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David M. Young, M.D.
- Professor of Surgery
- Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Contact Information
Box 0932
505 Parnassus Ave, Moffitt Room 593
San Francisco, CA 94143
505 Parnassus Ave, Moffitt Room 593
San Francisco, CA 94143
(415) 353-9392 UCSF Asst.
(415) 353-4330 UCSF Fax
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Secondary Phone (415) 206-8814 (Zuckerberg SFGH)
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Education
- Columbia College, New York, NY, B.A., 1979
- Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, M.D., 1984
Residencies
- Cornell School of Medicine, Intern, Pathology, 1984-1985
- University of Miami School of Medicine, Resident, General Surgery, 1985-1989
- University of Miami School of Medicine, Chief Resident, General Surgery, 1989-1990
- UCSF, Plastic Surgery Resident, 1991-1993
Clinical Expertise
- Abdominoplasty
- Acute Trauma Hand Surgery
- Aesthetic Surgery
- Breast Augentation
- Breast Lift
- Breast Reconstruction
- Breast Reduction
- Burns and Trauma Reconstruction
- Facial Rejuvenation
- Hand and Microvascular Surgery
- Liposuction
- Microsurgery
- Microvascular Reconstruction
- Reconstructive Hand Surgery
- Skin Cancer Reconstruction
- Wound healing
Biography
Dr. David Young is Professor of Plastic Surgery at UCSF. His area of expertise includes wound healing, microsurgery, and reconstruction after burns and trauma. His research interests include the molecular mechanisms of wound healing and the epidemiology and treatment of soft tissue infections.
Dr. Young is a graduate of Columbia College and earned a medical degree at the Yale University School of Medicine. He trained in pathology at Cornell Medical College and general surgery at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital. He then completed an NIH-NRSA funded research Fellowship at Yale and a Plastic Surgery Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco.
Research Overview
Dr. Young is primarily interested in the mechanisms and treatments of normal and abnormal wound healing. He is Principal Investigator on a study pertaining to the role of heat shock proteins, homeobox genes, and hypoxia in cutaneous wound healing.
The effects of manipulating of hypoxia inducible proteins, homeobox genes, and heat shock proteins in wound repair are presently under investigation. In vitro and in vivo models of wound repair are used to study the effects of induction and blockage of these proteins on normal and abnormal healing. Expression of many of these proteins is altered in conditions of poor wound healing as found in patients with diabetes.
Dr. Young hopes to understand how these proteins interact during wound healing and to develop novel methods to improve healing. Dr. Young's research is conducted in the UCSF Surgical Research Laboratory at SFGH. The research is currently funded by a RO-1 grant "Diabetes, Hypoxia Inducible Factor-1, and Delayed Wound Healing" from the NIH-NIGMS.
Research & Funding
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- Academic Training in Trauma and BurnsSponsor: NIH/NIGMSSponsor ID: T32GM008258Funding Period:Jul 1988-Jun 2013Principal Investigator
- HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR-1. &DELAYED WOUND HEALINGSponsor: NIH/NIGMSSponsor ID: R01GM068778Funding Period:Sep 2004-Aug 2010Principal Investigator
- ROLE OF HEAT SHOCK PROTEINS IN CUTANEOUS BURN INJURYSponsor: NIH/NIGMSSponsor ID: K08GM000674Funding Period:Sep 1999-Sep 2004Principal Investigator
- STUDY OF TRANSPLANTED ALLO-DERMIS &EPIDERMISSponsor: NIH/NIGMSSponsor ID: F32GM014121Funding Period:Dec 1990-Jan 0001Principal Investigator
In the News
- UCSF Surgical Innovations Program - - January 26, 2016Innovative research by Professor David M. Young, MD is featured in a special report in The Chronicle of Higher Education examining the extent to which universities can actually transform their discoveries into tangible solutions benefiting society at large. The Chronicle report highlights a UCSF Department of Surgery effort led by Dr. Young, in collaboration with UC Berkeley engineers, to develop an electronic "smart bandage" that will prevent bedsores and warn of dangerous infections. The [...]
- UCSF Surgical Innovations Program - October 23, 2015Two (2) Department of Surgery research teams were awarded seed funding totaling $40,000 to accelerate their medical device innovations. The Roboimplant device, an expandable rod for orthopaedic surgery applications, took top honors, with the Sentinel Bandage, a non-invasive technology for wound monitoring, taking second place. The awards were given at the UCSF Surgical Innovations Program's inaugural Shark Tank competition on September 24th at UCSF Mission Bay. Four teams of finalists pitched [...]
- UCSF Surgical Innovations Program - March 17, 2015UC Berkeley News reports on the "smart bandage," a device in development by a team of surgeons and scientists at UCSF and UC Berkeley that uses electrical currents to detect early tissue damage from pressure ulcers, or bedsores, well before they are visible to the human eye. The technology offers the possibility of early intervention to prevent progression of the wound. David M. Young, MD, Professor in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, is leading the clinical development of [...]