Tasce Bongiovanni, MD, MPP
Assistant Professor
Surgery
School of Medicine
tasce.bongiovanni@ucs.eu 415-514-8934
Awards
Show all (2) Hide
- Watson's Faculty Scholars, Dean's Diversity Award, UCSF School of Medicine, 2019-2021
- Phyllis J. Nusz- Maurice Galante, MD Scholarship Award, UCSF Department of Surgery, 2010-2011
Education & Training
Show all (9) Hide
- Fellowship Trauma and Acute Care Surgery San Francisco General Hospital 2019
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2019
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California, San Francisco 2019
- UCSF Health Lean Champion Training University of California, San Francisco 2019
- Fellowship Surgical Critical Care University of California, San Francisco 2018
- Surgical Residency General Surgery University of California, San Francisco 2017
- Master Health Sciences Health Services Research Yale University, School of Medicine 2015
- Master Public Policy Health Policy Harvard Kennedy School of Government 2010
- M.D. Medicine University of California, San Francisco 2010
Interests
Show all (13) Hide
- IGHS Affiliate
- trauma surgery
- transitions of care
- healthcare disparities
- Rural Health
- opioid crisis
- quality improvement
- health services research
- Native American health
- vulnerable populations
- CHESA
- perioperative analgesia
- learning health systems
Websites
Show all (2) Hide
- Department of Surgery (surgery.ucsf.edu)
- Posts on X TasceB (X.com)
Grants and Projects
Show all (3) Hide
- Delivery of Surgical Care to Vulnerable Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic, CHESA & ADGHE, 2020-2021
- UCSF Learning Health System K12 Career Development Program, NIH/AHRQ, 2019-2021
- Surgical Care for Benign Gallbladder Disease During COVID-19: Operational Barriers and Areas for Intervention at a Safety-Net Hospital, Research and Policy Initiative Award through the UCSF Center for Healthcare Value Grant, 2020-2021
Publications (82)
Top publication keywords:
Practice Patterns, Physicians'AnalgesiaIntimate Partner ViolenceAnti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-SteroidalCommunication BarriersMedicare Part DAnalgesics, OpioidWounds and InjuriesMedicareCritical IllnessDrug PrescriptionsPain ManagementCyclohexanecarboxylic AcidsTrauma CentersPain, Postoperative
-
Using the Perspectives of Advanced Practice Providers to Design Strategies to Increase Engagement of Surgical Patients in Advance Care Planning.
Annals of Surgery Open 2025 Christopher L. Johnson, Katherine E. Barnes, Alexis Colley, Jeanette Broering, Alisa Yee, Tasce Bongiovanni, Sanziana Roman, Elizabeth C. Wick -
Geriatric nutrition in the surgical patient: an American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Critical Care and Geriatric Trauma Committees clinical consensus document.
Trauma surgery & acute care open 2025 Farrell MS, Bongiovanni T, Cuschieri J, Egodage T, Elkbuli A, Gelbard R, Jawa R, Mitha S, Nassar AK, Pathak A, Peralta R, Putnam T, Stein DM -
Increasing the use of language-concordant discharge instructions in general surgery: A resident-led quality improvement initiative.
Surgery 2024 Baskin AS, Romero-Hernandez F, Trang K, Cevallos J, Hernandez S, Colley A, Record H, Dao J, Soriano I, Bongiovanni T, Wick E -
Stop The Falls! A framework for injury prevention outreach for older adults presented by the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Geriatric Trauma and Injury Prevention Committees.
Trauma surgery & acute care open 2024 Egodage T, Duncan TK, Ho VP, Joseph D, Putnam AT, Burruss S, Bongiovanni T, Knight-Davis J, Adams SD, Gorman E, Jarman MP, Ahmed N, Ratnasekera A, Prabhakaran K, Cohan C, Hornor M, Colling KP, Joseph … -
The Quality of Evidence Supporting Clinical Practice Guidelines in General Surgery: A Meta-Analysis.
JAMA surgery 2024 Abbasi AB, Valderrama A, Decker HC, Bongiovanni T, Wick EC
Show all (77 more) Hide
-
Pain Assessment in Older Adults After Traumatic Injury.
JAMA surgery 2024 Gonzalez N, Schwartz H, Menza R, Shui AM, Mackersie R, Bongiovanni T -
Impact of Hospitalizations on Problematic Medication Use Among Community-Dwelling Persons With Dementia.
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2024 Deardorff WJ, Jing B, Growdon ME, Blank LJ, Bongiovanni T, Yaffe K, Boscardin WJ, Boockvar KS, Steinman MA -
Personalized music for cognitive and psychological symptom management during mechanical ventilation in critical care: A qualitative analysis.
PloS one 2024 Menza R, Howie-Esquivel J, Bongiovanni T, Tang J, Johnson JK, Leutwyler H -
American Indian and Alaska Natives in the US Physician Workforce.
Physician Workforce Diversity 2024 Emma Grellinger, Dixie Blumenshine, Kyle Lakatos, Brooke Warren, Tasce Bongiovanni -
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Age-Specific All-Cause Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
JAMA network open 2024 Faust JS, Renton B, Bongiovanni T, Chen AJ, Sheares KD, Du C, Essien UR, Fuentes-Afflick E, Haywood T, Khera R, King T, Li SX, Lin Z, Lu Y, Marshall ADA, Ndumele CD, Opara I, Loarte-Rodriguez T, … -
Barriers and facilitators to screening for intimate partner violence at a level 1 trauma center.
Surgery 2024 Melhado C, Decker H, Schwab M, Kaki DA, Shao S, Harrison JD, Bongiovanni T -
Early Opioid Use and Postoperative Delirium Following Open Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair.
Annals of vascular surgery 2024 Gutierrez RD, Pepic L, Lancaster EM, Gasper WJ, Hiramoto JS, Conte MS, Bongiovanni T, Iannuzzi JC -
Music-Based Interventions for Symptom Management in Critically Ill, Mechanically Ventilated Adults: A Scoping Review of the Literature.
Journal of integrative and complementary medicine 2024 Menza R, Bongiovanni T, Leutwyler H, Tang J, Johnson JK, Howie-Esquivel J -
Geriatric trauma triage: optimizing systems for older adults-a publication of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Geriatric Trauma Committee.
Trauma surgery & acute care open 2024 Egodage T, Ho VP, Bongiovanni T, Knight-Davis J, Adams SD, Digiacomo J, Swezey E, Posluszny J, Ahmed N, Prabhakaran K, Ratnasekera A, Putnam AT, Behbahaninia M, Hornor M, Cohan C, Joseph B -
Use of Muscle Relaxants After Surgery in Traditional Medicare Part D Enrollees.
Drugs & aging 2024 Bongiovanni T, Gan S, Finlayson E, Ross JS, Harrison JD, Boscardin J, Steinman MA -
Disparities in Access, Management and Outcomes of Critically Ill Adult Patients with Trauma.
Critical care clinics 2024 Collins C, Bongiovanni T -
Association of Race and Ethnicity With Postoperative Gabapentinoid and Opioid Prescribing Trends for Older Adults.
The Journal of surgical research 2024 Bongiovanni T, Gan S, Finlayson E, Ross JS, Harrison JD, Boscardin WJ, Steinman MA -
Early Opioid Use and Postoperative Delirium Following Open Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair.
Annals of Vascular Surgery 2024 Richard D. Gutierrez, Lejla Pepic, Elizabeth Lancaster, Warren J. Gasper, Jade S. Hiramoto, Michael S. Conte, Tasce Bongiovanni, James Iannuzzi -
Use of Professional Interpreters for Patients With Limited English Proficiency Undergoing Surgery.
JAMA network open 2024 Cevallos J, Lee C, Bongiovanni T -
Electronic health record intervention to increase use of NSAIDs as analgesia for hospitalised patients: a cluster randomised controlled study.
BMJ health & care informatics 2023 Bongiovanni T, Pletcher MJ, Robinson A, Lancaster E, Zhang L, Behrends M, Wick E, Auerbach A -
Screening for Intimate Partner Violence in Trauma: Results of a Quality Improvement Project.
The Journal of surgical research 2023 Decker H, Schwab M, Shao S, Kaki D, Melhado C, Cuschieri J, Bongiovanni T -
Large Language Model-Based Chatbot vs Surgeon-Generated Informed Consent Documentation for Common Procedures.
JAMA network open 2023 Decker H, Trang K, Ramirez J, Colley A, Pierce L, Coleman M, Bongiovanni T, Melton GB, Wick E -
Optimizing Uptake of Multimodal Pain Management After Surgery Using the Electronic Health Record.
JAMA surgery 2023 Bongiovanni T, Lancaster E, Behrends M, Zhang L, Wick E, Auerbach A, Pletcher MJ -
A behavioral intervention to promote use of multimodal pain medication for hospitalized patients: A randomized controlled trial.
Journal of hospital medicine 2023 Bongiovanni T, Pletcher MJ, Lau C, Robinson A, Lancaster E, Zhang L, Behrends M, Wick E, Auerbach A -
Corrigendum to Surviving traumatic injury, only to die of acute drug poisoning: Should trauma centers be a path for intervention? [Surgery 170 (2021) pp 1249-54].
