Michael Harrison Hsieh

Clinical Focus

• Urology

Administrative Appointments

• Director, Minimally Invasive Surgery Program, Pediatric Urology Clinic, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (2010 - present)
• Director, Prenatal Program, Pediatric Urology Clinic, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (2010 - present)
• Head, Chronic Infection Working Group, Institute of Immunity, Transplantation, and Infection (2009 - present)
• Member, Care Improvement Committee, Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford (2009 - 2012)

Honors and Awards

• Stinehart-Reed Award (co-investigator), Stanford Stem Cell Institute (2011)
• Optimus Foundation Global Health Research Innovation Program, UBS (2011)
• C-IDEA Scholar, Stanford Consortium for Innovation, Design, Evaluation and Action (C-IDEA) (2011)
• Center for Clinical Human Immunology Pilot Project Grant, Stanford CCHI (2011)
• 1st Runner-Up, Best Basic Science Abstract, American Academy of Pediatrics, Section of Urology (2010)

Professional Education

Postdoctoral Advisees

Chi-Ling Fu,  Yi Ju Hsieh

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Immunology
• Urology
• Pediatric Urology

Community and International Work

• International medical missions (pediatric urology) 
• Models of urinary schistosomiasis, Stanford campus 

Internet Links

• My Lab Site

Current Research Interests

Our laboratory is interested in how microbial-triggered inflammation protects against pathogens and yet can paradoxically harm the host through secondary effects such as tissue fibrosis and carcinogenesis. The genitourinary tract is our model system. We are examining anti-pathogenic inflammation induced by vaginal commensal lactobacilli, i.e. candidate probiotics, and uropathogenic E. coli. Chronic infection-mediated tissue fibrosis and carcinogenesis are being studied using models of Schistosoma haematobium. Through our research, we seek to better understand microbial-triggered inflammation and harness its potential for human benefit.

Publications

• A novel mouse model of S. haematobium egg-induced immunopathology Fu CL, Odegaard JI, Herbert DR, Hsieh MH. PLoS Pathogens. in press
• Transurethral Induction of Mouse Urinary Tract Infection Thai KH, Thathireddy A, Hsieh MH. Journal of Visualized Experiments. in press
• Treatment of Pediatric Vesicoureteral Reflux Using Endoscopic Injection of Hyaluronic Acid/Dextranomer Gel: Intermediate-Term Experience by a Single Surgeon Hsieh MH, Madden-Fuentes RJ, Lindsay EN, Roth DR. Urology. In press
• Caucasian male infants and boys with hypospadias exhibit reduced anogenital distance. Hsieh MH, Eisenberg ML, Hittelman AB, Wilson JM, Tasian GE, Baskin LS. Hum Reprod. 2012
• Robot-assisted versus open sacrocolpopexy: a cost-minimization analysis. Elliott CS, Hsieh MH, Sokol ER, Comiter CV, Payne CK, Chen B. J Urol. 2012; 187 (2): 638-43