Vincent R. Adolph, MD, has been the Doody’s Review Service Editorial Review Group Chair for Pediatric Surgery since July 2017. In the last five years, we have sent him 52 titles in pediatric surgical specialties. Dr. Adolph has reviewed 17 of the books, while his team of 15 reviewers has submitted reviews of the remaining 25.   

Dr. Adolph, a New Orleans native, has been on the faculty of Ochsner Clinic Foundation in New Orleans since 1994 and has been the Section Head of Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery at Ochsner for Children, the Children’s Program of Ochsner Health System, since 1999. 

He earned his medical degree from Louisiana State University and served as an intern and resident at New Orleans Charity Hospital. He completed an extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) fellowship in pediatric surgery at Ochsner and finished his surgical residency at the Medical College of Virginia where he served as Chief Resident. He completed a research fellowship at Pennsylvania State University and a pediatric general surgery fellowship at Montreal Children’s Hospital. 

Dr. Adolph currently is the Ochsner Regional Medical Director for Lake Charles and Shreveport and serves on the Ochsner Health System Board of Directors. He served as Interim Pediatrics Department Chair from 2014-2016 and Medical Director of the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation from 1999-2018. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Academy of Pediatrics (Surgery Section), and a member of the American Pediatric Surgical Association and the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization.