GI SURGERY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Surgery / Director of Robotic Surgery / Surgeon Champion
Dr. Soriano completed a combined undergrad and medical school program at the University of the Philippines. He trained in general surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia followed by a fellowship in Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Florida. Prior to joining UCSF, he was Chief of Gastrointestinal Surgery and Surgeon Champion of ACS-NSQIP at Pennsylvania Hospital, as well as Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System.
He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and was awarded Honorary Fellow of both the Philippine College of Surgeons and Philippine Association of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgeons. He is on the editorial board of SOARD and serves on numerous committees of SAGES, ASMBS & AHS.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Surgery at UCSF
- Member of the Bariatric Surgery Program
- Professor of Surgery
Dr. Jonathan Carter is Associate Professor of Surgery at UCSF and Program Director of the Advanced GI Minimally Invasive/Bariatric Surgery Fellowship . He specializes in advanced laparoscopic (minimally invasive) surgery to treat diseases of the gallbladder, bile ducts, esophagus, intestines, stomach, and abdominal wall (hernia).
Carter earned undergraduate and medical degrees at Stanford University. He came to UCSF in 2000 for residency and fellowship training in laparoscopic surgery. At UCSF, he received the Julius R. Krevans Award for Clinical Excellence and the prestigious Fred H. and Esther E. Nusz Achievement Award. He has authored more than 25 peer-reviewed papers and was awarded the Young Investigator Award at the American Transplant Congress in 2005. He also received the 2008 Haile T. Debas resident teaching award.
Dr. Carter is certified by the American Board of Surgery. He is an active member of the American College of Surgeons, Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons, and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. He joined the faculty in 2009.
Dr. Carter is a member of the Bariatric Surgery Program, Section of Gastrointestinal Surgery, and Surgical Hospitalist Program within the Division of General Surgery.
Job Titles:
- Clinical Fellow ( PGY - 6 )
Job Titles:
- Endowed Chair in Minimally Invasive Surgery
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Surgery / Division of General Surgery
Sandhya Kumar, M.D., MIS/Bariatric Surgery clinical fellow at UCSF, presented her "Top 10" paper, Is laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy safer than laparoscopic gastric bypass? A comparison of complications and mortality using the MBSAQIP data registry, at the 34th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) during "Obesity Week". Kumar was the lead-off presenter in the ASMBS abstracts 2017 paper sessions on October 31st. Dr. Kumar's paper headlined a strong [...]
Job Titles:
- Chief of Minimally Invasive Surgery
- Director of the Bariatric Surgery Center
- Named Interim Chief of the Division of General Surgery Succeeding Dr. Hobart Harris
Stanley James Rogers, MD is Professor and Interim Division Chief of the Division of General Surgery, His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Rama IX Distinguished Professor of Global Surgery, and the Ruth M. Dunn Endowed Chair in Minimally Invasive Surgery.
Dr. Rogers is also Director of the Bariatric Surgery Center, Liver Tumor Ablation Program, and Minimally Invasive Surgery as well as Director of Videoendoscopic Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. He serves as a member of the clinical team at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Stanley J. Rogers, M.D., Chief of Minimally Invasive Surgery and Director of Bariatric Surgery Programat University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has been invited to join the International Editorial Board of Siriraj Medical Journal, a prestigious journal which has been in existence for over six decades. The invitation, at the behest of Professor Thawatchai Akaraviputh, the journal's Editor-in-Chief, will include reviewing manuscripts and articles, and writing editorials. About [...]
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Surgery / Division of General Surgery
- Surgeon - Scientist
Tammy T. Chang, M.D., Ph.D. is a gastrointestinal and acute care surgeon in the Division of General Surgery.
Her clinical training includes internship, residency, and chief residency in Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. In addition, she has completed a clinical fellowship in Minimally Invasive Surgery and Bariatric Surgery at the same institution. Her research experience includes a post-doctoral fellowship investigating three-dimensional (3D) organization of hepatocytes in rotational bioreactors funded by the American College of Surgeons Research Scholarship.
Her background demonstrates her strong commitment to facilitate transfer of advances in laboratory research into clinical applications that benefit patients. Dr. Chang holds an M.D., Ph.D. combined degree from Harvard Medical School through the Medical Scientist Training Program. Her Ph.D. degree is in the field of immunology with specific focus on immunoregulation in autoimmune disease.
Her research includes the study of 3D hepatocyte culture with long-term goals of tissue engineering a basic liver unit for therapeutic implantation.
Surgeon-scientist Tammy T. Chang, MD, PhD, principal investigator in the The Chang Laboratory for Liver Tissue Engineering, has been awarded grants by two prestigious federal funders of research, the NASA Space Biology Program, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) in collaboration with the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS). Dr. Chang is a gastrointestinal surgeon who takes care of patients primarily in an acute care setting. She holds an appointment as an assistant [...]
UCSF News Reports on a novel surgical approach to transplanting cells into diseased organs developed by Tammy T. Chang, MD, PhD, a gastrointestinal and acute care surgeon and principal investigator in the The Chang Laboratory for Liver Tissue Engineering, and Boris Rubinsky, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Bioengineering at UC Berkeley. The technique is called irreversible electroporation, or IRE, and enables newly transplanted clusters of liver cells, or hepatocytes to thrive and proliferate in a
Tammy T. Chang, M.D., Ph.D. has received a five-year career development award from the American College of Surgeons (ACS). The George H. A. Clowes, Jr., MD, FACS, Memorial Research Career Development Award is offered through the The Clowes Fund, Inc., of Indianapolis, IN to provide support for the research of promising young surgical investigators. Dr. Chang is Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of General Surgery. She has a strong commitment to translating advances in laboratory [...]