Pediatric Surgery Week #1: The Father of Fetal Surgery
Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast
Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week, we present 3 interviews with leaders in pediatric surgery of varying expertise. First up, an interview with Dr. Michael Harrison, 'Father of Fetal Surgery'. He walks us through his career and how he developed an entire surgical sub-specialty. When you're done, check out our previous episodes on fetal surgery featuring Dr. Darrell Cass and Dr. Diana Farmer! http://behindtheknife.libsyn.com/fetal-surgery-with-dr-darrell-cass http://behindtheknife.libsyn.com/diana-farmer-md-uc-davis-women-in-surgery-fetal-surgery-hirschsprungs
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| 0:00.0 | Behind the knife, the Surgery Podcast, where we take a behind the scenes intimate look at surgery |
| 0:06.0 | from leaders in the Knife. Our guest today is Dr Michael Harrison. |
| 0:25.0 | Dr Harrison is Professor Emeritus of Surgery, Pediatrics, OBGYN, and reproductive sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, and director Emeritus of the |
| 0:35.0 | Emeretus of the UCSF Featal Treatment Center. |
| 0:38.0 | He is a Cum Loudi graduate of Yale University |
| 0:40.6 | where he received his Bachelor's of Arts and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Medical School. |
| 0:46.0 | He then completed his general surgical training at MassGen Hospital, |
| 0:49.7 | followed by a Pediatric Surgery Fellowship at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. |
| 0:54.8 | He has been faculty at UCSF since 1978 where he developed the nation's first fetal treatment |
| 1:00.0 | center, pioneered numerous innovations in fetal surgery, and became internationally |
| 1:04.7 | recognized as the father of fetal surgery. |
| 1:07.4 | Dr. Harrison is now dedicated to further innovations, having founded the UCSF Pediatric |
| 1:12.3 | Device Consortium in 2009. |
| 1:15.0 | It is my great honor and privilege to welcome Dr Harrison. |
| 1:18.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:19.0 | Meggona. |
| 1:20.0 | So we like to start all of our podcasts asking you tell us a little bit more about where you're from and what led you down this career path. |
| 1:28.0 | Thank you. I grew up in what was then the small town of Vancouver, Washington. |
| 1:35.0 | My dad was a general practitioner and I think from a very young age I thought that I would be a doctor and probably a general practitioner like my dad or a good old |
| 1:46.8 | fashion country doctor. |
| 1:48.6 | And then in the course of training I got, I veered off. Didn't do that. So I went from there to Yale University and that was an incredible |
| 2:01.6 | adventure because I've never really been out of our little area. |
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