Assistant Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States
Mitchell R. Ladd, MD, PhD (@mrladd) is an assistant professor of surgery and pediatrics at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Brenner Children's Hospital. He has affiliate appointments at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and Biomedical Engineering. He has long been interested in tissue engineering obtaining his PhD in biomedical engineering in 2011 while working at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM). He went on to finish medical school at Wake Forest and then do his surgical training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. During his general surgery residency, we worked with David Hackam, MD, PhD studying necrotizing enterocolitis and began working on tissue-engineered small intestine (TESI). He stayed at Johns Hopkins to complete his pediatric surgery fellowship and then returned to Winston-Salem, NC to join the Wake Forest University Health Sciences faculty as a pediatric surgeon and researcher at WFIRM where he has re-engaged with the work of developing a TESI to treat children with intestinal failure. Dr. Ladd has been married to his wife Julia for 20 years and they have three children ages 13, 11, and 10 years.
10 - DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL TUBULAR SCAFFOLD FOR TISSUE-ENGINEERED SMALL INTESTINE
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
9:42 AM – 9:50 AM East Coast USA Time