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Diana Farmer, M.D.
Professor & Chief,
Division of Pediatric Surgery
Michael R. Harrison, M.D.
Director Emeritus, Fetal Treatment Center
Professor Emeritus of Clinical Surgery, Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
Contact Information
Campus Box 0570
University of California, San Francisco
513 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94143-0570
415-476-2538 Office
415-476-2929 Fax
Education
- 1961-65, Yale University, B.A.
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1965-69, Harvard Medical School, M.D., Medicine
Residencies
- 1969-71, Massachusetts General Hospital, Resident, Surgery
- 1973-74, Massachusetts General Hospital, Senior Resident, Surgery
- 1974-75, Massachusetts General Hospital, Chief Resident, Surgery
Fellowships
- 1971-73, Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, Fellow, Allergy & Immunology (Peds)
- 1975-76, Rikshospitalet, Fellow, Pediatric Surgery
- 1976-78, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Fellow, Pediatric Surgery
Board Certification
- American Board of Surgery, 1978, renewed 1988
- American Board of Surgery, Special Competence in Pediatric Surgery, 1979, renewed 1989
- American Board of Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, 1991
Program Affiliations
- Fetal Treatment Center
Clinical Expertise
- Fetal Surgery
- Pediatric Surgery
- Minimally Invasive Fetal and Pediatric Surgery
- Birth Defects
Research Interests
- Minimally Invasive Fetal and Pediatric Surgery
- Birth Defects
- Pectus Excavatum Repair
- Developmental Biology
- Hematopoietic Stem Cells
- World Health
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Biography
Dr. Michael Harrison is Professor Emeritus of Surgery and Pediatrics and the Director Emeritus of the Fetal Treatment Center at UCSF. He graduated cum laude from Yale University and magna cum laude from Harvard Medical School. He completed his surgical training at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and his pediatric surgery fellowship at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. He is board certified in Surgery, Pediatric Surgery, and Critical Care.
Dr. Harrison and his surgery associates confine their surgical practice exclusively to children with special interest in fetal surgery, in repair of complex birth defects involving the chest, lung, abdomen, bowel, and bladder, and surgical care of children from birth through adolescence. Dr. Harrison and his 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.
Dr. Harrison has a special interest in fetal surgery which he has pioneered with his colleagues at UCSF. For the past 18 years Dr. Harrison has studied the pathophysiology and natural history of a number of life-threatening fetal abnormalities including congenital diaphragmatic hernia, congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation of the lung, sacrococcygeal teratoma, fetal obstructive uropathy, and myelomeningocele. He has developed techniques for both in-utero open fetal surgery and endoscopic surgical repair (FETENDO Fetal Surgery)of many fetal abnormalities. In addition, Dr. Harrison's team has developed in-utero stem cell transplantation to treat immunodeficiencies, enzyme deficiencies, and hemoglobinopathies. Dr. Harrison leads the multidisciplinary UCSF Fetal Treatment Center Team that has developed an international reputation for treating complex birth defects before and after birth. (Referrals can be made to 1-800-RX-FETUS.)
Dr. Harrison, his wife Gretchen, and four children have lived in San Francisco for the past 20 years.
Selected Publications
- Clifton MS, Harrison MR, Ball R, Lee H.
Fetoscopic Transuterine Release of Posterior Urethral Valves: A New Technique.
Fetal Diagn Ther. 2007 Nov 23;23(2):81-86 - Gillis AM, Sutton E, Dewitt KD, Matthay KK, Weinberg V, Fisch BM, Chan A,
Gooding C, Daldrup-Link H, Wara WM, Farmer DL, Harrison MR, Haas-Kogan D.
Long-term outcome and toxicities of intraoperative radiotherapy for high-risk
neuroblastoma.
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2007 Nov 1;69(3):858-64. Epub 2007 May 22. - Crombleholme TM, Shera D, Lee H, Johnson M, D'Alton M, Porter F, Chyu J,
Silver R, Abuhamad A, Saade G, Shields L, Kauffman D, Stone J, Albanese CT,
Bahado-Singh R, Ball RH, Bilaniuk L, Coleman B, Farmer D, Feldstein V, Harrison
MR, Hedrick H, Livingston J, Lorenz RP, Miller DA, Norton ME, Polzin WJ, Robinson
JN, Rychik J, Sandberg PL, Seri I, Simon E, Simpson LL, Yedigarova L, Wilson RD,
Young B.
A prospective, randomized, multicenter trial of amnioreduction vs selective
fetoscopic laser photocoagulation for the treatment of severe twin-twin
transfusion syndrome.
Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2007 Oct;197(4):396.e1-9. - Ozgediz D, Roayaie K, Lee H, Nobuhara KK, Farmer DL, Bratton B, Harrison MR.
Subcutaneous endoscopically assisted ligation (SEAL) of the internal ring for
repair of inguinal hernias in children: report of a new technique and early
results.
Surg Endosc. 2007 Aug;21(8):1327-31. Epub 2007 Mar 14. - Yang SH, Nobuhara KK, Keller RL, Ball RH, Goldstein RB, Feldstein VA, Callen
PW, Filly RA, Farmer DL, Harrison MR, Lee H.
Reliability of the lung-to-head ratio as a predictor of outcome in fetuses with
isolated left congenital diaphragmatic hernia at gestation outside 24-26 weeks.
Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2007 Jul;197(1):30.e1-7.
Media Links
Ad Campaign Raises Awareness of UCSF Medical Center’s Innovation
UCSF Today, CA - Jan 15, 2008
Dr. Harrison helped change the face of medicine. Today, UCSF is building a medical complex where scientific innovations become life-saving treatments ... Read More »
Novel magnet treatment used to correct sunken chest
ABC7News.com - Nov 8, 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.
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