About Cornelia Griggs, MD
Cornelia Griggs is a pediatric surgeon, critical care specialist and assistant professor in surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Harvard Medical School. Dr. Griggs serves as the surgical lead of the Pediatric Weight Center at MGB. She is a health services researcher with a focus on childhood obesity. Her previously published work covers urgent public health crises including racial and socioeconomic disparities in surgical outcomes and access to weight loss surgery for children and adolescents. As an experienced minimally invasive surgeon, Dr. Griggs has a clinical focus in new surgical technologies, laparoscopic and thoracoscopic innovation, machine learning, AI, and surgical education.
Departments, Centers, & Programs:
Clinical Interests:
- Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery
- Chest Wall Deformities (Pectus excavatum & Pectus Carinatum)
- Critical care
- ECMO
- Endocrine Surgery
- Fetal Care and Prenatal diagnosis of surgical diseases
- Foregut (GERD, achalasia, paraesophageal hernias, GISTs)
- Hernias
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Minimally invasive pediatric surgery
- Pediatric Neoplasms
- Thyroid surgery
- Trauma and critical care
Treats:
- Pediatrics
Locations
Mass General for Children: Pediatric Surgery
55 Fruit St.
Warren Building
11th Floor
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-726-0270
Mass General Brigham Healthcare Center
102-104 Endicott St.
Danvers, MA 01923
Phone: 978-882-6100
Spaulding Eileen M. Ward Outpatient Center for Children (Cape Cod)
337 Cotuit Road
Suite 7
Sandwich, MA 02644
Phone: 508-833-1060
Medical Education
- MD, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
- Residency, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Residency, New York Presbyterian - Columbia University Medical Center
- Fellowship, Children's Hospital of New York - Columbia University Medical Center
American Board Certifications
- General Surgery, American Board of Surgery
- Pediatric Surgery, American Board of Surgery
- Surgical Critical Care, American Board of Surgery
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Maine Community Health Options
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid RI
- Medicaid VT
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense
- WellSense NH
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.