Amy Kwok, MD, MPH, FACS
Associate Professor
Surgery - Fresno
School of Medicine

Associate Clinical Professor, UCSF Associate Program Director, UCSF Fresno General Surgery Residency Medical Program Director, UCSF Fresno Acute Care/Trauma Surgery PA Residency Specialty: General Surgery, Critical Care Surgery

Amy Kwok, M.D., FACS, is board certified in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care.

Amy M. Kwok, MD, MPH, FACS is an Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Surgery at the University of California San Francisco Fresno, and the Associate Program Director of the General Surgery Residency Program at the UCSF Fresno Center for Medical Education and Research.

Dr. Kwok received both her masters degree in public health and her medical degree from Boston University, and completed her internship at Our Lady of Mercy Hospital. Subsequently she graduated from the General Surgery Residency Program at Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Kwok continued her Acute Care Surgery Fellowship with UCSF Fresno where she currently resides. She is board certified in both General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care.

In her role as Associate Program Director for the General Surgery Residency Program she assists the Program Director in all administrative processes from recruitment, placement, indoctrination, education, evaluations, mentoring and regulatory compliance guidelines for all residents and fellows. Dr. Kwok also serves as the lead in the curriculum development for the Surgery Skills Lab Training for residents, which is a key development tool to enhancing basic suturing and knot tying skills, both in open and laparoscopic surgery, as well as refining endoscopic and competently advanced laparoscopic skills.

Dr. Kwok joined the core faculty in the Department of Surgery in Acute Care Surgery and Surgical Critical Care at Community Regional Medical Center in 2012. In her role as teaching faculty her activities consist of quantifiable and didactic education mostly in the clinical setting where students are from a wide variety of educational levels, including medical students, residents, and fellows.

She is member of the Fresno Madera Medical Society of California Medical Association and has been invited to present both nationally and regionally for her interests in trauma and critical care.

• Prospective evaluation of admission cortisol in trauma.
  Trauma surgery & acute care open 2020 Kwok AM, Davis JW, Dirks RC, Sue LP, Wolfe MM, Kaups K
• Changes in splenic capsule with aging; beliefs and reality.
  American journal of surgery 2019 Higginson SM, Sheets NW, Sue LP, Wolfe MM, Kwok AM, Dirks RC, Doggett RS, Gopal VC, Davis JW
• The impact of obesity on severity of solid organ injury in the adult population at a Level I trauma center.
  Trauma surgery & acute care open 2019 Chen AK, Jeffcoach D, Stivers JC, McCullough KA, Dirks RC, Boehnke RJ, Sue L, Kwok AM, Wolfe MM, Davis JW
• A predictive grading scale for acute cholecystitis.
  Trauma surgery & acute care open 2019 Siada S, Jeffcoach D, Dirks RC, Wolfe MM, Kwok AM, Sue LP, Davis JW
• The southwestern surgical congress multi-center trial on suspected common duct stones.
  American journal of surgery 2019 Frazee R, Regner J, Truitt MS, Agrawal V, Swope M, Burlew CC, Dissanaike S, Vangipurum D, Bruns B, O'Meara L, Stivers J, Kwok A, Grover BT, Kothari SN, Cibari C, Dunn J, McIntyre RC, Wright F, Scherer…
• Leaders are Made, Not Born: A Leadership Development Curriculum for General Surgery Residents
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2017 Tejal Pandya, MD, Rachel Dirks, PhD, Amy Kwok, MD, FACS
• Time is now: venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in blunt splenic injury.
  American journal of surgery 2016 Kwok AM, Davis JW, Dirks RC, Wolfe MM, Kaups KL
• Post-extubation dysphagia in trauma patients: it's hard to swallow.
  American journal of surgery 2013 Kwok AM, Davis JW, Cagle KM, Sue LP, Kaups KL