Marissa A. Boeck, MD, MPH
Trauma surgeon. Critical care intensivist. Global health advocate.
Dr. Marissa A. Boeck is a trauma surgeon and surgical critical care intensivist at UCSF Parnassus and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital — two of the busiest trauma centers on the West Coast. She also serves on the core leadership team of the UCSF Center for Global Surgery and Health Equity, where her work asks how surgical care can be made accessible and just on a global scale.
Her global health work is grounded in the field. As a postgraduate fellow with the Brigham and Women's Center for Surgery and Public Health and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine's Center for Global Health, she spent a year in Bolivia building a hospital-based trauma registry and helping further develop the city's trauma and emergency response system. That experience continues to shape how she thinks about systems, equity, and what it takes to build durable surgical capacity in the places it is needed most.
She earned her BA in Philosophy summa cum laude from the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College, City University of New York, and her MD from Weill Cornell Medical College. She completed her general surgery residency at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia, where as a research resident she earned a Master of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as a Global Health Scholar — obtaining a certificate in Global Health and concentrating in Health Systems & Policy. She then joined UCSF for a two-year Surgical Critical Care and Trauma Surgery Fellowship before staying on as faculty.