Philip L. Glick.

Philip L. Glick, MD, MBA, FACS, FAAP, FACPE, is a tenured professor of surgery, pediatrics, and ob/gyn of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, SUNY at Buffalo, N.Y. and vice chairman for research. Glick recently completed his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He is the director of the Buffalo Institute of Fetal Therapy (BIFT) and the executive director of the Miniature Access Surgery Center (MASC) and the Miniature Access Surgery Teaching, Training and Research Center (MASTTAR). He is an academic pediatric surgeon who teaches undergraduates, medical students, residents, fellows and peers and maintains a busy and innovative clinical practice caring for surgical problems of fetuses, newborn infants, children, and adolescents. He is developing curricula to teach medical students and resident physician financial literacy. His clinical interests include: congenital diaphragmatic hernia, chest wall defects (pectus excavatum and pectus carinatum), newborn surgery, surgical oncology, pediatric trauma, pediatric critical care, and minimally invasive surgical techniques. He leads an internationally recognized research program in the following areas: lung development, congenital diaphragmatic hernia, fetal physiology, birth defects, prenatal diagnosis of surgical problems, fetal surgery, the genetic aspects of surgical disease, and fetal growth factors. His laboratory has been funded by The Women and Children's Health Research Foundation (Children's Hospital of Buffalo), the March of Dimes, the American Lung Association, and the National Institute of Health.

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