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On Saturday, August 11, 2012, UCSF will hold its annual Pediatric Transplant Picnic at McNears Beach in San Rafael, CA. We expect hundreds of children and their families will attend this yearly celebration of the Transplant Service at UCSF. An Olympic-themed party has been planned to include a costume contest with...

A new method for repairing Pectus Exacavatum using magnets and an external brace, developed by Michael Harrison , a pediatric surgeon at the University of California, San Francisco's Benioff Children's Hospital , could provide an alternative to the surgery.

Intrahepatic bile duct cancer, a rare and deadly form of cancer, known formally as cholangiocarcinoma, has been assumed to derive from cells in the bile ducts of the liver. However, a n international team, led by Holger F. Willenbring, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology in the...

Justin 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...

Liver cancer patients in need of an organ transplant often face a cruel reality -- while waiting for a deceased-donor liver, their cancer may worsen, spreading to other organs and making them ineligible for a transplant. With two children to raise and time ticking down, Amy Baghdadi was fast running out of options...

In July 2011, the Department of Surgery created a new Hepatobiliary and Pancreas Service naming Carlos Corvera M.D., a hepatobiliary surgical oncologist, as its Chief. The multidisciplinary program brings together faculty members from surgery, hepatology, medical oncology, anesthesia, radiology and pathology to...

UCSF Pediatric Surgery has published thier first interactive Patient Guide iBook for the iPad. This multimedia guidebook is a free educational resource for families who are faced with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH). More guidebooks are being planned as well as epub versions for other ebook readers. The...

John P. Roberts, M.D., Professor and Chief of Transplant Surgery and the Organ Transplant Service at UCSF, has been elected President of the National Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network/United Network for Organ Sharing ( OPTN/UNOS) Board of Directors. Roberts will serve a one-year term beginning in late...

Hanmin Lee, M.D. has been selected as one of the UCSF Medical Center's " Exceptional Physicians of 2012". Dr. Lee is Professor, Surgery, Pediatrics, Ob-Gyn and Reproductive Health Services, Chief of the Division of Pediatric Surgery, Director of the UCSF Fetal Treatment Center, and the Surgeon-in-Chief of UCSF...

"Neither man had a donor who was a match. But each had a family member willing to donate a kidney to a stranger, allowing them all to be part of chain which would, in turn, give Baty and Cienfuegos kidneys from other strangers. With 17 participating hospitals in 11 states, the chain consisted of 30 people willing...

In excess of 90,000 people are on the waiting list for kidney transplants, fewer than 17,000 receive one each year, and about 4,500 die on the waiting list. Even where a relative or friend is willing to donate a kidney, the kidney may not be a biological match. To address this problem, paired kidney exchange...

UCSF has received about a million dollars since 2009. That money has supported the development of tools to treat scoliosis, kidney failure and sunken chest, among other conditions. The pectus, or sunken chest device, is in clinical trials.

The New York Times reports in its "The New Old Age - Caring and Coping Blog" on the high-risk of performing surgery in older adults, even for otherwised routine operations. Even operations considered fairly routine in younger patients, like appendectomies, become high-risk for nursing home residents. “Something...

A team consisting of Hassan Lemjabbar-Alaoui, Ph.D., Assistant Adjunct Professor of Surgery and principal Investigator in the Thoracic Oncology Laboratory and Alaoui Lab, and Steven Rosen, PhD, Professor and Vice-chair of the Department of Anatomy, are developing a novel treatment for lung cancer in a unique...

The UCSF Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery announces the opening of the UCSF Center for Limb Preservation & Wound Care. Led by vascular surgeon Michael S. Conte, M.D. (pictured left), and podiatric surgeon Alexander M. Reyzelman, D.P.M. (pictured right), the Center, the first of its kind in the Bay Area...

The UCSF "D'Vice Squad," a group of innovators from across the Bay Area, has drawn from diverse disciplines over the last two years to develop medical devices for children. Now the squad's hard work has been rewarded with a $1 million grant from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to expand its work over...