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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.
Matthew Y.C. Lin, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Divsion of General Surgery
Contact Information
San Francisco, CA 94143-0790
Phone: 415-476-0762
Fax: 415-726-0822
Matthew.Lin@ucsfmedctr.org
BiographyEducation
- 1998-2001, University of California Riverside, B.S. Biomedical Sciences, cum laude. June 2001
- 2001- 2005 University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine
- M.D., June 2005
Residencies
- 2005-2006 Internship, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
- Categorical Internship- General Surgery, Torrance, CA
- 2006-2011 Residency, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Categorical General Surgery, Torrance, CA
Fellowships
- 2011-2012, Clinical fellow in minimally invasive and bariatric surgery
- Divsion of General Surgery, University of California San Francisco
Board Certification
- American Board of Surgery, General Surgery
Clinical Expertise
Research Interests
- Colorectal Cancer
- Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass for Morbidly Obese Undergoing Lung Transplantation
- Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy (LSG) in Morbidly Obese Patients Awaiting Liver Transplantation and in Post-Transplant setting
- Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy for Pre-transplant Candidates
- Long-term outcomes for Heller myotomy
Biography
Matthew Y.C. Lin, M.D. is a gastrointestinal surgeon and Assistant Professor of Surgery at UCSF. Dr. Lin is board-certified by the American Board of Surgery.
Dr. Lin received his M.D. from UCLA School of Medicine followed by a general surgery residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. In 2011-2012, Dr. Lin was the UCSF fellow in minimally invasive and bariatric surgery, a position funded by the Foundation for Surgical Fellowships.
In June, 2012, Dr. Lin presented the results of an study to the 29th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) suggesting sleeve gastrectomy may be performed safely in carefully selected morbidly obese patients with impending organ failure and the significant weight loss they achieve may make them more suitable candidates for transplantation. The study was conducted by UCSF bariatric and transplant faculty. It was the largest such study of its kind to date. The story was also reported by ABC News.
Dr. Lin has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and is a member of the American Medical Association, American College of Surgeons, Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons and American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.
Selected Publications
- Cardiac Morbidity and Mortality Following Surgery for Gastrointestinal Carcinomas Lin M, Haukoos J, Tahernia A, deVirgilio C. American Surgeon 2005 Oct.:71(10):833-6 Use of admission serum lactate and sodium levels to predict mortality in necrotizing soft-tissue infections.
- Yaghoubian A, deVirgilio C, Dauphine C, Lewis RJ, Lin M. Archive of Surgery 2007 Sept:142(9):840-.6 Solid Pseudopapillary Neoplasm of the Pancreas: A Rare and Atypically Aggressive Disease Among Male Patients Lin M, Stabile BE. American Surgeon 2010 Oct; 76(10):1075-8. Characteristics of Colorectal Cancer Amongst Asian Americans
- Lin M, Liu W, Aboulian A, Huntley J, Etzioni D, Petrie B. American Surgeon 2010; Oct;76(10):1154-7. Successful Enhanced Recovery Program After Colorectal Surgery in a County Institution Aboulian
- A, Zailani H, Lin M, Kaji A, Kumar R. American Surgeon 2010 Oct;76(10):1158-62. Preoperative Serum Albumin but not Prealbumin is an Excellent Predictor of Postoperative Complications and Mortality in Gastrointestinal Cancer Patients Lin M, Stabile BE. American Surgeon (In Press) Third Place in Resident Paper Competition
- Safety and Feasibility of Sleeve Gastrectomy in Morbidly Obese
Patients After Liver Transplant. Surg Endo (In Press)
Lin M, Sarin A, et al.
In the News
Bariatric Surgery May Improve Chances for Successful Organ Transplantation
American Society For Metabolic And Bariatric Surgery, ABC News - Dec 03, 2012"Bariatric surgery has been widely accepted in the medical field, but now we're trying to apply it to specific patient groups," said Matthew Y.C. Lin, M.D., a gastrointestinal surgeon, a former surgical fellow*, and now an Assistant Professor of Surgery at UCSF. In a pilot study of 26 morbidly obese patients waiting for a kidney or liver transplant, Dr. Lin and colleagues in the UCSF Bariatric Surgery Program found laproscopic sleeve gastrectomy, a procedure that removes most of the stomach and reshapes it into a small tube or sleeve, significantly improved the chances of undergoing successful organ transplantation. "The reason why physicians are skittish about bariatric surgery for organ transplant is that these patients have more medical comorbities," said Lin, who is the lead author of the study. "But our study shows that it is safe to proceed."
* Fellowship in Minimally Invasive Surgery generously underwritten by Foundation for Surgical Fellowships.
