MESSAGE FROM THE CHIEF
Hobart W. Harris, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Surgery
Chief, Division of General Surgery
Rochelle Dicker, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Director, San Francisco Injury Center
Contact Information
Campus Box 0807
San Francisco General Hospital
San Francisco, CA 94143-0807
(415) 206-8673 Appointments
(415) 206-4623 Office
(415) 206-5484 Fax
dickerr@sfghsurg.ucsf.edu
Education
- UC San Diego, B.A., Physiology, 1991
- University of Vermont College of Medicine, M.D., 1995
Residencies
- UCSF School of Medicine, Resident, Surgery, 1995-1997
- University of Vermont, Surgery, 1997-2000
Fellowships
- UCSF School of Medicine, Fellow, Critical Care, 2000-2001
- UCSF School of Medicine, Fellow, Trauma, 2001-2002
- California Wellness Foundation, Fellow, Violence Prevention, 2001-2003
Board Certification
- American Board of General Surgery
- American Board of General Surgery, Surgical Critical Care
Clinical Expertise
- Trauma surgery
- General surgery
- Surgical critical care
- Soft tissue infections
Research Interests
- Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome
- Violence Prevention
- Ultrasound in trauma diagnostics
- Mental illness as risk factor in unintentional injury
- Trauma resuscitation
- Injury prevention
Website LInks
San Francisco Injury Center
Biography
Dr. Rochelle A. Dicker has a Bachelor of Arts from UC San Diego and subsequently obtained her MD degree from the University of Vermont College of Medicine, graduating with honors. She then completed a General Surgery residency and finally a Fellowship in Trauma/Critical Care at the University of California, San Francisco. She is double-Boarded in General Surgery and Critical Care.
During her Fellowship training, she was educated in the public health model of injury prevention and is now actively involved as the Director of the San Francisco Injury Center. Her special interests within the field of trauma include Violence Prevention for which she has been granted money from the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma and the City of San Francisco. In addition, she is interested in development of systems for mass casualty and trauma in the developing world.
Dr. Dicker is currently an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco and practices at San Francisco General Hospital, the only Level One Trauma Center in San Francisco.
Selected Publications
- Dicker RA, Morabito DJ, Pittet JF, Campbell AR, Mackersie RC. Acute respiratory distress syndrome criteria in trauma patients: why the definitions do not work. J Trauma. 57: 522-6; discussion 526-8, Sep/2004.
- Rozycki GS, Knudson MM, Shackford SR, Dicker R. Surgeon-performed bedside organ assessment with sonography after trauma (BOAST): a pilot study from the WTA Multicenter Group. J Trauma. 59: 1356-64, Dec/2005.
- Lebl DR, Dicker RA, Spain DA, Brundage SI. Dramatic shift in the primary management of traumatic thoracic aortic rupture. Arch Surg. 141: 177-80, Feb/2006.
- Wan JJ, Morabito DJ, Khaw L, Knudson MM, Dicker RA. Mental illness as an independent risk factor for unintentional injury and injury recidivism. J Trauma. 61: 1299-304, Dec/2006.
- Ozgediz D, Adams JE, Dicker RA. Trauma on trauma. Lessons from the tsunami and civil conflict in Sri Lanka. Pharos Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Med Soc. 70: 28-33, 2007.