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Professor of Surgery
Vice Chair for Critical Care
Associate Chief of Trauma and Emergency General Surgery
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
Los Angeles , California, United States
Dr. Rochelle Dicker has a Bachelor’s Degree from UC San Diego. She graduated medical school in 1995 from the University of Vermont making AOA. Her surgical residency started at UC San Francisco and was completed at the University of Vermont. She then went on to complete her Trauma and Critical Care fellowship at UCSF/San Francisco General Hospital.
Dr. Rochelle Dicker has spent most of her academic life focused on injury prevention programs and research, particularly in violence prevention. She is also heavily involved in capacity building for surgery in low and middle-income countries.
In 2005 she founded the Wraparound Project at San Francisco General Hospital. Wraparound is a hospital-based violence intervention program based on a public health model. The program has served as a model for other fledgling hospital-based programs and is one of the six start-up programs that formed the Health Alliance for Violence Intervention. The HAVI is now home to over 50 programs. Dr. Dicker has conducted extensive research on the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of violence intervention. She is part of the National Committee on Trauma and serves as the Chair of the ISAVE working group. It is through the COT's ISAVE work that the Trauma Informed Care Curriculum was developed. The course will be piloted in several trauma centers across the country in 2022.
Previously she held the position of Professor of Surgery and Anesthesia at the University of California, San Francisco and she is now the Vice Chair of Critical Care and the Trauma Director at UCLA. She is the co-Director of UCLA's Program for the Advancement of Surgical Equity and the Dean's Theme entitled Health Equity and Translational Social Science.