Kirk W. Reichard, MD., MBA, FACS, FAAP is the Surgical Director for Perioperative Services and the Surgical Director of the Bariatric Surgery Program at Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware, as well as Clinical Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University.  He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.  Dr. Reichard served as resident and chief resident in General Surgery at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and subsequently he completed his fellowship in Pediatric Surgery at the St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia.  He also earned a master’s in business administration at the University of Texas in Dallas.

His special clinical interests include pediatric surgical oncology, minimally invasive surgery, chest wall deformities, inflammatory bowel disease, adolescent bariatric surgery and surgery of newborns.  He has authored over 85 peer reviewed articles and abstracts, including several in the adolescent bariatric surgical literature, and has spoken at and moderated numerous national conference sessions on the topic.