Dr. Lucy Z. Kornblith is our new Director for Gender Equity
The Department of Surgery is excited to announce the appointment of Dr. Lucy Z. Kornblith as the Department’s inaugural Director for Gender Equity!
Lucy Zumwinkle Kornblith, M.D., is an Assistant Professor of Surgery and Laboratory Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Her clinical practice includes trauma surgery, surgical critical care, and acute care surgery. Dr. Kornblith received a Bachelor’s degree in Molecular Biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her medical degree from the University of Colorado. In addition, she completed her General Surgery training and her Critical care and Trauma fellowship at UCSF.
Dr. Kornblith is a surgeon-scientist who runs a thriving research program focused on translational investigations of post-injury platelet biology and injury-induced modifications of the platelet genome to identify novel targets of hemorrhage and thromboinflammatory complications in the patient populations she cares for. She is also an active clinical trialist and has been instrumental in the NIH-funded Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines (ACTIV) IV (coagulation) Program for the rapid advancement of therapeutics for COVID-19.
Dr. Kornblith has experience as a leader in gender equity through her role in co-developing and co-chairing the Muriel Steele Society alongside Dr. Mika Varma. The Muriel Steele Society is an inclusive community dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion of colleagues, trainees, and learners at UCSF and beyond, who identify as women, transgender, and nonbinary in surgical fields.Over the four years since the Muriel Steele Society was founded, with the hard work and dedicated efforts of learners, trainees, and faculty, the Muriel Steele Society has grown to have a volunteer Executive Council of over 30 UCSF surgeons from multiple specialties and future surgeons, functioning across seven committees. This Executive Council focuses on membership and outreach to > 400 members, various services and programming, extensive sponsorship efforts, internal and external research, mentorship of medical students, pioneering wellness efforts, and a social media presence.
Dr. Kornblith will provide leadership as she continues to grow the legacy of gender equity within the Department. She will partner with UCSF Health, the UCSF School of Medicine, the University of California, as well as our Vice Chairs of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Education and Faculty Affairs, Division Chiefs, and other department leaders to create new pathways, synergies, and platforms to address issues impacting historically marginalized gender identities.