Surgery 2023 Bongiovanni T, Hernandez S, Ledesma Y, Menza R, Wick E, Steinman M, Mackersie R, Stein DM, Coffin PO -
Trends in the Use of Gabapentinoids and Opioids in the Postoperative Period Among Older Adults.
JAMA network open 2023 Bongiovanni T, Gan S, Finlayson E, Ross JS, Harrison JD, Boscardin WJ, Steinman MA -
Experiences with targeting inpatient advance care planning for emergency general surgery patients: A resident-led quality improvement project.
Surgery 2023 Colley A, Lin J, Pierce L, Johnson C, Bongiovanni T, Finlayson E, Sudore R, Wick EC -
Discharge Opioid Over- and Underprescription to Patients after General Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2023 Guan LS, Langnas E, Bongiovanni T, Campbell LJ, Wick EC, Guan Z -
Disparities in advance care planning rates persist among emergency general surgery patients: Current state and recommendations for improvement.
The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2023 Johnson CL, Colley A, Pierce L, Lin JA, Bongiovanni T, Roman S, Sudore RL, Wick E -
1280: SELF-SELECTED RECORDED MUSIC LISTENING FOR COGNITIVE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL HOMEOSTASIS IN CRITICAL CARE.
Critical Care Medicine 2022 Rebecca Menza, Jill Howie-Esqiuvel, Tasce Bongiovanni, Julin Tang, Julene Johnson, Heather Leutwyler -
Perioperative Gabapentin Use in Older Adults: Revisiting Multimodal Pain Management.
JAMA internal medicine 2022 Bongiovanni T, Anderson TS, Marcum ZA -
Perioperative Communication Association with Discharge Opioid Prescription in Patients with Limited English.
Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2022 Jenny Cevallos, Carmen M Lee, Tasce Bongiovanni, Isabella Gonzales -
Prevalence of Advanced Care Planning in Emergency General Surgery: Do We Know Our Patient’s Goals?.
Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2022 Christopher L Johnson, Alexis Colley, Logan Pierce, Joseph Lin, William L Koch, Tasce Bongiovanni, Sanziana A Roman, Elizabeth C Wick -
Prospective validation and application of the Trauma-Specific Frailty Index: Results of an American Association for the Surgery of Trauma multi-institutional observational trial.
The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2022 Joseph B, Saljuqi AT, Amos JD, Teichman A, Whitmill ML, Anand T, Hosseinpour H, Burruss SK, Dunn JA, Najafi K, Godat LN, Enniss TM, Shoultz TH, Egodage T, Bongiovanni T, Hazelton JP, Colling KP, … -
The Association of Limited English Proficiency With Morbidity and Mortality After Trauma.
The Journal of surgical research 2022 Castro MRH, Schwartz H, Hernandez S, Calthorpe L, Fernández A, Stein D, Mackersie RC, Menza R, Bongiovanni T -
See one, do one, teach one: a flipped classroom to make quality improvement experiential in surgical residency.
Global Surgical Education - Journal of the Association for Surgical Education 2022 Tasce Bongiovanni, Elizabeth Lancaster, Hannah Decker, Rita A. Mukhtar, Marisa Schwab, Jeanette Broering, Patricia O’Sullivan, Kenzo Hirose, Elizabeth Wick -
Prolonged use of newly prescribed gabapentin after surgery.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022 Bongiovanni T, Gan S, Finlayson E, Ross J, Harrison JD, Boscardin J, Steinman MA -
Association of Race/Ethnicity With Substance Use Testing After Trauma: A Cross-Sectional Study.
The Journal of surgical research 2022 Hernandez S, Menza R, Schwartz H, Ledesma Y, Stein DM, Mackersie R, Bongiovanni T -
Characteristics and Procedures Among Adults Discharged to Hospice After Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery in California.
JAMA network open 2022 Greenberg AL, Lin JA, Colley A, Finlayson E, Bongiovanni T, Wick EC -
Limited English Proficiency Associated With Suboptimal Pain Assessment in Hospitalized Trauma Patients.
The Journal of surgical research 2022 Schwartz H, Menza R, Lindquist K, Mackersie R, Fernández A, Stein D, Bongiovanni T -
399 Advanced Practice Provider Perspectives on Advanced Care Planning.
Journal of Clinical and Translational Science 2022 Christopher Johnson, Alexis Colley, Jeanette Broering, Tasce Bongiovanni, Sanziana Roman, Elizabeth Wick -
Lessons learned from academic medical centers' response to the COVID-19 pandemic in partnership with the Navajo Nation.
