Dr. Rochelle Dicker

Dr. Rochelle Dicker is Professor in Residence of Surgery and Anesthesia at UCLA. She serves as the Vice Chair for Critical Care and as the Trauma Medical Director. She also co-Chairs the UCLA Health Equity and Translational Social Science Theme for the School of Medicine and is co-Director of the Program for the Advancement of Surgical Equity (PASE).

In 2003 she founded the Wraparound Project at San Francisco General Hospital. Wraparound is one of the first hospital-based violence intervention program based on integrating credible messengers and addressing the social determinants of health. Wraparound was one of seven start-up programs that formed the National Network of Hospital Based Violence Intervention Programs. Now called the Health Alliance for Violence Intervention, this organization is now home to over 60 full and startup programs. Dr. Dicker is the Advisory Board Chair.

She is a member of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma where she leads a group call “Improving the Social Determinants to Attenuate Violence”. The group works to integrate social care and investment models and trauma-informed practices across the country in trauma centers. She also Chairs the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma’s International Relations Committee and serves as the AAST liaison to the WHO.

Dr. Dicker is the recipient of teaching awards at both UCSF and UCLA She is the recipient of the UCSF Chancellor’s Award for Public Service, the Jefferson Award for Public Service, the American College of Surgeons Domestic Volunteerism Award and the AAST/COT National Safety Council Award.