University of California San Francisco

Mark Ratcliffe - 144x - 2
Mark
Ratcliffe
MD
  • Professor of Surgery
  • Division of Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery, UCSF

Address

35 Medical Center Way, #001
San Francisco, CA 94143
United States

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 415-221-4810
Fax: 415-750-2181

    Biography

    Dr. Ratcliffe received his M.D. degree from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine and completed his General Surgery and Cardiothoracic residencies at the Univeristy of Pennsylvania. Dr. Ratcliffe is certified by the American Board of Surgery and American Board of Thoracic Surgery. His special interest is in the application of finite element analysis or the failing left ventricle. Dr. Ratcliffe has been on the faculty since 1993. Currently, he is Director of the Cardiac Biomechanics Laboratory.

    Dr. Ratcliffe is an active member of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, American Heart Association, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, Western Thoracic Surgical Association, San Francisco Surgical Society, American Association of Thoracic Surgery, and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

    Education

    Education

    M.D.-Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OHM.D.

    B.A. - Denison University, Granville, OH

    Residencies

    Internship - John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD

    Residency - John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD

    Residency - University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA

    Research Fellow - University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA

    Fellowship - University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA

    Board Certifications

    American Board of Surgery, 1989

    American Board of Thoracic Surgery, 1993

    Clinical Expertise

    Minimally invasive cardiac surgery
    Off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery
    Valve repair and replacement
    Surgery for heart failure
    Robotic surgery
    Thoracic aortic surgery

    Grants and Funding

    • Quantitative analysis of left ventriculoplasty: CHF | NIH | 2000-04-17 - 2020-04-30 | Role: Principal Investigator
    • Surgery for Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation | NIH | 2008-01-15 - 2013-12-31 | Role: Principal Investigator

    Research Interests

    • Finite element analysis of failing left ventricle

    Publications

    MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 122
    1. Effect of induction and reperfusion with warm substrate-enriched cardioplegia on ventricular function.
      Wallace AW, Ratcliffe MB, Nosé PS, Bellows W, Moores W, McEnany MT, Flachsbart K, Mangano DT| | PubMed
    2. Collection of process data after cardiac surgery: initial implementation with a Java-based intranet applet.
      Ratcliffe MB, Khan JH, Magee KM, McElhinney DB, Hubner C| | PubMed
    3. Radio frequency heating of chronic ovine infarct leads to sustained infarct area and ventricular volume reduction.
      Ratcliffe MB, Wallace AW, Teerlink JR, Hong J, Salahieh A, Sung SH, Keung EC, Lee RJ| | PubMed
    4. The effect of diastolic stiffness on ventricular function after partial ventriculectomy: a finite element simulation.
      Ratcliffe MB, Hong J, Salahieh A, Wallace AW| | PubMed
    5. Ventricular volume, chamber stiffness, and function after anteroapical aneurysm plication in the sheep.
      Ratcliffe MB, Wallace AW, Salahieh A, Hong J, Ruch S, Hall TS| | PubMed
    6. L-arginine infusion dilates coronary vasculature in patients undergoing coronary bypass surgery.
      Wallace AW, Ratcliffe MB, Galindez D, Kong JS| | PubMed
    7. The effect of ventricular volume reduction surgery in the dilated, poorly contractile left ventricle: a simple finite element analysis.
      Ratcliffe MB, Hong J, Salahieh A, Ruch S, Wallace AW| | PubMed
    8. Dynamic three-dimensional imaging of the mitral valve and left ventricle by rapid sonomicrometry array localization.
      Gorman JH, Gupta KB, Streicher JT, Gorman RC, Jackson BM, Ratcliffe MB, Bogen DK, Edmunds LH| | PubMed
    9. Use of sonomicrometry and multidimensional scaling to determine the three-dimensional coordinates of multiple cardiac locations: feasibility and initial implementation.
      Ratcliffe MB, Gupta KB, Streicher JT, Savage EB, Bogen DK, Edmunds LH| | PubMed
    10. Pathogenesis of acute ischemic mitral regurgitation in three dimensions.
      Gorman RC, McCaughan JS, Ratcliffe MB, Gupta KB, Streicher JT, Ferrari VA, St John-Sutton MG, Bogen DK, Edmunds LH| | PubMed