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Sundeep G. Keswani, MD

Chief of the Pediatric Surgery
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States

Dr. Sundeep Keswani is the Chief of the Division of Pediatric Surgery and holds the Clayton Endowed Chair in Surgical Research at Texas Children’s Hospital. He leads the division of Pediatric Surgery which performs near 7000 operative cases and 15,000 clinic visits annually. His clinical areas of expertise are in fetal diagnosis and therapy, as well as ECMO, congenital diaphragmatic hernia, and the management of congenital lung malformations. He is an active member of the Texas Children’s Fetal Center.
In addition to his clinical and administrative duties, Dr. Keswani is the Surgical Director of Basic Science Research for the Texas Children’s Department of Surgery and oversees a 12,000 sq. ft. multidisciplinary laboratory that investigates the interaction of inflammation and extracellular matrix to develop regenerative therapies for the human response to injury. He has been continuously funded by the NIH since 2010. Dr. Keswani has mentored over 60 postdoctoral fellows, residents, medical students, and undergraduates in his lab, and currently serves as the primary mentor for two K08 awardees. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed articles.
Dr. Keswani completed his general surgery residency training at Louisiana State University in his hometown of New Orleans followed by a pediatric surgery fellowship at St. Louis Children’s Hospital at the Washington University School of Medicine. He then moved to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania for a research fellowship and fetal surgery fellowship. After beginning his career at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Dr. Keswani has been on the faculty at Texas Children’s Hospital and the Baylor College of Medicine since 2015.
Currently, he is a Governor of the American College of Surgeons and the current President of the Wound Healing Society. Dr. Keswani is a member of several academic societies, including the Association for Academic Surgery, the Society of the University of Surgeons, and the American Surgical Association. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Academy of Pediatrics, and is dual certified by the American Board of Surgery in General and Pediatric Surgery.

Sundeep G. Keswani, MD, MBA, FACS, FAAP

Chief of Pediatric Surgery
Clayton Endowed Chair in Surgical Research
PI, Laboratory for Regenerative Tissue Repair
Texas Children’s Hospital

Professor, Departments of Surgery, Pediatrics & OB/Gyn
Baylor College of Medicine

Attending Fetal Surgeon
Texas Children’s Fetal Center

Adjunct Professor, Rice University (Bioengineering)

Governor, American College of Surgeons


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