Dra. Stacey
Rotta

Dr. Stacey Rotta is a general surgeon with expertise in burns and surgical critical care. She also assists us with post-operative care as a specialist, working closely with Dr. Pirko to ensure our patients receive the highest quality of care throughout their recovery process. She completed medical school at UC Davis, general surgery residency at Yale New Haven Hospital, and fellowship training at UC Davis. She worked at Maine Medical Center for several years before joining the team at Ideal Plastic Surgery.

She is originally from Quincy, California and attended Santa Clara University prior to completing medical school at the University of California, Davis. Her surgical training took place at Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut and she has burn fellowship training from Bridgeport Hospital in Connecticut, UC Davis, and Shriner’s Children’s hospital in Sacramento. She worked in Portland, Maine for three years prior to returning to California to be closer to family. She is pleased to be part of the excellent group of physicians at Ideal Plastic Surgery and looks forward to providing attentive care to our patients, both in and out of the operating room.

Dr. Stacey completed her General Surgery residency at Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut. She then pursued a Burn Surgery fellowship at Bridgeport Hospital in Bridgeport, Connecticut, followed by an additional fellowship in Burns and Surgical Critical Care at the University of California, Davis, and Shriners Children’s Hospital. She earned her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of California, Davis School of Medicine in Sacramento, California. Prior to that, she received a Bachelor of Combined Sciences and a Bachelor of Religious Studies from Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California.

Professional associations

• Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
• Yale New Haven Hospital Resident Wellness Committee
• Member of the Yale Surgery Committee on Women in Surgery
• Magazine club activities, participation in symposiums

Publications and research

• Trehan K, Rotta S, et al. Is prehospital CPR a risk factor for early death in patients transferred to an adult burn center? Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2017

Presentations

• Liver Failure in the Intensive Care Unit. Portland, Maine
• Beyond the Baux Score: Predicting mortality in the burn unit. New Haven, Connecticut
• Introduction to Burn Care. New Haven, Connecticut
• Necrotizing soft tissue infections. Portland, Maine (July 21, 2021)

Leadership activities

• Facilitator for the Doctoring four-course program, UC Davis.
• International volunteer at the Orthopedic Hospital in Nepal, Kathmandu.
• Coordinator of the Klingenstein Child Psychiatry Fellowship, UC Davis.
• Guest speaker at the Northern California Emergency Medical Services Quarterly Conference (May 20, 2022).