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Michael R. Harrison, M.D.

  • Professor Emeritus of Surgery, Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
  • Director Emeritus, Fetal Treatment Center

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  • 1961-65, Yale University, B.A.
  • 1965-69, Harvard Medical School, M.D., Medicine
  • 1969-71, Massachusetts General Hospital, Resident, Surgery
  • 1973-74, Massachusetts General Hospital, Senior Resident, Surgery
  • 1974-75, Massachusetts General Hospital, Chief Resident, Surgery
  • 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
  • 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
  • Fetal Treatment Center
  • Birth Defects
  • Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH)
  • Fetal Surgery
  • Minimally Invasive Surgery
  • Pediatric Surgery
  • Developmental Biology
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cells
  • Pectus Excavatum Repair
  • World Health
  • Birth Defects
  • Minimally Invastive Surgery

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.

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ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0866-7005 Additional info
  • UCSF-Stanford Pediatric Device Consortium
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    Sep 2018
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    Aug 2023
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  • UCSF PEDIATRIC DEVICE CONSORTIUM
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    Sep 2009
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    Aug 2019
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  • Pain Control in the Nuss Procedure: A Prospective, Randomized Trial of Cryoanalgesia vs. Thoracic Epidural
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    Jul 2017
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  • Magnetic Duodeno-Ileal Bypass for Metabolic Syndrome in Rhesus Monkeys
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    May 2018
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  • Magnetic Mini Mover Device for the Treatment of Pectus Excavatum
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    Sep 2016
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    Aug 2017
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  • Phase III Multicenter Study of Magnetic Mini-Mover for Pectus Excavatum G090006 1
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    Apr 2007
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    Mar 2015
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  • MULTICENTER TRIAL OF FETAL MYELOMENINGOCELE REPAIR
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    Jul 2001
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    Sep 2012
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  • PEDIATRIC CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER
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    Dec 1981
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    Mar 2007
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  • FETAL WOUND HEALING: ROLE OF THE EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX
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    Dec 1989
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    Feb 1998
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  • INDUCTION OF TOLERANCE IN MARROW TRANSPLANTATION
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    Aug 1990
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    Jul 1995
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  • CLINICAL TRIAL OF FETAL SURGERY FOR DIAPHRAGMATIC HERNIA
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    Sep 1992
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    Sep 1994
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  • TRANSPLANTATION OF FETAL HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS
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    Feb 1988
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    Jun 1994
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MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 500
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  1. Lee WG, Evans LL, Harrison MR. Beyond the gut: spectrum of magnetic surgery devices. Front Surg. 2023; 10:1253728. View in PubMed
  2. Lee WG, Evans LL, Chen CS, Fuchs JR, Zamora IJ, Bruzoni M, Harrison MR, Muensterer OJ. Lessons Learned From the First-In-Human Compassionate Use of Connect-EA™ in Ten Patients With Esophageal Atresia. J Pediatr Surg. 2023 Sep 21. View in PubMed
  3. Chen C, Evans LL, Harrison MR. The Rearing of Maternal-Fetal Surgery: The Maturation of a Field from Conception to Adulthood. Clin Perinatol. 2022 Dec; 49(4):799-810. View in PubMed
  4. Holler AS, König TT, Chen C, Harrison MR, Muensterer OJ. Esophageal Magnetic Compression Anastomosis in Esophageal Atresia Repair: A PRISMA-Compliant Systematic Review and Comparison with a Novel Approach. Children (Basel). 2022 Jul 25; 9(8). View in PubMed
  5. Evans LL, Chen CS, Muensterer OJ, Sahlabadi M, Lovvorn HN, Novotny NM, Upperman JS, Martinez JA, Bruzoni M, Dunn JCY, Harrison MR, Fuchs JR, Zamora IJ. The novel application of an emerging device for salvage of primary repair in high-risk complex esophageal atresia. J Pediatr Surg. 2022 Dec; 57(12):810-818. View in PubMed
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