Title: 1) Professor of Surgery; 2) Attending Surgeon; 3) Adjunct Professor
Company: 1) University of California, San Francisco; 2) Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center 3) Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Location: Pacifica, California, United States
Andre Campbell, MD, FACS, FACP, FCCM, MAMSE, professor of surgery at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), attending surgeon at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, and adjunct professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, has been recognized by Marquis Who’s Who Top Educators for dedication, achievements, and leadership in health care education.
Across a career spanning more than 35 years, Dr. Campbell has established himself as a respected physician and an esteemed educator. In 1989, he accepted his first positions as an emergency room physician at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Dobbs Ferry Emergency Medicine. Concurrently with those responsibilities, Dr. Campbell began gaining experience as a teacher as well, becoming a clinical instructor of surgery and then an assistant professor and associate professor of surgery at UCSF. From 2009 to 2013, he was associated with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ VA Intensive Care Unit as an attending surgeon.
Committed to long-term roles that demonstrate his value to organizations, Dr. Campbell has served as an attending surgeon and attending physician in surgical critical care at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center since 1993. In this role, he has also contributed to the health care needs of the city and county of San Francisco, collaborating with the San Francisco Department of Public Health. At UCSF, Dr. Campbell was promoted to professor of surgery in 2006 and has remained in that position since then. He also began teaching as an adjunct professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences’ F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine in 2019.
Dr. Campbell’s career trajectory was informed by his own academic journey. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in biology from Harvard University in 1980. Subsequently, Dr. Campbell earned an MD from UCSF in 1985. He completed an internship in internal medicine, residencies in internal medicine and general surgery, a chief residency in general surgery and a fellowship in surgical critical care at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital between 1986 and 1993, as well as a fellowship at UCSF in 2000.
A lifelong learner, Dr. Campbell has continued training throughout his professional life. Among other credentials, he is certified in advanced trauma life support, advanced cardiac life support and fluoroscopy X-ray supervision and operation. One of Dr. Campbell’s greatest accomplishments has been earning board certification in surgery, critical care and internal medicine. At the time that he achieved this, he was only the fourth person ever to hold certification in all three specialties.
Well-regarded for his contributions, Dr. Campbell’s career has been widely celebrated. He has received the John Hale Society Award, the Distinguished Master Surgical Educator Award from the Association for Surgical Education, the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, the Faculty Teaching Award from the Black Student Health Alliance, the Academic Distinction in Teaching Award from UCSF and the Osler Distinguished Teacher Award from the UCSF School of Medicine, among further accolades. In 2007, Dr. Campbell was invited to be the president of UCSF’s Gold-Headed Cane Society. Perhaps his most prestigious honor, he was the focus of a surprise ceremony in 2023 where California governor Gavin Newsom, state controller Malia Cohen and San Francisco mayor London Breed proclaimed November 2, 2023, as “Dr. Andre Campbell Day” in San Francisco.
Dr. Campbell has added to his contributions to the health care and academic fields through prolific writing. He has authored such works as “Trauma Centers in a Managed Care Environment” in 1995 and “Antimicrobial Therapy in the ICU Setting: Have We Become Too Empiric” in 2001. In total, Dr. Campbell has published over 100 manuscripts, abstracts and book chapters. In 2002, he gave a presentation on “Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection” to the Japanese Society for Abdominal Emergency Medicine.
In addition to his primary vocation, Dr. Campbell is a dedicated husband and a loving father to one son. He relaxes by watching basketball, reading and traveling. Dr. Campbell has lectured across the United States and in such other countries as Ecuador and Australia. He enjoys exploring new places and sharing his expertise with people all around the world.
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