Biography
Hanmin Lee, M.D. is Professor of Surgery, and Director of the Fetal Treatment Center at UCSF. He is the second director in the 25+ year history of the Fetal Treatment Center, replacing Dr. Michael Harrison who continues to add his creative energies as Director Emeritus. Dr. Lee was an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University who completed both medical school and general surgery residency at New York University. He did two years of postdoctoral research training under the mentorship of Dr. Jay Vacanti at Harvard Medical School, and two years of pediatric surgery fellowship at Emory University Medical Center before being recruited to a tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Surgery at UCSF in 2000.
Dr. Lee and his surgery associates confine their surgical practice exclusively to children. The group has a special interest in fetal surgery, in repair of complex defects involving the chest, lung, abdomen, bowel, and bladder, and surgical care of children from birth through adolescence. Dr. Lee 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. They see patients regularly in their office hours and provide multidisciplinary clinics for fetal anomalies in their fetal treatment center. Additionally, they see patients with complex congenital anomalies that have been corrected by surgery in their Long-term Infant-to-adult Followup and Evaluation clinic.
Dr. Lee's clinical interests include neonatal surgery, fetal surgery, minimally invasive surgery and biliary surgery. His basic science research interests include tissue engineering, proteomic assessment of fetal-maternal diseases, and integration of emerging technologies into clinical surgery.
He has published numerous clinical and basic science articles in these fields. He is well-recognized as a leader in fetal surgery and pediatric minimally invasive surgery , having given numerous national and international talk. Additionally, he is on the editorial board of the pediatric endoscopic journal and in teaching fetal surgery and advanced pediatric laparoscopic courses. He has been a principal investigator or co-investigator on a number of fetal surgery and minimally invasive surgical trials, and is currently a co-investigator on a number of clinical trials including fetal surgery for myelomeningocele and is leading a multi-instiutional effort to investigate the role of maternal steroid administration for fetuses with large congenital cystic adenomatoid malformations.
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Education
Institution | Degree | Dept or School | End Date |
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University of California | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training | 2017 | |
New York University | M.D. | School of Medicine | 1991 |
Board Certifications
- American Board of Surgery
- American Board of Surgery, Pediatric Surgery
Clinical Expertise
Biliary Surgery
Fetal Surgery
Minimally Invasive Surgery
Neonatal Surgery
Pediatric Surgery
Intestinal Rehabilitation
Clinical Trials
- Pilot Trial of Fetoscopic Endoluminal Tracheal Occlusion (FETO) in Severe Left Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH) (NCT04583644)Related Conditions: Hernia| Start Date: | End Date:
- Related Conditions: Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid Malformation| Start Date: | End Date:
- Percutaneous Endoscopic Tracheal Plug/Unplug for CDH (Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia) (NCT00768703)Related Conditions: Hernia| Start Date:
Program Affiliations
- Fetal Treatment Center
Grants and Funding
- A Follow-up of Children Enrolled in the Management of Myelomeningocele Study | NIH | 2011-08-01 - 2018-03-31 | Role: Principal Investigator
- PEDIATRIC CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER | NIH | 1981-12-01 - 2007-03-31 | Role: Co-Investigator
Research Interests
- Tissue Engineering
- Liver Regeneration
- Minimally Invasive Surgery
- Myelomeningocele (Spina Bifida)
- Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome
- Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH)
Publications
- Fetoscopic transuterine release of posterior urethral valves: a new technique.| | View in PubMed
- A prospective, randomized, multicenter trial of amnioreduction vs selective fetoscopic laser photocoagulation for the treatment of severe twin-twin transfusion syndrome.| | View in PubMed
- Characteristics of congenital cystic adenomatoid malformations associated with nonimmune hydrops and outcome.| | View in PubMed
- Reliability of the lung-to-head ratio as a predictor of outcome in fetuses with isolated left congenital diaphragmatic hernia at gestation outside 24-26 weeks.| | View in PubMed
- Surgical treatment of childhood recurrent pancreatitis.| | View in PubMed