Education

• BA, Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1996
• MD, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, 2000
• PhD, Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, Loyola University, Chicago, IL, 2006
• Residency, General Surgery, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, Chicago, IL, 2000-2003
• Research Fellowship, NIH Research Fellowship in Burns and Trauma, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, 2003-2006
• Residency, General Surgery, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, 2006-2008
• Fellowship, Pediatric Surgery, LeBonheur Children’s Medical Center & St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN, 2010

Dr. Gosain is a member of the American Medical Association, the Resident and Associate Society of the American College of Surgeons, the Harwell Wilson Surgical Society, and a candidate member of the Association for Academic Surgery. He has served as a manuscript reviewer for Wound Repair and Regeneration and Frontiers in Bioscience.

Clinical Specialties

Dr. Gosain is certified by the American Board of Surgery in General Surgery. He specializes in all types of General and Thoracic Pediatric Surgery and has specific interests in neonatal surgery, oncology, Hirschsprung’s disease (congenital intestinal aganglionosis) and anorectal malformations (imperforate anus, cloaca, cloacal exstrophy).

For a complete listing of conditions our pediatric surgeons provide treatment for, please click here.

Research Interests

Dr. Gosain’s laboratory research focuses on interactions between the nervous system and immune system (neuroimmunomodulation) in the development of enterocolitis (Hirschsprung’s disease, Necrotizing Enterocolitis, motility disorders).

Recent Publications

• A novel t(3;8)(p13;q21.1) translocation in a case of lipoblastoma.
  Brinkman AS, Maxfield B, Gill K, Patel NJ, Gosain A
  Pediatric surgery international 2012 Apr 10.
  [PubMed ID: 22488564]
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• Sacral neural crest-derived cells enter the aganglionic colon of Ednrb-/- mice along extrinsic nerve fibers.
  Erickson CS, Zaitoun I, Haberman KM, Gosain A, Druckenbrod NR, Epstein ML
  J. Comp. Neurol. 2012 Feb 15; 520(3):620-32.
  [PubMed ID: 21858821]
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• Omental infarction: preoperative diagnosis and laparoscopic management in children.
  Gosain A, Blakely M, Boulden T, Uffman JK, Seetharamaiah R, Huang E, Langham M, Eubanks JW
  J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A 2010 Nov; 20(9):777-80.
  [PubMed ID: 20704515]
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• Regression of a congenital mesoblastic nephroma.
  Whittle S, Gosain A, Brown PY, Debelenko L, Raimondi S, Wilimas JA, Jenkins JJ, Davidoff AM
  Pediatr Blood Cancer 2010 Aug; 55(2):364-8.
  [PubMed ID: 20582939, PMC ID: 3049946]
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• Distinguishing acute from ruptured appendicitis preoperatively in the pediatric patient.
  Gosain A, Williams RF, Blakely ML
  Adv Surg 2010; 44():73-85.
  [PubMed ID: 20919515]
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• Norepinephrine-mediated suppression of phagocytosis by wound neutrophils.
  Gosain A, Gamelli RL, DiPietro LA
  J. Surg. Res. 2009 Apr; 152(2):311-8.
  [PubMed ID: 18952237, PMC ID: 2683017]
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• Norepinephrine suppresses wound macrophage phagocytic efficiency through alpha- and beta-adrenoreceptor dependent pathways.
  Gosain A, Muthu K, Gamelli RL, DiPietro LA
  Surgery 2007 Aug; 142(2):170-9.
  [PubMed ID: 17689682, PMC ID: 2430526]
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• Exogenous pro-angiogenic stimuli cannot prevent physiologic vessel regression.
  Gosain A, Matthies AM, Dovi JV, Barbul A, Gamelli RL, DiPietro LA
  J. Surg. Res. 2006 Oct; 135(2):218-25.
  [PubMed ID: 16904692]
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• Norepinephrine modulates the inflammatory and proliferative phases of wound healing.
  Gosain A, Jones SB, Shankar R, Gamelli RL, DiPietro LA
  J Trauma 2006 Apr; 60(4):736-44.
  [PubMed ID: 16612292]
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• Role of the gastrointestinal tract in burn sepsis.
  Gosain A, Gamelli RL
  J Burn Care Rehabil 2005 Jan-Feb; 26(1):85-91.
  [PubMed ID: 15640741]
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