Dr. Jeffrey L. Zitsman, MD

Dr. Zitsman graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a degree in natural sciences, and received his M.D. degree from Tufts University Medical School in 1976. He received his training in General Surgery at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston, and completed his Pediatric Surgery training at the Babies & Children’s Hospital of New York. He is Board-Certified in General Surgery and Pediatric Surgery, and also holds a Certificate of Special Competence in Surgical Critical Care.
Dr. Zitsman has maintained an active clinical practice in pediatric surgery in the New York area since 1985. He holds the rank of Professor of Surgery at the Columbia University Medical Center. His areas of interest include applications of minimally invasive techniques in pediatric surgery, chest wall deformities, and weight loss surgery in adolescents. Dr. Zitsman has been named to Castle Connolly’s Best Doctors in the New York area list annually since 2002.
Dr. Zitsman is founder and Director of the …Center for Adolescent Bariatric Surgery at the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian. He is Principal Investigator for an FDA-approved adolescent laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding study. He has performed over 500 minimal access weight loss procedures and served as Chairman of the Committee on Obesity of the American Pediatric Surgical Association as well as Chairman of the Childhood Obesity Committee of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. Dr Zitsman has served as a Consultant to the Medical Devices Evaluation Panel of the FDA.

• Newyork Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center

ColumbiaDoctors - 15 North Broadway

15 North Broadway Floor Lower Level, Suite G

White Plains

NY

10601

USA

(844) 352-6713

• Pediatric Surgeon

• Hernia Repair
• Liver Biopsy
• Circumcision
• Hernia Repair
• Pilonidal Cyst Surgery

• Accepts Medicare
• Accepts Medicaid
• AETNA
• Affinity Health Plan
• Amerigroup of New Jersey
• Amida Care
• CIGNA
• Emblem/GHI
• Emblem/Hip
• Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthplus
• Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield
• Fidelis Care
• Healthfirst
• Local 1199
• Magnacare (National)
• Multiplan
• MVP Health Care
• Quality Health Management
• UnitedHealthcare
• VNSNY CHOICE
• WellCare
• World Trade Center Health Plan