University of California San Francisco

Ronald B. Tesoriero, MD
Ronald B. Tesoriero, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery
Division of General Surgery
Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Acute Care Surgery
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
Director, UCSF Acute Care Surgery Fellowship
Co-Director, SICU at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital

Address

1001 Potrero Avenue, #3A31
San Francisco, CA 94110
United States

    Biography

    Ron Tesoriero, MD, FACS earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Microbiology from Miami (OH) University and his Medical Degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He completed his residency at Case Western / University Hospitals of Cleveland. He subsequently served in the United States Navy (USN) and was stationed at Naval Hospital Okinawa where he also served as the Department Head for General Surgery. He completed a fellowship in Trauma/Surgical Critical Care at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Upon completion of his fellowship he returned to active duty in the US Navy and was stationed at the Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton from which he deployed to the Philippines, Haiti, and the Persian Gulf.

    Upon completion of his military service in 2011, Dr. Tesoriero joined the faculty at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. He completed additional fellowship training in Endovascular Surgery. He served as the Associate Program Director of the Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery Fellowship and as the Chief of Critical Care Services at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. He has served regionally as a member of the Maryland Trauma Center Network and nationally on the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma on the Career Development and Annual Scientific Assembly Committees. Dr. Tesoriero joined the faculty in the UCSF Department of Surgery at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center in 2020.

    Dr. Tesoriero is certified by the American Board of Surgery in General Surgery with subspecialty certification in Surgical Critical Care. He is clinically active with extensive experience in the management of the traumatically injured, the care of diverse emergency general surgery conditions, and the management of complex critically ill patients. His main academic focus and passion has been education and he has previously developed an extensive didactic and clinical curriculum for the largest Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery Fellowship in the United States.

     

    Education

    Institution Degree Dept or School End Date
    University of California, San Francisco Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training 2021
    Arizona Heart Institute Endovascular Surgery 2012
    University of Maryland / R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center Trauma Surgery 2008
    University of Maryland / R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center Surgical Critical Care 2007
    Case Western Reserve University / University Hospitals of Cleveland General Surgery Residency 2003
    University of Cincinnati College of Medicine M.D. 1998
    Miami University B.A. Microbiology 1994

    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

    Research Narrative

    Dr. Tesoriero's clinical research interests cross all aspects of Acute Care Surgery. His main areas of investigation and interest have been the management of pelvic fracture associated hemorrhage, surgical and critical care management of severe acute pancreatitis, organ support in the critical care patient, and blunt cerebrovascular injury.

    Research Interests

    Pelvic Fracture Associated Hemorrhage

    Neurotrauma

    Blunt Cerebrovascular Injury

    Hemorrhagic Shock

    Traumatic Vascular Injury

    Extracorporeal Organ Support

     

    Publications

    MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 39
    1. The diagnosis and management of acute traumatic diaphragmatic injury: A Western Trauma Association clinical decisions algorithm.
      Schellenberg M, Coimbra R, Croft CA, Fox C, Hartwell J, Keric N, Lorenzo M, Martin MJ, Magee GA, Moore LJ, Privette AR, Schuster KM, Tesoriero R, Weinberg JA, Stein DM| | PubMed
    2. Western Trauma Association critical decisions in trauma: Damage-control resuscitation.
      Croft CA, Lorenzo M, Coimbra R, Duchesne JC, Fox C, Hartwell J, Holcomb JB, Keric N, Martin MJ, Magee GA, Moore LJ, Privette AR, Schellenberg M, Schuster KM, Tesoriero R, Weinberg JA, Stein DM| | PubMed
    3. Adult emergency resuscitative thoracotomy: A Western Trauma Association clinical decisions algorithm.
      Tesoriero R, Coimbra R, Biffl WL, Burlew CC, Croft CA, Fox C, Hartwell JL, Keric N, Lorenzo M, Martin MJ, Magee GA, Moore LJ, Privette AR, Schellenberg M, Schuster KM, Weinberg JA, Stein DM| | PubMed
    4. To close or not to close? Wound management in emergent colorectal surgery, an EAST multicenter prospective cohort study.
      Feather CB, Rehrig S, Allen R, Barth N, Kugler EM, Cullinane DC, Falank CR, Bhattacharya B, Maung AA, Seng S, Ratnasekera A, Bass GA, Butler D, Pascual JL, Srikureja D, Winicki N, Lynde J, Nowak B, Azar F, Thompson LA, Nahmias J, Manasa M, Tesoriero R, Kumar SB, Collom M, Kincaid M, Sperwer K, Santos AP, Klune JR, Turcotte J| | PubMed
    5. The Devil's in the Depot Details: Case of Iatrogenic Opioid Intoxication After Buprenorphine Injection Requiring Surgical Excision.
      Vais S, Starr N, Castro M, Brand N, Murphy A, Tesoriero R, Kryzhanovskaya I| | PubMed
    6. Sigh Ventilation in Patients With Trauma: The SiVent Randomized Clinical Trial.
      Albert RK, Jurkovich GJ, Connett J, Helgeson ES, Keniston A, Voelker H, Lindberg S, Proper JL, Bochicchio G, Stein DM, Cain C, Tesoriero R, Brown CVR, Davis J, Napolitano L, Carver T, Cipolle M, Cardenas L, Minei J, Nirula R, Doucet J, Miller PR, Johnson J, Inaba K, Kao L| | PubMed
    7. A core outcome set for appendicitis: A consensus approach utilizing modified Delphi methodology.
      Butts CA, Byerly S, Nahmias J, Gelbard R, Ziesmann M, Bruns B, Davidson GH, Di Saverio S, Esposito TJ, Fischkoff K, Joseph B, Kaafarani H, Mentula P, Podda M, Sakran JV, Salminen P, Sammalkorpi H, Sawyer RG, Skeete D, Tesoriero R, Yeh DD| | PubMed
    8. Critical traumatic brain injury is associated with worse coagulopathy.
      Cucher D, Harmon L, Myer B, Ngyuen A, Rankin T, Cook A, Hu C, Tesoriero R, Scalea T, Stein D| | PubMed
    9. 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
    10. Therapeutic anticoagulation in patients with traumatic brain injuries and pulmonary emboli.
      Chipman AM, Radowsky J, Vesselinov R, Chow D, Schwartzbauer G, Tesoriero R, Stein D| | PubMed