Professor, Surgery and Pediatrics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine
General Surgery
Dr. Benedict C. Nwomeh, MD
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Benedict Nwomeh is an expert in the field of General Surgery. He went to University of Lagos College of Medicine. He received 2 awards: "Fellow (FACS)" and "Fellow (FAAP)". Doctor Benedict C. Nwomeh, MD is a published doctor as well. He has 67 publications published. The latest was: MMP-8 is the predominant collagenase in healing wounds and nonhealing ulcers.
Publications
- Challenges of management and outcome of neonatal surgery in Africa: a systematic review.
- Single-incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) for children with Crohn's disease.
- Laparoscopic bowel resection for pediatric inflammatory bowel disease.
- Variability in same-day discharge for pediatric Appendicitis.
- Implementation of a pediatric surgical quality improvement (QI)-driven M&M conference.
- Unmet surgical needs in children: a household survey in Nepal.
- Management of Intra-abdominal Abscesses in Children With Crohn's Disease: A 12-year, Retrospective Single-center Review.
- Conditions, preventable deaths, procedures and validation of a countrywide survey of surgical care in Nepal.
- The Global Paediatric Surgery Network: a model of subspecialty collaboration within global surgery.
- Managing moderately injured pediatric patients without immediate surgeon presence: 10 years later.
- A Pilot Survey of Pediatric Surgical Capacity in West Africa.
- An estimate of Hernia prevalence in Nepal from a countrywide community survey.
- Burns in Nepal: A population based national assessment.
- Burn management capacity in low and middle-income countries: A systematic review of 458 hospitals across 14 countries.
- Surgical Needs of Nepal: Pilot Study of Population Based Survey in Pokhara, Nepal.
- Pediatric helmet use in residential areas.
- Epidemiology of 577 Pediatric Firearm Fatalities: A 2-year Review of the National Trauma Data Bank.
- Inter-Rater Reliability of the PIPES Tool: Validation of a Surgical Capacity Index for Use in Resource-Limited Settings.
- Use of Twitter to document the 2013 Academic Surgical Congress.
- The International Assessment of Capacity for Trauma (INTACT): an index for trauma capacity in low-income countries.
- Assessing quality in pediatric surgery - the limited role of appendectomy as the optimal target.
- A quantitative Analysis of surgical capacity in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
- Household survey in Sierra Leone reveals high prevalence of surgical conditions in children.
- Free health care for under 5 year olds increases access to surgical care in Sierra Leone: an Analysis of case load and patient characteristics.
- A communication skills intervention for parents of pediatric surgery patients.
- Variation in management of intra-abdominal Abscesses in children with Crohn's disease.
- Commentary: The role of global surgery electives during residency training: relevance, realities, and regulations.
- Embracing a collaborative care approach to paediatric surgery.
- The benefits of international rotations to resource-limited settings for U.S. surgery residents.
- A survey of surgical capacity in rural southern Nigeria: opportunities for change.
- Assessment of pediatric surgery capacity at government hospitals in Sierra Leone.
- Further examination of the impact of patient participation on physicians' communication style.
- Revisiting childhood obesity: persistent underutilization of surgical intervention?
- Variability in Gastroschisis Management: A Survey of North American Pediatric Surgery Training Programs.
- Medicine and surgery: the yin and yang of health systems.
- Profiling the ethnic characteristics of domestic injuries in children younger than age 5 years.
- Assessing the efficacy of the fundamentals of research and career development course overseas.
- Academic needs in developing countries: a survey of the West African College of Surgeons.
- General surgery versus specialty rotations: a new paradigm in surgery clerkships.
- A parental educational intervention to facilitate informed consent for emergency operations in children.
- Effect of educational debt on career and quality of life among academic surgeons.
- Geographic disparities in the risk of perforated Appendicitis among children in Ohio: 2001-2003.
- Thoracoscopic-assisted esophagectomy and laparoscopic gastric pull-up for lye injury.
- Definitive exclusion of biliary Atresia in infants with cholestatic jaundice: the role of percutaneous cholecysto-cholangiography.
- The impact of managing moderately injured pediatric trauma patients without immediate surgeon presence.
- Factors affecting innovation in pediatric surgery: hospital type and appendectomies.
- History and development of trauma registry: lessons from developed to developing countries.
- A leap in faith: the impact of removing the surgeon from the level II trauma response.
- Monozygotic twins with discordant Intestinal rotation.
- Racial and socioeconomic disparity in perforated Appendicitis among children: where is the problem?
- Informed consent for emergency surgery in infants and children.
- Paradoxical missile embolus to the right superficial femoral artery following gunshot wound to the liver: a case report.
- Minimally invasive esophagectomy for caustic esophageal stricture in children.
- Contrast extravasation predicts the need for operative intervention in children with blunt splenic trauma.
- Case report: prenatally detected dumdbell-shaped retroperitoneal duplication cyst.
- The proteolytic environment of chronic wounds.
- TGF-beta1 alters the healing of cutaneous fetal excisional wounds.
- MMP-8 is the predominant collagenase in healing wounds and nonhealing ulcers.
- Dynamics of the matrix metalloproteinases MMP-1 and MMP-8 in acute open human dermal wounds.
- Physiology of the chronic wound.
- Teaching technical skills to medical students: beyond ''see one, do one, teach one''.
- Laparoscopic Appendectomy in Children with Complicated Appendicitis: Ethnic Disparity Amid Changing Trend.
- Pediatric Negative Appendectomy Rate: Trend, Predictors, and Differentials.
- Difficult central venous access removal: case reports of the use of endovascular snare shearing of endothelialized tetherings.
- Emerging ethical issues in pediatric surgery.
- Wound classification in pediatric surgical procedures: Measured and found wanting.
Schools
University Of Lagos College Of Medicine
Chldns Hospital
McV Hospital
University Of Pittsburgh
Procedures Preformed
- Appendectomy, Laparoscopic
- Colectomy
- Enterostomy (Laparoscopic or Open)
- Fistulectomy or Fistulotomy, Anal
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Conditions Treated
- Anal Fissure
- Anal Fistula
- Anorectal Abscess
- Appendicitis
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Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Surgery
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FACS)
- Fellow (FAAP)
Education
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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center -
Virginia Commonwealth University Health System -
University of Lagos College of Medicine
Hospital
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Nationwide Children's Hospital -
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
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