Jade Nunez, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery and Associate Trauma Medical Director at University of Utah Health in partnership with Adam Gyedu, Associate Professor at the Department of Surgery, College of Health Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi
AWARD: $90,000 USD Laerdal Foundation grant
TITLE: Ghana’s Surgical, Anesthesia and Obstetrics Indicators Collection: A feasibility study for the Utstein Perioperative Metrics Project
Brigitte Smith, MD, MHPE, FACS, FSVS, Associate Professor of Vascular Surgery, Program Director for the Vascular Surgery Fellowship and Vice Chair of Education for the Department of Surgery
AWARD: 2022-2023 annual Ilene B. Harris Legacy Research Fund grant
TITLE: Longitudinal assessments of multiple competencies during surgical training and their association with patient care outcomes in unsupervised practice
Gia Lewis, MD, and Irma Fleming, MD, Associate Professors of Surgery at University of Utah Health, along with Andy Hong Ph. D, PE and Jennifer Weidhaas, PhD, PE, both researchers in Civil and Environmental Engineering,
AWARD: 1U4U Innovation funding
TITLE: Nanobubbles for disinfection of nosocomial pathogens
Marta McCrum, MD, MPH, Acute Care Surgeon and team
AWARD: New DELPHI pilot grants
TOPIC: Using modularity optimization to idea natural networks of emergency general surgery care. Read More
John Hyngstrom, MD
AWARDS: Three cooperative group (SWOG, NRG/ECOG) studies
TOPICS: Evaluating neoadjuvant immunotherapy and surgical margins for high-risk resectable melanoma patients.
NOTE: Our site had highest SWOG accrual for S1801 trial establishing clinical superiority of neoadjuvant immunotherapy for stage III melanoma patients (Patel S. et al NEJM 2023). Read More
Taylor Carter, MD
AWARD: 2023-2024 AAS/AASF Trainee Education Research Award
TITLE: Achievement or Bias? A mixed-methods study of gender differences in the assessment of vascular surgery residents and fellows
Jason Glotzbach, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery
AWARD: NIH K-08
TOPIC: Genomic drivers of bicuspid aortopathy.
Motaz Selim, MBBCh, MD, PhD, MSc, Ashley Krepline, MD, Calvin Eriksen, MD, Patrick Murphy, MD, MPH, MSc, FRCSC, Matthew Cooper, MD, FACS
The transplant ureter causing small bowel obstruction following intraperitoneal kidney transplantation: a case report
Journal of Surgical Case Reports, Volume 2023, Issue 4, April 2023, rjad218
Daniel R. Labuz, MD, Giavonni Lewis, MD, FACS, Irma D. Fleming, MD, Callie M. Thompson, MD, FACS, Yan Zhai, Matthew A. Firpo, PhD, Daniel T Leung, MD, MSc
Targeted multi-omic analysis of human skin tissue identifies alterations of conventional and unconventional T cells associated with burn injury
eLife 12:e82626
Stephanie E. Iantorno, MD
Surge in Pediatric Firearm Injuries Presenting to US Children’s Hospitals During the COVID-19 Pandemic
JAMA Pediatrics. 2023;177(2):204–206. pediatric firearm violence
Wall Street Journal, “Gun Injuries Among Children Surged During Pandemic, Study Says.”