News & Events

We are pleased to announce that pediatric and trauma surgeon Aaron R. Jensen, M.D., MEd, FACS, FAAP has joined the Department of Surgery faculty as an assistant professor and Associate Director of the Pediatric Surgery Fellowship. Dr. Jensen will be based at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, where he will...

UCSF News reports on the first patient enrolled in the world’s first clinical trial using blood stem cells transplanted prior to birth. The stem cell transplant was used to treat alpha thalassemia major, a blood disorder that is only detected in the last few months of pregnancy and has been almost uniformly fatal...

Academic hospitals have all the makings for rich medical device development. They have physicians to identify surgical needs, researchers to test theories, bioengineers to design and create devices and patients to participate in clinical trials. However, the disconnect between engineering and surgical departments...

On May 17, the Second Annual UCSF Engineering for Children’s Health Symposium was held at Mission Bay Conference Center. Over one hundred clinicians, engineers, scientists, administrators, industry professionals, and government partners gathered to discuss groundbreaking research and developing technologies in...

On Tuesday, November 14, the UCSF Pediatric Device Consortium (PDC) held its inaugural Pediatric Device Accelerator Pitch Competition at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus. The competition awarded a total of $252,500, funded by FDA’s Office of Orphan Products Development and the UCSF Department of Surgery, to teams...

Results from the first-in-human clinical trial of a magnetic compression anastomosis device known as “Magnamosis” were recently reported on in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. The study, led by Principal Investigator Michael Harrison, MD, is a prospective, single-center, first-in-human pilot...

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Children Health & Human Development (NICHD) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded pediatric surgeons Benjamin Padilla, MD , and Michael Harrison, MD , a two-year grant to study the use of cryoanalgesia as a novel method of pain control in the Nuss...

The Spring/Summer 2017 issue of Inside Surgery is now available online. Inside Surgery is a Department of Surgery brochure showcasing the clinical and research advances of our faculty. The edition highlights minimally invasive bariatric surgery t o treat metabolic disease, and robotic surgery deployed across a...

Pediatric Surgeon Tippi MacKenzie, MD was awarded $12.1 million by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to treat fetuses in the womb suffering from alpha thalassemia major, a blood disorder that is only detected in the last few months of pregnancy and is almost uniformly fatal. Dr. MacKenzie...