Charles J.H. Stolar, M.D.
Co-Director, Center for Prenatal Pediatrics
Chief, Division of Pediatric Surgery
Surgeon-in-Chief
Director, Center for Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian
Rudolph N. Schullinger Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
New York, New York
Education
M.D., Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C., 1974
Residency
Surgery, University of Illinois Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, 1980
Fellowship
Pediatric Surgery, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, D.C., 1982
Board Certifications
American Board of Surgery, General Surgery
American Board of Surgery, Pediatric Surgery
Hospital Affiliations/Admitting Privileges
Children’s Hospital of New York Presbyterian
Dr. Stolar, the Rudolph N. Schullinger, MD, Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University. He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis and from medical school at Georgetown University. He completed his General Surgery training at the University of Illinois in 1976, and was awarded a fellowship in Pediatric Surgery at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. He joined the staff of the Babies & Children's Hospital of New York in 1982. Dr. Stolar is board-certified in both General and Pediatric Surgery. He is currently the Director of Pediatric Surgery, Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian. Dr. Stolar is Associate Director of the Fellowship Training Program in Pediatric Surgery.
Dr. Stolar has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, with a special emphasis on newborn respiratory failure. He has authored multiple book chapters on childhood cancer and congenital diaphragmatic hernia. He maintains an active research laboratory, which focuses on the normal and abnormal formation of vascular networks in the lungs during embryonic development and early infancy. He is also interested in clinical outcomes after neonatal surgery.
Dr. Stolar is internationally recognized for his expertise in the management of congenital diaphragmatic hernia. He has had a central role in developing strategies of life support (Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation, or ECMO) for children with overwhelming respiratory failure. His clinical interests, however, span the broad range of pediatric general surgery, with special emphasis on newborns and children with cancer. Dr. Stolar has participated in the national Children's Cancer Group, and has a special expertise in managing children with tumors of germ cell origin and other solid tumors of childhood.
