Marissa Boeck, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Surgery
School of Medicine

She is a Co-Director of the Center for Health Equity in Surgery and Anesthesia (CHESA), as well as the Director of General Surgery/Trauma within the Center and is a member of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Emergency and Trauma Care. She has a B.A. in Philosophy from the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College, and received her M.D. from Weill Cornell Medical College in 2011. Dr. Boeck completed her general surgical residency training at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia in 2018, during which time she obtained a Master of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the first of two research years away from clinical duties. The second was spent in Santa Cruz, Bolivia working on hospital-based trauma registry implementation, and developing the city's trauma and emergency response system.

Dr. Boeck's professional passions center around global public health, especially as it relates to injury prevention (road traffic, firearm-related violence), vulnerable and marginalized populations, emergency response, and trauma and surgical system strengthening in low-resource environments. She also focuses on exploring trauma survivorship with a core focus on and inclusion of patients and communities, determining how best to ensure our patients not only survive but thrive after their initial injuries. She champions diversity in the surgical workforce, and the power of social media in medicine and research. Her research spans both domestic in California and the United States and abroad across multiple countries including Bolivia, Kenya, Cameroon, and Tanzania.

• Global Neurotrauma Surveillance: Are National Databases Overrated? Comment on "Neurotrauma Surveillance in National Registries of Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review and Comparative Analysis of Data Dictionaries".
  International journal of health policy and management 2022 Boeck MA, Ssenyonjo H, Kobusingye OC
• Outcomes of Early Versus Late Tracheostomy in Patients With COVID-19: A Multinational Cohort Study.
  Critical care explorations 2022 Harrell Shreckengost CS, Foianini JE, Moron Encinas KM, Tola Guarachi H, Abril K, Amin D, Berkowitz D, Castater CA, Douglas JM, Grant AA, Khullar OV, Lane AN, Lin A, Niroula A, Nizam A, Rashied A, …
• COVID-19, Racial Injustice, and Medical Student Engagement With Global Health: A Single-Institution Survey.
  The Journal of surgical research 2022 Miller P, Laverde R, Thompson A, Park P, Ozgediz D, Boeck MA
• The Third Delay in General Surgical Care in a Regional Referral Hospital in Soroti, Uganda.
  World journal of surgery 2022 Starr S, Kim WC, Oke R, Carvalho M, Ledesma Y, Okullu S, Ariokot MG, Wange AH, Agwang E, Ekuchu P, Boeck M, Juillard C, Ajiko MM, Dicker RA
• Outcomes after emergency general surgery and trauma care in incarcerated individuals: An EAST multicenter study.
  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2022 Bryant MK, Tatebe LC, Siva NR, Udekwu PO, Wurzelmann M, Crandall ML, Zuniga YD, Tran V, Santos A, Krause C, Turay D, Nordham KD, Taghavi S, Dreesen EB, Scarlet S, Snyder A, Applewhite M, Patel P, …
• Evaluating Shifts in Perception After a Pilot Trauma Quality Improvement Training Course in Cameroon.
  The Journal of surgical research 2022 Nguyen NT, Ding K, Oke R, Tanjong MS, Mbuh L, Mbianyor MA, Carvalho M, Dissak Delon FN, Boeck M, Collins C, Yenshu EV, Etoundi GA, Juillard C, Mefire AC
• The DISTANCE study: Determining the impact of social distancing on trauma epidemiology during the COVID-19 epidemic-An interrupted time-series analysis.
  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2021 Matthay ZA, Kornblith AE, Matthay EC, Sedaghati M, Peterson S, Boeck M, Bongiovanni T, Campbell A, Chalwell L, Colwell C, Farrell MS, Kim WC, Knudson MM, Mackersie R, Li L, Nunez-Garcia B, Langness S,…
• Surgical and Trauma Capacity Assessment in Rural Haryana, India.
  Annals of global health 2021 Bhatia MB, Mohan SC, Blair KJ, Boeck MA, Bhalla A, Sharma S, Helenowski I, Tatebe LC, Nwomeh BC, Swaroop M
• The Bolivian trauma patient's experience: A qualitative needs assessment.
  Injury 2020 Rook JM, Wood E, Boeck MA, Blair KJ, Monroy A, Ludi E, Keller EJ, Victorson D, Foíanini E, Swaroop M
• Baseline Patient Safety Culture in Cameroon: Setting a Foundation for Trauma Quality Improvement.
  The Journal of surgical research 2020 Ding K, Nguyen N, Carvalho M, Dissak Delon FN, Mekolo D, Nkusu D, Tchekep MS, Oke RA, Mbianyor MA, Yenshu EV, Boeck M, Collins C, Jackson N, Mefire AC, Juillard C
• Global Impact of Social Media on Women in Surgery.
  The American surgeon 2020 Corsini EM, Boeck M, Hughes KA, Logghe HJ, Pitt SC, Stamp N, Antonoff MB
• Ensuring safe surgical care across resource settings via surgical outcomes data & quality improvement initiatives.
  International journal of surgery (London, England) 2019 Eyob B, Boeck MA, FaSiOen P, Cawich S, Kluger MD
• Geriatric Trauma in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
  The Journal of surgical research 2019 Ludi E, Boeck M, South S, Monasterio J, Swaroop M, Foianini E
• SOSAS Study in Rural India: Using Accredited Social Health Activists as Enumerators.
  Annals of global health 2019 Cherukupalli S, Bhatia MB, Boeck MA, Blair KJ, Nagarajan N, Gupta S, Tatebe LC, Sharma S, Bhalla A, Nwomeh BC, Swaroop M
• Open abdomen management and outcomes: two case reports from western Kenya and a review of literature from Africa.
  The Pan African medical journal 2019 Mwita C, Negesa R, Boeck M, Wandera A
• American College of Surgeons Member Involvement in Global Surgery: Results from the 2015 Operation Giving Back Survey.
  World journal of surgery 2018 Boeck MA, Goodman LF, Lin Y, Wilczak B, Tefera G
• The academic tweet: Twitter as a tool to advance academic surgery.
  The Journal of surgical research 2018 Logghe HJ, Selby LV, Boeck MA, Stamp NL, Chuen J, Jones C
• Best Practices for Surgeons' Social Media Use: Statement of the Resident and Associate Society of the American College of Surgeons.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2017 Logghe HJ, Boeck MA, Gusani NJ, Hardaway JC, Hughes KA, Mouawad NJ, Kulaylat AN, Hoffman RL, Turner P, Jones C, Leichtle SW
• The development and implementation of a layperson trauma first responder course in La Paz, Bolivia: A pilot study.
  Injury 2017 Boeck MA, Callese TE, Nelson SK, Schuetz SJ, Fuentes Bazan C, Saavedra Laguna JMP, Shapiro MB, Issa NM, Swaroop M
• Acute care surgery’s role in expanding the surgical workforce in Latin America
  ACS Bulletin 2017 Peck G, Blitzer D, Boeck MA, de Moya M, Ferrada P, Vaz Ferreira R, Gracias V, Meara JG, Mejia Toro D, Ribeiro M, Rodas E, Sakran JV, Schroeder ME, Milena del Valle A, Zakrison TL
• Assessment of Surgical and Trauma Capacity in Potosí, Bolivia.
  Annals of global health 2017 Blair KJ, Boeck MA, Gallardo Barrientos JL, Hidalgo López JL, Helenowski IB, Nwomeh BC, Shapiro MB, Swaroop M
• Decoding Twitter: Understanding the History, Instruments, and Techniques for Success.
  Annals of surgery 2016 Logghe HJ, Boeck MA, Atallah SB
• Assessing access to surgical care in Nepal via a cross-sectional, countrywide survey.
  Surgery 2016 Boeck MA, Nagarajan N, Gupta S, Varadaraj V, Groen RS, Shrestha S, Gurung S, Kushner AL, Nwomeh B, Swaroop M
• Implementation of a Hospital-Based Trauma Registry in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia: Methodology, Preliminary Results, and Lessons Learned
  Panamerican Journal of Trauma, Critical Care & Emergency Surgery 2016 Boeck MA, Blair KJ, Foianini JE, Perry HB, Mata LV, Aboutanos MB, Haider AH, Swaroop M
• The Role of Public Health in a Global Surgery Fellowship.
  Journal of surgical education 2015 Boeck MA, Nagarajan N, Swaroop M
• Resident awareness of documentation requirements and reimbursement: a multi-institutional survey.
  The Annals of thoracic surgery 2013 Yount KW, Reames BN, Kensinger CD, Boeck MA, Thompson PW, Forrester JD, Upchurch GR, Gauger PG, Kron IL, Lau CL
• Incremental increase in VEGFR1⁺ hematopoietic progenitor cells and VEGFR2⁺ endothelial progenitor cells predicts relapse and lack of tumor response in breast cancer patients.
  Breast cancer research and treatment 2011 Jain S, Ward MM, O'Loughlin J, Boeck M, Wiener N, Chuang E, Cigler T, Moore A, Donovan D, Lam C, Cobham MV, Schneider S, Christos P, Baergen RN, Swistel A, Lane ME, Mittal V, Rafii S, Vahdat LT