News & Events: Andre Campbell, M.D.

We are pleased to announce that Andre Campbell, M.D. has been named the Inaugural Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the Department of Surgery. Dr. Campbell is a Professor of Surgery in the Division of General Surgery and an attending trauma surgeon at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG). As Vice Chair for DEI, Dr. Campbell will provide vision and leadership for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives across the department's clinical, research and training enterprise. He will partner with the Department's Vice Chair for Faculty [...]

UCSF trauma surgeon Andre R. Campbell, MD, FACS, FACP, FCCM has been elected to the Board of Governors Executive Committee for the American College of Surgeons, a prestigious honor. His election was announced at the 2018 Annual Meeting of American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress in October. Dr. Campbell is professor of surgery, division of general surgery; director of the surgery clerkship; and director of the surgical critical care fellowship at UCSF. He will be the Education Pillar Lead on the Executive Committee. New Regents, Board of Governors Executive Committee Members [...]

Trauma surgeons at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center have been among the strongest proponents for physicians speaking out on the issue of gun violence and conducting research to reduce suffering and prevent needless and tragic deaths. They have harnessed the power of Twitter in the service of community outreach and effecting social change. Notably, Rachael A. Callcut, M.D., MSPH was among the group that created the Twitter handle, @ThisIsOurLane and Andre Campbell, M.D., appearing on TV and in other media outlets, has reprised the role he played in the YouTube [...]

UCSF trauma surgeon Andre Campbell, M.D., who was on the trauma team that treated victims injured in the shooting at the YouTube headquarters in California, vented his frustration over decades of gun violence in a press conference about the shooting.  As reported by CNN, Campbell challenged the news media to look beyond the sensational events and address the pervasive omnipresent gun violence that is a daily occurrence in the U.S. Campbell was widely praised in social media for stance as well as his decades of service as a trauma surgeon and mentorship to many generations of medical [...]

UCSF was recently ranked No. 4 nationally for the surgery curriculum taught in medical school, placing it in the top 2.5% of the 177 medical and osteopathic schools surveyed in the U.S. News & World Report survey of best graduate and professional schools.   The curriculum, developed by highly acclaimed Department of Surgery faculty, encompasses didactic in-class learning fused with early longitudinal immersion in clinical teams, and an inquiry-focused learning environment that encourages medical students to ask questions that push the frontiers of science and understanding of human [...]

The Department of Surgery has launched a new medical student portal designed as a resource and comprehensive dashboard for medical students during their surgical clerkships. The program is led by Director Andre Campbell, M.D. and Associate Director Matthew Y.C. Lin, M.D. The site course coordinators are Heidi Crist and Wenia Lee.  The Department of Surgery Clerkship provides UCSF medical students with a solid, enduring surgical foundation, offering diverse training opportunities including lecture series, faculty-led case presentations, observed physical exams, informal Bedside Rounds, and [...]

UCSF News reports on the inspirational lecture given by Andre Campbell, M.D., Professor of Surgery at the UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg SFGH, about the importance of social justice and diversity at the annual "UCSF Last Lecture" event, in which Dr. Campbell spoke of his experiences at UCSF dating back to his graduation from the UCSF School of Medicine. It's OK to not know what you want to do when you grow up – even if you're already a famous trauma surgeon. That and many other nuggets of wisdom were imparted by Andre Campbell, MD, during his delivery of the 2016 Last Lecture [...]

UCSF News reports on the efforts of the trauma  team at San Francisco General Hospital that treated victims of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 that crashed while landing in San Francisco in July 2013. The team included UCSF Department of Surgery trauma surgeons M. Margaret Knudson, M.D. and Andre Campbell, M.D., and Rachael A. Callcut, M.D., M.S.P.H.. They arrived at SFGH within hours of the disaster: On the morning of July 6, M. Margaret Knudson, MD, chief of surgery at SFGH, worked with Campbell and others on site to begin assembling a team that would be ready to triage patients upon their [...]

"Andre Campbell, MD, a UCSF professor of surgery, was recognized on March 29 by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for his outstanding service as a trauma and acute care surgeon at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH)."

UCSF celebrated the life and legacy of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., with a series of events  beginning January 15th. At the Awards Ceremony in Cole Hall, Dr. Andre Campbell was one of several individuals  recognized for extraordinary leadership in promoting and advancing mutual respect, understanding and appreciation for all types of diversity at UCSF.

"After 13 years doing trauma surgery at San Francisco General Hospital, Dr. Andre Campbell knows just about everything there is to know about calamity, mayhem and long nights.  "........."For as long as he has been at General, Campbell has worked beside the head of trauma surgery, Bill Schecter, who is 10 years older than the 48-year-old Campbell. Schecter embodies the work ethic and the mission of the hospital."