Doug Miniati, M.D.

Biography

Dr. Doug Miniati is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the UCSF Division of Pediatric Surgery and Fetal Treatment Center. Dr. Miniati completed his undergraduate education in 1992, at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, where he received a BA in Biochemistry. He went on to obtain a medical degree from New York University School of Medicine in 1996, and then completed the first two years of general surgery residency at the University of Maryland. Initially interested in pursuing a career in cardiothoracic surgery,  Dr. Miniati extended his clinical training to accept a two-year appointment as a postdoctoral research fellow in the cardiac transplantation biology laboratory of Robert Robbins at Stanford University. Following his research fellowship,  Dr. Miniati decided to stay at Stanford for the remainder of general surgery residency. It was during this time that  Dr. Miniati rotated through the pediatric surgery service, and realized where his clinical interests and enthusiasm lay.

With the support and encouragement of his Stanford mentors,  Dr. Miniati embarked on pediatric surgery fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital in 2004. There, he developed a clinical interest in congenital diaphragmatic hernia, particularly with respect to the development of treatment strategies to improve outcomes. Other areas of clinical interest for him are cystic lung masses and pediatric renal, non-Wilms', tumors—topics on which he has published in peer-reviewed journals. Now at UCSF,  Dr. Miniati continues his clinical and basic science research pursuits, focused on the underlying biology and pathophysiology of pulmonary development, growth, and function.