During the annual meeting of the American Society of Pediatric Surgery (APSA) held this week in Phoenix, Arizona, the organization bestowed its highest honor, the APSA Distinguished Service Award, on pioneering UCSF pediatric and fetal surgeon–and Myka Labs founder–Dr. Michael Harrison. The Distinguished Service Award has only been awarded a few times in APSA’s history. Dr. Harrison received this tremendous honor in recognition of his wide-ranging contributions in the fields of pediatric surgery, including his pioneering research on healing and necrosis in neonatal gastrointestinal tract tissue that were a critical foundational element for the development of Connect, an innovative system for use in repairing congenital malformations involving the esophagus and windpipe now being brought to market by Myka Labs. Dr. Harrison’s contributions over his lengthy career also include having pioneered fetal surgery to repair malformations involving the diaphragm that were, until the introduction of the technique developed by Dr. Harrison’s team, almost always fatal.
Myka Labs founder receives APSA Distinguished Service Award
