MESSAGE FROM THE CHIEF
Hobart W. Harris, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Surgery
Chief, Division of General Surgery
Robert S. Warren, M.D.
Professor and Chief, Section of Surgical Oncology
Director, Surgical Oncology Lab
Contact Information
1600 Divisadero Street
San Francisco, California 94143-1932
New Patient Coordinator Telephone: (415) 353-9888
Academic Telephone: (415) 353-9294
Fax: (415) 353-9296
e-mail: warrenr@surgery.ucsf.edu
Board Certification
- American Board of Surgery, 1989
Biography
Dr. Robert Warren is Chief of the Surgical Oncology Program and Professor of Surgery at UCSF where he also specializes in gastrointestinal and liver cancer.
Dr. Warren earned a medical degree at the University of Minnesota, where he also completed a general surgery residency. After completing an oncology research fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, he was an associate physician at Rockefeller University in New York. A board-certified surgeon, he joined UCSF Medical Center in 1988.
Dr. Warren is involved in clinical and laboratory research which has centered on the biology of colorectal cancer metastasis that includes Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF), Insulin-Like Growth Factors and Their Binding Proteins AS Modulators of Growth of Colorectal Cancer Metastases and Cytogenetics of Colorectal Cancer Metastasis. The laboratory work focuses on two areas: 1) autocrine growth factors and angiogenesis in colorectal cancer 2) molecular features which predict clinical outcome in primary and metastatic colorectal cancer.
His current teaching responsibilities include teaching surgery at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, acting as course director, resident instructor, and surgical skills lab instructor. He’s taught didactic sessions in surgery to UCSF residents at the UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion and is currently involved in Surgery resident education.