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Fetal surgery firsts
The first open fetal surgery in the world was performed at UCSF in the early 1980s.

Director, Emergency Department, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland
Pediatric emergency care physician
Dr. Kevan McCarten-Gibbs is an emergency medicine specialist who cares for children needing emergency services at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, where he serves as director of the emergency medicine department. With a special interest in disaster medicine, he looks at how the hospital can best respond to incidents such as earthquakes, fires, incidents involving terrorism and other events affecting the community on a large scale.
In research, McCarten-Gibbs focuses on how to predict serious head and abdominal injuries in children.
McCarten-Gibbs earned his medical degree at Eastern Virginia Medical School. He completed a residency in pediatrics at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland.
Eastern Virginia Medical School, 1989
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Pediatrics, 1992
UCSF, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 1996
Fetal surgery firsts