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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.
James R. Macho, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Professor Emeritus of Surgery
Division of General Surgery
UCSF Department of Surgery
Director, Critical Care
Saint Francis Memorial Hospital
Contact Information
San Francisco, California 94109
(415) 775-2795
Fax (415) 775-3025
jmacho@mac.com
BiographyEducation
- 1971 Boston College B.S. Biology
- 1973 Rutgers University,The Graduate School, NJ, M.S. Physiology & Biophysics
- 1980 Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, M.D. Medicine
Residencies
- 1980-81 University of California, San Francisco, Intern General Surgery
- 1981-85 University of California, San Francisco, Resident General Surgery
- 1985-86 University of California, San Francisco, Chief Resident General Surgery
Fellowships
- 1983-84 University of California, San Francisco, Fellow Critical Care Medicine
Board Certification
- 1987 Certification, American Board of Surgery
- 1988 Certification, Added Qualifications in Critical Care Medicine, American Board of Surgery
- 1995, 2006 Recertification, American Board of Surgery
- 1998, 2007 Recertification, Added Qualifications in Critical Care Medicine
Program Affiliations
- CPMC
- Division of General Surgery
- Howard C. Naffziger Surgical Society
- Saint Francis Memorial Hospital
- UCSF Department of Surgery
Biography
James R. Macho, M.D., F.A.C.S. is a laparoscopic, breast, general surgeon, and specialist in surgical critical care. He is an Emeritus Professor of Surgery at UCSF and Director of Critical Care Medicine at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital. Dr. Macho received his MD from Harvard Medical School, thereafter completing the general surgery residency program at UCSF and a fellowship there in Critical Care Medicine.
Dr. Macho is a member of numerous professional organizations, having held a leadership position in many including President, Northern California Chapter, Am. Coll. of Surgeons, Governor, American College of Surgeons, Vice-President, San Francisco Surgical Society, Executive Board, California Academy of Medicine,President, San Francisco Surgical Society, Executive Board, California Academy of Medicine and, most recently, President of the prestigious Howard C. Naffziger Surgical Society from 2011-12.
Dr. Macho is an author of numerous peer-reviewed publications and several book chapters on surgery.
Selected Publications
- PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS
Berber E, Engle KL, String A, Garland AM, Chang G, Macho J, Pearl J and Siperstein AE. Selective use of tube cholecystostomy with interval laparoscopic cholecystectomy in acute cholecystitis. Arch. Surg. 135: 341-346, 2000. - Siperstein A, Pearl J, Macho J, Hansen P, Gitomirsky A and Rogers S. Comparison of laparoscopic ultrasonography and fluorocholangiography in 300 patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Surg. Endoscopy 13: 113-117, 1999.
- BOOK CHAPTERS
Sherman, V., Macho, J.R. and Brunicardi, F.C., Inguinal Hernias. In: Schwartz: Principles of Surgery, 9th Edition, Brunicardi, F.C., et. al. Eds., Chicago,
McGraw -Hill, 2009. - Macho, JR and Schecter, W.P Care of Patients with
Environmental Injuries. In:
Critical Care Diagnosis and Treatment, Third Edition Bongard, F.S. and Sue, D.Y., Eds., Norwalk, Appleton & Lange, 2008. - Macho, J.R., Lewis, FR, and Krupski, WC. Management of
the injured
patient. In: Current Surgical Diagnosis and Treatment, Way, LW, Ed.,
Norwalk, Appleton & Lange, 2002.
