Dr. Marissa Boeck to Join Department of Surgery Faculty
We are pleased to announce that Marissa A. Boeck, MD, MPH, currently a clinical fellow in Trauma and Emergency Surgery at ZSFG, will be joining our faculty in the fall.
Dr. Boeck has been appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Division of General Surgery. She will serve as an acute care surgeon at Parnassus and as an acute care and trauma surgeon and surgical critical care intensivist at ZSFG. She will also serve as a member of the core leadership team of the new UCSF Center for Global Surgery and Health Equity.
Dr. Boeck earned her BA in Philosophy from the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College, City University of New York, where she graduated summa cum laude, and her MD from Weill Cornell Medical College. She completed her general surgery residency at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia. As a research resident she earned a Master of Public Health degree at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as a Global Health Scholar, obtaining a Global Health certificate and concentrating in Health Systems & Policy.
As a post-graduate fellow at the Brigham and Women’s Center for Surgery and Public Health and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s Center for Global Health, Dr. Boeck spent a year in Bolivia working on hospital-based trauma registry implementation and further developing the city's trauma and emergency response system. After completion of her residency, Dr. Boeck joined UCSF for a two-year Surgical Critical Care and Trauma Surgery Fellowship.
Dr. Boeck's interests include global public health, especially as it relates to injury prevention (road traffic, gun violence), vulnerable populations, emergency response, and trauma and surgical system strengthening in low-resource settings, diversity in the surgical workforce, and the power of social media in medicine. She is the founder and inaugural chair of the American College of Surgeons Resident and Associate Society Global Surgery Work Group, which highlights her dedication to mentorship and the expansion of trainee engagement in global surgery opportunities.
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Boeck on her UCSF Surgery faculty appointment!