University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital, Fairview Position(s)
Pediatric Surgeon
Pediatric Trauma Medical Director
Other Related Positions Currently Held
Assistant Professor, Division of Surgery, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota
Board Certifications
General Surgery (Pediatrics)
Sees Patients At
University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital, Fairview (Surgery Clinic)
Fairview Maple Grove Medical Center (Maple Grove)
Clinical Interests
Staphylococcus aureus
Education
Medical School
University of Minnesota Medical School
Site of Residency
University of Minnesota Children's Hospital, Fairview (Surgical)
Site of Fellowship
University of Minnesota Children's Hospital, Fairview (Surgical Endoscopy, Surgical Infectious Disease);
Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo (Pediatric Surgery)
Awards and Honors
2004, Henry Buchwald Award
2001, National Research Award, NIH F32 AI49686-01, 3 years
Selected Recent Publications
Book Chapters
Abu-Absi, SF, Hess, DJ, Groehler, KE, Remmel, RP, Sielaff, TD, and Hu, W-S. Monitoring Metabolic Activity and Differentiated Function in a Bioartificial Liver Device. In A. Atala and R. Lanza (Eds.), Methods of Tissue Engineering, Academic Press, San Diego, CA, pp. 951 – 964, 2001.
Journal Articles
Tzanakakis, E, Hess, D, Sielaff, T, Hu, W. Extracorporeal Tissue Engineered Liver Assist Devices, Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering 2: 607-632, 2000.
Hess, DJ, Henry-Stanley, MJ, Moore, EA, and Wells, CL. Integrin Expression, Enterocyte Maturation, and Bacterial Internalization,” Journal of Surgical Research 98: 116-122, 2001.
Wiesner, SM, Bendel, CM, Moore, EA, Hess, DJ, Erlandsen, SL, & Wells, CL. Adherence of Yeast and Filamentous Forms of Candida albicans to Cultured Enterocytes, Critical Care Medicine 30: 677- 683, 2002.
Kosari, K, Gomes, M, Hunter, D, Hess, DJ, Greeno, E, Sielaff, TD. Local, intrahepatic, and systemic recurrence patterns after radiofrequency ablation of hepatic malignancies. Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery 6(2): 255 – 263, 2002.
Hess, DJ, Henry-Stanley, MJ, Moore, EA, and Wells, CL. Effect of tumor necrosis factor–?, interferon-?, and interleukin-4 on bacterial interactions with cultured enterocytes, Journal of Surgical Research 104: 88 – 94, 2002.
Hess, DJ, Humar, A, Sielaff, TD. Living related liver transplantation for recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma in a normal liver, Clinical Transplantation 16(3): 240–242, 2002.
Bendel, CM, Hess, DJ, Garni, RM, Henry-Stanley, MJ, Wells, CL. Comparative virulence of Candida albicans yeast and filamentous forms in orally and intravenously inoculated mice. Critical Care Medicine 31: 2003, In Press.
Henry-Stanley, MJ, Hess, DJ, Erickson, EA, Wells, CL., Role of heparan sulfate in interactions of Listeria monocytogenes with enterocytes. Medical Microbiology and Immunology 192: 107 – 115, 2003.
Wells CL, Hess DJ, Erlandsen SL. Impact of the indigenous flora in animal models of shock and sepsis. Shock 22:562 – 568, 2004
Hess, DJ, Henry-Stanley, MJ, Erickson, EA, Garni, RM, Wells, CL., Intracellular survival of Staphylococcus aureus within cultured enterocytes. Journal of Surgical Research 114:42 – 49, 2003.
Henry-Stanley, MJ, Hess, DJ, Erickson, EA, Garni, RM, Wells, CL., Effect of lipopolysaccharide on virulence of intestinal Candida albicans. Journal of Surgical Research 113: 42 – 49, 2003.
Hess, DJ, Garni, RM, Henry-Stanley, MJ, Wells, CL, Escherichia coli modulates extraintestinal spread of Staphylococcus aureus. Shock 24(4): 376 – 381, 2005.
Henry-Stanley, MJ, Hess, DJ, Erlandsen, SL, Wells, CL, Ability of the heparan sulfate proteoglycan syndecan-1 to participate in bacterial translocation across the intestinal epithelial barrier. Shock 24(6): 571 – 576, 2005.
Hess DJ, Henry-Stanley MJ, Erlandsen SL, Wells CL. Heparan sulfate proteoglycans mediate Staphylococcus aureus interactions with intestinal epithelium. Medical Microbiology and Immunology . In Press.
Lau ST, Lee YH, Hess DJ, Brisseau GF, Keleher GF, Caty MG. Lawnmower Injuries in Children: A Ten Year Experience. Pediatric Surgery International 33(3): 209 – 214, 2006.
