William Dominic, MD
HS CLIN PROF-FY
Surgery - Fresno
School of Medicine

Clinical Professor, UCSF Director, Leon S. Peters Burn Center, Community Regional Medical Center Specialties: General Surgery, Critical Care

William J. Dominic, MD, FACS, is a Clinical Professor, Department of Surgery at the University of California San Francisco Fresno, and the Director of the Leon S. Peters Burn Center at Community Regional Medical Center, UCSF Fresno Center for Medical Education and Research.

Dr. Dominic received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and completed his residency in general surgery at the University of Colorado, Denver. Subsequently, Dr. Dominic completed the Burns Fellowship Program at the University of Colorado, Denver and a Burns Clinical Research Fellowship at the University of California, San Diego.

Dr. Dominic currently serves as the Director of the Leon S. Peters Burn Center at the Community Regional Medical Center, known as a major regional burn center. As director he is involved in developing new protocols and techniques for burn care. As a core faculty member for the Department of Surgery he has been committed to teaching general surgery and critical care for over 37 years. His clinical and didactic teaching involve medical students, residents and fellows in Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery. His focus includes; emergency, general surgery, trauma and critical care services with a broad variety of operations, including laparoscopic and complex abdomen thoracic cases.

Dr. Dominic’s interests in research include resuscitation. Since August 2012, he has been involved in multi-center trails sponsored by the U.S. Army Department of Defense, researching transfusion thresholds in burn patients.

Dr. Dominic is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and a member of the International Society for Burn Injuries, the American Burn Association, and the Fresno Madera Medical Society/California Medical Society.

• Developing a focused scald-prevention program.
  Journal of burn care & research : official publication of the American Burn Association 2006 Cagle KM, Davis JW, Dominic W, Ebright S, Gonzales W
• Base deficit as an indicator or resuscitation needs in patients with burn injuries.
  The Journal of burn care & rehabilitation 1998 Kaups KL, Davis JW, Dominic WJ
• Comparison of wick and fibreoptic catheters in measurement of interstitial pressures in burned extremities.
  Burns, including thermal injury 1988 Dominic WJ, Field TO, Hansbrough JF
• Sulfuric acid burns in a child: histologic examination as an indication of wound depth.
  The Journal of burn care & rehabilitation 1987 Dominic WJ, Field TO, Hansbrough JF
• An inherited enzyme deficiency resulting in hyperammonaemia and coma in a burn patient.
  Burns, including thermal injury 1987 Field TO, Dominic WJ, Hansbrough JF
• Biosynthetic skin substitute versus frozen human cadaver allograft for temporary coverage of excised burn wounds.
  The Journal of trauma 1987 Purdue GF, Hunt JL, Gillespie RW, Hansbrough JF, Dominic WJ, Robson MC, Smith DJ, MacMillan BG, Waymac JP, Herndon DN
• Clinical experience with Biobrane biosynthetic dressing in the treatment of partial thickness burns.
  Burns, including thermal injury 1984 Hansbrough JF, Zapata-Sirvent R, Carroll WJ, Dominic WJ, Wang XW, Wakimoto A