Surgical Innovations People
Faculty Directors
Hanmin Lee, MD
Professor & Chief, Division of Pediatric Surgery
Michael R. Harrison, MD, Endowed Chair in Fetal Surgery
Surgeon in Chief, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, San Francisco
Director, Fetal Treatment Center
Clinical Lead, Surgical Innovations UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, San Francisco
Shuvo Roy, PhD
Professor, Departments of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences and Surgery
UCSF Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine
Engineering Lead, Surgical Innovations Program
Director, Biodesign Laboratory
UCSF Faculty Director, UC Berkeley-UCSF Master of Translational Medicine (MTM) Program
Technical Director, The Kidney Project
Core Faculty
Michael R. Harrison, MD
Director Emeritus, Fetal Treatment Center
Division of Pediatric Surgery
Professor Emeritus of Surgery, Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
Participating Faculty
Miles Conrad, MD, MPH
Clinical Professor, Department of Radiology, UCSF
Emily Finlayson, MD, MS, FACS
Professor of Surgery, Medicine, and Health Policy
Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs and Development
Director, UCSF Center for Surgery in Older Adults (CSOA)
Hobart W. Harris, MD, MPH
Professor and Chief, Section of Gastrointestinal Surgery
Division of General Surgery
J. Engelbert Dunphy Endowed Chair in Surgery
Director, Center for Hernia Repair & Abdominal Wall
Reconstruction
Program Director, NIH T32 Training Program in Gastrointestinal Surgery
Michael R. Harrison, MD
Director Emeritus, Fetal Treatment Center
Division of Pediatric Surgery
Professor Emeritus of Surgery, Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
Matthew Y.C. Lin, MD
Professor of Surgery
Division of General Surgery
Director, UCSF Surgery Clerkship Program
John P. Roberts, MD
Professor of Surgery
Division of Transplant Surgery
Endowed Chair in Abdominal Transplantation
Stanley J. Rogers, MD
Professor & Interim Division Chief,
Division of General Surgery
Director, Bariatric Surgery Center, Liver Tumor Ablation Program, and Minimally Invasive Surgery
His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Rama IX Distinguished Professor of Global Surgery
Ruth M. Dunn Endowed Chair in Minimally Invasive Surgery
Shant Vartanian, MD
Staff Physician
Lan Vu, MD
Professor of Surgery
Division of Pediatric Surgery
Director LIFE Program
Associate Director Pediatric Surgery Fellowship
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, San Francisco
David M. Young, MD
Professor of Surgery
Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Administrative Director
Usha Thekkedath, MD
Administrative Director
Surgical Innovations
Biodevice Fellows
Caressa Chen, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow
UCSF Biodevice Innovation Pathway
Lauren Evans, MD
Clinical Research Fellow
Mohammad Karimzada, MD
Graduate
General Surgery Residency Program, 2024
Alexander Kim, MD
Clinical Fellow (PGY-7)
Vascular Surgery
Young Lee, MD
Resident Research Fellow
Neurological Surgery
Engineers
Richard Fechter, BS
Principal Development Engineer
UCSF Medical Center
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital
Vinith Johnson, B.Tech.
Medical Device Engineer
Sachin Rangarajan, MTM
Assistant Specialist
Biomedical Engineer
Mohammad Sahlabadi, PhD
Lead Research & Development Engineer
Kaelan Schorger, BS
Lab Research Supervisor Research and Development Engineer
Clinical Research Coordinator
Dinora Murota
Clinical Research Coordinator, MagNap
Affiliated Faculty
Jeffrey Fineman, MD
Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Alumni
Vamsi Aribindi, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Isabelle Chumfong, MD
Graduate
General Surgery Residency Program, 2019
Rebecca C. Gologorsky, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Claire E. Graves, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery
UC Davis Health
Sacramento, CA
Elizabeth Gress, MPA
Program Lead, Surgical Innovations
Phillip Kim, MD, MBA
Postdoctoral Fellow
Stacy Kim, MA
Innovation Program Lead
Dillon Kwiat, BS
Research and Development Engineer
Victoria Lyo, MD
Graduate
General Surgery Residency Program, 2018
Willieford Moses, MD
Assistant Professor, Surgery
Division of Pediatric Surgery
Jarrett Moyer, MD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Roy Lab
Veeshal H. Patel, MD, MBA
Surgical Innovations Postdoctoral Fellow
Sara J. Photiadis, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Neil Ray, BS
Visiting Graduate
Romain Roux, BEng, MTM
Associate Specialist
Sukhveer Sandhu, MS
Associate Specialist
Medical Device Engineer
Yasha Saxena, MS
Associate Specialist
Medical Device Engineer
In Memoriam
Orlo Clark, MD
Professor Emeritus of Surgery
Division of General Surgery