J. David Hoover, MD, FACS, FAAP

Dr. David Hoover is a board-certified surgeon with WakeMed Physician Practices Pediatric Surgery and serves as a pediatric surgeon at WakeMed Health & Hospitals. He brings over 10 years of pediatric surgery experience from Jeff Gordon Children's Hospital in Concord, N.C., and Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago. He is board-certified in general and pediatric surgery as well as critical care.

Dr. Hoover most recently held the position of Medical Director at the Jeff Gordon Children's Hospital where he was responsible for growth and management of multidisciplinary pediatric subspecialty practice. Simultaneously, he served as a pediatric surgeon for Carolina Pediatric Surgery.

He graduated from Mississippi State University and continued his education at East Carolina University where he attended medical school. Dr. Hoover did his residency at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC, and he was a Pediatric Surgery Critical Care Fellow and a Pediatric Surgery Fellow at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, IL.

Since 1994, Dr. Hoover frequents Tenwek Hospital in Kenya, East Africa as a visiting surgeon. In addition, since 1997, he has volunteered as the Young Life's Windy Gap Camp Physician.