At the UNC Hospitals, we have a very busy and growing Pediatric Anesthesia Service. We provide anesthetic care for routine as well as more complex surgical procedures, including open heart, neonatal surgical emergencies (premature and term newborns) and neurosurgical procedures. When necessary, we provide sedation and/or general anesthesia for procedures outside the operating room, including diagnostic studies such as MRI and CT Scan. We also provide a sedation clinic for children with cancer that must go through repeated painful procedures as part of their treatment protocols.
Robert D. Valley, MD, FAAP, Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics,
Director of Pediatric Anesthesia, Director of Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia,
Director of Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship Program
Areas of Special Interest: Pediatric Anesthesia, Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia, Pediatric Postoperative Analgesia. Outside of the hospital, Dr. Valley is an avid long distance runner and gardener. He enjoys a wonderful family.
Ann D. Bailey, MD, FAAP, Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics
Areas of Special Interest: Pediatric Anesthesia. Outside of the hospital, Dr. Bailey is a mother to six children, a runner and enjoys anything with chocolate in it.
Jeffrey M. Berman, MD, FAAP, Professor of Anesthesiology
Areas of Special Interest: Pediatric Anesthesia, Anesthesia for Pediatric Burn Patients, Resuscitation Medicine. Outside of the hospital, Dr. Berman enjoys family time, reading, sailing and travel.
Jenna E. Black, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Areas of Special Interest: Pediatric Anesthesia. In her spare time, Dr. Black enjoys knitting, surfing, and being a dog mom to her two Great Danes, Jack and Emma.
Peggy Dietrich, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics Areas of special interest: Pediatric Anesthesia and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. In her spare time, Dr. Dietrich enjoys reading, traveling, and spoiling her niece, Emery Cate.
Linda S. Georges, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology
Areas of Special Interest: Pediatric Anesthesia. Outside of the hospital, Dr. Georges is a devoted mother and wife. She enjoys horseback riding, reading and her cats.
Areas of special interest: General pediatric anesthesia, pediatric airway management, pediatric and adult patients with special needs, medical humanities. Outside of operating room Dr. Kopp enjoys spending time with his family, church, hunting, fishing, poetry, history and literature.
Concetta Lupa, MD Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Areas of special interest: Pediatric Anesthesia. Outside of hospital, Dr. Lupa enjoys jogging, spending time with her dogs, friends and family. She also enjoys good music.
Janey McGee, MD Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Areas of special interest: Pediatric pain management and improving safety surrounding procedural sedation. Outside of the hospital, Dr. McGee enjoys spending time with family, traveling, and playing tennis.
Nathaniel Nonoy, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Areas of special interest: Pediatric anesthesia, pediatric cardiac anesthesia. Outside of the hospital, Dr. Nonoy enjoys running, playing tennis and traveling.
Toni Anne Washington, MD, Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Areas of special interest: Pediatric anesthesiology. Outside of the hospital, Dr. Washington enjoys gardening, photography, running and spending time with family.