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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.
Hueylan Chern, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Division of General Surgery
Contact Information
415-885-7678 - Clinic Fax
415-885-3625 - Academic Office
415-885-3886 - Academic Fax
Hueylan.Chern@ucsfmedctr.org
BiographyEducation
- 1994-98 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ - B.A., Biochemistry
- 1998-2002 University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ - M.D.
Residencies
- 2002-07 Brown University, Providence, RI- Resident, General Surgery
Fellowships
- 2007-08 UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ - Fellow, Colorectal Surgery
- 2008-09 Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, NY - Fellow, Transrectal Ultrasound Clinical Fellowship
Board Certification
- American Board of Surgery, 2007
- American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery, 2009
Program Affiliations
- UCSF Center for Pelvic Physiology
Clinical Expertise
- Anal Cancer
- Colitis
- Colon Cancer
- Constipation
- Crohn's Disease
- Diverticulitis
- Fecal Incontinence
- Hemorrhoids
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Pelvic Floor Disorders
- Presacral Tumors
- Rectal Cancer
- Ulcerative Colitis
Biography
Dr. Hueylan Chern is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. She is a colorectal surgery specialist, who received her M.D. from UMDNJ - New Jersey Medical School and completed her general surgery training at Brown University. After her residency, Dr. Chern finished a colorectal surgery fellowship at UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, followed by additional oncology training at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Dr. Chern specializes in laparoscopic procedures for both malignant and benign disease conditions, such as colorectal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease and diverticular disease. She is also trained in endorectal ultrasound, Transanal Endocscopic Microsurgery and sphincter preserving operations. Her research interests include endorectal ultrasound and colorectal cancer.
