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Jason S. Frischer, MD

Director, Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Program, Division of Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery

Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Surgery

Phone: 513-636-4371

Fax: 513-636-7657

Email: jason.frischer@cchmc.org

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Specialties

Colorectal surgery including Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD, Crohn's disease and Ulcerative Colitis); ECMO; congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH); neonatal surgery; minimally invasive surgery; Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB)

Biography

Jason S. Frischer, MD, is an assistant professor in the Division of Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. He earned his medical degree at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. His surgical internship and general surgery residency were completed at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. Additionally, he spent two years as an ECMO fellow and a postdoctoral research fellow in tumor biology at the Children’s Hospital of New York, Columbia University. He went on to complete his pediatric surgery training at the Children’s Hospital of New York, Columbia University.

Dr. Frischer has a special interest in colorectal surgery including Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD, Crohn's disease and Ulcerative Colitis), Hirschsprung’s disease and anorectal malformations (ARM) and is member of the Colorectal Center as well as the Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) Center. He serves as the director of the ECMO program and is a member of the congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) team. He has an interest in neonatal surgery and laparoscopy.

Dr. Frischer is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha (national medical honor society) and was selected by Cincy Magazine Best Doctors in 2010 and 2011. He also was selected by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. and U.S. News & World Report “Top Doctors” in 2012.

Education and Training

BS: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1995.

MD: SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, 1999.

Residency: Mount Sinai School of Medicine, The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, 2000-2001 and 2003-2006.

ECMO/Research Fellowship: Children's Hospital of New York - Presbyterian, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2001-2003.

Pediatric Surgery Residency: Children's Hospital of New York – Presbyterian, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2006-2008.

Certification: General Surgery, 2007; Pediatric Surgery, 2010.

Publications

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Chernoguz A, Crawford, K, Vandersall A, Willson T, Denson LA, Frischer JS. Pre-treatment with Anti-VEGF therapy may exacerbate inflammation in experimental acute colitis. J Pediatr Surg. 2012 Feb;47(2):347-54.

Le LD, Keswani SG, Biesiada J, Lim FY, Kingma PS, Haberman BE, Frischer J, Habli M, Crombleholme TM. The congenital diaphragmatic hernia composite prognostic index correlates with survival in left-sided congenital diaphragmatic hernia. J Pediatr Surg. 2012 Jan;47(1):57-62.

Lawal TA, Falcone RA, von Allmen D, Denson LA, Levitt MA, Warner BW, Frischer JS. The utility of routine pouchogram before ileostomy reversal in children and adolescents following ileal pouch anal anastomosis. J Pediatr Surg. 2011 Jun;46(6):1222-5.

Chernoguz A, Crawford KM, Donovan EC, Vandersall AE, Berglund C, Cripe TP, Frischer JS. EGFR Inhibition Fails to Suppress Vascular Proliferation and Tumor Growth in a Ewing’s Sarcoma Model. J Surg Res. 2012 Mar;173(1):1-9.

Lawal TA, Frischer JS, Falcone RA, Chatoorgoon K, Denson LA, Levitt MA. The transanal approach with laparoscopy or laparotomy for the treatment of rectal strictures in Crohn’s disease. J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A. 2010 Nov;20(9):791-5.

Bischoff A, Gupta A, D’Mello S, Mezoff A, Podberesky D, Barnett S, Keswani S, Frischer JS. Crohn’s disease limited to the appendix: a case report in a pediatric patient. Pediatr Surg Int. 2010 Nov;26(11):1125-8.

Vuletin JF, Lim FY, Cnota J, Kline-Fath B, Salisbury S, Haberman B, Kingma P, Frischer JS, Crombleholme T. Prenatal pulmonary hypertension index: novel prenatal predictor of severe postnatal pulmonary artery hypertension in antenatally diagnosed congenital diaphragmatic hernia. J Pediatr Surg. 2010 Apr;45(4):703-8.

Frischer JS, Lee A, Serur A, Huang J, Bae JO, Kornfield ZN, Eljuga L, Shawber CJ, Feirt N, Mansukhani M, Stempak D, Baruchel S, Bender JG, Kandel JJ, Yamashiro DJ. Inhibition of cyclooxygenase-2 disrupts tumor vascular mural cell recruitment and survival signaling. Cancer Res. 2006 Apr;66(8):4378-84.

Frischer JS, Huang J, Serur A, Kadenhe-Chiweshe A, McCrudden KW, O’Toole K, Holash J, Yancopoulos GD, Yamashiro DJ, Kandel JJ. Effects of potent VEGF blockade on experimental Wilms tumor and its persisting vasculature. Int J Onc. 2004 Sep;25(3):549-53.

Huang J, Frischer JS, Serur A, Kadenhe A, Yokoi A, McCrudden KW, New T, O’Toole K, Zabski S, Rudge JS, Holash J, Yancopoulos GD, Yamashiro DJ, Kandel JJ. Regression of established tumors and metastases by potent vascular endothelial growth factor blockade. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2003 June 24;100(13):7785-90.