Our Division Chief
Matthew Clifton, MD, is the chief of the Division of Pediatric Surgery. He has interests in surgical oncology, complex hepatobiliary surgery, clinical outcomes research, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Dr. Clifton served as surgical director of ECMO at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta from 2011-2019.
Dr. Clifton completed his general surgery training at the University of California, San Francisco, where he also did two years of basic science and clinical research in the Fetal Treatment Center, before completing his pediatric surgery fellowship at Emory.
Dr. Clifton is the institutional surgical representative at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta for the Childhood Liver Disease and Research Education Network (ChiLDREN), which studies biliary atresia as well as a host of other childhood liver pathologies, and is the North American representative of the International Pediatric Endosurgery Group.
Overview
Faculty of the Emory Division of Pediatric Surgery perform general, thoracic, and minimally invasive surgical services at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, which provides compassionate and advanced care to infants, children, and adolescents throughout Georgia and the southeast.
The surgical treatment our faculty surgeons provide includes newborn surgery, bariatric surgery, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), laparoscopic and thoracoscopic procedures, hernia surgery, trauma surgery, abdominal surgery, oncology surgery, pediatric surgical critical care, thoracic surgery, head and neck surgery, and certain urologic procedures.
Faculty research interests include gastroesophageal reflux, necrotizing enterocolitis, Hirschsprung's disease, advanced laparoscopic procedures in infants and children, pediatric oncology, bariatric procedures for adolescents, and pediatric critical care.
The division sponsors an ACGME approved two-year pediatric surgery residency that offers abundant operative experience, a robust didactic conference schedule, and consistent opportunities for participation in clinical research. One- and two-year track pediatric surgery clinical research fellowships are also available, which allow fellows to pursue multiple clinical projects involving surgical health services research.
