Mackenzie Cook MD, FACS (He/Him) is a trauma surgeon in OHSU’s Division of Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery, with an added focus on ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) management and transport, surgical stabilization of rib fractures and serious illness communication.  He is an associated program director of the general surgery residency.  

Born in Pittsburgh, he grew up in a small town in Connecticut. He attended college at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., and then spent a year backpacking and skiing in Utah before attending medical school at Duke University in Durham, N.C. He then headed west for residency at OHSU, where he completed a dedicated research year in the Trauma Research Institute of Oregon.  He graduated from residency in 2016 and completed a surgical critical care fellowship at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle in 2017.  

He joined the faculty at OHSU in the fall of 2017 and has built his clinical practice around caring for the sickest and most severely injured patients in Oregon. Dr. Cook lives in Portland with his wife, Crystal, their three kids and one aging dog. Avid hikers, skiers, travelers and climbers, the Cook family is happy to call Portland home.