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 an Associate Director of the Center for Health Equity in Surgery and Anesthesia (CHESA), and is the surgery lead of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Emergency, Critical, and Operative (ECO) 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), disenfranchised populations, emergency response, and trauma and surgical system strengthening in low-resource environments. She also focuses on exploring injury 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 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 including Bolivia, Kenya, Cameroon, and Tanzania.
Dr. Boeck's professional passions center around global public health, especially as it relates to injury prevention (road traffic, firearm-related violence), disenfranchised populations, emergency response, and trauma and surgical system strengthening in low-resource environments. She also focuses on exploring injury 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 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 including Bolivia, Kenya, Cameroon, and Tanzania.
Education
Institution | Degree | Dept or School | End Date |
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University of California, San Francisco | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training | 11/2020 | |
University of California, San Francisco | Trauma Surgery Fellowship | 07/2020 | |
University of California, San Francisco | Surgical Critical Care Fellowship | 07/2019 | |
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia | General Surgery Residency | 06/2018 | |
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | MPH | Health Systems & Policy, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Global Health | 05/2015 |
Weill Cornell Medical College | MD | Medicine | 05/2011 |
Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College | BA | Philosophy | 05/2006 |
Board Certifications
- American Board of Surgery, General Surgery
- American Board of Surgery, Surgical Critical Care
Awards & Honors
Award | Conferred By | Date |
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Health Disparities Research Institute Scholar | National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities | 2024/2024 |
AAMC Early Career Women Faculty Leadership Development Seminar Sponsorship | University of California, San Francisco Office of Diversity & Outreach & SOM Academic Affairs | 2024/2024 |
Early Career Global Health Scientist Award | Institute for Global Health Sciences Affiliate Program, University of California, San Francisco | 2023/2023 |
Muriel Steele Society Influential Women in Surgery Honor Roll | University of California, San Francisco | 2021/2023 |
Visiting Early Career Faculty Mentorship & Sponsorship Program Awardee | University of California | 2021/2021 |
National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity Faculty Success Program Tuition Scholarship | University of California, San Francisco Academic Senate and Equal Opportunity Committee | 2021/2021 |
Excellence in Teaching Award for General Teaching | University of California, San Francisco Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators | 2021/2021 |
Collaboration Interests
I am interested in:
- academic collaboration
- community and stakeholder organizations
- companies and entrepreneurs
- multicenter clinical research
- physician scientist
- policy change
- press
- prospective donors
Clinical Expertise
Acute care surgery
Surgical critical care
Trauma surgery
Clinical Trials
- Related Conditions: Injury Traumatic, Survivorship, Trauma Injury| Start Date: | End Date:
In the News
December, 05, 2018 | Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
Grants and Funding
- Project REACH: Reducing barriers to Equitable surgical ACcess for people experiencing Homelessness | San Francisco General Hospital Foundation | 2025-01-01 - 2026-06-30 | Role: Co-Principal Investigator
- Identifying and Addressing Unmet Needs of Non-Violent Injury Survivors at a Safety Net Hospital in San Francisco | NIH/NCATS | 2023-09-01 - 2026-06-30 | Role: Project PI
- Rescue.co scaling pre-hospital care services and systems throughout Kenya | USAID | 2023-08-01 - 2025-09-30 | Role: Co-Investigator
- Measure to Meet: Addressing Longitudinal Injury Survivor Medical & Social Needs | Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital CPG Strategic Use of Reserves Funds (SURF) 5.0 | 2023-08-01 - 2025-06-30 | Role: Principal Investigator
- Identifying and Addressing Unmet Needs of Injury Survivors at a Safety Net Hospital in San Francisco | The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma | 2023-07-01 - 2025-06-30 | Role: Principal Investigator
- UNITE: UNderstanding lInks between social determinants and firearm violence in California communiTiEs | University of California Firearm Violence Research Center | 2020-07-01 - 2025-06-30 | Role: Co-Investigator & UCSF PI
- Assessing Outcomes of Patients in Tanzania Undergoing Open Versus Minimally Invasive Surgery: The OPTiMISe Study | Intuitive Foundation | 2024-05-01 - 2025-04-30 | Role: Co-Investigator
- Advancing Trauma Informed Care for Emergency Surgery Patients at ZSFG | The UCLA-UCSF ACEs Aware Family Resilience Network (UCAAN) | 2023-07-01 - 2025-02-28 | Role: Co-Investigator
- EX-LAP: EXploring LAParotomy Outcomes for Surgical Quality Improvement at a Tertiary Care Facility in Tanzania | UCSF Center for Health Equity in Surgery and Anesthesia (CHESA) | 2021-01-29 - 2023-07-31 | Role: Co-Principal Investigator
Research Interests
Global surgery
Public health
Injury prevention
Gun violence
Trauma system development in low-resource settings
Surgical system strengthening in low-resource settings
Publications
MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 35
- Ugandan Physician Attitudes towards a Potential, Local Trauma Fellowship Program.| | PubMed
- Promoting Resident Education Priorities With an Acute Care Surgery Service Dashboard.| | PubMed
- Subclavian line infiltration causing neck compartment syndrome and bradycardic arrest: A case report.| | PubMed
- Invited Commentary: Defining the Surgical Trainee's Role in Global Surgery.| | PubMed
- In-Hospital Obstetric Delays in Rural Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of a Hospital Cohort.| | PubMed
- Global Neurotrauma Surveillance: Are National Databases Overrated? Comment on "Neurotrauma Surveillance in National Registries of Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review and Comparative Analysis of Data Dictionaries".| | PubMed
- Outcomes of Early Versus Late Tracheostomy in Patients With COVID-19: A Multinational Cohort Study.| | PubMed
- COVID-19, Racial Injustice, and Medical Student Engagement With Global Health: A Single-Institution Survey.| | PubMed
- The Third Delay in General Surgical Care in a Regional Referral Hospital in Soroti, Uganda.| | PubMed
- Outcomes after emergency general surgery and trauma care in incarcerated individuals: An EAST multicenter study.| | PubMed