Alyssa Murillo, MD, MSc
Resident
Surgery
School of Medicine

Alyssa Murillo, MD MS, MAEd is a integrated 4+3 cardiothoracic resident at UCSF. Dr. Murillo has a BS in Neuroscience from the University of Rochester and her MS in Medical Physiology from Loyola University. She received her MD from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2020. During residency, she received the UCSF Intuitive Surgical Simulation Based Fellowship and completed a Masters of Eduction at UC Berkeley. She is interested in robotic surgery education and trainee assessment through EPAs.

Awards

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• Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, 2020

Education & Training

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• Surgical Resident University of California San Francisco 07/2027
• MAEd Education UC Berkeley 2024
• MD University of Illinois at Chicago 05/2020
• MS Medical Physiology Loyola University 05/2016
• BS Neuroscience University of Rochester 05/2015

Publications (11)

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Competency-Based EducationInternship and ResidencyEducation, DistanceCarcinoma, Non-Small-Cell LungGeneral SurgeryNeoplasm StagingFaculty, MedicalEducation, Medical, GraduateClinical CompetenceExtracellular VesiclesRobotic Surgical ProceduresLung NeoplasmsSpecializationPositron-Emission TomographyEducational Measurement

• Comparing High and Low Faculty EPA Assessment Completers: Insights to Improve EPA Implementation.
  Journal of surgical education 2025 Murillo AD, Gomes C, Lee YLS, Faktor KL, Brian RJ, Ten Cate O, Alseidi AA, O'Sullivan PS, Vu LT
• Comparison of conventional and robotic-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy for esophageal cancer
  Mini-invasive Surg 2025 Murillo A, Brian R, Oh DS.
• Bridging to orthotopic heart transplant: Reducing the risk of intra-operative blood loss.
  JHLT open 2025 Miller P, Akcelik A, Murillo A, Baskin A, Merriman A, Arammash M, Kiran S, Smith J, Fiedler AG
• Ambiguity in robotic surgical instruction: lessons from remote and in-person simulation.
  Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice 2025 Brian R, Sterponi L, Murillo A, Oh D, Chern H, Silverman E, O'Sullivan P
• A multi-institutional study from the United States Resident OPerative Experience Consortium examining factors influencing vascular surgery specialization among general surgery residents.
  Journal of vascular surgery 2024 Cui CL, Murillo AD, Coleman DM, Burton E, Richmond RE, Layne D, Cortez AR, Kim Y, United States Resident OPerative Experience (ROPE) Consortium

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• Consensus guidelines on the bedside assistant skills required in robotic surgery.
  Surgical endoscopy 2024 Brian R, Murillo A, Gomes C, Chern H, Oh D, O'Sullivan PS
• Global Surgical Education - Journal of the Association for Surgical Education
  Characterizing narrative feedback and predictors of feedback content on an entrustable professional activity (EPA) assessment tool 2024 Murillo, AD., Gozali, A., Brian, R., Highet, A., Gomes, C., ten Cate, O., Alseidi, A., O' Sullivan, P., Vu, L.
• Comparing observed and preferred instruction in robotic surgery.
  Surgery 2024 Brian R, Murillo A, Oh DS, Chern H, O'Sullivan PS
• Global Surgical Education
  Artificial intelligence and robotic surgical education 2024 Brian, R., Murillo, AD., Gomes, C., Alseidi, A.
• PET Standardized Uptake Value May Influence Surgical Planning for Clinical Stage IA Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.
  The Annals of thoracic surgery 2023 Murillo AD, Kratz JR
• Commentary: Reversing the irreversible ischemic fibrosis with extracellular vesicle therapy.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2021 Murillo AD, Nguyen TC