John Bilello, MD
HS CLIN PROF-FY
Surgery - Fresno
School of Medicine

Clinical Professor, UCSF Chief of Pediatric Trauma, Community Regional Medical Center Specialty: General Surgery, Pediatrics, Surgical Critical Care

John F. Bilello, MD, FACS, is a Clinical Professor, Department of Surgery at the University of California San Francisco Fresno, and the Chief of Pediatric Trauma at Community Regional Medical Center, UCSF Fresno Center for Medical Education and Research.

Dr. Bilello received his bachelor's degree in Natural Sciences from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD and his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine, NY. He completed residency in both general surgery and pediatrics. Upon graduating from general surgery at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C., Dr. Bilello completed his Trauma/Surgical Critical Care Fellowship with the UCSF Fresno program and continues teaching as part of the core general surgery and critical care faculty today. He has been committed to teaching general surgery, pediatrics and critical care for over 27 years.

Dr. Bilello served our country as a field surgeon in the U. S. Army, in Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm in the 18th Airborne Corps, 702nd Medical Clearing Company, 5th MASH and 20th Combat Engineer Battalion. He has been awarded by the United States Army with the National Defense Medal, Kuwait Liberation Medal (Saudi Arabia), Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait), Southwest Asia Service Medal (2 stars) and two U. S. Army Commendation Medals. He received a Customer Service Award for Patient Satisfaction at Dewitt Army Community Hospital.

Dr. Bilello has worked with residents on presentations and posters for the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST), as well as the Southwestern Surgical Congress. In 2012, Dr. Bilello received the UCSF Fresno Borba Housestaff Research Award and most recently was awarded the CRMC Care Hero Award.

Dr. Bilello is a certified instructor of Advanced Surgical Skills for Exposure in Trauma (ASSET) and is the course director at CRMC.

• Re: Weaning from mechanical ventilation in severe blunt trauma with pulmonary contusion: is oxygenation index a promising parameter?
  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2014 Bilello JF
• Predicting extubation failure in blunt trauma patients with pulmonary contusion.
  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2013 Bilello JF, Davis JW, Cagle KM, Kaups KL
• Percutaneous tracheostomy: to bronch or not to bronch--that is the question.
  The Journal of trauma 2011 Jackson LS, Davis JW, Kaups KL, Sue LP, Wolfe MM, Bilello JF, Lemaster D
• Acute ethanol intoxication and the trauma patient: hemodynamic pitfalls.
  World journal of surgery 2011 Bilello J, McCray V, Davis J, Jackson L, Danos LA
• Endovascular repair of blunt aortic injury in a patient with situs inversus and dextrocardia.
  Journal of vascular surgery 2011 Bilello JF, Birnbaum PL, Venugopal C, Fong LL
• Prehospital hypotension in blunt trauma: identifying the "crump factor".
  The Journal of trauma 2011 Bilello JF, Davis JW, Lemaster D, Townsend RN, Parks SN, Sue LP, Kaups KL, Groom T, Egbalieh B
• Interventional radiographic embolization of a traumatic pseudoaneurysm and associated arteriovenous fistulas 33 years after injury in a Vietnam combat veteran: worth the wait?
  The Journal of trauma 2010 Nowlis E, Bilello JF, Venugopal C, Rich NM
• Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome presenting as superior vena cava syndrome secondary to Coccidioides lymphadenopathy in an HIV-infected patient.
  Journal of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (Chicago, Ill. : 2002) 2008 Mortimer RB, Libke R, Eghbalieh B, Bilello JF
• Prone ventilation in trauma or surgical patients with acute lung injury and adult respiratory distress syndrome: is it beneficial?
  The Journal of trauma 2007 Davis JW, Lemaster DM, Moore EC, Eghbalieh B, Bilello JF, Townsend RN, Parks SN, Veneman WL
• Occult traumatic hemothorax: when can sleeping dogs lie?
  American journal of surgery 2005 Bilello JF, Davis JW, Lemaster DM
• Retrograde jejunojejunal intussusception secondary to metastatic melanoma.
  Mayo Clinic proceedings 2005 Bilello JF, Peterson WM
• Placement of intracranial pressure monitors: are "normal" coagulation parameters necessary?
  The Journal of trauma 2004 Davis JW, Davis IC, Bennink LD, Hysell SE, Curtis BV, Kaups KL, Bilello JF
• Are automated blood pressure measurements accurate in trauma patients?
  The Journal of trauma 2003 Davis JW, Davis IC, Bennink LD, Bilello JF, Kaups KL, Parks SN
• Cervical spinal cord injury and the need for cardiovascular intervention.
  Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) 2003 Bilello JF, Davis JW, Cunningham MA, Groom TF, Lemaster D, Sue LP
• Victims of domestic violence on the trauma service: unrecognized and underreported.
  The Journal of trauma 2003 Davis JW, Parks SN, Kaups KL, Bennink LD, Bilello JF
• Delayed pulmonary hemorrhage 17 years after gunshot wound to the chest.
  The Annals of thoracic surgery 2001 Bilello JF, Kaups KL, Davis JW
• Routine evaluation of the cervical spine in head-injured patients with dynamic fluoroscopy: a reappraisal.
  The Journal of trauma 2001 Davis JW, Kaups KL, Cunningham MA, Parks SN, Nowak TP, Bilello JF, Williams JL
• Localized autonomic abnormality: another clinical marker of blunt cervical vascular injury?
  The Journal of trauma 2001 Bilello JF, Davis JW, Kaups KL, Parks SN
• Postoperative pulmonary changes after laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
  Southern medical journal 1996 Torrington KG, Bilello JF, Hopkins TK, Hall EA
• Electroconvulsive therapy for depression in a liver transplant patient.
  Psychosomatics 1993 Showalter PE, Young SA, Bilello JF, Schafer TR, Shaver TR
• Intraosseous infusion of dobutamine and isoproterenol.
  American journal of diseases of children (1960) 1991 Bilello JF, O'Hair KC, Kirby WC, Moore JW