April E. Mendoza is a board-certified trauma surgeon and critical care intensivist at University of California San Francisco at East Bay, Oakland California. She is the Trauma Medical Director at Wilma Chan Highland General Hospital, the Level 1 Trauma Center in Oakland, California, but she also specializes in nutrition optimization for the complex surgical patient. She is a Certified Nutrition Support Clinician and previously served as the Medical Director of the Nutrition Support Team while in Boston at the Massachusetts General Hospital prior to taking her current position.