Amy M. Cizik

Amy M. Cizik, PhD, MPH

Academic Information

Departments Adjunct - Surgery , Primary - Orthopaedics , Adjunct - Population Health Sciences

Academic Office Information

Amy.Cizik@hsc.utah.edu

Dr. Cizik is a health economics and outcomes researcher (HEOR) with a primary research focus using Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) at the point of care to support surgeons and patients in preference-based (patient-centered) shared decision-making for surgical treatment decisions. Her research hopes to improve the value of healthcare by improving the surgeon/patient decision-making experience. Her clinical area has mostly focused in orthopaedic surgery, specifically spine and trauma subspecialties, but also includes all musculoskeletal care, involving complex decision-making of operative versus non-operative care versus the decision to wait and reevaluate treatment options at a future timepoint. She has collaborated with colleagues in multiple other surgical disciplines as well. Dr. Cizik has a diverse training background that includes patient-reported outcome measurement, economic modelling, health services, biostatistics, epidemiology, and public health and health policy. She has extensive experience and expertise selecting PROMs; implementing PROMS, including PROMIS measures in both academic and community care settings; enrolling patients for prospective and randomized clinical trials, and successfully collecting PROMs at longitudinal follow-up timepoints. She teaches courses related to PROMs and preference-based patient measurement and mentors medical students, residents, and graduate students in disciplines such as surgical health services and patient outcomes research, epidemiology, biostatistics, population health, caregiving, mixed and qualitative research methods, and partners with bioengineers and collaborators in School of Nursing.

Education History

Undergraduate University of Missouri¿Kansas City
 BA
Undergraduate University of Missouri¿Kansas City
 BA
Graduate Training University of Kansas School of Medicine
 MPH
Certification University of Washington School of Pharmacy
 Graduate Certificate
Doctoral Training University of Washington School of Pharmacy
 PhD
Certification University of Washington
 Graduate Certificate

