Pediatric Surgeon. 🇵🇭. Wife. Mother. Always gives tomatoes a chance, literally and figuratively.

San Antonio, TX
Joined February 2018
Last call shift of fellowship!!! @CMPedSurg
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Join us! @CMPedSurg has an opening for a two-year combined clinical research/pediatric surgical critical care position starting July 2025. Apply at ow.ly/1iAC50SBAgy @HannaAlemayehu2 @NCC2_MD @stewart_shai @RebeccaRenteaMD @ToluOyetunji @pabloaguayo72
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Thank you for everything @CMPedSurg
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Our @CMPedSurg @ChildrensMercy group of past and present trainee and staff here for the @IPEGSurgery meeting with @ShawnStPeter2 as president #ipeg2024
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CharleneDekonenkoMD retweeted
Our amazing @CMPedSurg @ChildrensMercy Comprehensive Colorectal Center team with @LimBeutel at the @pedscolorectal #pcplc2023 team! Many not pictured #pcplc2023 #pcplc #colorectalsurgery #pediatriccolorectal #pedsurg
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So fun!!!
What better way to wrap up fellowship training than operating with my co-fellows on an index case #pedsurgbestsurg #threefellowcase @CMPedSurg @CMKCFellows @CDekonenko
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CharleneDekonenkoMD retweeted
“The kindest person in the room is often the smartest.”
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Well I’m not sure it is the happiest place on Earth, but I was pretty damn happy. #businessandpleasure #APSA23
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CharleneDekonenkoMD retweeted
For any aspiring #pedsurgbestsurg - Perks include getting to work with @CDekonenko and Chris Laird, who I’ve spent the last year vetting and can confirm that they’re both very fun to work with!
Replying to @CMPedSurg
@CMPedSurg Scholars Program has a research fellow position for July/Aug 2023, an ideal balance of mentorship, clinical exposure, and research productivity. 2+ yrs of general surgery residency experience and an interest in academic (pediatric) surgery. is.gd/DtXRIL
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CharleneDekonenkoMD retweeted
Replying to @CMPedSurg
@CMPedSurg Scholars Program has a research fellow position for July/Aug 2023, an ideal balance of mentorship, clinical exposure, and research productivity. 2+ yrs of general surgery residency experience and an interest in academic (pediatric) surgery. is.gd/DtXRIL
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CharleneDekonenkoMD retweeted
Replying to @APSASurgeons
@APSASurgeons discussing the instrument of the devil- Button Batteries #APSA23 ✅early recognition key ✅can give honey/carafate to neutralize but don't delay removal ✅Narrow side ➡️Negative➡️ necrosis ✅Advocacy ➡️ child resident packaging ✅GIRC app to report @ReganWilliamsMD
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Replying to @CMPedSurg
@CMPedSurg Scholars Program has a research fellow position for July/Aug 2023, an ideal balance of mentorship, clinical exposure, and research productivity. 2+ yrs of general surgery residency experience and an interest in academic (pediatric) surgery. is.gd/DtXRIL
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Killin’ it on the dance floor with my girls! #pedsurgbestsurg #APSA23 @CMPedSurg
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Some things never change! Tea time at #APSA23. ⁦@CMPedSurg⁩
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Look Mom, I made the big screen! One of my early projects, feels like so long ago. ⁦@CMPedSurg⁩ #APSA23
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Like a black cat crossing your path on Halloween…button battery found on the ground in the main room at a pediatric surgery conference #APSA23
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⁦@CMPedSurg⁩ Misfits. The old crew re-unites at #APSA23. And still Justin refuses to smile. ⁦@pmchoi⁩ ⁦@HannaAlemayehu2⁩
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Well that’s a wrap for our Spring Break in San Antonio! Things I DON’T miss about SA: traffic, construction, hot humidity, bottomless carbs Things I DO miss about SA: family, hometown feeling, sunshine, bottomless carbs #PassTheGuac
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CharleneDekonenkoMD retweeted
Another impactful prospective study from the Midwest Pediatric Surgery Consortium - demonstrating that so far there has been a low rate of inguinal hernia appearance (1%) in infants who had a PPV found during laparoscopic pyloromyotomy. lnkd.in/gNMsSaZY
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