Doctor Profile: Palm Beach Children’s Surgical Specialists – Palm Beach Health Network Physician Group – Anne Fischer, MD, PhD

Dr. Anne Fischer is a board-certified and fellowship-trained pediatric general and thoracic surgeon with a passion for children, “our adored patients.” Dr. Fischer specializes in advanced minimally invasive laparoscopy (MIS), thoracoscopic surgery for lesions in the chest or chest wall such as pectus deformities. For challenging cases, she does laparoscopic neonatal surgery with prenatal counseling and complex oncologic surgery for childhood malignancies. In addition, Dr. Fischer is the Section Chief of Pediatric Surgery at Palm Beach Children’s Hospital and on-staff at St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach. Dr. Fischer’s office is located on the hospital campus with clinics in Jupiter and Royal Palm Beach. For her training, Dr. Fischer completed a pediatric surgery fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital/ Harvard Medical School. Previously, she completed a fellowship at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, MD, where she had done her residency and internship in general surgery as well as medical school.