Dr. Gail T. Tominaga, MD, FACS

Expert Publications

• Toll of methamphetamine on the trauma system.
• Assessing the quality of colorectal cancer staging: documenting the process in improving the staging of node-negative colorectal cancer.
• Safety and efficacy of glycerol and amino acids in combination with lipid emulsion for peripheral parenteral nutrition support.
• Practice patterns and outcomes of retrievable vena cava filters in trauma patients: an AAST multicenter study.
• The influence of vehicle damage on injury severity of drivers in head-on motor vehicle crashes.
• Causes of scapula fractures differ from other shoulder injuries in occupants seriously injured during motor vehicle crashes.
• The utility of seat belt signs to predict intra-abdominal injury following motor vehicle crashes.
• Rib and sternum fractures in the elderly and extreme elderly following motor
• Emergency general surgery: definition and estimated burden of disease.
• Eliminating catheter-associated urinary tract infections in the intensive care unit: is it an attainable goal?
• Application of a uniform anatomic grading system to measure disease severity in eight emergency general surgical illnesses.
• Decreasing unplanned extubations in the surgical intensive care unit.
• Respiratory distress in traumatized and burned children.
• Soluble cytokine receptors and receptor antagonists are sequentially released after trauma.
• Ethanol added to resuscitation improves survival in an experimental model of hemorrhagic shock.

Media Releases

Get to know General Surgeon Dr. Gail T. Tominaga, who serves patients in La Jolla, California.

An excellent general surgeon specializing in trauma surgery and surgical critical care, Dr. Tominaga is the Chief of Trauma Service at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla.

Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla has served the greater San Diego community since 1924. Nearly 100 years later, they continue to provide some of the region’s most distinguished care, including several nationally ranked specialty programs.

Academically, Dr. Tominaga earned her medical degree from the University of California, Irvine in 1984. She then went on to complete her residency in general surgery and her fellowship in surgical critical care at the same educational venue in 1989 and 1990, respectively.

Distinguished as a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS), the doctor attained board certification in general surgery and surgical critical care through the American Board of Surgery (ABS). The ABS is an independent, non-profit organization located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded for the purpose of certifying surgeons who have met a defined standard of education, training, and knowledge.

In her professional experience, she can also be found on staff at Scripps Green Hospital and Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas.

General surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, appendix and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland. A general surgeon performs a wide range of abdominal surgeries for many forms of intestinal and abdominal wall neoplasms, gallbladder disease, gastric and pancreatic disease. They follow the patient through critical care and surgical recovery all the way to outpatient care.

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