Christine Cheng, M.D., M.P.H.

Clinical Assistant Professor

  • Children's Mercy Hospital

Biography

Dr. Cheng is a plastic surgeon with Certificate of Added Qualifications in Hand Surgery who has worked at Children’s Mercy Hospital since 2007. Dr. Cheng completed her undergraduate studies at Rice University in 1989 and her M.D. degree from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio in 1993. She trained in General and Plastic Surgery at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, completing her plastic surgery training in 1998. She completed a Hand & Microsurgery Surgery Fellowship at Washington University in 1999. She worked at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children’s Hospital from 1999 until 2007. Dr. Cheng obtained her MPH from Saint Louis University School of Public Health in 2007.

Education and Training

  • M.D. - University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
  • Internship - Barnes Hospital - Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
  • Residency - Surgery - Barnes Hospital, Washing University School of Medicine, St. Louis
  • Residency - Plastic Surgery - Barnes Hospital, Washing University School of Medicine, St. Louis
  • Fellowship - Hand and Microsurgery - Barnes Hospital, Washing University School of Medicine, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Specialties and Research/Medical Interests

  • Telemedicine, Orthopaedic Surgery, Plastic Surgery - Hand, Bone and tendon injuries, Congenital hand abnormalities, Nerve, Hand Surgery