Andrea Long, M.D., FACS
Assistant Clinical Professor, UCSF
Specialty: Acute Care Surgery, Critical Care Surgery, General Surgery
Andrea Long, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery at the University of California San Francisco, Fresno Center for Medical Education and Research.
Dr. Long received her bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry at the University of Missouri-Columbia graduating Magna Cum Laude, and her medical degree at the University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri. Her general surgery residency was completed at Mercer University/Medical Center of Central Georgia, Macon, Georgia, and her surgical critical care and acute care surgery fellowships were completed at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, North Carolina.
Dr. Long joined the Department of Surgery’s core faculty team in Trauma and Acute Care Surgery at Community Regional Medical Center (CRMC) in 2016. In her role as teaching faculty Dr. Long’s activities consist of clinical and didactic education, mostly in the clinical setting. The trainees include medical students, general surgery residents, residents from other specialties rotating on the surgical service, and fellows in Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery.
Dr. Long has a strong interest in simulation based education, global health, transfusion medicine, complex hernia reconstruction, diversity and inclusion in medicine, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) health care.
Dr. Long is a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Champion for the surgery department as well as an Ambassador Educator. She was appointed to the Equity Quality & Inclusion Ad Hoc Task Force for the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma in 2019.
Her global health work includes volunteer clinical and medical education experiences in Ghana and Tanzania.
Dr. Long is the social media coordinator for the Department of Surgery. She is also the lead with developing a more robust curriculum for ultrasound use in the ICU for Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery. This development will place CRMC surgical ICU on the cutting edge of hemodynamic and point-of-care diagnostic evaluation in the surgical ICU.
Dr. Long is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and a member of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the American Medical Association, and GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality.