Saam Morshed, MD, MPH, PhD

Dr. Saam Morshed received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and completed both medical school and orthopaedic residency at the University of California San Francisco. As an Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation Clinical Research Training Fellow, he received a Master’s of Public Health and Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of California Berkeley. Prior to returning to UCSF to join the faculty in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, he completed subspecialty clinical training in orthopaedic trauma at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Saam is an attending orthopaedic trauma surgeon and Director of the Clinical Research Center at the UCSF SFGH Orthopaedic Trauma Institute. His clinical practice is focused on skeletal trauma, surgery of the pelvis and acetabulum, and problem fractures including malunions and nonunions.

External Leadership Roles:
AO North America; Faculty and Lecturer
Major Extremity Trauma and Rehabilitation Research Consortium; Steering Committee Member
Major Extremity Trauma and Rehabilitation Research Consortium; Science Committee, Emerging Investigators Initiative
Orthopedic Knowledge Update 12; Section Editor for Basic Science