The Center for Minimally Invasive Esophageal & Gastric Surgery

About our Multidisciplinary Team

I. Thomas Cohen, M.D.

Chairman of Pediatric Surgery
The Children's Hospital at Monmouth Medical Center

Pediatric surgeon I. Thomas Cohen, M.D., who has more than 30 years experience as a pediatric surgeon in academic practice, joins The Children's Hospital at Monmouth Medical Center from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey/New Jersey Medical School, Newark, where he served as chief of the Division of Pediatric Surgery. Prior to that, he served as chief of the division of pediatric surgery at Albany Medical College. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He also is a diplomate of the American Board of Nutrition and holds specialist status in clinical nutrition.

He trained in general surgery at Johannesburg General Hospital and University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and completed specialty rotations at Hammersmith Hospital and Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London, and St. Peter’s Hospital, Chertsey, Surrey, United Kingdom. He completed a pediatric surgical fellowship at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and University of Cape Town and Transvaal Memorial Hospital for Children and University of the Witwatersrand. He is fellowship trained in pediatric surgical oncology from the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles and University of Southern California.

His professional affiliations include the American Academy of Pediatrics, where he is a surgical fellow and a member of the section on oncology/hematology, and the American College of Nutrition, where he also holds fellowship status. His research interests include pediatric surgical oncology, pediatric nutrition, nutrition and cancer, neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis and embryology/anatomy of the ductus venosus.

At Monmouth Medical Center, Dr. Cohen serves as Chairman of Surgery for the Children’s Hospital and is expanding the service as a full-time pediatric surgeon, with an office located on the ground floor of the Maysie Stroock Pavilion in Suite ST021. He provides inpatient and emergency department pediatric surgery consultations, and as section chief, he also will direct and develop the Pediatric Surgery Division, including the general program and educational program for residents and students at The Children’s Hospital at Monmouth Medical Center.

Dr. Cohen, in collaboration with surgeon Frank Borao, M.D., the medical director of The Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery at Monmouth Medical Center, is able to provide various laparoscopic and thoracoscopic procedures in infants and children, including cholecystotomy (gall bladder surgery), splenectomy (removal of the spleen), gastro-esophageal reflux surgery (anti-reflux surgery) and diagnostic procedures. He also brings to Monmouth a minimally invasive treatment option for pectus excavatum (funnel chest), as he received specialty training in the Nuss procedure, considered the state-of-the-art surgical care for these patients. 

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