UChicago Medicine Faculty Physicians
Baddr Shakhsheer, MD
Baddr Shakhsheer, MD
UChicago Medicine Faculty Physicians
Associate Professor of Surgery
Specialties
- Pediatric Surgery
Locations
- Chicago - Comer Children's Hospital
- Crown Point, IN
- About
- Specialties & Areas of Expertise
- Locations & Patient Information
- Education & Research
- Accepted Insurance
- External Professional Relationships
[AUDIO LOGO] My name is Baddr Shakhsheer, and I'm a pediatric general surgeon. I focus on minimally invasive procedures when able. Those are procedures that use small incisions to minimize pain and return to function as quickly as possible. I chose to become a physician because I enjoy interacting with patients and families on a one-on-one level. I really like to get to know them. I like to help them bridge through these difficult times. And often when patients are seeing surgeons, even if it's for a minor medical issue, they want the care and the support of someone who's been there, and they want someone to be there with them through the process, and I enjoy that aspect of my job. I think the beauty of Comer Children's and the University of Chicago is that it combines a world-class institution with experts with a true, personalized, and caring touch. We care about our patients, we care about their families, and we bring top-of-the-line care to them. My philosophy of care is to get to know my patients and their families and to support them. To support them holistically, not just medically, not just through surgery, but through the entire process, to support them emotionally. To try to understand what they're dealing with and help them prepare for the issues that they have upcoming. I perform the wide range of pediatric surgery, but I do focus on pediatric HPV disorders. These are rare issues that arise, but when they arise, they benefit from the care of the multidisciplinary team we have here. We're fortunate to have wonderful pediatric gastroenterologists, hepatologists, radiologists, interventional radiologists, pancreas specialists, and we're able to provide top-of-the-line state of the art care in a personalized manner.
Specialties
Areas of Expertise
- Chest Wall Deformities
- Pediatric Minimally Invasive Surgery
- Pediatric Hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) Disease
Board Certifications
- Surgery
Languages Spoken
- English
Medical Education
- Eastern Virginia Medical School
Residency
- University of Chicago Medical Center
Fellowship
- University of Chicago MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics; Washington Univ. School of Medicine
News & Research
Insurance
- Aetna Better Health *see insurance page
- Aetna HMO (specialists only)
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO
- BCBS Blue Precision HMO (specialists only)
- BCBS HMO (HMOI) (specialists only)
- BCBS Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO
- BCBS PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna POS
- Cigna PPO
- CountyCare *see insurance page
- Humana Medicare Advantage Choice PPO
- Humana Medicare Advantage Gold Choice PFFS
- Humana Medicare Advantage Gold Plus HMO
- Medicare
- Multiplan PPO
- PHCS PPO
- United Choice Plus POS/PPO
- United Choice HMO (specialists only)
- United Options (PPO)
- United Select (HMO & EPO) (specialists only)
- United W500 Emergent Wrap
- University of Chicago Health Plan (UCHP)
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Some of our physicians and health professionals collaborate with external pharmaceutical, medical device, or other medical related entities to develop new treatments and products to improve clinical outcomes for patients. In some instances, the physician has ownership interests in the external entity and/or is compensated for advising or speaking about the entity’s products or treatments. These payments may include compensation for consulting and speaking engagements, equity, and/or royalties for products invented by our physicians. To assure objectivity and integrity in patient care, UChicago Medicine requires all physicians and health professionals to report their relationships and financial interests with external entities on an annual basis. This information is used to review relationships and transactions that might give rise to potential financial conflicts of interest, and when considered to be significant a management plan to mitigate any biases is created.
If you are a patient at UChicago Medicine and would like more information about your physician’s external relationships, please talk with your physician. You may also visit the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments website at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/ . CMS Open Payments is a national disclosure program that promotes a more transparent and accountable health care system. It houses a publicly accessible database of payments that reporting entities, including drug and medical device companies, make to covered recipients like physicians and hospitals.
Information in the CMS Open Payments database could potentially contain inaccurately reported and out of date payment information. All information is open to personal interpretation, if there are questions about the data, patients and their advocates should speak directly to their health care provider for a better understanding.
Some of our physicians and health professionals collaborate with external pharmaceutical, medical device, or other medical related entities to develop new treatments and products to improve clinical outcomes for patients. In some instances, the physician has ownership interests in the external entity and/or is compensated for advising or speaking about the entity’s products or treatments. These payments may include compensation for consulting and speaking engagements, equity, and/or royalties for products invented by our physicians. To assure objectivity and integrity in patient care, UChicago Medicine requires all physicians and health professionals to report their relationships and financial interests with external entities on an annual basis. This information is used to review relationships and transactions that might give rise to potential financial conflicts of interest, and when considered to be significant a management plan to mitigate any biases is created.
If you are a patient at UChicago Medicine and would like more information about your physician’s external relationships, please talk with your physician. You may also visit the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments website at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/ . CMS Open Payments is a national disclosure program that promotes a more transparent and accountable health care system. It houses a publicly accessible database of payments that reporting entities, including drug and medical device companies, make to covered recipients like physicians and hospitals.
Information in the CMS Open Payments database could potentially contain inaccurately reported and out of date payment information. All information is open to personal interpretation, if there are questions about the data, patients and their advocates should speak directly to their health care provider for a better understanding.