Dr. Ronald Tesoriero Joins Department of Surgery Faculty at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital

We are pleased to announce that Ronald B. Tesoriero, MD, FACS has joined the Department of Surgery faculty as Associate Professor based at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG). Dr. Tesoriero will serve as an attending physician on the Acute Care Surgery Service as well as on the Trauma and General Surgery Services, and in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) at ZSFG. He will also be appointed as the General Surgery Residency Site Director at ZSFG.

Dr. Tesoriero has extensive experience in the management of traumatic injuries, and in the care of complex critically ill patients including those with diverse emergency general surgery conditions. 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 US.

Dr. 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 general surgery 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 USN and was stationed at the Naval Hospital at Camp Pendleton from which he deployed to the Philippines, Haiti, and the Persian Gulf.

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 nationally for the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma on the Career Development and Annual Scientific Assembly Committees.