PloS one 2022 Bongiovanni T, Shamasunder S, Brown W, Rivera Carpenter C, Pantell M, Ghali B, Harrison JD -
Postoperative Respiratory Events in Surgical Patients Exposed to Opioid Analgesic Shortages Compared to Fully Matched Patients Non-exposed to Shortages.
Drug safety 2022 Rodriguez-Monguio R, Lun Z, Bongiovanni T, Chen CL, Seoane-Vazquez E -
Access to Surgical Care for Benign Gallbladder Disease During Covid-19 at a Safety-net Hospital.
Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2021 Woon Cho Kim, Mary Kathryn Abel, Hope Schwartz, Marissa Boeck, Tasce Bongiovanni, Deborah M. Stein, Sandhya B. Kumar -
Does In-Hospital Pain Prescribing Inform Postoperative Discharge?.
Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2021 Carmen M. Lee, Kevin Ward, Andy Auerbach, Elizabeth Wick, Tasce Bongiovanni -
Inequity in discharge pain management for trauma patients with limited English proficiency.
The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2021 Schwartz HEM, Matthay ZA, Menza R, Fernández A, Mackersie R, Stein DM, Bongiovanni T -
There Is No Stereotype of the Intimate Partner Violence Victim: Findings of a Screening Program At a Level I Trauma Hospital.
Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2021 Marisa E. Schwab, Hannah Decker, Shirley Shao, Micaela L. Rosser, Jane Wang, Jeremy Ho, Elizabeth C. Wick, Deborah M. Stein, Tasce Bongiovanni -
Unplanned hospital visits after ambulatory surgical care.
PloS one 2021 Bongiovanni T, Parzynski C, Ranasinghe I, Steinman MA, Ross JS -
Designing an Intimate Partner Violence Screening Program for Surgical Residents in Trauma.
The Journal of surgical research 2021 Decker H, Schwab ME, Wang J, Rosser ML, Petersen V, Berger M, Stein DM, Bongiovanni T -
Instilling Resiliency in Surgical Education: The Benefits of Longitudinal Medical Student Learning.
The Journal of surgical research 2021 Abel MK, Collins C, Lancaster EM, Poncelet A, Lin MYC, Bongiovanni T, Wick EC -
Adverse Drug Events After Hospitalization-Are We Missing the Mark?
JAMA internal medicine 2021 Bongiovanni T, Steinman MA -
Surviving traumatic injury, only to die of acute drug poisoning: Should trauma centers be a path for intervention?
Surgery 2021 Bongiovanni T, Hernandez S, Ledesma Y, Menza R, Wick E, Steinman M, Mackersie R, Stein DM, Coffin PO -
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,… -
Emergency general surgery utilization and disparities during COVID-19: an interrupted time-series analysis.
Trauma surgery & acute care open 2021 Greenberg AL, Schwartz H, Collins CR, Kelly YM, Mackersie R, Mourad M, Roberts JP, Bongiovanni T -
Patient Perceptions on Barriers and Facilitators to Accessing Low-acuity Surgery During COVID-19 Pandemic.
The Journal of surgical research 2021 Johnson CL, Schwartz H, Greenberg A, Hernandez S, Nnamani Silva ON, Wong LE, Martins DB, Broering JM, Kumar SB, Bongiovanni T, Wick EC, Roman SA -
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Association Between Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs and Operative Bleeding in the Perioperative Period.
Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2021 Bongiovanni T, Lancaster E, Ledesma Y, Whitaker E, Steinman MA, Allen IE, Auerbach A, Wick E -
Jejunal prolapse and incarceration following feeding tube exchange.
The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2020 Conroy PC, Colley A, Bongiovanni T, Chang TT, Harris H -
Factors associated with delays in discharge for trauma patients at an urban county hospital.
Trauma surgery & acute care open 2020 Cai C, Lindquist K, Bongiovanni T -
Is there variation in private payor payments to cancer surgeons? A cross-sectional study in the USA.
BMJ open 2020 Bongiovanni T, Kim SP, Kim A, Killelea B, Gross C -
Drug Screening: Are We Doing What We Should?.
Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2020 Sophia Hernandez, Rebecca Menza, Yeranui Ledesma, Elizabeth Collens Wick, Deborah Michelle Stein, Tasce Bongiovanni -
NSAIDs and Surgical Bleeding: What’s the Bottom Line?.
Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2020 Tasce Bongiovanni, Elizabeth Marie Lancaster, Yeranuí Ledesma, Evans Whitaker, Elaine Allen, Andrew Auerbach, Elizabeth Collens Wick -
Stress and the Surgical Resident in the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Journal of surgical education 2020 Collins C, Mahuron K, Bongiovanni T, Lancaster E, Sosa JA, Wick E -
Cultural influences on willingness to donate organs among urban native Americans.
