Tasce Bongiovanni, MD

Tasce Bongiovanni, MD, MPP, MHS is an Associate Professor of Surgery at University of California San Francisco where she works in surgical critical care and acute care surgery, and as a trauma surgeon at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH). Board-certified in general surgery and surgical critical care, Dr. Bongiovanni obtained her MD and performed subsequent training at UCSF including a research fellowship at Yale University. Her work has focused on improving care for marginalized communities and uplifting Indigenous voices in medicine and her current research seeks to improve postoperative care for older adults. She continues to move her research forward while also supporting fellows, residents, and students in pursuing scholarly work and has won multiple mentoring awards from both the Department and School of Medicine and has supported numerous students presenting at National conferences including the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress. She has also served as a moderator at the Clinical Congress and is on an ACS National committee.

Her research has been funded by the National Clinician Scholars Program as a surgical resident and as faculty by a KL2 Learning Health Systems grant, an NIA K23 career development grant, a Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant and grants from the UCSF CTSI RAP program. Recently, she was appointed Medical Director of 13 Long, the surgical unit at Parnassus. Additionally, she works to uplift Indigenous voices in medicine and healthcare as Co-Chair of the Native American Health Alliance at UCSF and nationally with the Native American Surgical Society.