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Engelman KK, Cizik AM, Ellerbeck EF, Rempusheski VF (2012). Perceptions of the screening mammography experience by Hispanic and non-Hispanic White women. Womens Health Issues, 22(4), e395-401.
  2. Gurich RW Jr, Cizik AM, Punt SE, Namekata M, Johnson CN, Symons RG, Brewer EG, Thompson MJ (2020). Decision-making in Orthopaedic Oncology: Does Cognitive Bias Affect a Virtual Patient's Choice Between Limb Salvage and Amputation? Clin Orthop Relat Res, 478(3), 506-514.
  3. Zimel MN, Cizik AM, Rapp TB, Weisstein JS, Conrad EU 3rd (2009). Megaprosthesis versus Condyle-sparing intercalary allograft: distal femoral sarcoma. Clin Orthop Relat Res, 467(11), 2813-24.
  4. Morgan HD, Cizik AM, Leopold SS, Hawkins DS, Conrad EU 3rd (2006). Survival of tumor megaprostheses replacements about the knee. Clin Orthop Relat Res, 450, 39-45.
  5. Cizik AM, Lee MJ, Martin BI, Bransford RJ, Bellabarba C, Chapman JR, Mirza SK (2012). Using the spine surgical invasiveness index to identify risk of surgical site infection: a multivariate analysis. J Bone Joint Surg Am, 94(4), 335-42.
  6. Wahl CJ, Westermann RW, Blaisdell GY, Cizik AM (2012). An association of lateral knee sagittal anatomic factors with non-contact ACL injury: sex or geometry? J Bone Joint Surg Am, 94(3), 217-26.
  7. Khor S, Lavallee DC, Cizik AM, Bellabarba C, Dagal A, Hart RA, Howe CR, Martz RD, Shonnard N, Flum DR (2020). Hospital and Surgeon Variation in Patient-reported Functional Outcomes After Lumbar Spine Fusion: A Statewide Evaluation. Spine (Phila Pa 1976), 45(7), 465-472.
  8. Manoso MW, Cizik AM, Bransford RJ, Bellabarba C, Chapman J, Lee MJ (2014). Medicaid status is associated with higher surgical site infection rates after spine surgery. Spine (Phila Pa 1976), 39(20), 1707-13.
  9. Hacquebord J, Cizik AM, Malempati SH, Konodi MA, Bransford RJ, Bellabarba C, Chapman J, Lee MJ (2013). Medicaid status is associated with higher complication rates after spine surgery. Spine (Phila Pa 1976), 38(16), 1393-400.
  10. Lee MJ, Konodi MA, Cizik AM, Weinreich MA, Bransford RJ, Bellabarba C, Chapman J (2013). Risk factors for medical complication after cervical spine surgery: a multivariate analysis of 582 patients. Spine (Phila Pa 1976), 38(3), 223-8.
  11. Lee MJ, Hacquebord J, Varshney A, Cizik AM, Bransford RJ, Bellabarba C, Konodi MA, Chapman J (2011). Risk factors for medical complication after lumbar spine surgery: a multivariate analysis of 767 patients. Spine (Phila Pa 1976), 36(21), 1801-6.
  12. Engelman KK, Cizik AM, Ellerbeck EF (2005). Women's satisfaction with their mammography experience: results of a qualitative study. Women Health, 42(4), 17-35.
  13. Ehlers AP, Khor S, Cizik AM, Leveque JA, Shonnard NS, Oskouian RJ Jr, Flum DR, Lavallee DC (2017). Use of patient-reported outcomes and satisfaction for quality assessments. Am J Manag Care, 23(10), 618-622.
  14. Gundle KR, Cizik AM, Jones RL, Davidson DJ (2015). Quality of life measures in soft tissue sarcoma. Expert Rev Anticancer Ther, 15(1), 95-100.
  15. Ehlers AP, Khor S, Shonnard N, Oskouian RJ Jr, Sethi RK, Cizik AM, Lee MJ, Bederman S, Anderson PA, Dellinger EP, Flum DR (2016). Intra-Wound Antibiotics and Infection in Spine Fusion Surgery: A Report from Washington State's SCOAP-CERTAIN Collaborative. Surg Infect (Larchmt), 17(2), 179-86.
  16. Cheng CW, Cizik AM, Dagal AHC, Lewis L, Lynch J, Bellabarba C, Bransford RJ, Zhou H (2019). Body mass index and the risk of deep surgical site infection following posterior cervical instrumented fusion. Spine J, 19(4), 602-609.
  17. Lee MJ, Cizik AM, Hamilton D, Chapman JR (2014). Predicting surgical site infection after spine surgery: a validated model using a prospective surgical registry. Spine J, 14(9), 2112-7.
  18. Lee MJ, Cizik AM, Hamilton D, Chapman JR (2014). Predicting medical complications after spine surgery: a validated model using a prospective surgical registry. Spine J, 14(2), 291-9.
  19. Lee MJ, Konodi MA, Cizik AM, Bransford RJ, Bellabarba C, Chapman JR (2012). Risk factors for medical complication after spine surgery: a multivariate analysis of 1,591 patients. Spine J, 12(3), 197-206.
  20. Baker GA, Cizik AM, Bransford RJ, Bellabarba C, Konodi MA, Chapman JR, Lee MJ (2012). Risk factors for unintended durotomy during spine surgery: a multivariate analysis. Spine J, 12(2), 121-6.
  21. Gundle KR, Cizik AM, Punt SE, Conrad EU 3rd, Davidson DJ (2014). Validation of the SF-6D Health State Utilities Measure in Lower Extremity Sarcoma. Sarcoma, 2014, 450902.
