Nancy Parks, MD, FACS, is an associate professor with the UCSF School of Medicine teaching residents and fellows through the surgery department at UCSF Fresno, and the associate program director for the Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery Fellowship Program.
Dr. Parks received her medical degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska and completed her general surgery residency program at UCSF Fresno. Subsequently, Dr. Parks completed a trauma and surgical critical care fellowship at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
Dr. Parks has a particular interest in mentoring women residents and has co-coordinated the East Bay Women in Surgery Group. This group includes medical students, residents, and attendings from the East Bay. Her objective is to foster increased connections among women surgeons and also directly address and discuss issues pertinent to female medical students and residents planning their careers in surgery.
Dr. Parks is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and serves as a active member of numerous professional societies including the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, East Bay Surgical Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine and the Association for Academic Surgery.