Pierre R. Theodore, M.D.
- Contact Address
- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of California - San Francisco
1600 Divisadero St., B-101
San Francisco, CA - Contact Phone
- (415) 885-3882
- Contact E-Mail
- theodorep@surgery.ucsf.edu
- Professional Affiliations
- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Program: Thoracic Oncology
- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Expertise
- Lung Cancer
- Mesothelioma
- Mediastinal Masses
- Esophageal Cancer
- Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery
- Lung Transplantation
- Education
- Princeton University, Philosophy, Molecular Biology, A.B., 1990
- University of Virginia School of Medicine, M.D., 1995
- Residencies
- Resident, Johns Hopkins Hospital, General Surgery, 1995 - 2001
- Chief Resident, John Hopkins Hospital, General Surgery, 2001 - 2002
- Chief Resident, John Hopkins Hospital, Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2003 - 2004
- Fellowships
- Harvard Medical School, Transplant Biology, 1997 - 1999
- La Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital, Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2002
- Johns Hopkins Hospital, Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2001 - 2004
- Board Certification
- American Board of Thoracic Surgery
- American Board of Surgery
- Biography
Pierre Theodore, M.D. received his medical degree from the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He went on to complete his residency in general surgery and a cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He also completed fellowships in transplant biology fellowship at Harvard Medical School and in cardiothoracic surgery at La Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital, Paris, France. In 2004, Dr. Theodore joined the UCSF faculty as an Assistant Professor of Surgery. In November 2007, he was named as the first recipient of the Van Auken Endowed Chair in Thoracic Oncology.
Dr. Theodore has extensive experience in performing minimally invasive thoracic surgery, a procedure that shortens hospitals stays, reduces pain and allows patients to more quickly receive adjuvant (post-surgical) chemotherapy treatment, if recommended. He is an experienced lung transplant surgeon and was the first in California to perform a non-heart-beating lung donor (NHBD) harvest, a technique holding great promise for alleviating organ shortages. Dr. Theodore is currently investigating lung transplants as a therapy for lung cancer patients with multifocal bronchioloalveolar carcinoma (BAC).
Dr. Theodore is a member of the Stanley J. Sarnoff Endowment, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the International Society for Heart Lung Transplant, The Transplantation Society, and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. He also served as a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Naval Reserve Medical Corps.
