Michael Fischbein

Clinical Focus

• Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Aortic Diseases
• Thoracic Surgery

Honors and Awards

• Donald Morton Research Award, Department of Surgery - UCLA School of Medicine (2003)
• Ronald K. Tompkins Golden Apple Teaching Award, UCLA School of Medicine (2003)
• Golden Scalpel Award for Teaching Excellence, Division of General Surgery - UCLA School of Medicine (2003)
• Caves Scientific Award, International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation - Osaka, Japan (2000)
• Cum Laude Graduate, Boston University School of Medicine (1995)

Professional Education

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Surgery

Research Interests

Mechanisms of allograft rejection, ischemic/reperfusion injury, and molecular and genetic mechanisms of aortic aneurysm/dissection development. Clinical research interests include thoracic aortic diseases (aneurysms, dissections).

Clinical Trials

• Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Recruiting
• To evaluate the safety and efficacy for GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis in the treatment of Thoracic Aortic disease No longer recruiting

Publications

• Long-term durability of open thoracic and thoracoabdominal aneurysm repair. Fischbein MP, Miller DC. Semin Vasc Surg. 2009; 22 (2): 74-80
• The Role of Recipient Mast Cells in Acute and Chronic Cardiac Allograft Rejection in C57BL/6-Kit(W-sh/W-sh) Mice. Itoh S, Nakae S, Velotta JB, Kosuge H, Connolly A, Tsai M, Adachi H, Galli SJ, Robbins RC, Fischbein MP. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2009
• Comparison of different adult stem cell types for treatment of myocardial ischemia. van der Bogt KE, Sheikh AY, Schrepfer S, Hoyt G, Cao F, Ransohoff KJ, Swijnenburg RJ, Pearl J, Lee A, Fischbein M, Contag CH, Robbins RC, Wu JC. Circulation. 2008; 118 (14 Suppl): S121-9
• Stem cell transplantation: the lung barrier. Schrepfer S, Deuse T, Reichenspurner H, Fischbein MP, Robbins RC, Pelletier MP. Transplant Proc. 2007; 39 (2): 573-6
• Effect of inhaled tacrolimus on cellular and humoral rejection to prevent posttransplant obliterative airway disease. Schrepfer S, Deuse T, Reichenspurner H, Hoffmann J, Haddad M, Fink J, Fischbein MP, Robbins RC, Pelletier MP. Am J Transplant. 2007; 7 (7): 1733-42