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Richard Ricketts MD

  • SOM: Surgery: Pediatrics
    Professor Emeritus
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Overview

Dr. Richard Ricketts was the founding chief of the Emory Division of Pediatric Surgery from 1980-2010. Among his various achievements during his tenure as chief was establishing an accredited pediatric surgery fellowship at Emory in 1996, and being an early advocate of pediatric minimally invasive surgery. His clinical specialties were neonatal surgery, prenatal consultations, necrotizing enterocolitis, Hirschsprung's disease, pediatric oncology, and thoracic surgery.

Dr. Ricketts received his MD from Northwestern University Medical School in 1973, and completed his residency in general surgery at the University of Southern California Los Angeles County Medical Center in 1978. He then completed a fellowship in pediatric surgery at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago in 1980.

From 2014-2018, Dr. Ricketts joined the Emory Haiti Alliance a volunteer consortium of Emory medical students, surgery and anesthesiology residents, faculty physicians, and mid-level practitioners on its summer surgical trips to Haiti's Central Plateau, the most medically underserved area in the country.

In 2020, Dr. Ricketts was the recipient of the Arnold Salzberg Mentorship Award, an esteemed recognition presented by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Section on Surgery (SOSu) to pediatric surgeons who have distinguished themselves as mentors. The award is based on nominations from the entire SOSu membership.

Academic Appointment

  • Professor of Surgery Emeritus, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine

Research

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