As a fierce advocate for patient safety and quality, Dr. Fisher partners with specialists from Sala Institute to deliver comprehensive care to children and their families to support their health and healing.
Dr. Fisher grew up in the suburbs of New York City and received his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine. He then completed his general surgery residency training at New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Medical Center. During his residency, Dr. Fisher completed two additional years of training as the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Fellow at the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York. He went on to complete his pediatric surgery fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
After completing his fellowship in Cincinnati in 2012, he joined the Division of Pediatric Surgery at NYU Langone. He established the institution’s first neonatal and pediatric ECMO program. This program has since earned a Platinum Center of Excellence Award from the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization.
In 2022, Dr. Fisher was named chief of the Division of Pediatric Surgery and was awarded an endowed position as the William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Associate Professor of Pediatric Surgery. He also serves as the director of children’s surgical services for Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital, leading the hospital’s effort to become designated as a Level-1 Verified Children’s Surgical Center by the American College of Surgeons—one of only two institutions in all of New York State to receive such recognition.
Dr. Fisher is certified by the American Board of Surgery in general surgery and pediatric surgery, as well as by the American Board of Preventive Medicine in clinical informatics. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Pediatric Surgical Association, and the American Medical Informatics Association. His primary clinical interests lie in ECMO and congenital diaphragmatic hernia, as well as colorectal disorders and minimally invasive surgery.