Clinical transplantation 2020 Bongiovanni T, Rawlings JE, Trompeta JA, Nunez-Smith M -
Adopting best practices in post-operative analgesia prescribing in a safety-net hospital: Residents as a conduit to change.
American journal of surgery 2019 Bongiovanni T, Hansen K, Lancaster E, O'Sullivan P, Hirose K, Wick E -
How care decisions are made among interdisciplinary providers caring for critically injured patients: A qualitative study.
Surgery 2019 Stey AM, Wybourn CA, Lyndon A, Knudson MM, Dudley RA, Liu P, Bongiovanni T, Ryan GW -
Comment on "Consider Culture, Provider Characteristics Associated With Outpatient Opioid Prescribing After Surgery".
Annals of surgery 2019 Bongiovanni T, Menza R, Wick EC -
Moving to Bundled Payments: Costs of Lung Cancer Resections.
Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2019 Tasce Bongiovanni, Raymond Jean, Xiao Xu, Pamela Soulos, Jeph Herrin, Anthony W. Kim, Cary Gross -
Postoperative Pain Control: Barriers to Quality Improvement.
Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2019 Elizabeth Lancaster, Tasce Bongiovanni, Elizabeth Wick, Kenzo Hirose -
Hospital Variation in Spending for Lung Cancer Resection in Medicare Beneficiaries.
The Annals of thoracic surgery 2019 Jean RA, Bongiovanni T, Soulos PR, Chiu AS, Herrin J, Kim N, Xu X, Kim AW, Gross CP -
Residents as Key Effectors of Change in Improving Opioid Prescribing Behavior.
Journal of surgical education 2019 Lancaster E, Bongiovanni T, Lin J, Croci R, Wick E, Hirose K -
1787.
Critical Care Medicine 2019 Anne Stey, Tasce Bongiovanni, Hemal Kanzaria, Rachael Callcut -
Delay in Operative Management of Splenic Injury.
Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2018 Tasce Bongiovanni, Anne Stey, Amanda S. Conroy, Christopher Wybourn, Andre Campbell, Rachael A. Callcut -
Impact of Cost Display on Ordering Patterns for Hospital Laboratory and Imaging Services.
Journal of general internal medicine 2018 Silvestri MT, Xu X, Long T, Bongiovanni T, Bernstein SL, Chaudhry SI, Silvestri JI, Stolar M, Greene EJ, Dziura JD, Gross CP, Krumholz HM -
Unplanned Hospital Admissions after Same-Day Surgery.
Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2016 Tasce Bongiovanni, Joseph Ross, Harlan M. Krumholz, Isuru Ranasinghe, Zhenqiu Lin -
Variation in Private Payer Payments to Cancer Surgeons.
Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2016 Tasce Bongiovanni, Simon P. Kim, Cary P. Gross, Anthony W. Kim, Brigid K. Killelea -
Impact of laboratory cost display on resident attitudes and knowledge about costs.
Postgraduate medical journal 2016 Long T, Bongiovanni T, Dashevsky M, Halim A, Ross JS, Fogerty RL, Silvestri MT -
The China Patient-Centred Evaluative Assessment of Cardiac Events (China PEACE)-Prospective Study of 3-Vessel Disease: rationale and design.
BMJ open 2016 Rao C, Bongiovanni T, Li X, Gao H, Zhang H, Li J, Zhao Y, Yuan X, Hua K, Hu S, Krumholz HM, Jiang L, Zheng Z, China PEACE Collaborative Group -
Impact of price display on provider ordering: A systematic review.
Journal of hospital medicine 2015 Silvestri MT, Bongiovanni TR, Glover JG, Gross CP -
Attrition from surgical residency training: perspectives from those who left.
American journal of surgery 2015 Bongiovanni T, Yeo H, Sosa JA, Yoo PS, Long T, Rosenthal M, Berg D, Curry L, Nunez-Smith M -
Variation in surgeon payment for cancer resection.
Journal of Clinical Oncology 2015 Tasce Bongiovanni, Anthony W. Kim, Brigid K. Killelea, Simon P. Kim, Cary Philip Gross -
Bringing Specialties Together: The Power of Intra-Professional Teams.
Journal of graduate medical education 2015 Bongiovanni T, Long T, Khan AM, Siegel MD -
Impact of gluten-free camp on quality of life of children and adolescents with celiac disease.
Pediatrics 2010 Bongiovanni TR, Clark AL, Garnett EA, Wojcicki JM, Heyman MB