David C. Wahoff, MD, PhD

 

Clinic Locations:

• Children’s Hospital and Clinics – St. Paul
• Woodbury 
• Burnsville

Board Certifications:

• American Board of Surgery
• American Board of Surgery, Certificate of Special Qualifications in Pediatric Surgery

Education and Training:

• Medical School: Vanderbilt University
• PhD Surgery:  University of Minnesota
• Fellowship in General Surgery: Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota
• Fellowship in Surgical Infectious Diseases: Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota
• Fellowship in Pediatric Surgery: Children’s Hospital Medical Center – Cincinnati

Memberships:

• Associate Fellow, American College of Surgeons
• American Pediatric Surgical Association

Professional Interests:

• Fetal Surgery
• Minimally Invasive Pediatric Surgery
• Surgical Infectious Diseases
• Pediatric Trauma

Publications:

• Early results of an objective feedback-directed system for the staged traction repair of long-gap esophageal atresia.
• Diagnosis and management of pediatric endocrine neoplasms.
• A deeply invasive Phoma species infection in a renal transplant recipient.
• Distant processing of pancreas islets for autotransplantation following total pancreatectomy.
• Transcontinental shipping of pancreatic islets for autotransplantation after total pancreatectomy.
• Retroperitoneal fibrosis: a report of complete colonic obstruction.
• The defective glucagon response from transplanted intrahepatic pancreatic islets during hypoglycemia is transplantation site-determined.
• Total lymphoid irradiation, without intrathymic injection of donor cells, induces indefinite acceptance of heart but not islet or skin allografts in rats.
• Allograft tolerance by intrathymic donor splenocyte transfer: an age-dependent, species-specific phenomenon?
• Islet Autotransplantation after total pancreatectomy in a child.
• Mycoplasma hominis infections occurring in cardiovascular surgical patients.
• Decreased chronic failure of intraperitoneal impure islets versus intrahepatic pure islets in a canine autograft model.
• Clinical islet autotransplantation after pancreatectomy: determinants of success and implications for allotransplantation?
• Autologous islet transplantation to prevent diabetes after pancreatic resection.
• T cell vaccination fails to prolong survival of skin allografts in mice.
• Pancreatic endocrine sufficiency does not inhibit engraftment of unpurified autologous islets in dogs
• Pregnancy after total pancreatectomy and autologous islet transplantation.
• The peritoneal cavity: an alternative site for clinical islet transplantation?
• Characterization and impact of wound infection after pancreas transplantation.
• Free intraperitoneal islet autografts in pancreatectomized dogs–impact of islet purity and posttransplantation exogenous insulin.
• Intraperitoneal transplantation of microencapsulated canine islet allografts with short-term, low-dose cyclosporine for treatment of pancreatectomy-induced diabetes in dogs.
• Effect of pancreatic islet allografts on kidney allograft rejection incidence in simultaneous islet/kidney and islet after kidney recipients.
• Evolution of kidney, pancreas, and islet transplantation for patients with diabetes at the University of Minnesota.