Michael R. Harrison (born May 5, 1943, in Portland, Oregon) served as division chief in pediatric surgery at the Children's Hospital at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) for over 20 years, where he established the first fetal treatment center in the U.S.
While in Boston, he assisted iconic pediatric surgeon W. Hardy Hendren, MD as he flawlessly repaired a child's congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
[2] During the 1980s, Harrison worked closely with obstetricians, anesthesiologists, geneticists, sonographers, surgical sub-specialists, neonatologists, nurses, and ethicists to lay the foundation for what would be the multidisciplinary UCSF Fetal Treatment Center.
In 2009, Harrison received a Pediatric Device Consortia Grant Award from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Office of Orphan Products Development.
As principal investigator and director of the UCSF Pediatric Device Consortium, Harrison's goal is to make the PDC an environment for open expression.