Benjamin E. Padilla MD

Benjamin Padilla M.D. is a pediatric and fetal surgeon in the UCSF Division of Pediatric Surgery. Born in Guatemala, Dr. Padilla immigrated to the U.S. in 1980, completing his undergraduate education in 1997 at the University of New Mexico and obtaining his MD from the UCSF School of Medicine in 2002.

Dr. Padilla completed his general surgery residency at UCSF, which included three years as a research fellow in the UCSF Center for the Neurobiology of Digestive Disease. After completing his residency, Dr. Padilla served as an international clinical research fellow at the Fundación Hospitalaria de Niños in Buenos Aires, Argentina. There he gained expertise in the treatment of chest wall deformities. Dr. Padilla also received specialty training in pediatric general and thoracic surgery at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).