University of California San Francisco

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Marissa
Boeck
MD, 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

Address

1001 Potrero Avenue, #3A33
San Francisco, CA 94110
United States

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 415-502-4745

ORCID: 0000-0002-9569-8493

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.

Awards & Honors

Award Conferred By Date
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

Education

Institution Degree Dept or School End Date
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

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

  1. Human-centered Injury Thrivorship Pathway for Survivors of Physical Trauma (NCT06292039)
    Related Conditions: Injury Traumatic, Survivorship, Trauma Injury| Start Date: | End Date:

Foreign Languages Spoken

Spanish

Program Affiliations

In the News

UCSF Trauma Surgeons Among Leading Voices Working to Stem Tide of Gun Violence in the U.S.
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 34
  1. Promoting Resident Education Priorities With an Acute Care Surgery Service Dashboard.
    Trang K, Pierce L, Wick EC, Vu L, Dicker R, Boeck MA, Garber K, Hirose K| | PubMed
  2. Subclavian line infiltration causing neck compartment syndrome and bradycardic arrest: A case report.
    Bucyk TB, Collins CR, Macuja JT, Boeck MA, Wong JK| | PubMed
  3. Invited Commentary: Defining the Surgical Trainee's Role in Global Surgery.
    Boeck MA| | PubMed
  4. In-Hospital Obstetric Delays in Rural Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of a Hospital Cohort.
    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| | PubMed
  5. 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".
    Boeck MA, Ssenyonjo H, Kobusingye OC| | PubMed
  6. Outcomes of Early Versus Late Tracheostomy in Patients With COVID-19: A Multinational Cohort Study.
    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, Pêgo-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, Yánez Benítez C, Weiser TG, Barry M, Boeck M, Farrell M, Greenberg A, Miller P, Park P, Camazine M, Dillon D, Smith RN| | PubMed
  7. COVID-19, Racial Injustice, and Medical Student Engagement With Global Health: A Single-Institution Survey.
    Miller P, Laverde R, Thompson A, Park P, Ozgediz D, Boeck MA| | PubMed
  8. The Third Delay in General Surgical Care in a Regional Referral Hospital in Soroti, Uganda.
    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| | PubMed
  9. Outcomes after emergency general surgery and trauma care in incarcerated individuals: An EAST multicenter study.
    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| | PubMed
  10. Evaluating Shifts in Perception After a Pilot Trauma Quality Improvement Training Course in Cameroon.
    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| | PubMed
  11. The Structural Violence Trap: Disparities in Homicide, Chronic Disease Death, and Social Factors Across San Francisco Neighborhoods.
    Boeck MA, Wei W, Robles AJ, Nwabuo AI, Plevin RE, Juillard CJ, Bibbins-Domingo K, Hubbard A, Dicker RA| | PubMed
  12. Turning value into action: Healthcare workers using digital media advocacy to drive change.
    Boeck MA, Juillard CJ, Dicker RA, Joseph BA, Sakran JV| | PubMed
  13. The DISTANCE study: Determining the impact of social distancing on trauma epidemiology during the COVID-19 epidemic-An interrupted time-series analysis.
    Matthay ZA, Kornblith AE, Matthay EC, Sedaghati M, Peterson S, Boeck M, Bongiovanni T, Campbell A, Chalwell L, Colwell C, Farrell MS, Kim WC, Knudson MM, Mackersie R, Li L, Nunez-Garcia B, Langness S, Plevin RE, Sammann A, Tesoriero R, Stein DM, Kornblith LZ| | PubMed
  14. Surgical and Trauma Capacity Assessment in Rural Haryana, India.
    Bhatia MB, Mohan SC, Blair KJ, Boeck MA, Bhalla A, Sharma S, Helenowski I, Tatebe LC, Nwomeh BC, Swaroop M| | PubMed
  15. The Bolivian trauma patient's experience: A qualitative needs assessment.
    Rook JM, Wood E, Boeck MA, Blair KJ, Monroy A, Ludi E, Keller EJ, Victorson D, Foíanini E, Swaroop M| | PubMed
