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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Membership Benefits
ACS
ACS Fellow Since 1994

Richard Glenn Weiss, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Surgery - Surgical Critical Care
  • American Board of Surgery - Pediatric Surgery
  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Am Acad of Ped(Surg Sec)
  • Amer Ped Surg Assn
  • New England Surg Soc

Additional Information

Gender

Male

Pediatric Surgery

282 Washington St

Department of Surgery 1H

Connecticut Children's Medical Center

Hartford, CT 06106

United States

Contact Information

Biography

Offices in Hartford, Farmington, Danbury, and Westport Connecticut A member of the Connecticut Children's Specialty Group at Connecticut Children's Medical Center

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Neonatal Surgery

  • congenital anomalies
  • newborn surgery

Pediatric Colon & Rectal

  • anorectal malformations
  • biliary atresia
  • Crohn's Disease
  • Hirschsprung disease
  • imperforate anus
  • inflammatory bowel disease
  • short bowel syndrome
  • ulcerative colitis

Pediatric Endocrine (Glands/Hormones)

  • adrenal
  • pancreas
  • parathyroid
  • thyroid

Pediatric Abdomen & Digestion

  • appendicitis
  • gastroesophageal reflux
  • gastroschisis
  • hepatobiliary surgery
  • hernia
  • intussusception
  • malrotation & volvulus
  • Meckel diverticulum
  • Nissen fundoplication
  • pyloric stenosis
  • pyloromyotomy

Pediatric Hernia Procedures

  • abdominal hernia
  • hernia
  • inguinal hernia
  • umbilical hernia

Pediatric Cancer/Tumors

  • adrenal tumors
  • genitourinary malignancies
  • kidney cancer
  • neuroblastoma
  • pelvic tumors
  • Wilm's tumor

Bronchoesophagology-Breathing/Swallowing

  • Bronchoscopy
  • Esophagoscopy

Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Pediatric Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas

  • bile duct surgery
  • biliary surgery
  • biliary tract disease
  • cholecystectomy
  • gallbladder removal
  • hepatobiliary surgery
  • laparoscopic cholecystectomy
  • liver biopsy
  • liver surgery
  • liver/hepatic disease
  • pancreatic cysts
  • pancreatitis

Minimally Invasive Procedures

  • endoscopic surgery
  • laparoscopic surgery
  • minimally invasive surgery

Pediatric Thoracic (lungs,chest,esoph)

  • achalasia
  • congenital diaphragmatic hernia
  • empyema
  • esophageal surgery
  • esophagectomy
  • hemothorax
  • hiatus hernia repair
  • lobectomy
  • pleural effusion
  • pneumothorax

Pediatric Trauma

Hospital Appointments

Conn Children's Med Ctr.

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

Hartford Hosp

St. Francis Hosp

Univ. Conn. Health Ctr

Academic Appointments

Pediatrics, and emergency Medicine, Univ.Connecticut

Associate Professor