Title

Associate Professor, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Associate Medical Director, Trauma Services, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital

Director, Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Director, Pediatric Surgical Critical Care Fellowship, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Director, General Surgery Residency, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Medical School

Mount Sinai School of Medicine


Board Certification

American Board of Surgery, Special Qualifications in Pediatric Surgery and Certified in Surgical Critical Care


Fellowship

Pediatric Surgery, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC

Awards and Honors

Medicine Honoree UNLV Safe Community Partnership (2009)
“Praise From Patients” Honoree, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC (2007)
Excellence in Medical Student Education, Surgical Clerkship USF (2001-2002)
Excellence in Medical Student Education, Surgical Clerkship USF(2000-2001)


Professional Memberships

Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM)
Society of Black Academic Surgeons (SBAS)
International Pediatric Endosurgery Group (IPEG)
American Academy of Pediatrics-Fellow (AAP)
American College of Surgeons- Associate Fellow (ACS)
Association for Academic Surgery (AAS)
American Pediatric Surgical Association (APSA)


Selected Research

Freeman J, Boomer L, Fursevich D, Feliz A. Ethnicity and Insurance Status Affect Health Disparities in Patients with Gallstone Disease. J Surg Res. 2012 Jun 1;175(1):1-5.

Juang D, Feliz A, Miller KA, Gaines BA. Sledding injuries: a rationale for helmet usage. J Trauma. 2010 Oct;69(4 Suppl):S206-8.

Boomer L, Freeman J, Landrito E, Feliz A. Acute Appendicitis in Latino Children: Do Health Disparities Exist? J Surg Res. 2010 Jun 8

Boomer L, Freeman J, Landrito E, Feliz A. Perforation in Adults with Acute Appendicitis Linked to Insurance Status, Not Ethnicity. J Surg Res. 2010 May 21

Barsness KA, Feliz A, Potoka DA, Gaines BA, Upperman JS, Kane TD. Laparoscopic versus open Nissen Fundoplication in infants after neonatal laparotomy. J Society Laparoendo Surg 2007; Vol 11 (4): 461-465

Tsung A, Feliz A, Kane TD Laparoscopic nissen fundoplication in an infant with situs inversus J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech. 2007 Oct; 17 (5):698-700

Hebra A, Jacobs JP, Feliz A, Arenas J, Moore CB, Larson S Minimally invasive repair of pectus excavatum in adult patients. American Surgeon 72(9):837-42, 2006 Sep

Feliz A, Shultz B, McKenna C, Gaines BA Diagnostic and therapeutic laparoscopy in pediatric abdominal trauma. Journal of Pediatric Surgery 41(1):72-7, 2006 Jan

Jones OY, Alexander PJ, Lacson A, Gok F, Feliz A, Marikar Y, Madivi C, Jones JM, Good RA Effects of fludarabine treatment on murine lupus nephritis. Lupus. 13(12):912-6, 2004

Jones OY. Steele A. Jones JM. Marikar Y. Chang Y. Feliz A. Cahill RA. Good RA. Nonmyeloablative bone marrow transplantation of BXSB lupus mice using fully matched allogeneic donor cells from green fluorescent protein transgenic mice. Journal of Immunology. 172(9):5415-9, 2004 May