Nancy Parks, MD
Associate Professor
Surgery - Fresno
School of Medicine

Associate Clinical Professor, UCSF Associate Program Director, UCSF Fresno Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery Fellowship Program Specialty: General Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, Trauma Surgery

Nancy Parks, MD, FACS, is an Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Surgery at the University of California San Francisco Fresno, and the Associate Program Director for the Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery Fellowship Program at the UCSF Fresno Center for Medical Education and Research.

Dr. Parks received her medical degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska and completed her General Surgery Residency Program at UCSF Fresno. Subsequently, Dr. Parks completed a Trauma and Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

Dr. Parks joined the core faculty in the Department of Surgery in General Surgery and Critical Care Surgery at Community Regional Medical Center in 2014. In her role as faculty her clinical activities include attending on the Acute Care Surgery team, the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (ICU) team, and the Trauma ICU team. In addition to her clinical activities, her involvement as a teaching practitioner consist of clinical and didactic teaching involving medical students, general surgery residents and Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery fellows.

In her role as the Associate Program Director for the Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery Fellowships she not only mentors but helps design the curriculum for fellows, including conferences and clinical rotations.

Dr. Parks has a particular interest in mentoring women residents and has co-coordinated the East Bay Women in Surgery Group. This group includes medical students, residents, and attendings from the East Bay. Her objective is to foster increased connections among women surgeons and also directly address and discuss issues pertinent to female medical students and residents planning their careers in surgery.

Dr. Parks is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and serves as a active member of numerous professional societies including the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, East Bay Surgical Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine and the Association for Academic Surgery.

• Adherence to a simplified management algorithm reduces morbidity and mortality after penetrating colon injuries: a 15-year experience.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2012 Sharpe JP, Magnotti LJ, Weinberg JA, Parks NA, Maish GO, Shahan CP, Fabian TC, Croce MA
• Use of computed tomography in the emergency room to evaluate blunt cerebrovascular injury.
  Advances in surgery 2012 Parks NA, Croce MA
• Observation for nonoperative management of blunt liver injuries: how long is long enough?
  The Journal of trauma 2011 Parks NA, Davis JW, Forman D, Lemaster D
• Update on imaging for acute appendicitis.
  The Surgical clinics of North America 2011 Parks NA, Schroeppel TJ
• Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis with Clinically Evident Splenomegaly in an Immunocompetent Host, First Case Reported in the literature.
  McGill journal of medicine : MJM : an international forum for the advancement of medical sciences by students 2009 Bird GR, Libke RD, Billelo JF, Parks NA, Pollard JS
• Effects of collagen nerve guide on neuroma formation and neuropathic pain in a rat model.
  American journal of surgery 2007 Tyner TR, Parks N, Faria S, Simons M, Stapp B, Curtis B, Sian K, Yamaguchi KT
• Induction of regulatory T cells from mature T cells by allogeneic thymic epithelial cells in vitro.
  Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation 2006 Sun Y, Ge BS, Kasai M, Diffendaffer C, Parks N, Li H, Peng J, Langnas AN, Zhao Y