Amy Kwok, MD, MPH, FACS
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Title(s) | Associate Professor, Dean's Office |
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School | School of Medicine |
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Address | 155 N Fresno St Fresno CA 93701
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Phone | 559-499-6400 |
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Biography University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA | BS | 1996 | Biochemistry | University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA | MS | 1997 | Biochemistry | Boston University, Boston, MA | MPH | 1999 | Public Health | Boston University, Boston, MA | MS | 1999 | Medical Science | Boston University, School of Medicine, Boston, MA | MD | 2004 | Medicine | Our Lady of Mercy Hospital, Bronx, NY | Intern | 2005 | General Surgery | Kaiser Permanente, Los Angeles, CA | Resident | 2009 | General Surgery | University of California, San Francisco, Fresno, CA | Fellow | 2012 | Acute Care Surgery | University of California, San Francisco, Fresno, CA | | 2018 | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training |
UC Merced San Joaquin Valley Program in Medical Education | 2013 | | Best Faculty Teacher Award | UCSF Fresno - Department of Surgery | 2016 | | Faculty of the Year Award |
Overview Amy Kwok, M.D., MPH, FACS Associate Clinical Professor, UCSF Associate Program Director, UCSF Fresno General Surgery Residency Medical Program Director, UCSF Fresno Acute Care/Trauma Surgery PA Residency Specialty: General Surgery, Critical Care Surgery
Amy Kwok, M.D., FACS, is board certified in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care.
Amy M. Kwok, MD, MPH, FACS is an Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Surgery at the University of California San Francisco Fresno, and the Associate Program Director of the General Surgery Residency Program at the UCSF Fresno Center for Medical Education and Research.
Dr. Kwok received both her masters degree in public health and her medical degree from Boston University, and completed her internship at Our Lady of Mercy Hospital. Subsequently she graduated from the General Surgery Residency Program at Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Kwok continued her Acute Care Surgery Fellowship with UCSF Fresno where she currently resides. She is board certified in both General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care.
In her role as Associate Program Director for the General Surgery Residency Program she assists the Program Director in all administrative processes from recruitment, placement, indoctrination, education, evaluations, mentoring and regulatory compliance guidelines for all residents and fellows. Dr. Kwok also serves as the lead in the curriculum development for the Surgery Skills Lab Training for residents, which is a key development tool to enhancing basic suturing and knot tying skills, both in open and laparoscopic surgery, as well as refining endoscopic and competently advanced laparoscopic skills.
Dr. Kwok joined the core faculty in the Department of Surgery in Acute Care Surgery and Surgical Critical Care at Community Regional Medical Center in 2012. In her role as teaching faculty her activities consist of quantifiable and didactic education mostly in the clinical setting where students are from a wide variety of educational levels, including medical students, residents, and fellows.
She is member of the Fresno Madera Medical Society of California Medical Association and has been invited to present both nationally and regionally for her interests in trauma and critical care.
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Admission base deficit is superior to lactate in identifying shock and resuscitative needs in trauma patients. Am J Surg. 2020 12; 220(6):1480-1484.
Davis JW, Sue LP, Dirks RC, Kaups KL, Kwok AM, Wolfe MM, Lilienstein JT, Bilello JF. PMID: 33046221.
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Repeat computed tomography head scan is not indicated in trauma patients taking novel anticoagulation: A multicenter study. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2020 08; 89(2):301-310.
Cohan CM, Beattie G, Bowman JA, Galante JM, Kwok AM, Dirks RC, Kornblith LZ, Plevin R, Browder TD, Victorino GP. PMID: 32332255.
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Intercostal Nerve Block with Liposomal Bupivacaine vs Epidural Analgesia for the Treatment of Traumatic Rib Fracture. J Am Coll Surg. 2020 Jul; 231(1):150-154.
Sheets NW, Davis JW, Dirks RC, Pang AW, Kwok AM, Wolfe MM, Sue LP. PMID: 32081750.
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Prospective evaluation of admission cortisol in trauma. Trauma Surg Acute Care Open. 2020; 5(1):e000386.
Kwok AM, Davis JW, Dirks RC, Sue LP, Wolfe MM, Kaups K. PMID: 32072017.
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Changes in splenic capsule with aging; beliefs and reality. Am J Surg. 2020 07; 220(1):178-181.
Higginson SM, Sheets NW, Sue LP, Wolfe MM, Kwok AM, Dirks RC, Doggett RS, Gopal VC, Davis JW. PMID: 31623879.
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The impact of obesity on severity of solid organ injury in the adult population at a Level I trauma center. Trauma Surg Acute Care Open. 2019; 4(1):e000318.
Chen AK, Jeffcoach D, Stivers JC, McCullough KA, Dirks RC, Boehnke RJ, Sue L, Kwok AM, Wolfe MM, Davis JW. PMID: 31392278.
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A predictive grading scale for acute cholecystitis. Trauma Surg Acute Care Open. 2019; 4(1):e000324.
Siada S, Jeffcoach D, Dirks RC, Wolfe MM, Kwok AM, Sue LP, Davis JW. PMID: 31392281.
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The southwestern surgical congress multi-center trial on suspected common duct stones. Am J Surg. 2019 06; 217(6):1006-1009.
Frazee R, Regner J, Truitt MS, Agrawal V, Swope M, Burlew CC, Dissanaike S, Vangipurum D, Bruns B, O'Meara L, Stivers J, Kwok A, Grover BT, Kothari SN, Cibari C, Dunn J, McIntyre RC, Wright F, Scherer EP, Crane C, Schroeppel TJ, Callaghan E, Gordy S, Todd R. PMID: 30654919.
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Leaders are Made, Not Born: A Leadership Development Curriculum for General Surgery Residents. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2017; 225(4):154-155.
Tejal Pandya, MD, Rachel Dirks, PhD, Amy Kwok, MD, FACS. View Publication.
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Time is now: venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in blunt splenic injury. Am J Surg. 2016 Dec; 212(6):1231-1236.
PMID: 27810135.
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Post-extubation dysphagia in trauma patients: it's hard to swallow. Am J Surg. 2013 Dec; 206(6):924-7; discussion 927-8.
PMID: 24119720.
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