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Gavitt A. Woodard, MD, Awarded Intuitive Surgical Robotics Fellowship from AATS Foundation
UCSF Cardiothoracic Surgery
May 08, 2019
Gavitt A. Woodard, M.D., a cardiothoracic surgery fellow at UCSF, has been awarded an Intuitive Surgical Robotics Fellowship from the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons (AATS) Foundation. This opportunity provides advanced robotic training and certification to a select group of fellows each year. Dr...
Johannes Kratz, MD Recipient of the Inaugural ImmunoX Hellman Family Clinical-Translational Research Development Award
UCSF Thoracic Oncology Program
May 06, 2019
UCSF surgeon-scientist Johannes R. Kratz, M.D. was awarded the Inaugural Hellman Family Clinical-Translational Research Development Award from the Bakar ImmunoX initiative. This development award embeds a young investigator in an ImmunoX CoLab for two years in order to rapidly translate clinical insights into...
Resident Research Winners Announced for Presentations at 31st Annual J. Engelbert Dunphy Resident Research Symposium
UCSF General Surgery Residency Program
May 21, 2018
The 31st Annual J. Engelbert Dunphy Resident Research Symposium was held Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay. The program showcased the laboratory research of residents, fellows and medical students in the Department of Surgery, and honors the life and accomplishments of Engelbert...
Iris Liu Awarded Summer Intern Scholarship in Cardiothoracic Surgery by American Association of Thoracic Surgery
Kratz Lab
May 16, 2018
Iris Liu, BA, a first-year medical student at UCSF and former HHMI scholar at Dartmouth,has been awarded a prestigious Summer Intern Scholarship in Cardiothoracic Surgery by the American Association of Thoracic Surgery for 2018. The program was established to introduce the field of cardiothoracic surgery to first...
Thoracic Oncology Program Launches Kratz Lab Focused on Therapeutic Interventions for Early-Stage Lung Cancers
UCSF Thoracic Oncology Program
March 26, 2018
The Thoracic Oncology Program proudly announces the launch of the Kratz Lab, which will focus on understanding the genetic and immunological mechanisms that drive early-stage, surgically resectable thoracic malignancies, most notably non-small cell lung cancer. The translationally-focused Kratz Lab will use t he...
Johannes Kratz Named Van Auken Endowed Chair in Thoracic Oncology
UCSF Department of Surgery
February 24, 2018
Johannes R. Kratz, M.D. has been named the new Van Auken Endowed Chair in Thoracic Oncology. Kratz is an assistant professor in the Division of Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery, a member of the Thoracic Oncology Program, and director of Advanced Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery. The Van Auken Endowed Chair supports...
UCSF Earns Highest Performance Rating for Procedures Performed by Cardiac, Colorectal, Thoracic, Vascular and Lung Transplant Surgeons
UCSF Department of Surgery
December 29, 2017
UCSF Medical Center earned “high performance” ratings – the highest ratings possible – in eight common conditions and procedures in the U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals Survey for 2017-2018, seven within the UCSF Department of Surgery: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair Aortic Valve Surgery Colon Cancer...
Courtney Green Awarded CESERT Robotic Grant from Association for Surgical Education (ASE) Foundation
General Surgery Residency Program
December 27, 2017
Courtney A. Green, M.D., research fellow in the General Surgery Residency program, has been awarded a CSERT (Center for Excellence in Surgical Education, Research and Training) grant from the Association for Surgical Education (ASE) Foundation. Her research project is entitled, “Investigation into the Perceptual...
Johannes Kratz and Yeranuí Ledesma Recipients of UCSF Health Exceptional Physician Awards
UCSF Department of Surgery
July 27, 2017
Johannes R. Kratz, M.D. and Yeranuí Ledesma, M.D. are among this year's recipients of the 2017 UCSF Health Exceptional Physician Award. Dr. Kratz, now a member of the Thoracic Oncology Program and Assistant Professor in the Division of Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery, and Dr. Ledesma, a Senior Resident in General...
Johannes Kratz Joins Department Faculty and Thoracic Oncology Program
UCSF Department of Surgery
July 01, 2017
The Department of Surgery welcomes Johannes R. Kratz, M.D. to the faculty as Assistant Professor in the Division of Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery and member of the Thoracic Oncology Program. Dr. Kratz was a surgical research fellow in the UCSF Thoracic Oncology Laboratory from 2008-2011 where he played a key role...
Thierry Jahan, M.D. Discusses Clinical Trial Using CRS-207 Vaccine in Mesothelioma
UCSF Thoracic Oncology Program
July 28, 2016
Former professor Thierry Jahan, M.D ., discussed clinical data from the study, Safety and Efficacy of Listeria in Combination With Chemotherapy as Front-line Treatment for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma , at the ESMO/IASLC European Congress on Lung Cancer in Geneva in April 2016. This is a Phase Ib trial of CRS...
Legendary Thoracic Oncologist Thierry Jahan, M.D. Inducted into Council of Master Clinicians
UCSF Thoracic Oncology Program
July 01, 2016
Thierry Jahan, M.D. was recently inducted into the Council of Master Clinicians by the UCSF Department of Medicine. Dr. Jahan, Clinical Professor of Medicine and Bonnie J. and Anthony Addario Endowed Chair in Thoracic Oncology at UCSF, is a renowned medical oncologist specializing in the treatment lung cancer...
Study Suggests Prognostic Molecular Assay More Accurate than Conventional NCCN Criteria in Stratifying Risk in Early-Stage NSCLC Patients
UCSF Thoracic Oncology Program
November 07, 2014
Building on earlier retrospective validation studies , a team of Thoracic Oncology Program researchers, demonstrated in a small prospective study the clinical utility of a 14-gene expression assay in stratifying risk among non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. In a recently published paper in the journal...
Rock Climber Exceeds Expectations After Double-Lung Transplant at UCSF
UCSF Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery
November 08, 2012
UCSF News reports on the story of Rowan Jimenez, a rock climber who underwent a double lung transplant at UCSF for treatment of scleroderma, an autoimmune disease, crediting UCSF with getting his life back and resuming his passion for climbing mountains. The 10,911-foot view from the top of Cathedral Peak in...
Molecular Test Identifies Early-Stage Lung Cancer Patients at High Risk of Death After Surgery
UCSF Thoracic Oncology Program
November 01, 2012
Building on their earlier work reported in The Lancet, UCSF thoracic surgeon Michael Mann, M.D. (left), and Johannes Kratz, M.D. (right) a former surgical resident in the Thoracic Oncology Lab, showed they could accurately stratify patients even with the earliest stage of lung cancer into groups at low-...
NIH Awards $2.2m Collaborative Grant to Two UCSF Scientists
UCSF Thoracic Oncology Program
August 27, 2012
The NIH has awarded two UCF scientists, Hassan Lemjabbar-Alaoui, Ph.D and Joanna J. Phillips, M.D., Ph.D., a five-year $2.2m grant to study the clinical utility of extracellular heparan sulfate endosulfatases, or SULFs, as biomarkers for early detection of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and malignant...