Rochelle Dicker, MD
- Section Chief of Acute Care Surgery in the Division of General Surgery at UCSF Surgery
- Co-Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Units at UCSF Health
- Professor of Surgery and Anesthesia
- Affiliated faculty member, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
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Biography
Rochelle Dicker, MD is the Founding Director of the UCSF Center for Global Surgical Studies and San Francisco Wraparound Project. Dr. Dicker continues to provide oversight and mentorship for both of these programs and is actively involved with the Center's research efforts in Soroti, Uganda. Dr. Dicker is currently Vice Chair for Critical Care, Chief of Surgical Critical Care, Associate Chief of Trauma and Emergency General Surgery, and Associate Chief of Trauma and Emergency General Surgery at UCLA. Please click here to view Dr. Dicker's UCLA Profile.
In the News
- Wraparound Project - - December 15, 2018Jamal Raheem's experience with violence which ultimately led him to The Wraparound Project and Michael Texada are the focus of this article. The article also highlights Wraparound's efforts to reduce violence by using the teachable moment to identify and address the root causes of violence. Michael explains, "To me, the teachable moment is really when the client has bare sight, when you have that real one-on-one conversation, without all the negativity that's been around their lives, without [...]
- - - October 01, 2018The National Network of Hospital-based Violence Intervention Programs (NNHVIP) honored Michael Texada with the Willis Young Award. This award was given in recognition of Michael's commitment to breaking the cycle of violence in his community. Michael currently serves as The Wraparound Project's Supervising Case Manager and has worked tirelessly for over a decade to stem violence in his community and the larger San Francisco area. In addition to providing transformative services to individuals [...]
- San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital - - October 20, 2017The Committee on Trauma (COT) of the American College of Surgeons (ACS), with contributions from Wraparound's Founding Director Rochelle Dicker, developed a strategy to reduce death and disability from firearm injury. This strategy is based on a public health model and includes prevention of injuries through Violence Intervention Programs such as The Wraparound Project. This article is a compilation of both the epidemiology of firearm injuries and the efforts to prevent injuries, and is a [...]
- The San Francisco Wraparound Project at ZSFG - - October 20, 2017Interpersonal injuries remain a leading cause of death and injury in the US, disproportionately affecting minority populations. Using the public health model to reduce reinjury, which entails identifying and addressing underlying risk factors for injury, is crucial to closing the revolving door of interpersonal injuries. This risk factor assessment should ideally be done in a timely manner and trauma centers can play a critical role in doing so. Wraparound's Founding Director Dr. Rochelle [...]
- San Francisco Wraparound Project at ZSFG - - July 18, 2017The San Francisco Wraparound Project, led by Catherine Juillard, MD, MPH, was recently featured on BBC's World hacks – a program which explores innovative ways to solve the world's problems. The moving documentary highlights some of the achievements of the Wraparound Project as well as one of its core components – using the period immediately following injury as a teachable moment, a golden opportunity to provide transformative interventions to victims of violent injury. Darius, a former [...]
- Center for Global Surgical Studies - - April 05, 2016The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK is offering four scholarships for MSc applicants in Trauma Sciences at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. MSc applicants permanently residing in a developing Commonwealth country are eligible to apply for a Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholarship. The program currently offers four scholarships covering course fees and additional expenses: two for the MSc in Trauma Sciences / Trauma Sciences + Military and Humanitarian and [...]
- UCSF Center for Global Surgical Studies - - February 08, 2016The Association for Academic Surgery (AAS) and Association for Academic Surgery Foundation (AASF) presented S. Ariane Christie, MD, a General Surgery Resident at UCSF, with the 2016 AAS/AASF Global Surgery Research Fellowship Award for her research proposal titled "Long Term Outcomes Following Traumatic Injury in a Regional Trauma Center in Limbe, Cameroon" at the 11th Annual Academic Surgical Congress. The award is designed for individuals who are interested in advancing the field of Global [...]
- San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General - January 27, 2016SF Wraparound Director, Dr. Rochelle Dicker provides insight into the growth of hospital intervention programs for patients who are injured as a result of violence. The following Washington Post article reports that patients with gunshot or stab wounds are more likely to be re-injured, especially if their circumstances do not change after injury. In addition to being more likely to face issues of domestic violence, mental illness, and substance abuse, a lack of stable housing and poverty are [...]
- UCSF Center for Global Surgical Studies - - June 22, 2015The launch of the Center for Global Surgical Studies at UCSF marks a high point for 2015, "a year when the stars for global surgery seem to be aligned," said Haile Debas, Director of the UC Global Health Institute. The event highlighted the path to realizing surgery for all as an integral part universal health coverage as a global health community as well as fostering multidisciplinary collaborations across UCSF. For those of you not able to attend, you can now view recordings of the event at [...]
- Disease Control Priorities 3, University of Washington - May 29, 2015DCP3 series editor Dr. Dean Jamison joined Essential Surgery volume lead editor Dr. Haile Debas, Communications Technical Advisory Group member Dr. Gavin Yamey, and Advisory Committee member Dr. Jaime Sepulveda for an event launching the Center for Global Surgical Studies at the University of California, San Francisco. See the full story here.
- UCSF Center for Global Surgical Studies - - May 01, 2015The Center for Global Surgical Studies at UCSF officially announces its launch on Thursday, May 28, 2015. The event will feature the recently released findings of the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery with words from Commissioner Gavin Yamey and editors of Disease Control Priorities 3, Volume 1: Essential Surgery, Dean Jamison and Haile Debas. The launch of the Center proves to be timely and appropriate given the considerable momentum and mounting evidence for increased action, investment, [...]
