Locations

Specialty

Pediatric Surgery

Organization

Rady Children's Specialists of San Diego

Medical Group / IPA

CPMG/RCHN/RCSSD

Medical School

Medical College of Wisconsin

Residency

University of California - Davis

Fellowship

Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego, UC San Diego

Board Certifications

Surgery

Gender

M

Bio

Dr. Benjamin Keller is a pediatric surgeon as Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego and an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Surgery at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

Dr. Keller received his undergraduate degree in molecular and cellular biology at the University of Illinois and completed his medical education at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He then traveled to Sacramento California and the University of California, for his general surgery residency. Following this, Dr. Keller completed his pediatric surgery fellowship at the University of California, San Diego and Rady Children's Hospital.

During his residency, Dr. Keller spent three years in the UC Davis Surgical Bioengineering lab working on stem cell and fetal surgical treatments for spina bifida, building training simulators for trauma care delivery and performing clinical research on novel strategies for pain management following chest wall surgery.

Dr. Keller's clinical interests include congenital diseases of the newborn, minimally invasive surgery, chest wall surgery, pediatric surgical oncology and trauma care.


Publications

Clamping trials prior to thoracostomy tube removal and the need for subsequent invasive pleural drainage
Becker JC, Zakaluzny SA, Keller BA, Galante JM, Utter GH

A Decade of Experience with the Ovine Model of Myelomeningocele: Risk Factors for Fetal Loss
Galganski LA, Yamashiro KJ, Pivetti CD, Keller BA, Becker JC, Brown EG, Saadai P, Hirose S, Wang A, Farmer DL

Neuroprotective effect of placenta-derived mesenchymal stromal cells: role of exosomes
Kumar P, Becker JC, Gao K, Carney RP, Lankford L, Keller BA, Herout K, Lam KS, Farmer DL, Wang A

High density placental mesenchymal stromal cells provide neuronal preservation and improve motor function following in utero treatment of ovine myelomeningocele
Vanover M, Pivetti C, Lankford L, Kumar P, Galganski L, Kabagambe S, Keller BA, Becker J, Chen YJ,Chung K, Lee C, Paxton Z, Deal B, Goodman L, Anderson J, Jensen G, Wang A, Farmer D

Subcutaneous local anesthetic infusion could eliminate use of epidural analgesia after the Nuss procedure
Kabagambe SK, Goodman LF, Chen YJ, Keller BA, Becker JC, Raff GW, Stark RA, Stephenson JT,Rahm A, Farmer DL, Hirose S

Placental mesenchymal stromal cells seeded on clinical grade extracellular matrix improve ambulation in ovine myelomeningocele
Kabagambe SK, Keller BA, Becker JC, Goodman LF, Pivetti CD, Lankford L, Chung K, Lee C, Chen YJ, Kumar P, Vanover M, Wang A, Farmer DL

Intercostal nerve cryoablation versus thoracic epidural catheters for postoperative analgesia following pectus excavatum repair: Preliminary outcomes in twenty-six cryoablation patients
Keller BA, Kabagambe SK, Becker JC, Chen YJ, Goodman LF, Clark-Wronski JM, Furukawa K, Stark RA, Rahm AL, Hirose S, Raff GW

Design of a cost-effective, hemodynamically adjustable model for resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) simulation
Keller BA, Salcedo ES, Williams TK, Neff LP, Carden AJ, Li Y, Gotlib O, Tran NK, Galante JM

Age Does Matter: A Pilot Comparison of Placenta-Derived Stromal Cells for in utero Repair of Myelomeningocele Using a Lamb Model
Brown EG, Keller BA, Lankford L, Pivetti CD, Hirose S, Farmer DL, W�ang A

Fetal surgery for myelomeningocele: history, research, clinical trials, and future directions
Keller BA, Farmer DL

Placental mesenchymal stromal cells rescue ambulation in ovine myelomeningocele
Wang A, Brown EG, Lankford L, Keller BA, Pivetti CD, Sitkin NA, Beattie MS, Bresnahan JC, Farmer DL

Development of a locomotor rating scale for testing motor function in sheep
Brown EG, Keller BA, Pivetti CD, Sitkin NA, A Wang, DL Farmer

Innate healing in the fetal sheep model of myelomeningocele: A standardized defect grading system
Brown EG, Keller BA, Pivetti CD, Farmer DL.

Pregnancy-related attrition in general surgery
Brown EG, Galante JM, Keller BA, Braxton J, Farmer DL

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