New Pediatric Surgeons from the Children’s Hospital of New York Presbyterian Medical Center Join Our Medical Center

The world-class Department of Pediatric Surgery at the Children’s Hospital of New York Presbyterian Medical Center, the University hospitals of Columbia and Cornell, has joined the Medical Center to enhance the availability of pediatric surgery in Bergen County. Charles Stolar, MD, Steven Stylianos, MD, Lawrence Bodenstein, MD, and Eric Lazar, MD, are now available to any child for emergency room consultation. They are also available for elective or hospitalized in-patient consultation. Outpatient visits will take place in the Medical Center until the pediatric facility in the new Russell and Angelica Berrie Center for Humanistic Care is completed. Appointments for elective or emergency consultations can be made by calling (212) 305-2305, or (212) 305-8861.

In addition to Drs. Stolar, Stylianos, Lazar and Bodenstein, their associates at Children’s Hospital of NY-Presbyterian, pediatric surgeon Marc Arkovitz, MD, will be available for on-call responsibilities.

“Our partnership with the Medical Center reflects; what we hope will prove to be, the wisdom of joining resources with the Medical Center to bring the best possible pediatric surgical care to children and their families. The partnership also provides access to the Children’s Hospital of New York for those special circumstances when that can be helpful,” said Dr. Stolar. 
   
Charles Stolar, MD 

Dr. Stolar is currently Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, and from medical school at Georgetown University. Dr. Stolar completed his General Surgery training at the University of Illinois in 1976, and was awarded a fellowship in Pediatric Surgery at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. He joined the staff of the Children’s Hospital of New York in 1982, and is Board-Certified in both General and Pediatric Surgery.

Dr. Stolar has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, with a special emphasis on newborn respiratory failure. He has authored multiple book chapters on childhood cancer and congenital diaphragmatic hernia. He maintains an active research laboratory, which focuses on the normal and abnormal formation of vascular networks in the lungs during embryonic development and early infancy.

Dr. Stolar is internationally recognized for his expertise in the management of congenital diaphragmatic hernia. He has had a central role in developing strategies of life support (Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation, or ECMO) for children with overwhelming respiratory failure. His clinical interests, however, span the broad range of pediatric general surgery, with special emphasis on newborns and children with cancer. Dr. Stolar has participated in the national Children’s Cancer Group, and has a special expertise in managing children with tumors of germ cell origin and other solid tumors of childhood. 

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