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Children’s Hospital Colorado
Anschutz Medical Campus
13123 East 16th Avenue
Aurora, CO 80045
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David P. Bliss, MD, MBA
Provider's Specialties
- Surgery - Pediatric
- Surgery
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Languages spoken
- English
Experience and background
Neonatal surgery, pectus excavatum and pectus carinatum chest wall deformities, as well as common pediatric surgery conditions such as appendicitis, inguinal hernias, umbilical hernias, etc.
Medical Education 1985
University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine
Internship 1986
Washington University in St. Louis
Residency 1993
Washington University in St. Louis
Fellowship 1996
Seattle Children's Hospital
Graduate 2018
Northwestern University
Top Doctor 2011
US News and World Report
Best Doctors in America 2015
2015, 2017-2018
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Recipient, ACS/APSA Executive Leadership Program in Health Policy and Management scholarship at Brandeis University 2016
American College of Surgeons/American Pediatric Surgical Association
Texas Super Doctors 2016
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Top Doctor, Colorado Springs 2018
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
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Allyson Alexander, MD, PhD
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