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Marissa A. Boeck, M.D., MPH

Marissa A. Boeck, M.D., MPH

  • Assistant Professor of Surgery
  • Division of General Surgery Trauma and Surgical Critical Care
  • Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital Co-Director, Center for Health Equity in Surgery and Anesthesia Director of Trauma & General Surgery, Center for Health Equity in Surgery and Anesthesia

Contact Information

marissa.boeck@ucsf.edu
Parnassus
513 Parnassus Avenue
HSW 1613
San Francisco, CA 94143-0790
Phone: 415-502-4745
ZSFG
1001 Potrero Ave
Ward 3A, Room 3A33
San Francisco, CA 94110
Phone: 628-206-8722
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Biography

Marissa A. Boeck, M.D., M.P.H. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, and serves as an acute care surgeon at Parnassus and as an acute care and trauma surgeon and surgical critical care intensivist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG). She is a Co-Director of the Center for Health Equity in Surgery and Anesthesia (CHESA), as well as the Director of General Surgery/Trauma within the Center and is a member of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Emergency and Trauma Care. She has a B.A. in Philosophy from the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College, and received her M.D. from Weill Cornell Medical College in 2011. Dr. Boeck completed her general surgical residency training at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia in 2018, during which time she obtained a Master of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the first of two research years away from clinical duties. The second was spent in Santa Cruz, Bolivia working on hospital-based trauma registry implementation, and developing the city's trauma and emergency response system.

Dr. Boeck's professional passions center around global public health, especially as it relates to injury prevention (road traffic, firearm-related violence), vulnerable and marginalized populations, emergency response, and trauma and surgical system strengthening in low-resource environments. She also focuses on exploring trauma survivorship with a core focus on and inclusion of patients and communities, determining how best to ensure our patients not only survive but thrive after their initial injuries. She champions diversity in the surgical workforce, and the power of social media in medicine and research. Her research spans both domestic in California and the United States and abroad across multiple countries including Bolivia, Kenya, Cameroon, and Tanzania.

Education & Training

  Institution  
  Degree    
  Dept or School    
  End Date    
  • NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia, New York, NY
  • General Surgery Residency
  • 06/2018
  • Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
  • MD
  • Medicine
  • 05/2011
  • University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training
  • 11/2020
  • University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
  • Surgical Critical Care Fellowship
  • 07/2019
  • University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
  • Trauma Surgery Fellowship
  • 07/2020
  • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
  • MPH
  • Health Systems & Policy, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Global Health
  • 05/2015
  • Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College, New York, NY
  • BA
  • Philosophy
  • 05/2006

    • Residencies

    • NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia, General Surgery, 2011-2018

    Fellowships

    • University of California San Francisco, Surgical Critical Care and Trauma Surgery, 2018-2020

    Postdoctoral Training

    • Center for Global Health Post-Graduate Fellow in Global Health at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 2015-2016
    • Arthur Tracy Cabot Fellow at the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Brigham and Women's Hospital, 2015-2016

    Board Certifications

    • American Board of Surgery, General Surgery
    • American Board of Surgery, Surgical Critical Care

    Program Affiliations

    Clinical Expertise

    • Acute care surgery
    • Surgical critical care
    • Trauma surgery

    Research Interests

    • Global surgery
    • Gun violence
    • Injury prevention
    • Public health
    • Surgical system strengthening in low-resource settings
    • Trauma system development in low-resource settings

    Foreign Languages Spoken

    • Spanish

    Interests

    • Gun Violence Prevention
    • Trauma System Development
    • Gender Equity
    • Public Health
    • Injury Prevention
    • Social Media in Medicine
    • Global Surgery

    Research & Funding

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    ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9569-8493 Additional info
    • UNITE: UNderstanding lInks between social determinants and firearm violence in California communiTiEs
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      Jul 2020
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      Jun 2022
      Co-Investigator & UCSF PI
    • EX-LAP: EXploring LAParotomy Outcomes for Surgical Quality Improvement at a Tertiary Care Facility in Tanzania
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      Jan 2021
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      Jan 2022
      Co-Principal Investigator

    Publications

    MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 31
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    1. Poppens M, Oke R, Carvalho M, Ledesma Y, Okullu S, Ariokot MG, Agwang E, Ekuchu P, Wange H, Boeck M, Juillard C, Ajiko MM, Dicker R. In-Hospital Obstetric Delays in Rural Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of a Hospital Cohort. World J Surg. 2023 Mar 10. View in PubMed
    2. Harrell Shreckengost CS, Foianini JE, Moron Encinas KM, Tola Guarachi H, Abril K, Amin D, Berkowitz D, Castater CA, Douglas JM, Grant AA, Khullar OV, Lane AN, Lin A, Niroula A, Nizam A, Rashied A, Reitz AW, Roser SM, Spychalski J, Arap SS, Bento RF, Ciaralo PPD, Imamura R, Kowalski LP, Mahmoud A, Mariani AW, Menegozzo CAM, Minamoto H, Montenegro FLM, P?go-Fernandes PM, Santos J, Utiyama EM, Sreedharan JK, Kalchiem-Dekel O, Nguyen J, Dhamsania RK, Allen K, Modzik A, Pathak V, White C, Blas J, Talal El-Abur I, Tirado G, Y?nez Ben?tez C, Weiser TG, Barry M, Boeck M, Farrell M, Greenberg A, Miller P, Park P, Camazine M, Dillon D, Smith RN. Outcomes of Early Versus Late Tracheostomy in Patients With COVID-19: A Multinational Cohort Study. Crit Care Explor. 2022 Nov; 4(11):e0796. View in PubMed
    3. Starr S, Kim WC, Oke R, Carvalho M, Ledesma Y, Okullu S, Ariokot MG, Wange AH, Agwang E, Ekuchu P, Boeck M, Juillard C, Ajiko MM, Dicker RA. The Third Delay in General Surgical Care in a Regional Referral Hospital in Soroti, Uganda. World J Surg. 2022 09; 46(9):2075-2084. View in PubMed
    4. Bryant MK, Tatebe LC, Siva NR, Udekwu PO, Wurzelmann M, Crandall ML, Zuniga YD, Tran V, Santos A, Krause C, Turay D, Nordham KD, Taghavi S, Dreesen EB, Scarlet S, Snyder A, Applewhite M, Patel P, Schroeppel TJ, Rodriquez J, Kornblith LZ, Boeck MA, Bonne S, Tufariello A, Maine RG. Outcomes after emergency general surgery and trauma care in incarcerated individuals: An EAST multicenter study. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2022 07 01; 93(1):75-83. View in PubMed
    5. Nguyen NT, Ding K, Oke R, Tanjong MS, Mbuh L, Mbianyor MA, Carvalho M, Dissak Delon FN, Boeck M, Collins C, Yenshu EV, Etoundi GA, Juillard C, Mefire AC. Evaluating Shifts in Perception After a Pilot Trauma Quality Improvement Training Course in Cameroon. J Surg Res. 2022 08; 276:151-159. View in PubMed
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    In the News

    • UCSF Trauma Surgeons Among Leading Voices Working to Stem Tide of Gun Violence in the U.S.

      Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General - December 05, 2018
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      Trauma surgeons at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center have been among the strongest proponents for physicians speaking out on the issue of gun violence and conducting research to reduce suffering and prevent needless and tragic deaths. They have harnessed the power of Twitter in the service of community outreach and effecting social change. Notably, Rachael A. Callcut, M.D., MSPH was among the group that created the Twitter handle, @ThisIsOurLane and Andre Campbell, [...]

     

     
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