News & Events: Preventing Gun Violence

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 [...]