Biography
Kate Chomsky-Higgins is a Resident Surgeon in the UCSF East Bay General Surgery Program. She earned her BA from Duke University in 2002, and worked in wilderness therapy and social services before deciding to pursue a career in medicine. She graduated from the UCSF School of Medicine and has a Masters’ Degree in Global Health Sciences from UCSF.
Education
Duke University, B.A., Linguistics and Russian, 2002
UCSF, M.S., Global Health Sciences, 2012
UCSF School of Medicine, M.D., 2013
UCSF East Bay General Surgery, 2013-Present
UCSF Endocrine Surgery Research
Clinical Interests
Burden of Surgical Disease
Surgical Infrastructure
Endocrine Surgical Disease
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Foreign Languages Spoken
Spanish
Program Affiliations
UCSF Endocrine Surgery
Book Chapters
Kathryn H. Chomsky-Higgins and Richard A. Gosselin. Beyond the Disability-Adjusted Life Year: Trauma Burden and the Socioeconomic Impact of Disability. Ramazzotti, Arthur. Developing Countries: Political, Economic and Social Issues, 2013
Podium Presentation (scheduled): Less is more: cost-effectiveness analysis of surveillance strategies for small, nonfunctional, radiographically benign adrenal incidentalomas. American Association of Endocrine Surgeons Annual Meeting 2017
Poster: Neglected Stepchild No Longer: Advocacy for Surgery on the Global Health Agenda. University of California Global Health Day 2013
Poster: The Non-Pneumatic Anti-Shock Garment in Zambia: a comparison of two regions. UCSF Medical Student Research Poster Symposium 2009
Poster: Analysis of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Number and Function in Osteoblast-Specific Hif1a and VHL Knock- Out Mice. Harvard Stem Cell Institute Conference 2008
In the News
Research Narrative
Kate is currently working with the UCSF Endocrine Surgery Department on a number of clinical research topics including postoperative pain management and opiate use reduction, management of adrenal masses incidentally discovered on cross-sectional imaging, and characterization of the burden of endocrine surgical disease in Cameroon. The latter project is in collaboration with the Center for Global Surgical Studies.
Research Interests
Surgical Health Systems Strengthening