Keith Hansen, MD
Resident
Surgery
School of Medicine
Dr. Keith Hansen is a UCSF general surgery resident and the founder of DIATIRŌ - a medical device company. He earned his undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering from Purdue University. While at Purdue, Dr. Hansen received a gubernatorial appointment to the Indiana Commission for Higher Education and worked in the state legislature.
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He spearheaded the initial donation and organized students and faculty in Purdue's Colleges of Engineering, Technology & Arts to create an innovation design building - a 24/7 mentored maker's space that was completed in 2017. Dr. Hansen worked in engineering roles at Abbott and Akina before obtaining his medical degree from Indiana University, where he served as president of the Gold Humanism Honor Society.
Dr. Hansen is a graduate of the Stanford Biodesign Innovation Fellowship trained in the needs-based process of identification, invention, and implementation of medical devices and has developed a kidney preservation device to improve transplant outcomes as the founder of DIATIRŌ. He holds three patents and has served as a Physician-in-Residence at IDEO. He is an assistant editor of the World Journal of Surgery.
Education & Training
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- Resident, General Surgery UCSF 06/2024
- Biodesign Innovation Fellowship Stanford University 06/2021
- Intern, General Surgery UCSF 06/2017
- MD Medicine Indiana University School of Medicine 06/2016
- BSBME Biomedical Engineering Purdue University 05/2012
Interests
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- Medical Technologies
- Transplant Surgery
- Biodesign Innovation
Websites
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- DIATIRO (diatirohealth.com)
Grants and Projects
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- Kidney Keeper: Development of an Organ Cooling Device to Address the Organ Shortage, Extend Transplant Longevity, and Enable Xenotransplantation and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Stanford University, 2022-2023
- DIATIRO Organ Preservation Device, Fogarty Innovation & Stanford Biodesign, 2022-2023
- DIATIRO Kidney Cooling Jacket – Regelation device to improve transplant longevity, FDA - UCSF - Stanford, 2021-2022
- Organ Cooling Jacket - A transplant facilitation device to address the organ shortage and increase longevity, Stanford University, 2022
- Biodevice Innovation Training R25, NIH, 2021-2022
- DIATIRO Kidney Cooling Jacket: A medical device to address the organ shortage and improve transplant longevity, UCSF, 2022
Publications (6)
Top publication keywords:
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1Kidney Failure, ChronicNeoplasm Recurrence, LocalDrug CarriersKidney TransplantationAnalgesics, OpioidCancer SurvivorsPolyglycolic AcidPancreas TransplantationPain, PostoperativeLactic AcidSafety-net ProvidersBreast NeoplasmsEvidence-Based MedicineQuality Improvement
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Pancreas Transplantation for Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review, Critical Gaps in the Literature, and a Path Forward.
Transplantation 2022 Amara D, Hansen KS, Kupiec-Weglinski SA, Braun HJ, Hirose R, Hilton JF, Rickels MR, Odorico JS, Stock PG -
Relationship between body mass index and malignancy rates of MRI-guided breast biopsies: impact of clinicodemographic factors.
Breast cancer research and treatment 2021 Tang A, Cohan CM, Hansen KS, Beattie G, Greenwood HI, Mukhtar RA -
A world-wide survey on kidney transplantation practices in breast cancer survivors: The need for new management guidelines.
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2021 Hansen KS, Ghersin H, Piper M, Tavakol M, Lee B, Esserman LJ, Roberts JP, Freise C, Ascher NL, Mukhtar RA -
Adopting best practices in post-operative analgesia prescribing in a safety-net hospital: Residents as a conduit to change.
American journal of surgery 2019 Bongiovanni T, Hansen K, Lancaster E, O'Sullivan P, Hirose K, Wick E -
Immediate Bilateral Breast Reconstruction with Unilateral Deep Superior Epigastric Artery and Superficial Circumflex Iliac Artery Flaps.
Archives of plastic surgery 2016 Hansen KS, Gutwein LG, Hartman BC, Sood R, Socas J -
A study of drug release from homogeneous PLGA microstructures.
Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society 2010 Acharya G, Shin CS, Vedantham K, McDermott M, Rish T, Hansen K, Fu Y, Park K