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Helen Diller Family Compr Cancer Ctr
WILLIAM Y. HOFFMAN, MD

Professor of Clinical Surgery, UCSF

CONTACT

hoffmanw@surgery.ucsf.edu
(415) 476-9236 (voice)
(415) 476-4001 (fax)

Box 0932, UCSF; San Francisco, CA 94143-0932

EDUCATION

Yale University, B.A., 1973, Biology
University of Rochester School of Medicine, M.D., 1977, Medicine
University of California, San Francisco, 1977-80, Resident, General Surgery
University of California, San Francisco, 1980-81, Resident, Plastic Surgery
University of California, San Francisco, 1981-83, Sr. Resident, General Surgery
University of California, San Francisco, 1984-85, Chief Resident, Plastic Surgery
New York University Medical Center, Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery, 1985-86, Fellow, Craniofacial Surgery

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1986-present

Attending Surgeon, University of California, San Francisco

HONORS & AWARDS

1994

Bernd Spiessl Research award of the American Society of Maxiillofacial Surgeons, for "Endoscopic repair of fetal cleft lip in a sheep model"

1996

ASMS Research award, Changes in periosteum and muscle with mandibular distraction

1997

James Barrett Brown Award of the American Association of Plastic Surgery for best paper in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Foster Rd, Anthony JP, Mathes SJ, Hoffman WY, "Ischial pressure sore coverage: A rationale for flap selection."Br. J. Plast. Surg. 50:374-379, 1997.

Foster RD, Anthony JP, Mathes SJ, Hoffman WY, Young D, Eshima E, Flap selection as a determinant of success in pressure sore coverage. Arch. Surg. 132: 868-873, 1997.

Stelnicki EJ, Hoffman WY, Ousterhout DK,"A method for repairing zygomatic arch fractures using a hydroxyapatite cement paste (BoneSource)."J Craniofac Surg 8: 236-239, 1997.

Stelnicki EJ, Hoffman WY, Vanderwall K, Harrison MR, Foster R, Longaker MT, "A new in utero model for lateral facial clefts"J Craniofac Surg 8:460-465 1997.

Stelnicki EJ, Hoffman WY, "Intracranial migration of microplates vs. wires in neonatal pigs after frontal advancement."J. Craniofacial Surg. 9: 60-64, 1998.

Stelnicki EJ, Longaker MT, Holmes D, Vanderwall K, Harrison MR, Largman C, Hoffman WY, "Bone morphogenetic protein-2 induces scar formation and skin

maturation in the second trimester fetus,"Plast Reconstr Surg 101:12-19, 1998

Stelnecki EJ, Vanderwall K, Hoffman WY, Harrison MR, Glowacki J, Longaker MT, "A new in utero sheep model for unilateral coronal craniosynostosis,"."Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 101:278-286, 1998.

Stelnicki EJ, Vanderwall K, Harrison MR, Longaker MT, Kaban LB, Hoffman WY, "The in utero correction of unilateral coronal craniosynostosis."Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 101:287-296. 1998.

Dickson KF, Hoffman WY, Delgado ED, Contreras DM, "Unreamed rod with early wound closure for grade IIIA and IIIB open tibial fractures: analysis of 40 consecutive patients." Orthopedics 21:531-535 , 1998.

Stelnicki EJ, Vanderwall K, Hoffman WY, Szabo Z, Harrison MR, Foster R, Longaker MT, "Adverse outcomes following endoscopic repair of a fetal cleft lip using an ovine model," Cleft Palate-Craniofacial J, 35:425-429, 1998.

Lopoo JB, Hedrick MH, Chasen S, Montgomery L, Chervenak FA, Goldstein R, Hoffman WY, Harrison MR, Longaker MT. Natural history of fetuses with cleft lip. Plast Reconstr Surg. 103(1):34-8, 1999.

Mathes SJ, Steinwald PM, Foster RD, Hoffman WY, Anthony JP Complex abdominal wall reconstruction: A comparison of flap and mesh closure. Ann Surg. 232(4):586-96, 2000.

Foster RD, Williams ML, Barkovich AJ, Hoffman WY, Mathes SJ, Frieden IJ

Giant congenital melanocytic nevi: the significance of neurocutaneous melanosis in neurologically asymptomatic children. Plast Reconstr Surg. 107(4):933-41, 2001.

Hansen JE, Hoffman WY, "Flap closure of cutaneous CSF fistulae", submitted, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

Kunwar, S, Hoffman WY, McDermott MW, The use of a pericranial transposition flap for the management of supratentorial cerebrospinal fluid leak: Technical note. Accepted, J. Neurosurg.

Stelnicki EJ,Largman C, Hoffman WY, "The Use of Bone Morphogenic Protein 2 in the Reconstruction of Calvarial and Zygomatic Defects"submitted, J. Craniofacial Surg.

Stelnicki EJ, Vanderwall K, Harrison M, Hoffman WY, "BMP-2 induces early coronal suture fusion in neonatal mice and rabbits when applied both topically and directly within the suture."accepted, J. Craniofacial Surg.

Uusitalo, MS, Ibarra, MS, Kaplan, MJ, Hoffman, WY, Lee, C, Obrien JM, "Reconstruction with rectus abdominus myocutaneous free flap after orbital exenteration in children."Accepted, Archives of Ophthalmology.

9/19/02

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