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Dr. Tippi MacKenzie, a pediatric surgeon at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital and its Fetal Treatment Center, has special interests in fetal surgery, advanced laparoscopy, and endocrine and biliary surgery. She is a member of the Biomedical Sciences Program and Institute for Regeneration Medicine, with a research focus on stem cell transplantation in utero to treat genetic disease.

MacKenzie earned a medical degree at Stanford University and completed a general surgery residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. She completed a pediatric surgery fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where she held a clinical appointment in general, thoracic and fetal surgery.

  • Education

    Stanford School of Medicine, 1997

  • Residencies

    Brigham and Women's Hospital, Surgery, 1999

    Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pediatric Surgery, 2002

  • Fellowships

    Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pediatric Surgery, 2007

  • Board Certifications

    Surgery, American Board of Surgery

    Pediatric Surgery, American Board of Surgery

  • Academic Title

    Professor

"What keeps me coming back to work every day is a desire to do better."

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    My work

    Fetal therapy offers hope for treating genetic disorders

    An experimental therapy helped a family that had already lost two babies to a rare disorder with critical guidance from Dr. MacKenzie.

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