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UCLA, UCSF and City of Hope have received a five-year, $8 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study how a common virus called cytomegalovirus may provoke the immune system to reject transplanted kidneys. Minnie M. Sarwal M.D., Ph.D., FRCP, DCH , professor and director of...

The first advanced laparoscopic course in Northern California, dedicated to the training of Minimally Invasive Surgery fellows and surgical senior residents, was held at the UCSF Anatomy Learning Center on Saturday, August 12, 2017. The course, jointly developed by UCSF and Stanford, and co-chaired by Matthew Lin...

The Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators presented seven Department of Surgery faculty with the Excellence in Teaching Award for 2017 at a ceremony on September 11th at the UCSF School of Nursing, held in conjunction with the Academy's induction of new members. The Academy's Excellence in Teaching Awards...

Results from the first-in-human clinical trial of a magnetic compression anastomosis device known as “Magnamosis” were recently reported on in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. The study, led by Principal Investigator Michael Harrison, MD, is a prospective, single-center, first-in-human pilot...

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Children Health & Human Development (NICHD) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded pediatric surgeons Benjamin Padilla, MD , and Michael Harrison, MD , a two-year grant to study the use of cryoanalgesia as a novel method of pain control in the Nuss...

The UCSF Center for Mindfulness in Surgery was recently awarded grants by the Physicians Foundation and UCSF Medical Center "Excellence Fund" to support a study of mindfulness training of faculty in the Departments of Surgery and Anesthesia. The program, led by Carter Lebares, M.D. , Principal Investigator on the...

The Spring/Summer 2017 issue of Inside Surgery is now available online. Inside Surgery is a Department of Surgery brochure showcasing the clinical and research advances of our faculty. The edition highlights minimally invasive bariatric surgery t o treat metabolic disease, and robotic surgery deployed across a...

The Atlantic reports on the difficulties in the current climate of conducting donor-intervention research due to issues of informed consent, disagreements over what constitutes human subject research, and conflicting views of Institutional Review Boards (IRB) spread across multiple centers with patients putatively...

The UCSF Community and the Department of Surgery are saddened to announce the passing of our friend and colleague, Dr. Jeffrey Pearl, Professor Emeritus of Surgery. Jeffrey Pearl was raised in San Francisco, attended UC Berkeley for his undergraduate studies, and earned his M.D. at Mount Sinai School of Medicine...

The UCSF Department of Surgery has launched a new website for its NIH T32 Research Training Program in Gastrointestinal Surgery. The program, led by Hobart W. Harris, M.D., M.P.H. , Professor and Chief of the Division of General Surgery, was originally established in 1987 by Dr. Haile T. Debas, Professor Emeritus...

Gabrielle LaBove, a 4 th year medical student from Howard University School of Medicine in Washington, DC, has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Haile T. Debas Diversity Fellowship. As part of her fellowship, she will be taking an elective course and doing a rotation in Plastic Surgery in September...

Johannes R. Kratz, M.D. and Yeranuí Ledesma, M.D. are among this year's recipients of the 2017 UCSF Health Exceptional Physician Award. Dr. Kratz, now a member of the Thoracic Oncology Program and Assistant Professor in the Division of Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery, and Dr. Ledesma, a Senior Resident in General...

Hobart W. Harris, M.D., M.P.H., Chief of the Division of General Surgery and Director of the UCSF Center for Hernia Repair and Abdominal Wall Reconstruction, will Chair the International Symposium on Incisional Hernia Prevention , sponsored by the UCSF Department of Surgery, to be held October 19-20, 2017 in San...