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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.
Shinjiro Hirose, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Division of Pediatric Surgery
Contact Information
University of California, San Francisco
513 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94143-0570
415-476-2538 Office
415-476-2929 Fax
pedsurg@surgery.ucsf.edu
BiographyEducation
- 1986-90, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S., Mechanical Engineering
- 1993-97, New York Medical College, M.D., Medicine
Residencies
- 1997-01, University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Resident, Surgery
- 2001-04, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, Resident, Surgery
- 2004-05, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, Chief Resident, Surgery
Fellowships
- 2005-07, Columbia University/Children's Hospital of New York, Fellow, Pediatric Surgery
Board Certification
- American Board of Surgery
Program Affiliations
- Fetal Treatment Center
Clinical Expertise
- Pediatric Surgery,Fetal Surgery,Minimally invasive surgery,Birth Defects,Hepatobiliary surgery,Bariatric surgery
Research Interests
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
- Gastroschisis
- Myelomeningocele (Spina Bifida)
- Robotics
- Twin pregnancy complications
Biography
Dr. Shinjiro Hirose is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the UCSF Division of Pediatric Surgery and Fetal Treatment Center. Dr. Hirose completed his undergraduate education in 1990 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he received a BS in Mechanical Engineering. Before enrolling in medical school, he performed robotics research in telerobotics at the SECOM Intelligent Systems laboratory and at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratories.
After realizing that his true interests were in medicine, Dr. Hirose then went on to obtain his medical degree from the New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York and matched in surgery at the UC Davis Medical Center where he completed three years of clinical training. Dr. Hirose then spent three years in the UCSF Fetal Treatment Center as a post-doctoral fellow investigating neural regeneration after spinal cord injury and its implications in fetal surgery for myelomeningocele.
After his post-doctoral fellowship, Dr. Hirose remained on and finished his clinical training at UCSF. After his general surgery residency, Dr. Hirose completed his specialty training in Pediatric Surgery at the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York at Columbia University in New York City. Dr. Hirose's interests and specialties include minimally invasive surgery, fetal and neonatal surgery, hepatobiliary surgery, bariatric surgery, robotics, and surgical education. His research interests include fetal surgery for disorders of twin gestations, congenital diaphragmatic hernia, myelomeningocele, and gastroschisis.
Selected Publications
- Images in clinical medicine. Azygous lobe.
N Engl J Med. 2007 May 17;356(20):2082. - Hirose S, Clifton MS, Bratton B, Harrison MR, Farmer DL,
Nobuhara KK, Lee H.
Thoracoscopic resection of foregut duplication cysts.
J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A. 2006 Oct;16(5):526-9. - von Koch CS, Compagnone N, Hirose S, Yoder S, Harrison MR,
Farmer DL.
Myelomeningocele: characterization of a surgically induced sheep model and its
central nervous system similarities and differences to the human disease.
Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2005 Oct;193(4):1456-62. - Visser BC, Suh I, Hirose S, Rosenthal P, Lee H, Roberts JP,
Hirose R.
The influence of portoenterostomy on transplantation for biliary atresia.
Liver Transpl. 2004 Oct;10(10):1279-86. - Nijagal A, Sydorak RM, Feldstein VA, Hirose S, Albanese
CT.
Spontaneous resolution of prenatal megalourethra.
J Pediatr Surg. 2004 Sep;39(9):1421-3.
In the News
Magnet trial an attractive option for kids with sunken chest
Reuters - Aug 19, 2012Surgeons at the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in San Francisco are using magnets to reshape the breastbones of children who suffer from Sunken Chest Syndrome. The technique is undergoing phase 3 clinical trials, but the doctors hope to prove that long term magnetic force is as effective and less painful than conventional surgery.
Kids With Chest Wall Deformities Get Comprehensive Care at Clinic
UCSF News - Jul 09, 2012Justin is being treated at the UCSF Comprehensive Center for Chest Wall Deformities, a new interdisciplinary pediatric clinic at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital that offers a wide range of interventions for children with all types of chest wall deformities, from common to complex. Justin has the most common chest wall deformity called pectus excavatum, a congenital disorder which causes the chest to have a sunken or "caved in" appearance.
Spina Bifida Study a "Huge Gamechanger for Fetal Surgery"
New York Times - Feb 09, 2011For years, surgeons have been seeking ways of operating on babies in the womb, reasoning that medical abnormalities are easier to address while the fetus is still developing. Now, for the first time, a large clinical trial has shown that fetal surgery can also benefit infants with non life-threatening conditions. The eight-year study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that babies born with myelomeningocele, the most common form of spina bifida, a debilitating spinal abnormality, were twice as likely to walk and experienced fewer neurological problems with in utero repair versus standard post-natal repair.
