Catherine Juillard, MD, MPH
- UCLA General Surgery, Trauma
- Former Director, Center for Global Surgical Studies
- Former Director, San Francisco Wraparound Project
Education
Stanford University, A.B., English Literature, 1997
University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, M.D., 2005
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, M.P.H., 2008
Residencies
- UCLA Medical Center, Intern, Surgery, 2005-2006
- UCLA Medical Center, Resident, Surgery, 2006-2012
Postdoctoral Training
- Post-Doctoral Fellow, International Injury Research Unit, International Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2008-2009
Biography
Catherine Juillard, M.D., MPH, is director of the Center for Global Surgical Studies and San Francisco Wraparound Project, both based at Zuckerberg San Francisco General (ZSFG). Dr. Juillard is a general surgeon with clinical interests in general surgery, trauma, and surgical critical care.
Dr. Juillard obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University and her M.D. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. During her surgical residency training at the University of California, Los Angeles, Dr. Juillard received her M.P.H. degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and was a postdoctoral fellow with the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit. After completing her General Surgery residency, she completed a fellowship in Trauma/Critical Care at the University of California, San Francisco.
Prior to attending medical school, Dr. Juillard served as a Peace Corps Rural Health Volunteer in Senegal, where she developed an interest in public health which carries into her current research focus. Improving access to surgical and trauma care in low- and middle-income countries through health systems strengthening is Dr. Juillard's primary research interest. Dr. Juillard also works with the San Francisco Injury Center on local injury and violence prevention.
In the News
- Wraparound Project - - December 15, 2018Jamal Raheem's experience with violence which ultimately led him to The Wraparound Project and Michael Texada are the focus of this article. The article also highlights Wraparound's efforts to reduce violence by using the teachable moment to identify and address the root causes of violence. Michael explains, "To me, the teachable moment is really when the client has bare sight, when you have that real one-on-one conversation, without all the negativity that's been around their lives, without [...]
- UCSF Department of Surgery at ZSFG - - August 22, 2018"When technology enters transportation, people forget that it also becomes public health. It becomes something where human lives are at stake." --- Dr. Catherine Juillard, UCSF trauma surgeon at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG) The New York Times, NBC Nightly News and UCSF News Center report on the controvery surrounding the influx of new vehicles such as motor-assisted scooters and mopeds into urban areas, and their impact on safety, notably here in San Francisco. Many in this [...]
- The San Francisco Wraparound Project at ZSFG - - March 12, 2018The SF examiner highlights The Wraparound's art program. Led by Marco Razo, the art program provides Wraparound clients with a safe space to express themselves. Participants learn and practice fundamental art techniques and in the process often become more open to other interventions. Participants have also had the wonderful opportunity to showcase their work in various venues across San Francisco. Dr. Catherine Juillard was also interviewed. The Wraparound Project's art program (Full story)
- The San Francisco Wraparound Project at ZSFG - - October 20, 2017The San Francisco Wraparound Project was honored with the Economic Inclusion Award at the Excellence in Partnership Awards hosted by the Center for Community Engagement. This award was given in recognition of the Arborist Apprenticeship Program, a collaboration between The San Francisco Wraparound Project and Friends of the Urban Forest. The Arborist Apprenticeship program strives to address unemployment by providing participants with arborist training. This training includes landscaping, [...]
- San Francisco Wraparound Project at ZSFG - - July 20, 2017Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital recently celebrated the one-year anniversary of the debut of the Wraparound mural, a profound expression of art and healing that proudly hangs on a wall near the Wraparound Project offices at ZSFG. The mural is the creation of Marco Razo, a noted artist, who first learned of the Wraparound Project after he lost a family member to violence in 2016. The core mission of the Wraparound Project is the prevention of violence thorough culturally sensitive [...]
- San Francisco Wraparound Project at ZSFG - - July 18, 2017The San Francisco Wraparound Project, led by Catherine Juillard, MD, MPH, was recently featured on BBC's World hacks – a program which explores innovative ways to solve the world's problems. The moving documentary highlights some of the achievements of the Wraparound Project as well as one of its core components – using the period immediately following injury as a teachable moment, a golden opportunity to provide transformative interventions to victims of violent injury. Darius, a former [...]
- San Francisco Wraparound Project at ZSFG - - June 16, 2017The New York Times reports on the UCSF Trauma Recovery Center (TRC), a multidisciplinary team of mental health professionals that helps trauma victims "surmount the psychic hurdle between 'victim' and 'survivor'. For survivors of violent injury, the psychological effects often outlast the physical damage. Mental health issues like PTSD, anxiety, and depression can be significant barriers to recovery from traumatic injury. Moreover, the fear of the stigma sometimes associated with seeking out [...]
- Center for Global Surgical Studies - - March 20, 2017UCSF General Surgery Resident, Lauren Eyler, MD, MPH, in collaboration with UC Berkeley's Alan Hubbard, PhD and one of the Center's Co-Directors, Catherine Juillard, MD, MPH, worked together to develop an algorithm that facilitates health disparities research in the context of low- and middle-income countries. The algorithm can define population-specific models of economic status using variables from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) household assets data. The use of DHS data makes it [...]
- UCSF Center for Global Surgical Studies - - February 08, 2016The Association for Academic Surgery (AAS) and Association for Academic Surgery Foundation (AASF) presented S. Ariane Christie, MD, a General Surgery Resident at UCSF, with the 2016 AAS/AASF Global Surgery Research Fellowship Award for her research proposal titled "Long Term Outcomes Following Traumatic Injury in a Regional Trauma Center in Limbe, Cameroon" at the 11th Annual Academic Surgical Congress. The award is designed for individuals who are interested in advancing the field of Global [...]
- UCSF Center for Global Surgical Studies - - June 22, 2015The launch of the Center for Global Surgical Studies at UCSF marks a high point for 2015, "a year when the stars for global surgery seem to be aligned," said Haile Debas, Director of the UC Global Health Institute. The event highlighted the path to realizing surgery for all as an integral part universal health coverage as a global health community as well as fostering multidisciplinary collaborations across UCSF. For those of you not able to attend, you can now view recordings of the event at [...]
- Disease Control Priorities 3, University of Washington - May 29, 2015DCP3 series editor Dr. Dean Jamison joined Essential Surgery volume lead editor Dr. Haile Debas, Communications Technical Advisory Group member Dr. Gavin Yamey, and Advisory Committee member Dr. Jaime Sepulveda for an event launching the Center for Global Surgical Studies at the University of California, San Francisco. See the full story here.
- UCSF Center for Global Surgical Studies - - May 01, 2015The Center for Global Surgical Studies at UCSF officially announces its launch on Thursday, May 28, 2015. The event will feature the recently released findings of the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery with words from Commissioner Gavin Yamey and editors of Disease Control Priorities 3, Volume 1: Essential Surgery, Dean Jamison and Haile Debas. The launch of the Center proves to be timely and appropriate given the considerable momentum and mounting evidence for increased action, investment, [...]
- UCSF Department of Surgery - - January 06, 2015The Department of Surgery has announced the creation of a new program, Center for Global Surgical Studies at UCSF, led by trauma surgeons, Rochelle Dicker, M.D.and Catherine Juillard, M.D., M.P.H.. The Center's mission is to address the significant global burden of surgical disease, in which trauma alone is responsible for more deaths annually than HIV, malaria, and TB combined. The Center seeks to improve global access to quality surgical care in low-resource settings through research and [...]
