Mollie R. Freedman-Weiss, M.D.
Mollie R. Freedman-Weiss, M.D.
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About Mollie R. Freedman-Weiss, M.D.
My patients and their families often meet me on one of the scariest days of their lives. My job as a pediatric surgeon is to care for my patients completely and unconditionally. It is also to communicate with both the child and their family so they are heard, understand what is going, have agency to help direct their care, and are comforted by my role in their lives and their treatment—surgical and non-surgical alike Because illness and injuries impact not just my patient but also those around them, I keep the family at the center of my practice and my attention.It is an incredible privilege and responsibility to be entrusted with the surgical care of children. I have dedicated my career to delivering excellent and compassionate care from the emergency room to the ICU, to the OR, to postoperative visits, and throughout a child’s life. I believe that pediatric surgery is best accomplished as a team and my team includes the family, the pediatricians, the nurses, and my surgical partners, all working together to deliver world-class care to your child.
Mollie R. Freedman-Weiss, MD MHS is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the division of Pediatric Surgery and Pediatric Trauma at Weill Cornell Medical College and New York–Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. She specializes in complex minimally invasive surgery including advanced laparoscopy, thoracoscopy, and robotic surgery for GI/colorectal surgery, thoracic surgery, and surgical oncology. She enjoys a wide range of clinical interests and expertise, including counseling for prenatally-diagnosed fetal diseases, neonatal and congenital anomalies, gastrointestinal and colorectal issues including constipation/bowel management, oncology, repair of pectus excavatum, thoracic surgery, trauma care, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).
She received her undergraduate degree from Bucknell University and her medical degree from the University of Rochester. She then spent nearly a decade training as a surgeon-scientist, first as a general surgery resident at Yale and then as a fellow in pediatric surgery at Johns Hopkins. During Dr. Freedman-Weiss’s surgical training, she was chosen by the Yale Department of Surgery and her peers to serve as the Administrative Chief Resident, responsible for more than seventy surgical residents across four hospitals. She also spent two years at the Yale School of Medicine researching outcomes in pediatric surgery as well as minimally invasive approaches to prenatally diagnosed diseases under Dr. David Stitelman. Concurrently, she studied surgical education and received a Masters of Health Sciences in Medical Education.
She has received numerous awards for clinical excellence, research, and education, including the Ira S. Goldenberg Intern of the Year from the Yale Department of Surgery, the Yale School of Medicine Power Award, the Chief Resident Award for Resident Education, the Chief Resident Award for Medical Student Education, a first-place podium prize at the 2020 New England Surgical Society Meeting, and the Johns Hopkins Frank L. Coulson Award for Clinical Excellence.
Dr. Freedman-Weiss has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles on topics such as surgical education, Hirschsprung’s disease, fetal disorders, and using data-driven opioid prescribing practices to help curtail the opioid epidemic. Her current research is on optimizing both the training of surgeons and clinical outcomes in pediatric surgery as to inform best practices.
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M.H.S.Yale University School of Medicine2020
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M.D.University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry2015
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B.A.Bucknell University2009
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Assistant Attending SurgeonNewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
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Assistant Professor of SurgeryWeill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University
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