Lawrence Sue, MD, FACS
Professor
Surgery - Fresno
School of Medicine

Assistant Clinical Professor, UCSF Specialty: General Surgery, Critical Care Surgery

Lawrence Sue, MD, FACS, is an Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Surgery at the University of California San Francisco Fresno, UCSF Fresno Center for Medical Education and Research.

Dr. Sue received his bachelors degree in Biology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and his medical degree at the University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, Illinois, where he was elected into the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. Dr. Sue not only completed his General Surgery Internship and Residency Program at UCSF Fresno but he went on to complete both his Surgical Critical Care Fellowship and Trauma Surgery Fellowship at UCSF Fresno as well.

Dr. Sue has been a core faculty member in the Department of Surgery since 2007. His clinical and didactic teaching involve medical students, residents and fellows in Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery. Dr. Sue’s mentoring activities include, operating, rounding, and evaluating throughout the academic year and encouraging improvement in medical students, residents and fellows technical skills as well as encouraging involvement in research. Dr. Sue’s focus includes; general surgery, trauma, surgical critical care, medical education, trauma prevention, laparoscopy, tactical medicine and prehospital trauma care.

Dr. Sue is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and serves as a member of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, and the Fresno Madera Medical Society/California Medical Society.

• 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
• Attempting to validate the overtriage/undertriage matrix at a Level I trauma center.
  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2017 Davis JW, Dirks RC, Sue LP, Kaups KL
• Attempting to validate the over/under triage matrix at a level I trauma center.
  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2017 Davis JW, Dirks RC, Sue LP, Kaups KL
• Myths and Misinformation About Gunshot Wounds may Adversely Affect Proper Treatment.
  World journal of surgery 2015 Hafertepen SC, Davis JW, Townsend RN, Sue LP, Kaups KL, Cagle KM
• An acute care surgery fellowship benefits a general surgical residency.
  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2014 Dinan KA, Davis JW, Wolfe MM, Sue LP, Cagle KM
• Isolated free fluid on abdominal computed tomography in blunt trauma: watch and wait or operate?
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2014 Gonser-Hafertepen LN, Davis JW, Bilello JF, Ballow SL, Sue LP, Cagle KM, Venugopal C, Hafertepen SC, 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Pediatric restraint use in motor vehicle collisions: reduction of deaths without contribution to injury.
  Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) 2000 Tyroch AH, Kaups KL, Sue LP, O'Donnell-Nicol S
• Iliofemoral venous injuries: an indication for prophylactic caval filter placement.
  The Journal of trauma 1995 Sue LP, Davis JW, Parks SN