Mary E Fallat, MD
Pediatric General Surgery
Highlights
Age Groups Seen
- Pediatrics
- Teenagers
Languages
- English
Gender
FemaleAbout Mary E Fallat
Academic Title
Professor
Biography/ Philosophy of Care
Dr. Fallat has a long history of service and leadership in Pediatric Surgery and is a past President of the American Pediatric Surgical Association, past Chair of the American College of Surgeons Pediatric Surgery Advisory Council, and the current Secretary of the Section on Surgery of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Her interest areas include ethics, trauma, and emergency medical services (EMS). She served on the Committee on Bioethics for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and was the first surgeon to Chair this national committee. She has written AAP position statements on pediatric professionalism, fertility preservation for children and adolescents who have cancer, and resuscitation strategies for terminally ill children who need surgery and anesthesia.
Dr. Fallat started the first pediatric trauma service in Louisville, while simultaneously developing a leadership role in the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. She led the initiative in Kentucky that culminated in Trauma System Legislation in 2008. She has been continuously funded as program director for the KY EMS for Children program since 1993. She participated in the Institute of Medicine project “The Future of Emergency Care in the U.S. Health System” as a member of the Subcommittee on Pediatric Emergency Care. She has twice led the initiative to revise the national Equipment for Ambulances list. She has recently completed a grant to develop an educational program and app to train EMS providers to cope with pediatric cardiopulmonary arrest and death in the field.
Recognition
Publications:
Task Force for Children’s Surgical Care [Fallat ME, contributing author]. Optimal Resources for children’s surgical care in the United States. J Am Coll Surg, 218(3):479-487, 2014.
McCracken KA, Fallat ME. Transition from pediatric to adult surgery care for patients with disorders of sexual development. Semin Pediatr Surg, 24(2):88-92, 2015.
Abdullah F, Salazar JH, Gause CD, Biester TW, Azarow KS, Brandt ML, Chung DH, Lund DP, Rescorla FJ, Waldhausen JH, Tracy TF, Fallat ME, et al. Understanding the operative experience of the practicing pediatric surgeon: implications for training and maintaining competency. JAMA Surg Mar 30 2016 epub ahead of print
Fallat ME, Barbee AP, Forest R, McClure ME, Henry K, Cunningham MR. Family centered practice during pediatric death in an out of hospital setting. Prehosp Emerg Care 18:1-10, 2016.
Fallat ME, Gaines BA, Haley K, Meredith JW, Mooney DP, Upperman JS for The Childress Summit II Work Groups. Proceedings of the second Childress Summit on pediatric trauma: Operationalizing the vision.
J Trauma Acute Care Surg 81(4):795-801, 2016.
Fallat ME. Redefining Ladd’s path. J Ped Surg 52:3-15, 2017.
Flynn-O’Brien KT, Fallat ME, Rice TB, Gall CM, Nance ML, Upperman JS, Gourlay DM, Crow JP, Rivara FP. The Pediatric Trauma Assessment and Management Database: leveraging existing data systems to predict mortality and functional status after pediatric injury. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. J Am Coll Surg 224(5):933-944, 2017. doi:10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2017.01.061.
Gonzalez DO, Cooper JN, Aldrink JH, Hewitt GD, Fallat ME, et al. Variability in surgical management of benign ovarian neoplasms in children. J Ped Surg 52:944-950, 2017.
Clinical Interests/Research
Clinical Interests:
General Pediatric Surgery including neonatal surgery, trauma, burn care, tumors, thoracic surgery, endocrine surgery including thyroid, surgery on the reproductive tract, motility disorders including insertion of gastric and sacral stimulators.
Research Interests:
Institutional Member of the Midwest Pediatric Surgery Consortium, an 11-member academic US Pediatric Surgery center research consortium formed to develop and conduct multi-center clinical research projects to advance the practice of pediatric surgery. The consortium has ongoing studies of a wide variety of conditions including the non-operative management of early appendicitis (funded by PCORI), congenital lung malformations, esophageal atresia, gastroschisis, spontaneous pneumothorax, and ovarian sparing surgery for benign conditions (funded by the Thrasher Research Fund).
Locations
- Norton Children's Surgery
- 411 East Chestnut Street, Level 4 Suite C, Louisville, KY 40202
- Get Directions
- phone: 502-588-0390
- fax: 502-588-0396
Expertise
Education
- Fellowship: Children's National Medical Center, Surgery, General, 1986
- Residency: University of Louisville School of Medicine, General Surgery, 1985
- Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital, Surgery, General, 1983
- Internship: University of Louisville School of Medicine, Surgery, General, 1980
- Medical Education: State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Doctor of Medicine, 1979
Board Certifications
- Pediatric Surgery: American Board of Surgery, 1990
- Surgery (General Surgery): American Board of Surgery, 1986
Insurance
- Aetna
- Aetna Better Health
- Aetna Medicare Advantage
- Ambetter from MHS
- Ambetter from WellCare of Kentucky
- Anthem
- Anthem Indiana Medicaid
- Anthem MediBlue HMO/PPO
- Anthem Pathway
- Anthem Pathway Transition
- CareSource Indiana Medicaid
- CareSource Marketplace Kentucky and Indiana
- Cigna
- CorVel
- Coventry
- Encore
- Essence
- First Health Group Corp. (First Health)
- HealthSmart
- Hosparus
- Humana Medicaid
- Humana Medicare
- Indiana Health Network
- Indiana Medicaid
- Indiana Medicare
- Kentucky Medicaid
- Kentucky Medicare
- MDwise
- MHS
- Molina Healthcare
- MultiPlan
- Passport Health Plan Kentucky MCO
- Passport Marketplace
- Provider Net/OMCA
- Sagamore
- Signature Advantage
- SIHO
- TRICARE Humana Military
- United Healthcare
- United Healthcare Community Plan Indiana and Kentucky
- United Healthcare Medicare Advantage
- UofL Health – Frazier Rehabilitation Institute
- Veterans Affairs (VA)
- WellCare
- WellCare Medicare
- WellCare of Kentucky Medicaid (Kentucky MCO)
- Wellpath
- Workers’ Compensation