- UCSF Department of Surgery - - January 06, 2015The Department of Surgery has announced the creation of a new program, Center for Global Surgical Studies at UCSF, led by trauma surgeons, Rochelle Dicker, M.D.and Catherine Juillard, M.D., M.P.H.. The Center's mission is to address the significant global burden of surgical disease, in which trauma alone is responsible for more deaths annually than HIV, malaria, and TB combined. The Center seeks to improve global access to quality surgical care in low-resource settings through research and [...]
- San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General - January 06, 2015Dan Flanagan, Executive Director of Friends of the Urban Forest (FUF), writing in the December, 2014 issue, of "Tree Scapes", the organization's newsletter, talks about the recent successes of Junior and Orlando, young survivors of violence who came to FUF by way of the San Francisco Wraparound Project: Meet Junior and Orlando, young men who have become beloved and hard-working members of our team since they joined us this summer. They came to us through the San Francisco Wraparound Project, a [...]
- San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General - April 28, 2014KPIX 5 (CBS/San Francisco) honored Rochelle Dicker, M.D., a trauma surgeon at SFGH, with its Jefferson Award for her work in stemming the epidemic of violent injuries at San Francisco General Hospital through the San Francisco Wraparound Project which she is Director of: San Francisco General Hospital said a third of the shooting, stabbing and beating victims it treats return to the emergency room, injured from yet another crime. But one doctor has come up with a way to stop the revolving door [...]
- UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General - October 21, 2013Gina Kolata, health reporter for the NY Times, reports on the controversy surrounding bicycle safety and studies by UCSF trauma surgeons demonstrating that serious accidents may be significantly underreported: Until his bike slid out of control while he was going 35 miles an hour downhill around a sharp turn, Dr. Harold Schwartz thought cycling accidents were something that happened to other people. Now, after recovering from a fractured pelvis, Dr. Schwartz, 65, the vice president for [...]
- San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General - February 14, 2013Dr. Rochelle Dicker was honored at the annual Heroes & Hearts event held by the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation. The honor was bestoyed in recognition of Dr. Dicker's exceptional and inspirational work on behalf of patients and the community. Heroes & Hearts began in 2006 and brings the Bay Area community together to: Celebrate the essential role The General plays in our City and its community impact Continue the Hearts in San Francisco project Honor local heroes whose [...]
- San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General - February 13, 2013NBC Latino reports on the work of San Francisco General Hospital's violence-intervention program, The San Francisco Wraparound Project: Javier Antezana is one of the first people to approach a patient's bedside when doctors rush a gunshot victim to the emergency room but he's no surgeon. As a case manager for the San Francisco General Hospital's violence-intervention program, his job is to think past the hospital stay, to the critical 24-48 hour window when the victim is most likely to [...]
- UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General - August 08, 2011UCSF News reports on the research of Dr. Rochelle Dicker and her team into pedestrian accident injury in San Francisco: San Francisco General Hospital trauma surgeon Rochelle Dicker has treated many pedestrians who ended up in the emergency room after being struck by vehicles. She never refers to those collisions as accidents. "An accident implies there is nothing we can do about it. Like it's an act of God. But an injury or crash implies that there is something we can do to potentially [...]
- San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General - April 30, 2011KPIX 5 (Oakland KCBS) reports on the prevalence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among young gunshot victims, a phenomenon typically linked to soldiers of war: After Emergency Room doctors patch up a young gunshot victim, the patient is given time to recover from the physical wound. While time may heal, there is still the mental wound that lingers according to Anne Marks, the executive director of Oakland-based Youth Alive—an urban violence prevention organization. Many young [...]
- San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General - April 05, 2011Missionlocal.org reports on a story entitled "The Gang War That Wasn't" in which representatives of the San Francisco Wraparound Project played a critical role in averting violence after angry members of rival gangs converged on SFGH's Emergency Room. Did the Mission avert a gang war? At a community meeting last week at Mission Police Station, Capt. Greg Corrales for the first time offered details on the fatal shooting of Aldo "Trigger" Troncoso - the neighborhood's first homicide of the year [...]
- San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General - March 24, 2010Dr. Rochelle Dicker received the 2010 Chancellor's Award for Public Service in the faculty/academic category. The award was recognition of her work as Director and Founder of the Wraparound Project for Comprehensive Rehabilitation, an outstanding violence prevention program that has developed a new approach to the care of the violently injured by instituting a program, based on the public health model of injury prevention, to reduce injury recidivism.
- UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General - March 20, 2010SFGate, the sister-site of the San Francisco Chronicle, reports on a new study that suggests that the city could not only save millions, but also improve the quality of life for some of the city's neediest residents: Facing a $522 million budget deficit, San Francisco needs to look at every possible way to save money. A new study from the San Francisco Injury Center points to one place that could not only save millions, but also improve the quality of life for some of the city's neediest [...]
- UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General - June 15, 2009UCSF News reports on the SGFH-based San Francisco Injury Center Research and Prevention and its innovative research to to treat, understand and prevent traumatic injuries: For the past 20 years, the San Francisco Injury Center for Research and Prevention (SFIC) has been working to treat, understand and prevent traumatic injuries and to establish practices that serve as national and international models. Whether an injury is caused by a fall, a firearm or a motor vehicle crash, the [...]
- San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General - February 23, 2008The San Francisco Examiner reports on the increase in violence from gunshot or stab wounds in patients admitted to SFGH: The number of victims with gunshot or stab wounds admitted to San Francisco General Hospital has climbed over the last five years, with more than 440 patients either shot or knifed in 2007. The percentage of patients who die as a result of the wounds, called "penetrating injuries," has dropped slightly, with trauma surgeons, doctors and nurses saving 79 percent of shooting [...]
