Andrea Long, MD, is an associate professor with the UCSF School of Medicine teaching residents and fellows through the regional branch campus, UCSF Fresno.
Dr. Long received her bachelor’s degree in biochemistry at the University of Missouri-Columbia, graduating Magna Cum Laude, and her medical degree at the University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri. Her general surgery residency was completed at Mercer University/Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon, Georgia. Her surgical critical care and acute care surgery fellowships were completed at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina.
Dr. Long joined the Department of Surgery’s core faculty team in general and critical care surgery in 2016. In her role as teaching faculty, Dr. Long’s activities consist of clinical and didactic education, mostly in the clinical setting. The trainees include: medical students, general surgery residents, residents from other specialties rotating on the surgical service, and fellows in surgical critical care and acute care surgery.
Dr. Long has a strong interest in simulation based education, global health, transfusion medicine, complex hernia reconstruction, diversity and inclusion in medicine, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) healthcare.
Her global health work includes volunteer clinical and medical education experiences in Ghana and Tanzania.
Dr. Long is the social media coordinator for the Department of Surgery. She is also the lead with developing a more robust curriculum for ultrasound use in the ICU for surgical critical care and acute care surgery.
Dr. Long is an Associate Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and a member of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the American Medical Association, and GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality.