Ronald B. Tesoriero, M.D., FACS

Biography

Ron Tesoriero, MD, FACS earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Microbiology from Miami (OH) University and his Medical Degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He completed his residency at Case Western / University Hospitals of Cleveland. He subsequently served in the United States Navy (USN) and was stationed at Naval Hospital Okinawa where he also served as the Department Head for General Surgery. He completed a fellowship in Trauma/Surgical Critical Care at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Upon completion of his fellowship he returned to active duty in the US Navy and was stationed at the Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton from which he deployed to the Philippines, Haiti, and the Persian Gulf.

Upon completion of his military service in 2011, Dr. Tesoriero joined the faculty at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. He completed additional fellowship training in Endovascular Surgery. He served as the Associate Program Director of the Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery Fellowship and as the Chief of Critical Care Services at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. He has served regionally as a member of the Maryland Trauma Center Network and nationally on the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma on the Career Development and Annual Scientific Assembly Committees. Dr. Tesoriero joined the faculty in the UCSF Department of Surgery at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center in 2020.

Dr. Tesoriero is certified by the American Board of Surgery in General Surgery with subspecialty certification in Surgical Critical Care. He is clinically active with extensive experience in the management of the traumatically injured, the care of diverse emergency general surgery conditions, and the management of complex critically ill patients. His main academic focus and passion has been education and he has previously developed an extensive didactic and clinical curriculum for the largest Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery Fellowship in the United States.