Rebecca Rentea currently works at the Department of Pediatric Surgery, Children’s Mercy Kansas City. Rebecca does research in pediatric colorectal and pelvic reconstruction disorders (Anorectal Malformation, Hirschsprung disease, Cloaca, Cloacal Exstrophy, severe functional constipation/colonic dysmotility), minimally invasive surgery, and health outcomes research. Rebecca M. Rentea, MD, MS, MBA, is a professor of surgery, chief of the section of colorectal and pelvic reconstructive surgery, the director of the multidisciplinary Comprehensive Colorectal Center, and fellowship program director at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a general surgery residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She performed her pediatric surgery fellowship at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, followed by a pediatric colorectal and pelvic reconstruction surgery fellowship at Nationwide Children's Hospital at the Ohio State University- Columbus, Ohio. She has a clinical and translational research background and a master's in health outcomes research from Northwestern University in Chicago, and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin. Her focus is on pediatric colorectal and pelvic reconstruction, pediatric surgery, clinical outcomes research, and surgical education with minimally invasive surgical approaches.