Shunpei Okochi, MD

Shunpei Okochi, MD, is a board-certified pediatric surgeon and the Surgical Director of Pediatric Intensive Care and Surgical Director of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) at Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Okochi specializes in caring for children with serious and complex conditions. His expertise includes thoracic conditions including congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), a condition present at birth in which abdominal organs move into the chest through an opening in the diaphragm and chest wall deformities such as pectus excavatum, a condition where the breastbone is sunken into the chest. He also has expertise in ECMO, a form of life support that temporarily does the work of the heart and lungs in critically ill children. He also specializes in minimally invasive neonatal and pediatric surgery; using small incisions to help patients heal faster with less pain and scarring. Other areas of focus include neonatal surgery, hernias and solid tumors. His research centers on improving outcomes for children treated with ECMO, surgical critical care, and CDH.

Dr. Okochi earned his medical degree and completed his internship at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, followed by pediatric ECMO fellowship and general surgery residency at Columbia University Medical Center. He then went on to complete fellowships in pediatric surgery at University of California San Diego and pediatric surgical critical care at the University of Pittsburgh.

Committed to providing compassionate care to children and their families, Dr. Okochi is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) where he is actively involved in multiple committees, as well as a member of the American Pediatric Surgical Association (APSA), the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), and the International Pediatric Endosurgery Group (IPEG).