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Legendary Surgeon Maurice Galante Dies
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.
Mark Ratcliffe, M.D.
Professor of Surgery
Division of Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery, UCSF
Chief of Surgery, San Francisco VA Medical Center
Co-Director, Cardiac Biomechanics Lab
Contact Information
San Francisco, CA 94121
Tel: 415-750-2057
Fax: 415-750-2181
BiographyEducation
- M.D.-Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
- B.A. - Denison University, Granville, OH
Residencies
- Internship - John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
- Residency - John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
- Residency - University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
- Research Fellow - University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
- Fellowship - University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
Board Certification
- American Board of Surgery, 1989
- American Board of Thoracic Surgery, 1993
Clinical Expertise
- Minimally invasive cardiac surgery
- Off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery
- Robotic surgery
- Surgery for heart failure
- Thoracic aortic surgery
- Valve repair and replacement
Research Interests
- Finite element analysis of failing left ventricle
Biography
Dr. Ratcliffe received his M.D. degree from Case Western Reserve
School of Medicine and completed his General Surgery and
Cardiothoracic residencies at the Univeristy of Pennsylvania. Dr.
Ratcliffe is certified by the American Board of Surgery and
American Board of Thoracic Surgery. His special interest is in
the application of finite element analysis or the failing left
ventricle. Dr. Ratcliffe has been on the faculty since 1993.
Currently, he is the Chief of Surgery at the SFVAMC, Director
of the Cardiac Biomechanics Laboratory and Vice Chair of the
UCSF Department of Surgery at UCSF.
Dr. Ratcliffe is an active member of the American Society for
Artificial Internal Organs, American Heart Association, Society of
Thoracic Surgeons, Western Thoracic Surgical Association, San
Francisco Surgical Society, American Association of Thoracic
Surgery, and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
Selected Publications
- Walker JC, Ratcliffe MB, Zhang P, Wallace AW, Fata B, Hsu EW, Saloner DA, Guccione JM. MRI-based finite-element analysis of left ventricular aneurysm Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 289:692-700, 2005.
- Zhang P, Guccione JM, Nicholas SI, Walker JC, Crawford, PC, Shamal A, Saloner DA, Wallace AW, Ratcliffe MB.
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Wall ST, Walker JC, Healy KE, Ratcliffe MB, Guccione JM, Theoretical impact of the injection of material into the myocardium: A Finite Element Model Simulation. Circulation, 114:2627-35, 2006.
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Zhang P, Guccione JM, Nicolas SI, Walker JC, Crawford PC, Shamal A, Acevedo G, Guttman MS, Ozturk C, McVeigh ER and Ratcliffe MB, Endoventricular patch plasty for dyskinetic anteroapical left ventricular aneurysm increases systolic circumferential shortening in sheep. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. In Press*
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Mann M, Tendulkar A, Birger N, Howard C, Ratcliffe MB, NIH funding for surgical research, Ann Surg. In Press*
In the News
Mark Ratcliffe, MD, Named Chair of NIH Study Section
NCIRE news - Apr 07, 2010Mark Ratcliffe, MD, Chief of Surgery at San Francisco VA Medical Center, Professor and Vice-Chair of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, and member of the NCIRE Board of Directors, has been appointed chair of the Bioengineering, Technology, and Surgical Sciences (BTSS) Study Section at the National Institutes of Health.
The Problem of Funding in Surgical Research
Scientists and Engineers for America (SEA) - May 20, 2008"Surgeons may be capable of accelerating the translation of basic research into new clinical therapies. Nevertheless, most surgeon-scientists believe they are at a disadvantage in competing for peer-reviewed funding, despite a recent emphasis on "translational science" by organizations such as the NIH."
3D Heart: New Techniques for Diagnosing and Treating the Heart
Science Central -
Researchers are working
on a system that could show surgeons the results of an operation
without their ever lifting a scalpel.
