Dr. Terry L. Buchmiller

Pediatric Surgeon, Boston Children’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Terry L. Buchmiller is a pediatric surgeon in the Department of Pediatric Surgery at Boston Children's Hospital and Associate Professor of Surgery at the Harvard Medical School.  She received her M.D. from the University of California at Davis, graduating as her class valedictorian.  She trained in general surgery at the UCLA Medical Center where she also spent two years in the pediatric surgical research laboratory. She completed her pediatric surgical fellowship in 1997 at Boston Children’s Hospital, being the first woman trainee.

Terry is board certified in both General Surgery and Pediatric Surgery.  She performs the full spectrum of pediatric surgery, with particular expertise in fetal surgery, prenatal counseling, and the care of newborns with surgical disease.  She is the lead pediatric surgeon in the Maternal Fetal Care Center.  She is an examiner for the American Board of Surgery, and has chaired both the Fetal and Wellness Committees of the American Pediatric Surgical Association.  She is the Past President of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and served nationally as an ACS Governor, including the Executive Committee.

In 2019 she received the Robert P. Masland, Jr. Teaching Award from Harvard Medical School, awarded to only one faculty member from over 1700 at Boston Children’s Hospital, her most cherished accomplishment.

A former music major, she has delighted in playing the violin with the Longwood Symphony for over 20 years, and has served on the Membership Committee. She is an avid runner, and has completed 5 of the world major marathons with her running friends.

Most overtures act as musical synopsis hinting at themes or motives to come. Others are completely unique and have little, if any, reference to the forthcoming program. This performance will feature some of the most well-known overtures from Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro to Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story.

Hewitt | The Battle of Trenton Wu, Wang, Liu | Little Sisters of the Prairie. Wu, Liu | Spring River Flowers and Moonlight Night
-Cao Yue, pipa Decruck | Symphonie Orientale Ó Riada | Mise Éire

Our season finale opens with James Hewitt’s The Battle of Trenton and explores the attitudes, mistakes and reasons people emigrated to America. Those stories are represented through the music immigrants brought with them, enriching our nation despite the challenges they faced. While the stories are as varied as was America’s attitude toward immigrants, these stories are important because all those who came to America looked for a new beginning and hope for the future — which has been America’s promise.