Three highly trained Board Certified pediatric surgeons staff the Miniature Access Surgery Center, along with a team of highly skilled operating room nurses and technicians.

More than 2,000 surgical procedures are performed yearly, and the staff, on both an inpatient and outpatient basis, sees over 3,500 patients annually.

Our pediatric surgeons operate on children whose development ranges from the newborn stage through the teenage years. In addition to completing training and achieving board certification in general surgery, pediatric surgeons complete two additional years of training exclusively in children's surgery. They then receive special certification in the subspecialty of pediatric surgery.

Dr. Michael G. Caty                                                                                                         MD, FACS, FAAP
Surgeon-in-Chief, Division Director of Pediatric Surgery
Telephone: (716) 878-7874
Email: caty@acsu.buffalo.edu

Dr. Caty is an Associate Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He completed his undergraduate education at Boston College and obtained his M.D. degree at the University of Massachusetts. His general surgery training was done at the University of Michigan. During his general surgery residency, he did a research fellowship investigating intestinal injury during ischemia and reperfusion. His pediatric surgery residency was done at the Children's Hospital of Boston and Harvard Medical School. He is board certified in Pediatric and General Surgery. His clinical interests include neonatal surgery, thoracic surgery, intestinal motility disorders, pediatric renal transplantation, pediatric surgical oncology, and pediatric laproscopy and thoracoscopy. His research interests are concentrated on the pathophysiology of intestinal ischemia and reperfusion. He is a member of the American College of Surgeons, American Pediatric Surgical Association, Surgical Section of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Shock Society, Association for Academic Surgery and British Association of Pediatric Surgeons. He has been at Children's Hospital of Buffalo since 1995.

Dr. Celeste M. Hollands                                                                                                 MD, FACS, FAAP
Clinical Director - Miniature Access Surgery Center
Director, Pediatric Trauma Center
Telephone: (716) 878-7874
Email: chollands@kaleidahealth.org

Dr. Hollands is an Associate Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York and the Clinical Director of the Miniature Access Surgery Center and the Miniature Access Surgery Teaching, Training and Robotic Research Center.   Dr. Hollands completed her undergraduate education and obtained her M.D. at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine.  Her general surgery training was done at The Graduate Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania where she served as Administrative Chief Resident.  Her pediatric surgery residency was done at Miami Children’s Hospital where she served as Chief Resident.  Dr. Hollands is board certified in General Surgery.  Her clinical interests include neonatal surgery, thoracic surgery, pediatric laparoscopy and thoraoscopy and pediatric trauma.  Her research interests include robotics and new technologies in surgery.  Dr. Hollands is a member of the American College of Surgeons, Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, International Pediatric Endosurgery Group, Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons, and many others.  Dr. Hollands joined The Children’s Hospital of Buffalo in 2002.  Prior to that, she was an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Louisiana State University.

Dr. Philip L. Glick                                                                                                             MD, FACS, FAAP, FSCCM
Executive Director - Miniature Access Surgery Center
Telephone: (716) 878-7874
Email: glicklab@acsu.buffalo.edu

Dr. Glick is a Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics, and OB/GYN at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He completed his undergraduate education at the University of California, Berkley, and graduated with a M.D. degree from the University of California, San Francisco. His surgical post-graduate training was at the University of California, San Francisco. He completed a research fellowship in fetal surgery at UCSF under the supervision of Michael R. Harrison, M.D. His pediatric surgery residency was at the Children's Hospital and Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. He is board certified in General Surgery, Pediatric Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care. His clinical interests include neonatal surgery, fetal surgery, surgical oncology, pediatric trauma, and chest wall deformities. His research interests are concentrated in the pathophysiology of congenital diaphragmatic hernias and the development of the fetal lung. Dr. Glick is the Director of the Buffalo Institute of Fetal Therapy (BIFT). Dr. Glick is a member of the American College of Surgeons, American Pediatric Surgical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, Society for University Surgeons, American Thoracic Society, Society of Pediatric Research, Association for Academic Surgery and many others. He has been at Children's Hospital of Buffalo since 1989.

Clinical Fellows

Sarah Jones, MD

Yi Horng Lee, MD

Research Fellow

Stan Lau, MD