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Johannes Kratz, MD has been selected as UCSF’s first Medical Director of Robotic Surgery
UCSF Department of Surgery
April 10, 2023
We are pleased to announce that Johannes Kratz, MD has been selected as UCSF’s first Medical Director of Robotic Surgery. Johannes has served as co-Director of the UCSF Health Robotic Executive committee from 2018-2022 and in 2022 became sole director of the same. Under his careful stewardship, robotic surgeries...
Department of Surgery staff and faculty receive 2022 Chancellor Awards for Diversity
UCSF Department of Surgery
October 27, 2022
Committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion UCSF and the Department and Surgery are committed to building a broadly diverse community, nurturing a culture that is welcoming and supportive, and engaging diverse ideas for the provision of culturally competent education, discovery, and patient care. Chancellor...
Johannes Kratz, MD Recipient of the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Care Center Junior Clinical Investigator Award
UCSF Thoracic Oncology Program
August 01, 2020
UCSF surgeon-scientist Johannes R. Kratz, M.D. was awarded a Junior Clinical Investigator Award from the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Care Center. This mentored award is given to a junior clinical investigator to support their research efforts in the early stages of their career. Dr. Kratz was given this...
Cancer Therapy Adviser
January 16, 2020
“Looking at the genomic aspect of tumors allows us to get deeper than just looking at the microscopic appearance of the tumor and see how aggressive they are biologically,” said Johannes Kratz, MD, FACS, director of minimally invasive and robotic thoracic surgery at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF...
Johannes Kratz, MD Recipient of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery Michael DeBakey Research Scholarship
UCSF Thoracic Oncology Program
December 11, 2019
UCSF surgeon-scientist Johannes R. Kratz, M.D. has been awarded the Michael DeBakey Research Scholarship by the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) and AATS Foundation. This two-year research scholarship is awarded annually to a single North American surgeon committed to pursuing an academic career in...
UCSF Medical Student Iris Liu Wins First Place in Medical Student Poster Competition for Basic Science Research at ACSCC 2019
UCSF General Surgery Residency Program
November 14, 2019
Iris Liu, BA, a second-year medical student at UCSF, won first place in the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Clinical Congress, Basic Science Category for her poster " Deep Immune Profiling of High- vs. Low-Risk Early-State Lung Adenocarcinoma." The ACS Medical Student Program e-Poster Session included 48...
Greg J. Haro, MD Named a 2019 STAT Wunderkind
General Surgery Residency Program
November 14, 2019
Greg J. Haro, MD, a general surgery resident at UCSF, has been named a 2019 STAT Wunderkind by STAT News, a journal that reports the latest in health, medicine, and scientific discoveries. This prestigious award is given to early-career scientists who are performing groundbreaking research. Dr. Haro is currently a...
UCSF Thoracic Oncology Program and Kratz Lab
May 20, 2019
Despite adoption of molecular biomarkers in the management of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the recently adopted 8th Edition staging utilized only clinicopathologic characteristics, and validated improvement in risk stratification of early-stage disease remains elusive. We therefore evaluated the integration...
Johannes Kratz, MD Recipient of the Inaugural ImmunoX Hellman Family Clinical-Translational Research Development Award
UCSF Thoracic Oncology Program
May 06, 2019
UCSF surgeon-scientist Johannes R. Kratz, M.D. was awarded the Inaugural Hellman Family Clinical-Translational Research Development Award from the Bakar ImmunoX initiative. This development award embeds a young investigator in an ImmunoX CoLab for two years in order to rapidly translate clinical insights into...
Iris Liu Awarded Summer Intern Scholarship in Cardiothoracic Surgery by American Association of Thoracic Surgery
Kratz Lab
May 16, 2018
Iris Liu, BA, a first-year medical student at UCSF and former HHMI scholar at Dartmouth,has been awarded a prestigious Summer Intern Scholarship in Cardiothoracic Surgery by the American Association of Thoracic Surgery for 2018. The program was established to introduce the field of cardiothoracic surgery to first...
Thoracic Oncology Program Launches Kratz Lab Focused on Therapeutic Interventions for Early-Stage Lung Cancers
UCSF Thoracic Oncology Program
March 26, 2018
The Thoracic Oncology Program proudly announces the launch of the Kratz Lab, which will focus on understanding the genetic and immunological mechanisms that drive early-stage, surgically resectable thoracic malignancies, most notably non-small cell lung cancer. The translationally-focused Kratz Lab will use t he...
Johannes Kratz Named Van Auken Endowed Chair in Thoracic Oncology
UCSF Department of Surgery
February 24, 2018
Johannes R. Kratz, M.D. has been named the new Van Auken Endowed Chair in Thoracic Oncology. Kratz is an assistant professor in the Division of Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery, a member of the Thoracic Oncology Program, and director of Advanced Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery. The Van Auken Endowed Chair supports...
Johannes Kratz and Yeranuí Ledesma Recipients of UCSF Health Exceptional Physician Awards
UCSF Department of Surgery
July 27, 2017
Johannes R. Kratz, M.D. and Yeranuí Ledesma, M.D. are among this year's recipients of the 2017 UCSF Health Exceptional Physician Award. Dr. Kratz, now a member of the Thoracic Oncology Program and Assistant Professor in the Division of Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery, and Dr. Ledesma, a Senior Resident in General...
Johannes Kratz Joins Department Faculty and Thoracic Oncology Program
UCSF Department of Surgery
July 01, 2017
The Department of Surgery welcomes Johannes R. Kratz, M.D. to the faculty as Assistant Professor in the Division of Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery and member of the Thoracic Oncology Program. Dr. Kratz was a surgical research fellow in the UCSF Thoracic Oncology Laboratory from 2008-2011 where he played a key role...
Molecular Test Identifies Early-Stage Lung Cancer Patients at High Risk of Death After Surgery
UCSF Thoracic Oncology Program
November 01, 2012
Building on their earlier work reported in The Lancet, two UCSF thoracic surgeons David M. Jablons, M.D. (left) and Michael Mann, M.D. (middle), and Johannes Kratz, M.D. (right) a former surgical resident in the Thoracic Oncology Lab, showed they could accurately stratify patients even with the earliest stage of...
Mulitgene Assay Better Predictor of Survival than Conventional Staging
UCSF Thoracic Oncology Program
January 26, 2012
In the two largest clinical studies ever conducted on the molecular genetics of lung cancer, an international team, led by UCSF thoracic surgeons David M. Jablons, M.D. and Michael Mann, M.D., demonstrated that a 14-gene prognostic molecular assay better predicted the likelihood of death in early-stage lung cancer...