Frank Hanley
Academic Appointments
Contact Information
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Clinical Offices
Cardiothoracic Surgery 300 Pasteur Dr CVRB MC 5407 Stanford, CA 94305-5407 Tel Work (650) 724-2925 Fax (650) 725-0707Practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Professional Snapshot
Clinical Focus
- Cardiac Surgery
- Cardiothoracic Surgery, Pediatric
- Thoracic Surgery
Honors and Awards
- Lawrence Crowley, MD, Endowed Professorship in Child Health, Stanford (2004)
- Excellence in Teaching Award in the Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco (1992-94)
- Outstanding Surgical Chief Resident Award, University of California, San Francisco (1986)
- Outstanding Resident Teaching Award, University of California, San Francisco (1986)
- Alpha Omega Alpha medical society, University of California, San Francisco (1986)
Professional Education
| Board Certification: | Thoracic Surgery, American Board of Thoracic Surgery (1990) |
| Fellowship: | UCSF Medical Center, CA (1988) |
| Residency: | UCSF Medical Center, CA (1986) |
| Internship: | UCSF Medical Center, CA (1979) |
| Medical Education: | Tufts University School of Medicine, MA (1978) |
Postdoctoral Advisees
Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
Frank L. Hanley, MD, is a professor of cardiothoracic surgery and director of the Children’s Heart Center and also directs the pediatric cardiac surgery programs at three satellite surgical sites—Oakland Children’s Hospital of Central California in Madera and Sutter Memorial Hospital in Sacramento—making the expertise of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital available to these communities.
His research and clinical work focuses on the development of interventional techniques for fetal and neonatal treatment of congenital heart disease, pulmonary, vascular physiology, and the neurologic impact of open-heart surgery. He developed and pioneered the “unifocalization” procedure, in which a single procedure is used to repair a complex and life-threatening congenital heart defect rather than several staged open-heart surgeries as performed by other surgeons. Currently, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital is a worldwide referral site for patients requiring these procedures.
Hanley earned his BA from Brown University and his MD from Tufts University School of Medicine. He completed a surgical internship at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he later became chief resident in both general surgery and cardiothoracic surgery and completed a research fellowship at UCSF’s Cardiovascular Research Institute. Hanley was a tenured professor and chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at UCSF and received the Excellence in Teaching Award in the Department of Surgery in 1994. Prior to joining UCSF, he was on the faculty at Children’s Hospital Boston and served as associate professor at Harvard Medical School from 1989 to 1992. He joined the Stanford faculty in 2001 and was appointed the first holder of the Lawrence Crowley, MD, Endowed Professorship in Child Health in December 2004.
Hanley is actively involved in exploring new approaches for the surgical repair of pediatric heart disease and is developing evidence-based guidelines for...
Publications
- Routine continuous perfusion for aortic arch reconstruction in the neonate. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Pediatr Card Surg Annu. 2008: 57-60
- Dynamics of human myocardial progenitor cell populations in the neonatal period. Ann Thorac Surg. 2008; (4): 1311-9
- Surgical management of coronary artery arising from the wrong coronary sinus, using standard and novel approaches. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2007; (5): 1171-8
- MAPCAs, bronchials, monkeys, and men. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2006; (5): 643-4
- Visual light spectroscopy reflects flow-related changes in brain oxygenation during regional low-flow perfusion and deep hypothermic circulatory arrest. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2006; (6): 1307-13
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