Marissa A. Boeck MD, MPH - Assistant Professor
Dr. Boeck is an Assistant Professor and Acute Care Surgeon, Trauma Surgeon, and Surgical Critical Care Intensivist in the Division of General Surgery at UCSF, and is a member of the core leadership team of the UCSF Center for Global Surgery and Health Equity. She has a BA in Philosophy from the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College, City University of New York, and received her MD from Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Boeck completed her general surgery residency at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia, 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 year 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 include global public health, especially as it relates to injury prevention (road traffic, gun violence), vulnerable populations, emergency response, and trauma and surgical system strengthening in low-resource settings, diversity in the surgical workforce, and the power of social media in medicine. Current projects include trauma and surgical system strengthening work in Bolivia, evaluating surgical outcomes in Soroti, Uganda, trauma quality improvement projects in Cameroon, examining gun violence and social determinants of health in San Francisco and across California, exploring acute care surgery and trauma diagnoses in incarcerated patients, and investigating domestic surgical and injury disparities for evidence-based interventions, among others. She can be found on Twitter at @KickAsana.
