News & Events

The Department of Surgery welcomes three new pediatric cardiothoracic surgeons who recently joined the faculty: Peter Kouretas, M.D., Ph.D., Shunji Sano, M.D., Ph.D., and Naveen Swami, MCh.  Dr. Shunji Sano is a world-renowned pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon, the pioneer of an innovative surgical procedure to treat hypoplastic left heart syndrome, now known as the "Sano Procedure", an established surgical intervention used by pediatric cardiac surgeons throughout the globe. After graduating from Okayama University Medical School, Dr. Sano spent 8 years as a resident at Okayama University [...]

Surgeons, from left, Lucy Kornblith, Rita Mukhtar and Carter Lebares pose for a photograph in the lobby of the UCSF Clinical Science Building in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, April 19, 2017. (Courtesy Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group) The April 3, 2017 cover of the New Yorker depicting four women in blue doctors' scrubs over an operating table has gone viral. Relecting the power of that image, female surgeons throughtout the world have been posting group selfie photos of themselves recreating the pose. Malika Favre, who has designed a number of covers for the magazine, told CNN that [...]

V. Mohan Reddy, M.D. has been appointed Chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery at UCSF and Co-Director of the Pediatric Heart Center at the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital - San Francisco. Dr. Reddy has an outstanding regional, national and international reputation in pediatric cardiac surgery with particular expertise in neonatal surgery. Dr. Reddy earned his master's degree from the Institute of Medicine in New Delhi and his medical degree from Kakatiya Medical College in Warngal, India. He completed general surgical and cardiothoracic and vascular surgical residencies [...]

"With the recruitment of Gordon A. Cohen, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A, as the new chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, UCSF Medical Center is establishing the new UCSF Pediatric Heart Failure and Pediatric Heart and Lung Transplant Program. This comprehensive program will treat the full range of conditions related to pediatric heart and lung failure, and will serve as a resource and model of excellence both nationally and internationally. Cohen, a distinguished pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon, brings substantial expertise in performing complicated heart and lung surgeries and [...]

UCSF announces the formation of the Institute for Fetal and Neonatal Health symposium brings together clinicians and basic scientists involved in different aspects of development and fetal intervention.

Dr. Alfred de Lorimier, a pioneer in pediatric surgery and founder of the Division of Pediatric Surgery at UCSF, has died. We owe much to his contributions and express our heartfelt sympathies to his family.

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 having only half a heart. The Smiths were referred to UCSF Pediatric Heart Center at UCSF Children's Hospital.

"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 Weston's younger sister, Delaney, had her pacemaker - the smallest model available - implanted at birth.