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    Chester Koh

    Professor
    Texas Children's Hospital - Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA, United States

    Chester J. Koh, MD, MBA
    Dr. Chester Koh is a pediatric urologist and “physicianeer” at Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH), and Professor of Urology, Pediatrics, and OB/GYN at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), and serves as the BCM Faculty Senate Chair-elect. He is also an adjunct professor in the Rice University Department of Bioengineering, an External Advisory Board Member for the Texas A&M Department of Biomedical Engineering and a member of the TMC Venture Fund Investment Advisory Committee. Dr. Koh received his B.S. with Honors in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley, his MD from Tufts University School of Medicine, and his MBA from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. He also completed his urology residency at USC and his pediatric urology fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School.

    His clinical area of expertise is in minimally invasive surgery in children for pediatric urologic conditions, and especially with robotic surgery and the device needs in this area. He serves as the founder and director of the Pediatric Robotic Surgery Program at TCH / BCM. He also serves as the managing director and Pediatric program director of the annual North American Robotic Urologic Society’s annual meeting (NARUS.US).

    He is also the founder and executive director of the Southwest-Midwest National Pediatric Device Innovation Consortium (SWPDC.org) which is a FDA P50 grant-supported multi-institutional consortium that includes TCH and BCM, Texas A&M, Rice, University of Houston, and University of Minnesota. SWPDC is dedicated to improving children’s health by supporting pediatric device innovators in creating novel pediatric medical devices with local, regional, and national institutional and innovation partners.

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