Maxillofacial and Craniofacial Surgery Fellowship
Program Overview
Welcome to the Pediatric Maxillofacial and Craniofacial Fellowship Program in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Nemours Children’s Health, Jacksonville. This is a 12-month fellowship program.
Our department provides patient care for a wide spectrum of conditions affecting the maxillofacial region. Our fellows receive full training in all aspects of maxillofacial surgery. Our physicians are consultants for the hospital’s Level I trauma center, with the most critical trauma patients from Northeast Florida and South Georgia. Our faculty and fellows provide comprehensive treatment for all aspects of pediatric soft and hard tissues, and abnormalities of the maxillofacial and craniofacial region.
In addition to the outstanding surgical training, our residents enjoy the many amenities of Jacksonville coastal living.
Thank you for your interest in our fellowship program and feel free to contact us with any additional questions.
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Operative Experience
The fellow will participate in all pediatric (15 years and younger) surgical cases. Participation with other surgeons (plastics and ENT) involved with pediatric head and neck surgical care is expected. The fellow will also operate with the assistant program director — Nathan Ranalli, MD, of the UF Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery — on certain intracranial noncraniofacial cases. The scope consists of all aspects of pediatric maxillofacial and craniofacial procedures. The fellow generally operates on 24 to 30 transcranial craniofacial cases yearly and the level of participation is commensurate with experience and technical abilities. The service (attending and fellow) covers all pediatric cranio-maxillofacial trauma at UF Health Jacksonville and Wolfson Children's Hospital. A mission trip to Vietnam is also offered to the fellow, where approximately 50 cleft cases are treated.
Call Responsibilities
The fellow will be on call for only the cases operated on by the pediatric craniomaxillofacial service.
Clinic Responsibilities
Fellows attend various clinics throughout the week with the preceptor and will be involved in the evaluation, work-up, operative procedure and postoperative follow-up of the patient. In addition, the fellow will attend the full multidisciplinary cleft and craniofacial clinic two times per month.
Research
The fellow is expected to participate in clinical studies or collaboration with others, encouraging a presentation to a national organization or publication in a scientific journal.