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Maurice Galante, M.D., a legendary master surgeon at UCSF and renaissance man, died on February 5, 2013. His career is memorialized by the Maurice Galante Lecture Program and Maurice Galante Distinguished Professorship.
Gordon A. Cohen, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A.
Professor & Chief, Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
Vice-Chair, Department of Surgery
Surgical Director, UCSF Pediatric Heart Center at Benioff Children's Hospital
Julien I. E. Hoffman Chair in Cardiac Surgery
Contact Information
513 Parnassus Avenue
Box 0117/S549
San Francisco, CA 94143-0117
(415) 476-3501
gordon.Cohen@ucsfmedctr.org
Appointments and Clinic
(415) 476-8623
BiographyEducation
- Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, M.D., 1989
- University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D., Pharmacology, 1996
- University of Tennessee School of Business, M.B.A., 2010
Residencies
- University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, General Surgery, 1990-1995 resident, 1995-1996 Chief Resident
- University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Chief Resident, 1996-1998
Fellowships
- Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London, England, Cardiothoracic Surgery, 1998-1999
Board Certification
- American Board of Surgery, General Surgery
- American Board of Thoracic Surgery, Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery
Clinical Expertise
- Arterial Switch
- Atrial Septal Defect
- Atrioventricular Heart Block
- Congenital Mitral Disease
- Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
- Marfan Syndrome
- Mechanical Cardiac Assist
- Neonatal Cardiac Surgery
- Norwood Procedure
- Patent Ductus Arteriosus
- Pediatric Heart and Lung Transplanation
- Pediatric Heart Failure
- Single Ventricle Palliation
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- Transposition of Great Arteries
- Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD)
- Ventricular Septal Defect
Research Interests
- Endothelial Cell Biology
- Mechanisms and induction of myocardial recovery
- Mechanisms and regulation of neovascularization
- Pediatric Ventricular Assist Devices
Biography
Gordon A. Cohen MD PhD MBA is Chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery at UCSF and Professor and Vice-Chair of Surgery at the UCSF School of Medicine.
Dr. Cohen received his MD from Tulane University School of Medicine; he earned an MS and a PhD in pharmacology from UCLA. He received his MBA from the University of Tennessee School of Business. He completed residencies in cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Washington School of Medicine and in general surgery at UCLA Medical Center. Dr. Cohen was a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London and senior lecturer at the Institute of Child Health at University College London.
Prior to his appointment at UCSF, Dr. Cohen was Chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Surgical Director of the cardiac transplant program at Seattle Children's Hospital. He was also co-Director of Seattle Children's Heart Center. He was a Professor in the Department of Surgery and was the Associate Division Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Washington.
Dr. Cohen's clinical interests include complex neonatal repairs, pediatric heart, heart-lung and lung transplantation, mechanical cardiac assist and heart failure.
Highly respected by his peers, Dr. Cohen was named to the list of the US News "Top Doctors", which denotes the top 1% of physicians in the nation practicing a given specialty."
Selected Publications
- Cohen GA, Permut LC, Arakaki LS, Ciesielski WA, McMullan DM, Parrish AR, Schenkman KA. Direct optical measurement of intraoperative myocardial oxygenation during congenital heart surgery. ASAIO J. 2011 Jul-Aug; 57(4):314-7.
- Salerno JC, Seslar SP, Chun TU, Vafaeezadeh M, Parrish AR, Permut LC, Cohen GA, McMullan DM. Predictors of ECMO support in infants with tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy. Pediatr Cardiol. 2011 Aug; 32(6):754-8.
- McMullan DM, Emmert JA, Permut LC, Mazor RL, Jeffries HE, Parrish AR, Baden HP, Cohen GA. Minimizing bleeding associated with mechanical circulatory support following pediatric heart surgery. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2011 Mar; 39(3):392-7.
- Morales DL, Almond CS, Jaquiss RD, Rosenthal DN, Naftel DC, Massicotte MP, Humpl T, Turrentine MW, Tweddell JS, Cohen GA, Kroslowitz R, Devaney EJ, Canter CE, Fynn-Thompson F, Reinhartz O, Imamura M, Ghanayem NS, Buchholz H, Furness S, Mazor R, Gandhi SK, Fraser CD. Bridging children of all sizes to cardiac transplantation: the initial multicenter North American experience with the Berlin Heart EXCOR ventricular assist device. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2011 Jan; 30(1):1-8.
- Permut LC, Linam J, Cohen GA. Sternal wire removal in pediatric patients: wire versus cable sternotomy closure. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2010 Jun; 139(6):1663-4.
