Please join us at 2:00pm EDT on Sunday, April 7th for our monthly support group! We are excited to host pediatric surgeon Dr. Michael R. Phillips, MD from the University of North Carolina hospital system. Dr. Phillips will discuss his personal experience repairing omphaloceles, as well as current options available for management, treatment, and repair. As always, everyone from the omphalocele community is welcome (parents of new O babies, experienced parents with older O children, pregnant mothers or expectant family members, grandparents, friends, and adult omphalocele survivors) and you are all an important part of our group!

Michael Phillips, MD

Dr. Phillips is a surgeon-scientist with an active pediatric surgical practice and a passion for improving the quality of peri-operative care for children. Dr. Phillips attended Brigham Young University where he majored in Microbiology, then attended the Medical College of Wisconsin where he graduated with honors in research. He completed surgical residency at the University of North Carolina and a pediatric surgery fellowship at the Alfred I DuPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware.

Dr. Phillips is currently an Assistant Professor in Surgery and Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina and works closely with the American College of Surgeons Quality Improvement Program-Pediatric (NSQIP-P). He is the lead for the medical student pediatric surgical rotation, which is a part of the core surgical clerkship for the UNC School of Medicine.

Dr. Phillips enjoys working closely with the families he treats as they encounter congenital diagnoses, medical complications, and other needs that lead them to the Children’s Specialty Clinic at UNC. He has treated and repaired numerous children with omphaloceles and plays an active role in educating families about the condition, their options for care, and planned surgical interventions.