Dr. Marissa Boeck 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 a Co-Director of the Center for Health Equity in Surgery and Anesthesia (CHESA), as well as the Director of General Surgery/Trauma within the Center. Her professional passions 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. She also champions diversity in the surgical workforce, and the power of social media in medicine. Her research spans both domestic in the United States and abroad across multiple countries including Bolivia, Kenya, Cameroon, Nepal, Uganda, and Tanzania.
Dr. Boeck earned her BA in Philosophy from the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College, City University of New York, her MD from Weill Cornell Medical College, and her Master of Public Health degree at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed her general surgery residency at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia and a two-year fellowship in Surgical Critical Care and Trauma Surgery at UCSF.