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Plastic Surgeons Team Up to Give a Helping Hand

UCSF Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
January 09, 2008
ABC7News.com in San Francisco reports on a new surgery center at St. Mary's Hospital in San Francisco that uses a teamwork approach to perform complex reconstructive surgeries. The team includes Scott L. Hansen, M.D. (pictured right), Chief of Hand and Microvascular Surgery at UCSF and Charles Lee, M.D, St. Mary's...

Novel magnet treatment used to correct sunken chest

UCSF Pediatric Surgery
November 08, 2007
UCSF has created a groundbreaking new procedure to treat chest deformities in children and teens. This minimally invasive procedure is already transforming one 14-year-old's life.

Roseville Baby Battles Rare Heart Defect at UCSF Children’s Hospital

UCSF Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
October 08, 2007
Allison and Jon Smith first learned from an ultrasound that the baby boy they were expecting would be born with a severe and rare heart defect. In Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, or HLHS, the heart does not develop properly and the infant is born with only one ventricle contributing to circulation, essentially...

Presence Of Gene Mutation Helps Guide Thyroid Cancer Treatment

UCSF Endocrine Surgery
September 06, 2007
"A specific gene mutation may be useful in predicting the level of aggression of thyroid cancer and help guide treatment options and follow-up care, according to new study findings. The mutation, called BRAF V600E, is a genetic alteration in the BRAF oncogene, a modified gene believed to cause cancer. ......."

National Impact of Pioneering Surgical Hospitalist Program

UCSF General Surgery
June 04, 2007
At most hospitals nationally, it takes nearly four hours on average before the surgeon on call becomes available, and even longer before the operation is finally begun. At UCSF Medical Center, the goal is for the patient to be seen by a "surgical hospitalist" in less than 30 minutes................"Over the first...

Hanmin Lee, MD, named new Director of UCSF Fetal Treatment Center

UCSF Fetal Treatment Center
May 09, 2007
As the new Director of the Fetal Treatment Center, Dr. Hanmin Lee will continue the Center's and its co-founder Dr. Michael Harrison's pioneering spirit of multidisciplinary research and innovation to improve our understanding of fetal disease and further advance the treatment and management of infants and...

Postpartum Moms Turning to Plastic Surgery

UCSF Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
March 23, 2007
"Most of the 325,000 tummy tucks, breast augmentations and lifts done in 2006 were "mommy makeovers," or postpartum moms turning to plastic surgery to erase evidence of pregnancy. Dr. Mary McGrath, a professor of plastic surgery at UCSF, urges postpartum moms to wait at least six months before seeking surgery."

Being Small Has Its Advantages, Especially With Minimally Invasive Lung Surgery

UCSF Thoracic Oncology Program
February 11, 2007
Dr. Jasleen Kukreja "is not the first surgeon to perform a minimally invasive lobectomy at UCSF, but she may be a pioneer in the two-finger clamp technique, because her predecessors are men who have a tougher time squeezing in both fingers. Last summer, she became the first doctor to be hired by UCSF to focus...

Life and Death at San Francisco's Hospital of Last Resort

UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
December 10, 2006
"After 13 years doing trauma surgery at San Francisco General Hospital, Dr. Andre Campbell knows just about everything there is to know about calamity, mayhem and long nights. "........."For as long as he has been at General, Campbell has worked beside the head of trauma surgery, Bill Schecter, who is 10 years...

Brother & Sister Share Special Hearts

UCSF Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
August 01, 2006
"Watching 11-year-old Weston Williams ride his unicycle or three-year-old Delaney Williams play, one would never suspect that brother and sister were born with a serious, life-threatening heart condition that causes an abnormally slow heartbeat. Weston's first pacemaker was implanted at UCSF in July 1998. And...

Emeritus Professor Ronald J. Stoney Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

UCSF Vascular & Endovascular Surgery
June 22, 2006
At the 60th Annual Vascular Meeting on June 1, 2006 in Philadelphia, more than 1,000 members of the Society of Vascular Surgery gathered to honor Ronald J, Stoney, M.D. with its Lifetime Achievement Award. Stoney is a Professor of Professor Emeritus of Surgery in the Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery at...

Compassion Crosses Borders: SF VA Surgeon T. Sloane Guy Repairs Heart of 7-Year Old Afghan Boy

UCSF Department of Surgery at San Francisco VA Medical Center
May 19, 2006
Afghan Boy's U.S. Surgery A Success: 7-year old with Heart Defect Came to U.S. With Help of U.S. Army Doctor Jonas said Umer owes his life to Maj. T. Sloane Guy, an Army surgeon who took up his cause while on duty in Afghanistan. Guy and others had been working to get Umer to the United States for more than a year...