Project Description
Brenner Children’s
Hospital
Atrium Health Levine Children’s Brenner Children’s Hospital is the 182-bed “hospital within a hospital” affiliated with Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. More than 4,500 children are admitted to Brenner Children’s Hospital every year. It provides care to patients from birth to age 21 and is staffed by more than 150 full-time pediatric faculty with members representing over 30 pediatric subspecialties. In addition, Brenner Children’s is staffed by physicians representing all pediatric surgical specialties. Brenner Children’s became the first ACS verified Level I Pediatric Trauma Center in the state of North Carolina in 2011 and has maintained its verification ever since. Brenner Children’s is the only Level I Pediatric Trauma Center in the region and one of four in the state. Brenner Children’s provides the full range of pediatric surgical services and is an ACS verified Level 1 Children’s Surgery Center.
OUR STAFF
Lucas P. Neff, MD
Brenner Children’s Hospital
Full Bio
Lucas P. Neff, MD is an Associate Professor of surgery and pediatrics at Atrium health Wake Forest Baptist in Winston-Salem North Carolina. He is passionate about resident education as well as surgical innovation. He has ...
John K. Petty, MD
Brenner Children’s Hospital
Full Bio
John K. Petty, M.D. is a Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC. He grew up Portland, Oregon and left to attend college at Duke University. He proceeded to the ...
Courtney Gruver, RN
Brenner Children’s Hospital
Full Bio
Courtney Gruver, RN is a Clinical Studies RN III at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist. She has worked at the Medical Center for 21 years, with 20 of those as a Research Nurse. She worked in Obstetrics and Gynecology research ...
Carmen Sabio Hernandez, RN, CCRC
Brenner Children’s Hospital
Full Bio
Carmen Sabio Hernandez is a Clinical Studies Coordinator with Trauma Surgery Research. During the past twelve years, she’s implemented over fifty Phase II and III Drug and Device study protocols. She’s been active on the ...
D’Ann Hershel, MSG, CKTP
Brenner Children’s Hospital
Full Bio
D’Ann Hershel, MSG, CKTP has been a Project Manager for Trauma Surgery Research since 2019. She previously worked as Assistant Project manager in same department, doing both regulatory and study coordinator duties ...