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Daniel Solomon, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery (Pediatrics)
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Director Pediatric Surgical Quality, Surgery

Surgeon Champion NSQIP-Peds, Surgery

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Assistant Professor of Surgery (Pediatrics)

Director Pediatric Surgical Quality, Surgery; Surgeon Champion NSQIP-Peds, Surgery

Biography

Dr. Solomon is an Assistant Professor working at Bridgeport and Greenwich Hospital. Dr. Solomon is an enthusiastic teacher, a skilled surgeon and most important a team player. Dr. Solomon is a smart and thoughtful surgeon and has a deep knowledge of pediatric surgery. He is extremely committed to taking excellent care of his patients.

Daniel received his medical degree at New York University School of Medicine and was then accepted at Yale University, Department of Surgery as an Intern in General Surgery and then a Resident. He was appointed Educational Chief Resident his last year. Dr. Solomon moved to Florida thereafter to complete a Fellowship in Pediatric Surgery at the Shands Hospital for Children at the University of Florida.

He has extensive research experience and was the 1st place award winner for the Resident Research Competition in Trauma, Connecticut Chapter of the American College of Surgeons. In 2009 he won first place as the Research Resident in the Trauma Connecticut Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, in 2012 he was Bridgeport Hospital’s Trauma Resident of the Year, in 2013 and 2014 he was awarded the Yale Surgery Outstanding Resident Teaching Award and also the Yale Surgery Outstanding Medical Student Teaching Award recipient. In addition, he won the prestigious Sam Harvey Award for being the Chief Resident of the Year.

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Education & Training

MD
New York University School of Medicine (2007)

Research

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Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Daniel Solomon's published research.

Publications

2023

2022

2021

Clinical Care

Overview

Daniel Solomon, MD, is a pediatric general surgeon whose patients range from premature infants to adults, with conditions that are diagnosed and treated in childhood, or that may need care into adulthood.

He takes “the psychological approach” when treating children. “There are plenty of times when we might tell an adult: ‘Just sit still for a second; this is going to burn as we inject a local anesthetic,’” Dr. Solomon says. “Children don't understand that what we’re doing is in their best interest. That's why we include our pediatric anesthesiologists as frequently as possible so that we don’t cause lifelong anxiety about visiting a doctor.”

Dr. Solomon has extensive experience with such pediatric conditions as appendicitis and hernias. He also treats young patients for such complex issues as esophageal atresia and airway problems, as well as a multitude of oncologic conditions. Most of his surgeries are minimally invasive, and he often consults with other specialists and draws upon resources throughout Yale School of Medicine.

He successfully treated a patient who had an esophageal atresia with tracheoesophageal fistula, an exceptionally rare problem in which areas around the esophagus don’t connect properly. After speaking with the child’s mother, he discovered that multiple people in the patient’s family had had the same disorder. “We have a program at Yale that seeks to identify these rare conditions that occur at a high frequency within families and provide the ability to sequence their genes in order to identify the culprit gene,” says Dr. Solomon, who is an assistant professor of surgery (pediatrics) at Yale School of Medicine. “Within three weeks, we wrote a grant proposal to sequence their genes and identify the genetic abnormality causing this problem.”

Dr. Solomon serves Fairfield County, and performs surgery at Bridgeport and Greenwich hospitals, and in the Trumbull Park Avenue Medical Center, all of which are part of Yale New Haven Health.

Clinical Specialties

Pediatric Surgery

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Board Certifications

  • Pediatric Surgery

    Certification Organization
    AB of Surgery
    Original Certification Date
    2018
  • General Surgery

    Certification Organization
    AB of Surgery
    Original Certification Date
    2015

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Pediatric Surgery

PO Box 208062

New Haven, CT 06520-8062

United States

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