A photo of Beth Rymeski.

Pediatric Surgeon, Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery

Pediatric Surgeon, Colorectal Center

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Surgery

513-636-3240

Board Certified

My Biography & Research

Biography

Beth Rymeski earned her medical degree in 2005 from the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine in Biddeford, Maine. She went on to complete her general surgery residency in 2011 at the Christiana Care Health System in Newark, Delaware.

She joined Cincinnati Children’s in 2011 where she completed a vascular anomalies fellowship in 2012 and a fetal surgery and ECMO fellowship in 2013. She then remained at Cincinnati Children’s to complete her Pediatric Surgical Fellowship from 2013-2015.

Clinical Interests

Colorectal surgery; general pediatric surgery; minimally invasive surgery; neonatal surgery; ECMO; CDH; epidermolysis bullosa

Academic Affiliation

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Surgery

Divisions

Colorectal Disorders, Surgery - General and Thoracic, Epidermolysis Bullosa EB, Fetal Care, Inflammatory Bowel Disease IBD, Neurogastroenterology and Motility Disorders Center, General and Community Pediatrics

My Locations

My Education

DO: University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, Biddeford, ME.

Residency: Christina Care Health System, Newark, DE.

My Publications

Changing the Paradigm for Management of Pediatric Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax: A Simple Aspiration Test Predicts Need for Operation. Leys, CM; Hirschl, RB; Kohler, JE; Cherney-Stafford, L; Marka, N; Fallat, ME; Gadepalli, SK; Fraser, JD; Grabowski, J; Burns, RC; et al. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 2020; 55:169-175.

Hemorrhage after on-ECMO repair of CDH is equivalent for muscle flap and prosthetic patch. Nolan, H; Aydin, E; Frischer, JS; Peiro, JL; Rymeski, B; Lim, F. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 2019; 54:2044-2047.

A comparison of surgical complications after appendicostomy and neoappendicostomy in pediatric patients. Goddard, GR; Rymeski, B; Jenkins, T; Mullapudi, B; Dickie, BH; Bischoff, A; Pena, A; Levitt, MA; Frische, JS. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 2019; 54:1660-1663.

Infants with esophageal atresia and right aortic arch: Characteristics and outcomes from the Midwest Pediatric Surgery Consortium. Lal, DR; Gadepalli, SK; Downard, CD; Minneci, PC; Knezevich, M; Chelius, TH; Rapp, CT; Billmire, D; Bruch, S; Burns, RC; et al. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 2019; 54:688-692.

Congenital diaphragmatic hernia: the good, the bad, and the tough. Aydin, E; Lim, F; Kingma, P; Haberman, B; Rymeski, B; Burns, P; Peiro, JL. Pediatric Surgery International. 2019; 35:303-313.

Pediatric general surgeon and critically ill cardiac patient. Speer, AL; Rymeski, BA; Petty, JK. Critical Heart Disease in Infants and Children. : Elsevier; Elsevier; 2019.

Challenging surgical dogma in the management of proximal esophageal atresia with distal tracheoesophageal fistula: Outcomes from the Midwest Pediatric Surgery Consortium. Lal, DR; Gadepalli, SK; Downard, CD; Ostlie, DJ; Minneci, PC; Swedler, RM; Chelius, TH; Cassidy, L; Rapp, CT; Billmire, D; et al. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 2018; 53:1267-1272.

Screening practices and associated anomalies in infants with anorectal malformations: Results from the Midwest Pediatric Surgery Consortium. Minneci, PC; Kabre, RS; Mak, GZ; Halleran, DR; Cooper, JN; Afrazi, A; Calkins, CM; Downard, CD; Ehrlich, P; Fraser, J; et al. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 2018; 53:1163-1167.

Initial development and validation of a fecal incontinence-specific quality of life measure. Cushing, CC; Threlkeld, MR S; Martinez-Leo, B; Hall, J; Hossain, M; Dickie, BH; Rymeski, B; Helmrath, M; Zeller, MH; Frischer, JS. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 2018; 53:1148-1153.

Long-term morbidity after staging laparotomy for Hodgkin lymphoma. Lobeck, I; Rymeski, B; Burns, K; Nagarajan, R; Correll, J; Kent, D; Dasgupta, R. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 2017; 52:1430-1432.