Krista Kaups, MD
Professor
Surgery - Fresno
School of Medicine

krista.kaups@ucsf.edu 559-459-3770

Krista L. Kaups, MD, MSc, FACS

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Professor, UCSF Director, Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Community Regional Medical Center Program Director, Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Program, UCSF Fresno Specialties: General Surgery, Critical Care Surgery

Krista L. Kaups, MD, MSc, FACS, is a Professor of Clinical Surgery, Department of Surgery at the University of California San Francisco Fresno, Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Community Regional Medical Center and the Program Director of the Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at the UCSF Fresno Center for Medical Education and Research.

Dr. Kaups received her bachelors degree in Biochemistry at Bethel University, St. Paul, Minnesota, and her medical degree at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago. Her general surgery internship and residency were completed at the MSU Southwest Michigan Area Health Education Center; Kalamazoo, Michigan. Following residency, Dr. Kaups completed a Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts, followed by a year of research. Dr. Kaups later completed an MSc in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Dr. Kaups has participated in a number of international volunteer clinical and teaching opportunities in countries including South Sudan, Kenya, Afghanistan, Albania, Sierra Leone and Thailand. Among the topics she has taught have been trauma courses for the developing world, ventilator use for the non-intensivist, ICU care in the developing world, sepsis, surgical error, clostridium difficile, and burn care.

Dr. Kaups is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and a member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the Western Trauma Association, Surgical Critical Care Program Directors Society, Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the Southwest Surgical Association, and the International Surgical Society/IATSIC. She serves on a number of committees and workgroups in these organizations.

Education & Training

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  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2018
  • MSc Public Health London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London 2008
  • Burn Unit United States Army; Institute for Surgical Research, Brooke Army Medical Center 1991
  • Research Training Surgical Laboratory, University of Massachusetts Medical Center 1990
  • Fellowship Surgical Critical Care University of Massachusetts Medical Center 1989
  • Chief Resident General Surgery Southwest Michigan Area Health Education Center Borgess/Bronson Hospitals 1988
  • Residency General Surgery Southwest Michigan Area Health Education Center Borgess/Bronson Hospitals 1987
  • MD Internship- General Surgery Southwest Michigan Area Health Education Center Borgess/Bronson Hospitals 1984
  • BA Biochemistry Magna Cum Laude Bethel University 1979

Publications (93)

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