Meet Our Doctors

Anne Fischer, MD, PhD, FACS is a board-certified pediatric general surgeon and our Regional Medical Director of Pediatric Surgery for Tenet Florida Region. For her education and training, Dr.Fischer completed her pediatric general surgery fellowship at Boston Children’s Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. She completed medical school and general surgery residency at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, MD, where she also completed a PhD in immunology and postdoctoral oncology fellowship at Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center.

Avraham Schlager, MD, FACS is a board-certified pediatric general surgeon. For his education and training, Dr. Schlager completed his pediatric surgery fellowship at Emory University/Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta in Atlanta, GA focusing on minimally invasive pediatric surgery techniques. He completed his general surgery residency and internship at New York University Medical Center in New York, NY and a research residency at Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel.

R. Dev Bhardwaj, MD, PhD, FRSC, FACS is a board-certified pediatric neurosurgeon. For his education and training, Dr. Bhardwaj completed his pediatric neurosurgery fellowship at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego, CA and his cancer stem cell research fellowship at Sanford Burnham Institute in La Jolla, CA. He completed his neurosurgery residency and internship at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada.