Alfred Delorimier Pediatric Surgery
Alfred deLorimier grew up in San Francisco, attended the University of California,Berkeley for undergraduate studies,and later UCSF for medical school. He decided to be a general surgeon and stayed on the train at UCSF at the time when there was no real subspecialty of pediatric surgery in California.Towards the end of his training in General surgery he became interested in the surgery of children. He was determined to become a surgeon so he signed up to spend two years learning the intricacies of children’s surgery at Ohio State University’s Columbus Children's Hospital. He went through a very demanding program with Dr. Eric Fonkalsrud. When they both returned to California they were the first fellowship-trained pediatric surgeons, they established