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Hanmin Lee, M.D.

Director of the Fetal Treatment Center

Dr. Hanmin Lee is a pediatric surgeon and director of the UCSF Fetal Treatment Center. He specializes in minimally invasive surgery, fetal and neonatal surgery, bile disorders in infants and children, and the treatment of life-threatening congenital anomalies.

He is an associate professor of surgery and pediatric surgery at UCSF, and co-investigator on a number of surgical clinical trials. His basic science interests include tissue engineering, blood vessel development and liver regeneration. Lee earned a medical degree at New York University Medical School where he completed general surgery training. He also completed clinical training in pediatric surgery at Emory University and postdoctoral research fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard University.

Conditions & Treatments

Clinics

Fetal Treatment Center
400 Parnassus Ave., A123
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 476-0445

Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplantation Program
400 Parnassus Ave., 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (877) 762-6935

Pediatric Prepare Program
505 Parnassus Ave., Suite L170
San Francisco, CA 94143-0210
Phone: (415) 353-1099

More about Hanmin Lee

Additional Languages

French
Korean

Education

New York University School of Medicine 1991

Residencies

New York University Medical Center, Surgery 1992

Fellowships

Boston Children's Hospital, Tissue Engineering 1996
Woodruff Health Sciences Center, Emory University, Pediatric Surgery 2000

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Clifton MS, Harrison MR, Ball R, Lee H. Fetoscopic Transuterine Release of Posterior Urethral Valves: A New Technique. Fetal Diagn Ther. 2007 Nov 23;23(2):81-86
  2. Crombleholme TM, Shera D, Lee H, Johnson M, D'Alton M, Porter F, Chyu J, Silver R, Abuhamad A, Saade G, Shields L, Kauffman D, Stone J, Albanese CT, Bahado-Singh R, Ball RH, Bilaniuk L, Coleman B, Farmer D, Feldstein V, Harrison MR, Hedrick H, Livingston J, Lorenz RP, Miller DA, Norton ME, Polzin WJ, Robinson JN, Rychik J, Sandberg PL, Seri I, Simon E, Simpson LL, Yedigarova L, Wilson RD, Young B. A prospective, randomized, multicenter trial of amnioreduction vs selective fetoscopic laser photocoagulation for the treatment of severe twin-twin transfusion syndrome. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2007 Oct;197(4):396.e1-9.
  3. Vu L, Tsao K, Lee H, Nobuhara K, Farmer D, Harrison M, Goldstein RB. Characteristics of congenital cystic adenomatoid malformations associated with nonimmune hydrops and outcome. J Pediatr Surg. 2007 Aug;42(8):1351-6.
  4. Yang SH, Nobuhara KK, Keller RL, Ball RH, Goldstein RB, Feldstein VA, Callen PW, Filly RA, Farmer DL, Harrison MR, Lee H. 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. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2007 Jul;197(1):30.e1-7.
  5. Clifton MS, Pelayo JC, Cortes RA, Grethel EJ, Wagner AJ, Lee H, Harrison MR, Farmer DL, Nobuhara KK. Surgical treatment of childhood recurrent pancreatitis. J Pediatr Surg. 2007 Jul;42(7):1203-7.