Dr. Schlager is the former Surgical Co-Director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and Trauma Medical Director at Akron Children’s Hospital located in Akron, OH. In addition, Dr. Schlager served as Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Pediatric Surgery at Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED), an academic institution affiliated with Akron Children’s Hospital. Dr. Schlager also served as the Director of the Pediatric Surgery Research Fellowship program and worked as a pediatric general and trauma surgeon, and neonatal specialist at the hospital.

 

For his education and training, Dr. Schlager completed a fellowship in pediatric surgery at Emory University, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Dr. Schlager completed his general surgery residency and internship at New York University Medical Center in New York, NY. In addition, Dr. Schlager also finished a research residency at Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center located in Jerusalem, Israel. Dr. Schlager graduated medical school from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY.