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Marc A. Levitt, MD

Director, Colorectal Center

Professor, Division of Pediatric Surgery

Phone: 513-636-3240

Fax: 513-636-3248

Email: marc.levitt@cchmc.org

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Specialties

Pediatric colorectal surgery; pediatric minimally invasive surgery

Biography

Dr. Levitt is the director of the Colorectal Center for Children at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. He joined the full-time staff at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in June 2005 when he and Dr. Peña were recruited to create the world’s first and only multidisciplinary and comprehensive Colorectal Center for Children.

Dr. Levitt received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Society and worked with Dr. Peña as a medical student in 1992. Dr. Levitt completed his general surgery residency at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York and also served as a clinical and research fellow in pediatric colorectal surgery with Dr. Peña at Schneider Children's Hospital. He completed his pediatric surgery fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Buffalo, and was a pediatric surgical attending there, serving as the clinical director of their Pediatric Miniature Access Surgery Center, from 1999 to 2002. He was faculty at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Pediatric Surgeon at Schneider Children’s Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System from 2002 to 2005.

Education and Training

MD: Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Residency: Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York.

Fellowhip: Pediatric Surgery, Children's Hospital of Buffalo.

Certification: Surgery; Pediatric Surgery.

Publications

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Bischoff A, Calvo-Garcia MA, Baregamian N, Levitt MA, Lim FY, Hall J, Peña A. Prenatal Counseling for Cloaca and Cloacal Exstrophy – Challenges faced by Pediatric Surgeons. Pediatr Surg Intl. 2012.

Livingston JC, Elicevik M, Breech L, Crombleholme TM, Peña A, Levitt MA. Persistent Cloaca: A 10-Year Review of Prenatal Diagnosis. Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine. 2012.

Hamrick M, Eradi B, Bischoff A, Louden E, Peña A, Levitt MA. Rectal Atresia and Stenosis; Unique Anorectal Malformations. J Pediatr Surg. 2012;47(6): 1280-4.

Chatoorgoon K, Peña A, Lawal TA, Louden E, Levitt MA. The Problematic Duhamel Pouch in Hirschsprung’s Disease: Manifestations and Treatment. European Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 2011;21: 366-9.

Bischoff A, Levitt MA, Peña A. Total Colonic Aganglionosis – A Surgical Challenge: How to Avoid Complications. Pediatr Surg Int. 2011 Oct;27(10): 1047-52.

Podberesky DJ, Weaver NC, Anton CG, Lawal T, Hamrick MC, Alam S, Peña A, Levitt MA. MRI of Acquired Posterior Urethral Diverticulum Following Surgery for Anorectal Malformations. Pediatr Radiol. 2011 Sept;41(9): 1139-1145.

Rangel SJ, Lawal TA, Bischoff A, Chatoorgoon K, Louden E, Peña A, Levitt MA. The Appendix as a Conduit for Antegrade Continence Enemas in Patients with Anorectal Malformations: Lessons Learned from 163 Cases treated over 18 years. J Pediatr Surg. 2011 Jun;46(6): 1236-42.

Alam S, Lawal TA, Peña A, Sheldon C, Levitt MA. Acquired Posterior Urethral Diverticulum Following Surgery for Anorectal Malformations. 2010 Jun;J Pediatr Surg. 46(6): 1231-5.

Chatoorgoon K, Peña A, Lawal TA, Hamrick M, Louden E, Levitt MA. Neoappendicostomy in the Management of Pediatric Fecal Incontinence. J Pediatr Surg. 2011 Jun;46(6): 1243-49.

Bischoff A, Levitt MA, Peña A. Laparoscopy and its use in the Repair of Anorectal Malformations. J Pediatr Surg. 2011;46(8): 1609-17.