Gianmarino Gianfrate
Trauma and Critical Care Fellow at LSU in Ithaca, New York, United States
Gianmarino Gianfrate is a Trauma and Critical Care Fellow at Louisiana State University (LSU) Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. He has developed expertise in trauma surgery, surgical critical care, and advanced resuscitation. After passing his general surgery boards in October 2025, he became a board-certified general surgeon and is scheduled to take his critical boards in September 2026. He is also an active member of the American College of Surgeons, Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, and Chest Wall Injury Society.
In addition to caring for trauma patients, Dr. Gianfrate plays an active role in trauma education, physician training, and clinical quality improvement. He serves as an instructor through ATLS, ASSET, RTTD, Stop the Bleed, and multicenter pREBOA education programs. As Course Director for both ATLS and ASSET, he helps train physicians and healthcare professionals in trauma assessment, resuscitation, and operative trauma management. He also participates in a fellowship cohort dedicated to resuscitation science, innovation, simulation-based learning, and leadership development. As an invited educator for a multicenter collaborative, he teaches advanced resuscitation techniques and the use of pREBOA while contributing to educational resources used across participating institutions.
Before beginning his fellowship, Gianmarino Gianfrate, MD, served as a Clinical Instructor of Surgery at Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED), where he taught medical students and surgical residents. He has also contributed to research, accreditation, physician wellness, and graduate medical education through leadership and committee service focused on quality improvement, education, and professional development.
Gianmarino's achievements include the Dr. Rashid Abdu “My Surgeon” Award; the Surgical Research Resident Award for three consecutive years from 2023 through 2025; the Looking to the Future Scholarship Award in 2023; the Surgical Critical Care Resident Award in 2022; and the Glimmer of Hope Grant. In 2025, he earned Second Place in the Oral Research Presentation for work on traumatic brain injury and thromboelastography.
His research interests include trauma surgery, trauma resuscitation, traumatic brain injury, critical care, hemorrhage management, and surgical outcomes. Gianmarino Gianfrate completed a General Surgery Residency from 2020 to 2025, graduated Summa Cum Laude from Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, earned a Master’s Degree in Interdisciplinary Science with the same distinction, and received a Bachelor of Science in Biology with a minor in Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh. Outside of medicine, he enjoys leadership, mentorship, surgical education, cooking, winemaking, volunteer service, and spending time with his wife and their two dogs.