Russell William Jennings, MD
Pediatric General Surgery
Highlights
Johns Hopkins Affiliations:
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
- All Children's Specialty Physicians
About Russell William Jennings
Primary Academic Title
Professor (PAR) of Clinical Surgery
Johns Hopkins Physician
Background
Dr. Russell “Rusty” Jennings, a pioneer of pediatric surgical procedures for malformed esophageal and tracheal conditions, is a surgeon in the Esophageal and Airway Treatment (EAT) Program at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, which he joined in 2022. A pediatric surgeon for more than 40 years, Dr. Jennings founded and directed the world’s first Esophageal and Airway Treatment (EAT) Center at Boston Children’s Hospital.
There he led a multidisciplinary team that worked on solving unsolved problems, and developed innovative techniques for evaluation, diagnosis and successful treatment of:
- complex esophageal strictures
- esophageal atresia
- “long gap” esophageal atresia
- esophageal replacement
- tracheo-esophageal fistulas
- recurrent tracheo-esophageal fistulas
- laryngo-tracheo-esophageal clefts
- tracheomalacia
- bronchomalacia
- tracheal reconstruction
- aberrant subclavian artery
- vascular compression syndromes
- vascular rings
- pectus excavatum
- chest wall deformities
- asphyxiating thoracic dystrophies
- recurrent laryngeal nerve monitoring during thoracic surgery
Dr. Jennings has many publications on these topics including the largest series of successful treatment of complex recurrent tracheoesophageal fistulas in the literature with excellent outcomes, techniques to grow patients’ tissues to allow repair and connection of the esophagus in cases of esophageal atresia and esophageal injury, esophageal replacement with jejunum, and treatment of tracheomalacia. He has frequently taught and presented on these and numerous other related topics regionally, nationally, and internationally.
Dr. Jennings’ prior work includes establishing the first fetal surgery center in New England; Dr. Jennings developed the first successful fetal cardiac surgery program in the world treating HLHS before birth.
Dr. Jennings earned his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco. His general surgery residency was done at the University of California, San Francisco. He was a postdoctoral research fellow for three years in the Fetal Treatment Center and Fetal Treatment Laboratory while completing the residency. He completed a pediatric surgery fellowship at Boston Children’s/Harvard Medical School.
Locations
- Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
- 501 6th Avenue South, Saint Petersburg, FL 33701
- Get Directions
- phone: 727-898-7451
- fax: 727-898-7452
Expertise
Education
- Fellowship: Boston Children's Hospital, Pediatric Surgery, 1996
- Residency: UCSF Medical Center, General Surgery, 1994
- Medical Education: University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, MD, 1986
Board Certifications
- Pediatric Surgery: American Board of Surgery, 1998
- Surgery (General Surgery): American Board of Surgery, 1995
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- Medicare
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