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   Department  General Surgery
   Hospital Title  Director Advanced Fetal Care Center
   Academic Title  Assistant Professor
   Phone  617-355-3038
   Fax  617-730-0302
   Email  Russell Jennings
   Location  300 Longwood Avenue
Boston
MA 02115
Research Overview
Dr. Jennings has a special research interest in fetal surgery and the application of minimally invasive and endoscopic techniques of fetal therapy. His major research focus is currently on the etiology of spinal cord injury and brain maldevelopment in myelomeningocele and the fetal surgical repair of this anomaly. Dr. Jennings is also developing minimally invasive therapies for complex twin placental anomalies including twin-twin transfusion syndrome, the TRAP sequence, and umbilical cord entanglement. Dr. Jennings has a special expertise in the treatment of fetal thoracic masses including cystic adenomatoid malformations and pulmonary sequestrations, fetal tumors including sacroccocygeal teratomas, diaphragmatic hernias, hydrocephalus, myelomeningoceles, cystic hygromas (lymphatic malformations), tracheal and laryngeal atresia, and urinary tract obstruction causing hydronephrosis.
About Russell Jennings
Dr. Jennings attended the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland and completed his undergraduate studies at the University of California, Davis. He received his MD from thec University of California, San Francisco. He wasc a postdoctoral research fellow in the Fetal Treatment Center and Fetal Treatment Laboratory under Michael R. Harrison, M.D. and N. Scott Adzick, M.D. Dr. Jennings completed his pediatric surgery fellowship at Children's Hospital Boston.
Key Publications
  • Morof D. Levine D. Grable I. Barnewolt C. Estroff J. Fishman S. Rahbar R. Jennings RW. Oropharyngeal teratoma: prenatal diagnosis and assessment using sonography, MRI, and CT with management by ex utero intrapartum treatment procedure. American Journal of Roentgenology 2004; 183(2):493-496.

  • Downard CD. Jaksic T. Garza JJ. Dzakovic A. Nemes L. Jennings RW. Wilson JM. Analysis of an improved survival rate for congenital diaphragmatic hernia. Journal of Pediatric Surgery 2003 38(5):729-32.

  • Marler JJ. Fishman SJ. Upton J. Burrows PE. Paltiel HJ. Jennings RW. Mulliken JB. Prenatal diagnosis of vascular anomalies. Journal of Pediatric Surgery 2002;37(3):318-326.
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