Professional History

Board Certification

• Surgery, General - American Board of Surgery
  
• Surgery, Pediatric - American Board of Surgery
  

Medical Education

• MD - University of Kansas School of Medicine
  Kansas City, KS
  

Residency/Fellowship

• Residency - Mayo Medical School
  Rochester, MN
  
• Fellowship - Texas Children's Hospital
  Houston, TX
  
• Fellowship - University of Toronto/Hospital for Sick Children
  Toronto
  

Contact Information

Primary Location:

Pediatric Surgical Associates
2530 Chicago AVE S
Suite 550
Minneapolis, MN 55404
(612)813-8000

Personal Biography

James Fisher is a pediatric general and thoracic surgeon at Children's Minnesota. He attended medical school at the University of Kansas where he completed his MD. He completed his surgical training at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN in general surgery and his pediatric surgery fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario. His areas of interest are pediatric general and thoracic surgery including minimally invasive laparoscopic and thoracoscopic surgery, neonatal congenital anomalies (including gastroschisis and choledochal cysts), congenital diaphragmatic hernia repair, anal/rectal malformation repair, and Hirschsprung's Disease. He will be participating with the fetal surgery team performing operative fetoscopy for Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome and open fetal surgery for open neural tube defects. He will also join the research team at the Midwest Fetal Care Center to assist with research related to ex-vivo and in-utero cell and gene correction strategies related to in born errors of metabolism of the liver.