University of California San Francisco

Shahram Aarabi
Shahram
Aarabi
MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Surgery
UCSF-East Bay Surgery Program
Chief, Vascular Surgery, Alameda Health System, Highland Hospital
Assistant Trauma Director, Alameda Health System, Highland Hospital

 

    Biography

    Dr. Aarabi is a vascular and trauma surgeon interested in care of underserved populations as well as novel therapeutics for use in resource limited settings. His current research is focused on limiting ischemic damage in traumatic limb injuries as well as automated ultrasound monitoring of critically ill patients.

    Education

    Institution Degree Dept or School End Date
    University of Washington Vascular Surgery Fellowship 05/2017
    University of Washington Surgical Critical Care Fellowship 05/2015
    University of Washington General Surgery Residency 05/2013
    Harvard University MPH Epidemiology & Statistics 05/2010
    University of Washington General Surgery Internship 05/2008
    New York University MD Medicine 05/2007
    University of California BA Mathematics & Philosophy 05/1999

    Board Certifications

    American Board of Surgery, General Surgery
    American Board of Surgery, Surgical Critical Care
    American Board of Surgery, Vascular Surgery

    Collaboration Interests

    I am interested in:

    • academic collaboration
    • academic senate committee service
    • community and stakeholder organizations
    • companies and entrepreneurs
    • multicenter clinical research
    • physician scientist
    • press
    • prospective donors

    Clinical Expertise

    Vascular Surgery

    Trauma Surgery

    General Surgery

    Surgical Critical Care

    Grants and Funding

    • Wearable Machine-Learning Ultrasound Monitor | Department of Defense | 2024-07-01 - 2027-06-30 | Role: Principal Investigator
    • Pre-hospital thermal regulation for the prolonged field care of traumatic injuries | Department of Defense | 2023-10-12 - 2026-04-05 | Role:
    • Wearable machine-learning ultrasound monitor to detect hemorrhage and guide prolonged damage control resuscitation | Department of Defense | 2022-11-16 - 2025-05-31 | Role: Principal Investigator
    • Pre-Hospital Thermal Regulation For The Prolonged Field Care of Traumatic Injuries | Department of Defense | 2022-03-01 - 2025-05-31 | Role: Principal Investigator
    • Therapeutic Limb Cooling to Prevent Amputation in pDCR | DoD CDMRP | 2017-10-01 - 2022-09-30 | Role: Principal Investigator
    • Pre-Hospital Thermal Regulation For The Prolonged Field Care of Traumatic Injuries | Department of Defense | 2021-04-12 - 2021-07-12 | Role: Principal Investigator
    • VascuSight (3D ultrasound monitoring of critically ill patients) | University of Washington | 2018-06-01 - 2020-06-01 | Role: Principal Investigator
    • A Feedback Controlled Pressure Monitoring System for Limb-Stabilizing Medical Air Splints | Amazon | 2018-04-01 - 2019-04-01 | Role: Co-Investigator
    • LC-tourniquet (a novel life and limb saving cooling tourniquet) | University of Washington | 2016-01-01 - 2018-01-01 | Role: Principal Investigator
    • A novel life and limb saving cooling tourniquet | University of Washington | 2015-09-01 - 2016-09-01 | Role: Principal Investigator
    • A novel life and limb saving cooling tourniquet | Wallace H. Coulter Foundation | 2015-06-01 - 2016-06-01 | Role: Principal Investigator
    • Adult endothelial progenitor cell trafficking | NIH/NCCR | 2005-09-01 - 2006-09-01 | Role: Principal Investigator

    Research Narrative

    Dr. Aarabi's research interests are in the areas of vascular trauma, public health, and surgical innovation.  He has recently been working on novel devices for the care of critically ill patients, has filed several patents related to this work at the University of Washington, and has been awarded a $1.5 million Department of Defense award for research and development of a novel limb cooling tourniquet device. 

    His research plans at UCSF are to continue the development of these medical devices so that they will be able to translate to the care of critically ill patients at the bedside.  Further, Dr. Aarabi plans to continue participating in clinical collaborations with trauma-vascular surgeons nationally and internationally and to systematically study vascular trauma at high volume level 1 trauma centers such as Highland Hospital and San Francisco General Hospital. 

    Research Interests

    Surgical innovation

    Public health and health systems improvement

    Management of vascular trauma

    Publications

    MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 45
    1. Critical systolic blood pressure threshold for endovascular aortic occlusion-A multinational analysis to determine when to place a REBOA.
      Ordoñez CA, Parra MW, Caicedo Y, Rodríguez-Holguín F, García AF, Serna JJ, Serna C, Franco MJ, Salcedo A, Padilla-Londoño N, Herrera-Escobar JP, Zogg C, Orlas CP, Palacios H, Saldarriaga L, Granados M, Scalea T, McGreevy DT, Kessel B, Hörer TM, Dubose J, Brenner M, AAST-AORTA Investigators*, ABO Trauma Registry Group*| | PubMed
    2. "Mammalian thermal manikin"
      Shahram Aarabi, Jason Germany, Ketan Mhetre, Abhijith Shasheendra| | UCSF Research Profile
    3. Zone 1 Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta vs Resuscitative Thoracotomy for Patient Resuscitation After Severe Hemorrhagic Shock.
      Cralley AL, Vigneshwar N, Moore EE, Dubose J, Brenner ML, Sauaia A, AAST AORTA Study Group| | PubMed
    4. Elective surgery system strengthening: development, measurement, and validation of the surgical preparedness index across 1632 hospitals in 119 countries.
      NIHR Global Health Unit on Global Surgery, COVIDSurg Collaborative| | PubMed
    5. Surgical management of bilateral thoracic outlet lymphaticovenous malformations causing recurrent cerebrovascular accidents.
      Kao E, Cohan C, Jaramillo E, Jean-Pierre J, Levine A, Aarabi S| | PubMed
    6. Resection of a giant mycotic left subclavian pseudoaneurysm.
      Le ST, Beattie G, Aarabi S| | PubMed
    7. International Patent "System and Method for Measuring Patient Total Blood Volume with Ultrasound
      Shahram Aarabi, Dan Leotta| | UCSF Research Profile
    8. A Parallel Pandemic: Increased Firearm Injuries at Five Northern California Trauma Centers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Interrupted Time-series Analysis.
      Matthay ZA, Callcut RA, Kwok AM, Aarabi S, Forrester JD, Kornblith LZ,
      Northern California Research Consortium for Trauma & Acute Care Sur
      | | PubMed
    9. Torso vascular trauma.
      Evans LL, Aarabi S, Durand R, Upperman JS, Jensen AR| | PubMed
    10. Prototyping a Thermal Limb: Methods for Building a Thermally Representative Phantom Limb. ISBN 978-3-030-80744-3
      Mhetre K, Shasheendra A, Aarabi S, Emery A, Germany J.| | UCSF Research Profile