Michael J. Sise MD, FACS

Dr. Michael J. Sise is the senior trauma and vascular surgeon and the immediate past Chief of the Medical Staff at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and he is board certified in surgery, vascular surgery, and surgical critical care. Dr. Sise served as chief surgeon aboard aircraft carriers USS Constellation, USS Kitty Hawk, USS Ranger, USS Eisenhower and USS Belleau Wood. Dr. Sise was Chief Surgeon aboard amphibious carriers USS Guam and USS Iwo Jima in the Persian Gulf during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in 1990 and 1991. He completed a 20-year career as a Naval Medical Officer in 1992 and became Assistant Trauma Medical Director at Mercy Hospital in San Diego. Dr. Sise served as the Trauma Medical Director of Mercy’s Trauma Services from 1994 through 2016 and led their successful transition to become a Level I Trauma Center. He has participated in trauma, critical care, and vascular surgery research, and peer review and quality improvement since 1978 and has published extensively in the medical literature on all of these subjects. Dr. Sise is a past Clinical Professor of Surgery at the UCSD School of Medicine and the senior teaching faculty member of the General Surgery Residency of Naval Medical Center San Diego. Dr. Sise continues to practice trauma, surgical critical care, and vascular surgery. He also continues to train military surgeons for combat casualty care as a faculty member of the Departments of Surgery and Emergency Medicine Residencies at Naval Medical Center San Diego. In October, 2007, Dr. Sise served as the Senior Visiting Surgeon at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany assisting military surgeons in the care of wounded warriors evacuated from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Africa. Dr. Sise served the Vice President of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma and the Chairman of the AAST Foundation. He is also past Chairman of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma Prevention Subcommittee. He lectures frequently on topics related to trauma, acute care surgery, vascular surgery, and quality improvement at numerous regional and national medical symposia.

MD California Medical License
Board Certified in Surgery, Vascular Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care