Elsa R. Hirvela, M.D.

ClinicalProfessor, Surgery

Director SurgicalCritical Care, UCSF East Bay

Contact Information

University of California, San Francisco-East Bay
1411 East 31st Street, QIC 22134
Oakland, CA 94602
(510) 437-4267
elsa.hirvela@ucsfmedctr.org

Education

  • Duke University, B.A., Anthropology, 1971
  • University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, M.D.,1978

Residencies

  • University of California, San Diego, General Surgery, Internship, 1978-1979
  • Univeristy of California, San Diego, General Surgery, Residency, 1979-1984

Fellowships

Postdoctoral Training

Board Certification

  • American Board of Surgery, Surgery
  • American Board of Surgery, Surgical Critical Care

Program Affiliations

Clinical Expertise

  • Trauma
  • Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
  • Capillary leak
  • Inflammatory mediated multi-organ failure

Research Interests

  • Mechanisms of Phospholipase Mediated Vascular Permeability
  • Intracellular Cytokine Production
  • Ultrasound guidance system for Invasive ICU Procedures
  • Clinical Trial for Robotic Arm

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Biography

Dr. Hirvela received her medical degree from the University of California, San Diego, where she went on to complete her General Surgery internship and residency training.  She joined the faculty at UCSF-East Bay in 1992, and is the Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Alameda County Medical Center, Highland Hospital; she also serves as the student clerkship coordinator for the East Bay program.  Dr. Hirvela's main interests are in the areas of critical care, peritoneal macrophage modulation, and inflammatory mediators.

Selected Publications

  1. Wong MS, Tsoi EK, Henderson VJ, Hirvela ER, Forest CT, Smith RS, Fry WR, Organ CH.  Videothoracoscopy an effective method for evaluating and managing thoracic trauma patients.  Surg. Endosc. 10:188-21, Feb/1996.
  2. Henderson VJ, Hirvela ER. Emerging and reemerging microbial threats.  Nosocomial fungal infections.  Arch Surg.131: 330-7, Mar/1996.
  3. Sharma R, Organ CH, Hirvela ER, Henderson VJ.  Clinical observation of the temporal association between crack cocaine and duodenal ulcer perforation.  Am J Surg 174: 629-32; discussion 632-3, Dec/1997
  4. Hirvela ER. Advances in the management of acute respiratory distress syndrome: protective ventilation.  Arch Surg. 135: 126-35, Feb/2000.
  5. Neidlinger NA, Hirvela ER, Skinner RA, Larkin SK, Harken AH, Kuypers FA. Post injury serum secretory phospholipase A2 correlates with hypoxemia and clinical stuatus at 72 ours.  J Am Col Surg. 200:173-8, 2005.
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