David Lazar, M.D.

Bio

Dr. David Lazar is a pediatric surgeon at Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego and an assistant professor of surgery at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

Dr. Lazar earned a Bachelor of Arts in biology with honors from the University of Pennsylvania, then graduated from medical school at Baylor College of Medicine. He excelled at his general surgery residency at UC San Diego, winning multiple teaching awards and garnering departmental and campus-wide recognition for his efforts in medical student and resident education.

He served as administrative chief resident before pursuing two years of research in wound healing and fetal surgery at Texas Children's Hospital. Following his residency, he completed his pediatric surgery fellowship at Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, where he gained comprehensive exposure to fetal and neonatal surgery, surgical oncology and minimally invasive surgery.

Dr. Lazar's clinical interests include prenatal counseling and intervention, caring for children with thoracic and abdominal congenital anomalies, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).

Publications

A Comparative Study of Laparoscopic versus Open Management of Index Small Bowel Obstruction in Children.
Patwardhan UM, Floan GM, Calvo RY, Acker SN, Choi PM, Prieto JM, Bansal V, Sise MJ, Thangarajah H, Fairbanks TJ, Lazar DA, Ignacio RC

Trends in Management of Index Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction in Children.
Patwardhan UM, Floan GM, Calvo RY, Acker SN, Prieto JM, Thangarajah H, Bansal V, Sise MJ, Fairbanks TJ, Lazar DA, Ignacio RC

Serum Amyloid P Attenuates Hypertrophic Scarring in Large Animal Models.
Menchaca AD, Style CC, Lazar DA, Mushin O, Olutoye OO

Bike Helmet Usage in the Most Disadvantaged Neighborhoods: A Focused Area for Trauma Prevention.
Henry OS, Rooney AS, Heflinger MV, Sykes AG, Ghetti CB, de Cos V, Kling KM, Lazar DA, Martin MJ, Bansal V, Ignacio RC

Modified laparoscopic gastrostomy tube placement in children: Does subcutaneous suture type matter?
Sykes AG, Prieto JM, Thangarajah H, Keller BA, Kling KM, Ignacio RC Jr, Lazar DA

Just Stick a Scope in: Laparoscopic Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Placement in the Pediatric Reoperative Abdomen.
Sykes AG, Sisson WB, Gonda DD, Kling KM, Ignacio RC, Thangarajah H, Bickler SW, Levy ML, Lazar DA

Identifying risk factors for enteral access procedures in neonates with congenital diaphragmatic hernia: A novel risk-assessment score.
Prieto JM, Harting MT, Calvo RY, Carroll JM, Sykes AG, Ignacio RC, Ebanks AH, Lazar DA, Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Study Group

Extremes of age are associated with differences in the expression of selected pattern recognition receptor genes and ACE2, the receptor for SARS-CoV-2: implications for the epidemiology of COVID-19 disease.
Bickler SW, Cauvi DM, Fisch KM, Prieto JM, Sykes AG, Thangarajah H, Lazar DA, Ignacio RC, Gerstmann DR, Ryan AF, Bickler PE, De Maio A

Patience is a virtue: Multiple preoperative visits are associated with decreased recurrence in pediatric pilonidal disease.
Prieto JM, Thangarajah H, Ignacio RC, Bickler SW, Kling KM, Saenz NC, Garcia SV, Lazar DA

Ovarian volume ratio is a reliable predictor of ovarian torsion in girls without an adnexal mass.
Hartman SJ, Prieto JM, Naheedy JH, Ignacio RC, Bickler SW, Kling KM, Saenz NC, Fairbanks TJ, Lazar DA

Nationwide analysis of resuscitative thoracotomy in pediatric trauma: Time to differentiate from adult guidelines?
Prieto JM, Van Gent JM, Calvo RY, Rooney AS, Martin MJ, Sise MJ, Sise CB, Lazar DA, Bansal V, Ignacio RC

Patient-oriented online resources in pediatric surgery: Are we failing the readability test?
Prieto JM, West-Santos C, Montgomery AS, Patwardhan U, Lazar DA, Thangarajah H, Bickler SW, Huang EY, Fairbanks TJ, Ignacio RC

Same Anesthesia Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography and Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: The Pediatric ERCP Database Intiative Experience.
Fishman DS, Barth B, Mazziotti MV, Lazar DA, Brandt ML, Fallon SC, Tsai CM, Olutoye OO, Giefer M, Martinez M, Troendle DM

Trephination versus wide excision for the treatment of pediatric pilonidal disease.
Prieto JM, Checchi KD, Kling KM, Ignacio RC, Bickler SW, Saenz NC, Fairbanks TJ, Nicholson SI, Lazar DA

Premenarchal patients present differently: A twist on the typical patient presenting with ovarian torsion.
Prieto JM, Kling KM, Ignacio RC, Bickler SW, Fairbanks TJ, Saenz NC, Nicholson SI, Lazar DA

In-utero radiofrequency ablation in fetal piglets: Lessons learned.
Olutoye OO, Gay AN, Sheikh F, Akinkuotu AC, Sundararajan M, Lazar DA, Zamora IJ, Naik-Mathuria BJ, Cass DL, Yu L

Potential of the ovine brain as a model for anesthesia-induced neuroapoptosis.
Olutoye OA, Lazar DA, Akinkuotu AC, Adesina A, Olutoye OO

Abdominal near-infrared spectroscopy measurements are lower in preterm infants at risk for necrotizing enterocolitis.
Patel AK, Lazar DA, Burrin DG, Smith EO, Magliaro TJ, Stark AR, Brandt ML, Zamora IJ, Sheikh F, Akinkuotu AC, Olutoye OO

Prenatal MRI fetal lung volumes and percent liver herniation predict pulmonary morbidity in congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH).
Zamora IJ, Olutoye OO, Cass DL, Fallon SC, Lazar DA, Cassady CI, Mehollin-Ray AR, Welty SE, Ruano R, Belfort MA, Lee TC

Scarless laparotomy in children: a transumbilical technique with umbilicoplasty.
Lazar DA, Fallon SC, Benson EM, Hassan SF, Brandt ML

Characterizing pilomatricomas in children: a single institution experience.
Hassan SF, Stephens E, Fallon SC, Schady D, Hicks MJ, Lopez ME, Lazar DA, Rodriguez MA, Brandt ML

Repair of congenital diaphragmatic hernias on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO): does early repair improve patient survival?
Fallon SC, Cass DL, Olutoye OO, Zamora IJ, Lazar DA, Larimer EL, Welty SE, Moise AA, Demny AB, Lee TC

The use of ECMO for persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn: a decade of experience.
Lazar DA, Cass DL, Olutoye OO, Welty SE, Fernandes CJ, Rycus PT, Lee TC

An analysis of outcomes and treatment costs for children undergoing splenectomy for chronic immune thrombocytopenia purpura.
Gwilliam NR, Lazar DA, Brandt ML, Mahoney DH Jr, Wesson DE, Mazziotti MV, Nuchtern JG, Lee TC

Defining "liver-up": does the volume of liver herniation predict outcome for fetuses with isolated left-sided congenital diaphragmatic hernia?
Lazar DA, Ruano R, Cass DL, Moise KJ Jr, Johnson A, Lee TC, Cassady CI, Olutoye OO

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