Biography
Rebecca Plevin, M.D. received her undergraduate degree from University of California Berkeley, with a major in molecular & cellular biology and a minor in toxicology. She received her M.D. from the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine in 2009. She completed her residency in General Surgery at the University of Washington in 2016. While at the University of Washington in 2012-2014, Dr. Plevin completed two years of research investigating the immunologic response to trauma, funded by a NIH Trauma Training Grant.
Dr. Plevin completed her fellowship in Trauma and Surgical Critical Care at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco from 2016-2018. In 2018, she accepted a position at University of California San Francisco as an Assistant Professor in Residence in the Division of General Surgery. Her clinical practice includes Trauma Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, Acute Care Surgery, and elective General Surgery. Her research interests include injury prevention with particular focus on underserved/vulnerable populations.
Dr. Plevin is the Director of the San Francisco Wraparound Project, the hospital-based violence intervention program at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital & Trauma Center. She is also a member of the San Francisco Vision Zero Injury Prevention Research (VZIPR) Collaborative, a group comprised of trauma surgeons, epidemiologists, geospatial analysts, and other key staff who conduct research using traffic-related injury data in support of Vision Zero SF– San Francisco’s policy and commitment to eliminate traffic deaths on city streets.
Education
Institution | Degree | Dept or School | End Date |
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University of California | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training | 2019 | |
University of California | Surgical Critical Care | 2017 | |
University of Washington | General Surgery Residency | 2016 | |
University of Southern California | MD | 2009 | |
University of California | BA | Molecular & Cellular Biology | 2004 |
Board Certifications
American Board of Surgery, General Surgery
American Board of Surgery, Surgical Critical Care
Clinical Expertise
Acute Care Surgery
General Surgery
Surgical Critical Care
Trauma Surgery
In the News
Research Interests
- Trauma Care
- Injury Prevention
- Underserved Populations
- Ultrasound in trauma
- Resuscitation
Publications
- Morbidity and Length of Stay After Injury Among People Experiencing Homelessness in North America.| | View in PubMed
- Assessing the Prevalence of Craniomaxillofacial Injuries Among Helmeted and Unhelmeted Electric Scooter Users.| | View in PubMed
- Injury Patterns and Hospital Admission After Trauma Among People Experiencing Homelessness.| | View in PubMed
- Hospital variability in adoption of alcohol and drug screening in adult trauma patients.| | View in PubMed
- What is counted counts: An innovative linkage of police, hospital, and spatial data for transportation injury prevention.| | View in PubMed
- The Structural Violence Trap: Disparities in Homicide, Chronic Disease Death, and Social Factors Across San Francisco Neighborhoods.| | View in PubMed
- The DISTANCE study: Determining the impact of social distancing on trauma epidemiology during the COVID-19 epidemic-An interrupted time-series analysis.| | View in PubMed
- Roadway features associated with elderly drivers in motor vehicle crashes.| | View in PubMed
- Designing an Information and Communications Technology Tool With and for Victims of Violence and Their Case Managers in San Francisco: Human-Centered Design Study.| | View in PubMed
- Repeat computed tomography head scan is not indicated in trauma patients taking novel anticoagulation: A multicenter study.| | View in PubMed
- "You don't want anyone who hasn't been through anything telling you what to do, because how do they know?": Qualitative analysis of case managers in a hospital-based violence intervention program.| | View in PubMed
- Effect of mass shootings on gun sales-A 20-year perspective.| | View in PubMed
- Update in sepsis guidelines: what is really new?| | View in PubMed
- A Posterolateral Approach to the Scapula for Evacuation of a Subscapular Abscess: A Case Report.| | View in PubMed
- Evaluating the Potential Benefits of Advanced Automatic Crash Notification.| | View in PubMed
- The Role of Lipopolysaccharide Structure in Monocyte Activation and Cytokine Secretion.| | View in PubMed
- Helicopter transport: help or hindrance?| | View in PubMed
- Cytokine upregulation of proteinase-activated-receptors 2 and 4 expression mediated by p38 MAP kinase and inhibitory kappa B kinase beta in human endothelial cells.| | View in PubMed
- Effects of L-canavanine, an inhibitor of inducible nitric oxide synthase, on endotoxin mediated shock in rats.| | View in PubMed