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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 1998

Joseph Thomas Murphy, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Surg Infection Soc
  • Assn for Acad Surg
  • Soc of Univ Surg
  • Amer Ped Surg Assn

Additional Information

Gender

Male

Type of Practice

Academic medical center

General Surgery

1935 Medical District Dr

Children's Medical Center, Dallas

Dallas, TX 75235

United States

Contact Information

Biography

Professor, Pediatric Surgery

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Abdomen and Digestion Disorder/Procedure

  • abdominal pain
  • adhesion removal
  • anti-reflux procedures
  • appendectomy
  • esophagus perforation
  • feeding tubes
  • fundoplication
  • fundoplication - laparoscopic
  • malrotation
  • peritonitis
  • splenectomy

Gynecology Disorders/Procedures

  • ovarian cyst/mass

Head and Neck

  • bronchoscopy
  • foreign body aspiration

Hernia Procedures

  • abdominal hernia
  • femoral hernia
  • inguinal hernia
  • laparoscopic hernia repair
  • umbilical hernia

Pediatric Surgery

  • abdominal pain
  • bile duct surgery
  • feeding tubes
  • hepatobiliary surgery
  • inguinal hernia
  • intestinal failure management
  • intussusception
  • pyloric stenosis
  • umbilical hernia

Diagnostic Imaging/procedures

Surgical Oncology (Cancer/Tumors)

  • adrenal tumors
  • biopsy of tumors
  • bone and soft tissue cancer/tumors
  • gynecology cancer/tumors
  • kidney cancer
  • neuroblastoma
  • neurofibromatosis
  • osteosarcoma
  • ovarian cancer/tumors
  • ovarian cysts
  • pancreatic cancer/tumors
  • pelvic tumors
  • thyroid cancer/nodules
  • Wilm's tumor

Thoracic

  • esophageal surgery
  • hiatal hernia
  • lobectomy
  • myotomy
  • pleural effusion
  • pneumothorax
  • pulmonary disorders

Trauma/Injury Procedures

Urology (kidney, bladder, male reprod)

  • circumcision

Academic Appointments

UT Southwestern Med.

Professor

Tex(Dallas)

Other