Pediatric Surgeon
Multicare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
Tacoma, Washington, United States
Mauricio A. “Tony” Escobar, Jr. MD, FACS, FAAP, is a Pediatric Surgeon at Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in Tacoma, WA. He has served as Interim Chief Medical Officer of Mary Bridge, Medical Director of Pediatric Surgery, Medical Director of Pediatric Trauma and Chief of Staff. He graduated from Baylor School of Medicine in Houston, Texas, after completing his undergraduate studies at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He completed his Surgical Residency at Indiana University where he served as Chief Resident in his final year. He then completed his Pediatric Surgical Residency at Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo, State University of New York at Buffalo, once again serving as Chief Resident his final year. He has numerous academic and professional honors. Dr. Escobar has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles, 14 clinical textbook chapters, and presented at multiple national and international surgical meetings. He is board certified in General Surgery with added special qualifications in Pediatric Surgery. He has served on the State of Washington Emergency Medical Services and Trauma Care Steering Committee and Chair of its Pediatric Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), a member of the American Pediatric Surgical Association (APSA) Trauma Committee and is currently Chair of the Practice Committee, the Pediatric Trauma Society (PTS) Guidelines Committee and Research Committee, and past Chair of the Pediatric Committee of the Trauma Center Association of America. His academic interests lie in screening for child abuse and bioethics. He led a PTS team in publishing an extensive review of NAT screening in the Journal of Trauma, co-authored the American Pediatric Surgical Association Position Statement on the Role of the Pediatric Surgeon in screening for child abuse, co-lead the taskforce to develop the Child Abuse section of the Best Practice Guideline for Trauma Center Recognition of Family Violence: Child Abuse, Elderly Abuse, and Intimate Partner Violence by the American College of Surgeon Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP ®) and the PTS and co-authored the joint Western Trauma Association (WTA)-PTS Child Physical Abuse screening algorithm.
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
3:12 PM – 3:20 PM East Coast USA Time