Kerilyn Nobuhara, M.D

Biography

Dr. Kerilyn Nobuhara is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the UCSF Division of Pediatric Surgery and Fetal Treatment Center. Dr. Nobuhara completed her undergraduate studies at Pomona College in Claremont, California. She graduated from medical school at the University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine and completed surgical training at the University of Hawaii. Dr. Nobuhara completed her surgical research fellowship at Children's Hospital in Boston, Harvard Medical School and her pediatric surgery fellowship at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.. She is board certified in Surgery and Pediatric Surgery.

Dr. Nobuhara was appointed to the position of Assistant Professor of Surgery at Kosair Children's Hospital, University of Kentucky in Louisville prior to joining the Pediatric Surgery Faculty at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California.

Dr. Kerilyn Nobuhara and her surgery associates confine their surgical practice exclusively to children. The group has a special interest in fetal surgery, in repair of complex defects involving the chest, lung, abdomen, bowel, and bladder, and surgical care of children from birth through adolescence. Dr. Nobuhara and her associates, The Bay Area Pediatric Surgeons, do consultations and provide surgical care at Moffitt/Long Hospitals UCSF, California Pacific Medical Center, and Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco and Oakland. Dr. Nobuhara also runs the CDH follow-up clinic which attends to the needs of CDH patients and their families after they have had treatment at FTC.