard C. Strauss Chair in Pediatric Surgery
Surgery, Pediatrics

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

robert.foglia@utsouthwestern.edu

To make an appointment, call 214-645-8300.

Biography

Dr. Foglia received a BS in Biology from Georgetown University in 1970, and graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University Medical School in 1974 where he also was elected to AOA. He received his general surgical training at UCLA, as a junior resident from 1974-1976. From 1976-1978 he was a research surgeon in the Cardiovascular Surgical Research Laboratory, and returned to general surgical training from 1978-1981 concluding as a Chief Resident. His pediatric surgical training was in Washington, D.C. at the Children's Medical Center where he was Chief Resident from 1981 to 1983. His first academic faculty position was at the Massachusetts General Hospital from 1983 to 1986. He was awarded a NCI Clinical Investigator Award for work in transplantation biology. He moved in 1986 to UCLA, continued his previous research, and started the ECMO Program there with the development of both a clinical and a research program. In 1990 he was recruited to Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis to be the Division Chief in Pediatric Surgery and Surgeon in Chief at the St. Louis Children's Hospital. Over the next sixteen years, he served as Medical Director of the Burn and Trauma Program, opened an RRC approved training program in Pediatric Surgery, increased the clinical volume of the service significantly, and was fortunate to have recruited three of seven faculty members who subsequently became Division Chiefs at prominent pediatric surgical programs in North America. He is coeditor of one of the major textbooks of pediatric surgery and research interests include pediatric trauma, wound healing, and neonatal surgery. In 2006, he was recruited to UT Southwestern, appointed Professor of Surgery, Chief of the Division of Pediatric Surgery and Surgeon in Chief of the Dallas Children's Medical Center. He has been named the Helen J. and Robert S. Strauss and Diana K. and Richard C. Strauss Chair in Pediatric Surgery.

Education

FellowshipChildren's National Medical Center - GME (1983)
ResidencyUCLA (1981)
InternshipUCLA (1975)
Medical SchoolGeorgetown University Medical Center School of Medicine (1974)

Publications

Featured
Management of giant omphalocele with rapid creation of abdominal domain

Foglia RP, Kane A, Becker D, Asz J, Mychaliska G , J Ped Surg , 2006; (41):704-709

Featured
Evolving treatment in a decade of pediatric burn care

Foglia RP, Moushey R, Meadows L, Seigel J, Smith M , J. Ped Surg , 2004; (39 (6)):957-960

Featured
Pulmonary edema and fluid mobilization as determinants of the duration of ECMO support

Kelly RE, Phillips JD, Foglia RP, Bjerke HS, Barcliff LT, Petrus L , J Ped Surg , 1991; (26):1016-1022

Featured
Current indications for decortication in the treatment of empyema in children

Foglia RP, Randolph J , J Ped Surg , 1987; (22(1)):28-33

Featured
Fetal allograft survival in immunocompetent recipients is age dependent and organ specific

Foglia RP, DiPreta J, Statter MB, Donahoe PK , Ann Surg , 1986; (55):402-410

The Surgery of Infants and Children: Scientific Principles and Practices 2nd Ed.

Oldham KT, Colombani PM, Foglia RP, Skinner MA , editors Lippincott Raven Publishers,Philadelphia PA , 2005;

Unsafe at any speed-kids riding all-terrain vehicles

Kelleher CM, Metze SL, Dillon PA, Mychaliska GB, Keshen TH, Foglia RP , J Ped Surg , 2005; (40):929-935

Trauma stat and trauma minor: Are we making the right call appropriately?

Chen LE, Snyder AK, Minkes RK, Dillon PA, Foglia RP , Pediatr.Emergency Care , 2004; (20(7)):421-424

An analysis of pediatric gunshot wounds treated at a level I pediatric trauma center

Synder AK, Chen LE, Foglia RP, Dillion PA, Minkes RK , J.Trauma , 2003; (54):1102-1106

Honors/Awards

Alpha Omega Alpha

Georgetown University School of Medicine (1974)

MD magna cum laude

Georgetown University School of Medicine, Graudated with Honors in Surgery (1974)

"Best Doctors in America"

2004, 2005

Clinical Investigator Award

National NCI, K08 CAO1270 1985-1988

Golden Scalpel Award Teaching Excellence

UCLA Department of Surgery 1987-1988

Professional Associations/Affiliations

American Academy of Pediatrics, Surgical Section, Critical Care Section

American College of Surgeons, Fellow, and Committee on Trauma

American Pediatric Surgical Association

Pediatric Surgery Training Directors Association

Society of University Surgeons