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Medical Director, MHSSPACS
ACS
San Francisco, California, United States
M. Margaret Knudson, MD FACS. Dr. Knudson is an Emeritus Professor of Surgery at the University of California San Francisco, Adjunct Professor at the Uniformed Services University, and the Medical Director of the Military Health Service Strategic Partnership with the American College of Surgeons (ACS). After completing her surgical residency at the University of Michigan, she moved to Stanford where she served as the Assistant Trauma Director. In 1989 she was recruited to join the faculty at the University of California San Francisco at the San Francisco General Hospital.. Dr. Knudson has held leadership positions in several professional organizations including the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST), the Western Trauma Association and the ACS Committee on Trauma (COT)where she was the Vice Chair for the Central COT. She is currently an editor of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons and the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. Her research interests include post-traumatic venous thromboembolism combat casualty care, and injury prevention. She has served as the Chair of the Research Committee for the National Trauma Institute for four years and remains on the Board of Directors for the Center for National Trauma Research. For 15 years, she served as the PI for the CDC-funded San Francisco Injury Center for Research and Prevention. She currently holds grants from the Department of Defense for the study of post-traumatic pulmonary embolism and from the NIH investigating the use of anticoagulants in patients with COVID-19. Dr, Knudson was honored by the AAST/COT with the National Safety Council Award and in 2021 received the Mary Edwards Walker Award for inspiriting women in surgery from the ACS Women in Surgery Committee. She has given both the Fitts Oration at the AAST and the Scudder Orations at the ACS.