  16. Baseline Patient Safety Culture in Cameroon: Setting a Foundation for Trauma Quality Improvement.
    Ding K, Nguyen N, Carvalho M, Dissak Delon FN, Mekolo D, Nkusu D, Tchekep MS, Oke RA, Mbianyor MA, Yenshu EV, Boeck M, Collins C, Jackson N, Mefire AC, Juillard C| | PubMed
  17. What is trauma? Qualitatively assessing stakeholder perceptions in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.
    Blair KJ, Monroy A, Rook JM, Wood E, Foianini JE, Haider AH, Swaroop M, Boeck MA| | PubMed
  18. Global Impact of Social Media on Women in Surgery.
    Corsini EM, Boeck M, Hughes KA, Logghe HJ, Pitt SC, Stamp N, Antonoff MB| | PubMed
  19. Ensuring safe surgical care across resource settings via surgical outcomes data & quality improvement initiatives.
    Eyob B, Boeck MA, FaSiOen P, Cawich S, Kluger MD| | PubMed
  20. Geriatric Trauma in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
    Ludi E, Boeck M, South S, Monasterio J, Swaroop M, Foianini E| | PubMed
  21. SOSAS Study in Rural India: Using Accredited Social Health Activists as Enumerators.
    Cherukupalli S, Bhatia MB, Boeck MA, Blair KJ, Nagarajan N, Gupta S, Tatebe LC, Sharma S, Bhalla A, Nwomeh BC, Swaroop M| | PubMed
  22. Open abdomen management and outcomes: two case reports from western Kenya and a review of literature from Africa.
    Mwita C, Negesa R, Boeck M, Wandera A| | PubMed
  23. American College of Surgeons Member Involvement in Global Surgery: Results from the 2015 Operation Giving Back Survey.
    Boeck MA, Goodman LF, Lin Y, Wilczak B, Tefera G| | PubMed
  24. The academic tweet: Twitter as a tool to advance academic surgery.
    Logghe HJ, Selby LV, Boeck MA, Stamp NL, Chuen J, Jones C| | PubMed
  25. Best Practices for Surgeons' Social Media Use: Statement of the Resident and Associate Society of the American College of Surgeons.
    Logghe HJ, Boeck MA, Gusani NJ, Hardaway JC, Hughes KA, Mouawad NJ, Kulaylat AN, Hoffman RL, Turner P, Jones C, Leichtle SW| | PubMed
  26. The development and implementation of a layperson trauma first responder course in La Paz, Bolivia: A pilot study.
    Boeck MA, Callese TE, Nelson SK, Schuetz SJ, Fuentes Bazan C, Saavedra Laguna JMP, Shapiro MB, Issa NM, Swaroop M| | PubMed
  27. Acute care surgery’s role in expanding the surgical workforce in Latin America
    Peck G, Blitzer D, Boeck MA, de Moya M, Ferrada P, Vaz Ferreira R, Gracias V, Meara JG, Mejia Toro D, Ribeiro M, Rodas E, Sakran JV, Schroeder ME, Milena del Valle A, Zakrison TL| | UCSF Research Profile
  28. Assessment of Surgical and Trauma Capacity in Potosí, Bolivia.
    Blair KJ, Boeck MA, Gallardo Barrientos JL, Hidalgo López JL, Helenowski IB, Nwomeh BC, Shapiro MB, Swaroop M| | PubMed
  29. Decoding Twitter: Understanding the History, Instruments, and Techniques for Success.
    Logghe HJ, Boeck MA, Atallah SB| | PubMed
  30. Assessing access to surgical care in Nepal via a cross-sectional, countrywide survey.
    Boeck MA, Nagarajan N, Gupta S, Varadaraj V, Groen RS, Shrestha S, Gurung S, Kushner AL, Nwomeh B, Swaroop M| | PubMed
  31. Implementation of a Hospital-Based Trauma Registry in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia: Methodology, Preliminary Results, and Lessons Learned
    Boeck MA, Blair KJ, Foianini JE, Perry HB, Mata LV, Aboutanos MB, Haider AH, Swaroop M| | UCSF Research Profile
  32. The Role of Public Health in a Global Surgery Fellowship.
    Boeck MA, Nagarajan N, Swaroop M| | PubMed
  33. Resident awareness of documentation requirements and reimbursement: a multi-institutional survey.
    Yount KW, Reames BN, Kensinger CD, Boeck MA, Thompson PW, Forrester JD, Upchurch GR, Gauger PG, Kron IL, Lau CL| | PubMed
  34. Incremental increase in VEGFR1⁺ hematopoietic progenitor cells and VEGFR2⁺ endothelial progenitor cells predicts relapse and lack of tumor response in breast cancer patients.
    Jain S, Ward MM, O'Loughlin J, Boeck M, Wiener N, Chuang E, Cigler T, Moore A, Donovan D, Lam C, Cobham MV, Schneider S, Christos P, Baergen RN, Swistel A, Lane ME, Mittal V, Rafii S, Vahdat LT| | PubMed