Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery
Director of Minimally Invasive Pediatric Surgery, NYU School of Medicine
Evan Nadler, M.D., is an Assistant Professor
in the Department of Pediatric Surgery and Director of Minimally
Invasive Pediatric Surgery. Dr. Nadler joined the NYU
Division of Pediatric Surgery in 2004 after completing clinical
and research fellowships at the Children’s Hospital of
Pittsburgh, where he studied the pathogenesis of necrotizing
enterocolitis, the most common and lethal gastrointestinal
disease of newborns. Dr. Nadler specializes in minimally invasive
surgery for children and obesity surgery in adolescents. He
also runs a basic science laboratory investigating diseases
of the liver in newborns. He completed his internship
and residency at New York Hospital-Cornell
Medical College, where he also served as Administrative Chief
Resident.
Dr. Nadler has been honored for his contributions to pediatric surgical research, and was the recipient of a research fellowship from the Surgical Infection Society and two Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Seed Money Grants. He has also been an instructor in Advanced Trauma Life Support and an invited lecturer of the American College of Surgeons; he has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and has presented abstracts at several national and international meetings. His clinical interests include minimal access surgery, adolescent bariatric surgery, and robotics.
Dr. Nadler is a board-certified pediatric surgeon and member of several national and international societies including the American Pediatric Surgical Association where he serves on the Committee on Childhood Obesity, the Association of Academic Surgeons, the American College of Surgeons, the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons, and the International Pediatric Endosurgery Group.