Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of General Surgery, Trauma and Surgical Critical Care at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital

Lucy Zumwinkle Kornblith, M.D., F.A.C.S. received her undergraduate degree from University of California Santa Barbara, her M.D. from the University of Colorado, completed her General Surgery residency at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), a Trauma and Critical Care Clinical Translational Research Fellowship at UCSF, and subspecialty training in Trauma and Acute Care Surgery and Surgical Critical Care at UCSF prior to joining the faculty at UCSF.

She clinically practices Trauma Surgery, Acute Care Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care. She has played a pivotal role in the translational study of blood system failure after injury, centrally focused on postinjury platelet biology. Her research program is multi-pronged, covering 1) Translational research to identify novel biology of blood system failure through the lens of platelets, 2) Large observational studies to identify predictors of bad outcomes after injury, and 3) Clinical trials investigating therapeutics and resuscitation strategies for injured patients.

Her research program has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, the American College of Surgeons, the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the UCSF School of Medicine Irene Perstein Award, and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. In 2024, Dr. Kornblith became the Director of Research for the UCSF School of Medicine Vice Dean’s Office at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, where she serves and represents approximately 300 investigators and 800 research staff. In 2025, Dr. Kornblith was appointed the Elsbach-Richards Endowed Chair in Surgery I at UCSF.