Victoria Kathleen Pepper MD

Pediatric General Surgery

Physician

100 Wason AvenueSpringfield, MA 01107
Phone+1 413-794-2442
Fax+1 413-794-2910

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Education & Training

Nationwide Children's Hospital/Ohio State UniversityFellowship, Research, 2014 - 2017
Nationwide Childrens HospitalFellowship, Minimally Invasive Pediatric Surgery, 2013 - 2014
University of Illinois College of Medicine at PeoriaResidency, Surgery, 2008 - 2013
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern CaliforniaClass of 2008
Illinois Wesleyan UniversityB.A., Major: Music & Biology; Minor: Chemistry, 2004

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Certifications & Licensure

MA State Medical License 2019 - 2028
CA State Medical License 2017 - 2021
OH State Medical License 2013 - 2018
IL State Medical License 2011 - 2013
American Board of Surgery Surgery
American Board of Surgery Pediatric Surgery

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Resident Scholar Research Award Finalist Society of University Surgeons, 2015
Loan Repayment Plan Awardee National Institute of Health, 2015
Beta Beta Beta Inductee, National Biological Honor Society 2002

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Return of the Banana Knife: An Alternative Instrument for Laparoscopic Pyloromyotomy.
Heather M. Grant, Gregory Banever, Kevin Moriarty Md, Victoria K. Pepper, David Tashjian Md
Journal of Laparoendoscopic & Advanced Surgical Techniques. Part A. 2021-11-15
99 citations
Spontaneous reversal of stenosis in tissue-engineered vascular grafts
Joseph D. Drews, Victoria K. Pepper, Cameron A. Best, Jason M. Szafron, John P. Cheatham
Science Translational Medicine. 2020-04-01
4 citations
Young children with perforated appendicitis benefit from prompt appendectomy
Amanda Munoz, Rajaie Hazboun, Ian Vannix, Victoria K. Pepper, Tabitha Crane
Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 2019-09-01

Abstracts/Posters

Classification of acute appendicitis: simple is in the eye of the beholder.
Pepper VK, Nielsen JW, Kurtovic K, Kenney B, Diefenbach KA, PAPS Conference, Jeju Island, South Korea, 1/18/2015
Endovascular Interventions in an Ovine Model of Tissue Engineered Vascular Graft Stenosis
Clark ES, Pepper VK, Best CA, Onwuka EA, Sugiura T, Cheatham S, Shinoka T, Berman D, Breuer CK, Cheatham JP, Society of Toxicologic Pathology, Minneapolis, MN, 1/17/2015
A Stitch in Time: Intracorporeal Suturing in a Pediatric Model.
Pepper VK, Boomer LA, Diefenbach KA, IPEG/SAGES Conference, Nashville, TN, 1/14/2015

Lectures

From Bench to Bedside and Back: Tissue-Engineering.
Peoria, IL - 1/18/2015
Epidemiology and risk factors for mortality in pediatric burn patients.
Jeju Island, South Korea - 1/18/2015
Elective Fogarty Catheter Occlusion of the Tracheoesophageal Fistula.
Nashville, TN, 2015; Jeju Island, South Korea, 2015 - 1/18/2015