Surgery
Catherine Hunter, MD, FACS, FAAP
Tenured Professor of Surgery
Section Chief of Pediatric Surgery
Fellowship Program Director
Paula Milburn Miller Chair of Pediatric Surgery
General Surgery Residency Program Site Director - Oklahoma Children's Hospital OU Health
Catherine J. Hunter, M.D., is the Chief, Division of Pediatric Surgery and Program Director. Dr. Hunter also holds the Children's Hospital Foundation Paula Milburn Miller Chair in Pediatric Surgery.
She graduated from Weill Cornell Medical College in New York and completed her General Surgery Residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California; followed by a Pediatric Surgery Fellowship and Research Fellowship at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles, California.
Dr. Hunter is nationally recognized as an authority on the care of necrotizing entercolitis, has more than 70 publications, and is funded by the National Institutes of Health. She is board certified in both general surgery and pediatric surgery, specializing in chest wall deformities in children. Additional specialties include surgical oncology and pediatric trauma Surgery.
Prior to coming to Oklahoma, Dr. Hunter served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatric Surgery at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, IL.