  22. Khor S, Lavallee D, Cizik AM, Bellabarba C, Chapman JR, Howe CR, Lu D, Mohit AA, Oskouian RJ, Roh JR, Shonnard N, Dagal A, Flum DR (2018). Development and Validation of a Prediction Model for Pain and Functional Outcomes After Lumbar Spine Surgery. JAMA Surg, 153(7), 634-642.
  23. Somerson JS, Petersen JP, Neradilek MB, Cizik AM, Gee AO (2018). Complications and Outcomes After Medial Ulnar Collateral Ligament Reconstruction: A Meta-Regression and Systematic Review. JBJS Rev, 6(5), e4.
  24. Wheelwright JC, Christensen GV, Cizik AM, Zhang C, Marchand LS, Haller JM (2022). Significant Factors of High Performance Outcomes for Tibial Plafond Fractures. Foot Ankle Int, 43(10), 10711007221112924.
  25. Rundell SD, Saito A, Meier EN, Danyluk ST, Jarvik JG, Seebeck K, Friedly JL, Heagerty PJ, Johnston SK, Smersh M, Horn ME, Suri P, Cizik AM, Goode AP (2022). The Lumbar Stenosis Prognostic Subgroups for Personalizing Care and Treatment (PROSPECTS) study: protocol for an inception cohort study. BMC Musculoskelet Disord, 23(1), 692.
  26. Myhre L, Kellam P, Dekeyser G, Li H, Zhang Y, Cizik AM, Haller J (2022). Minimal Clinically Important Differences of PROMIS PF in Ankle Fracture Patients. Foot Ankle Int, 43(7), 968-972.
  27. Taliercio VL, Snyder AM, Biggs AM, Kean J, Hess R, Duffin KC, Cizik AM, Secrest AM (2022). Clinicians' perspectives on the integration of electronic patient-reported outcomes into dermatology clinics: a qualitative study. Qual Life Res, 31(6), 1719-1725.
  28. Brodke DJ, Zhang C, Shaw JD, Cizik AM, Saltzman CL, Brodke DS (2022). How Do PROMIS Scores Correspond to Common Physical Abilities? Clin Orthop Relat Res, 480(5), 996-1007.
  29. Kaur MN, Skolasky RL, Powell PA, Xie F, Huang IC, Kuspinar A, O'Dwyer JL, Cizik AM, Rowen D (2022). Transforming challenges into opportunities: conducting health preference research during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Qual Life Res, 31(4), 1191-1198.
  30. Jawad MU, Pollock BH, Wise BL, Zeitlinger LN, O' Donnell EF, Carr-Ascher JR, Cizik A, Ferrell B, Thorpe SW, Randall RL (2022). Sex, racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in patients with metastatic bone disease. J Surg Oncol, 125(4), 766-774.
  31. Hanmer J, Cizik AM, Gulek BG, McCracken P, Swart ECS, Turner R, Kinsky SM (2022). A scoping review of US insurers' use of patient-reported outcomes. Am J Manag Care, 28(6), e232-e238.
  32. Dailey EA, Cizik A, Kasten J, Chapman JR, Lee MJ (2013). Risk factors for readmission of orthopaedic surgical patients. J Bone Joint Surg Am, 95(11), 1012-9.
  33. Amman S, Cizik A, Leopold SS, Manner PA (2012). Two-incision minimally invasive vs standard total hip arthroplasty: comparison of component position and hospital costs. J Arthroplasty, 27(8), 1569-1574.e1.
  34. Lohse GR, Leopold SS, Theiler S, Sayre C, Cizik A, Lee MJ (2012). Systems-based safety intervention: reducing falls with injury and total falls on an orthopaedic ward. J Bone Joint Surg Am, 94(13), 1217-22.
  35. Imposti F, Cizik A, Bransford R, Bellabarba C, Lee MJ (2010). Risk factors for pulmonary complications after spine surgery. Evid Based Spine Care J, 1(2), 26-33.
  36. Guyot JP, Cizik A, Bransford R, Bellabarba C, Lee MJ (2010). Risk factors for cardiac complications after spine surgery. Evid Based Spine Care J, 1(2), 18-25.
  37. Jawad MU, Pollock BH, Wise BL, Zeitlinger LN, O' Donnell EF, Carr-Ascher JR, Cizik A, Ferrell B, Thorpe SW, Randall R (2022). Socioeconomic and insurance-related disparities in disease-specific survival among patients with metastatic bone disease. Journal of surgical oncology, 127, 159-173.
  38. Hubbard J, Rogers MJ, Cizik AM, Zhang C, Presson AP, Kazmers N (2022). Establishing the Patient Acceptable Symptom State in a Nonshoulder Hand and Upper Extremity Population for the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand and Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Upper Extremity Computer Adaptive Tests. The Journal of hand surgery, 49(3), 282.e1-282.e12.
  39. Myhre L, Olsen Z, Li H, Zhang Y, Cizik AM, Haller (2022). Determining the clinical significance of the PROMIS physical function score in the setting of femur fractures. European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology, 33(6), 2277-2282.
  40. North K, Simpson GM, Stuart AR, Kubiak EN, Petelenz TJ, Hitchcock RW, Rothberg DL, Cizik A (2023). Early postoperative step count and walking time have greater impact on lower limb fracture outcomes than load-bearing metrics. Injury, 54(7), 110756.
  41. Snyder AM, Chen SC, Chren MM, Ferris LK, Edwards LD, Swerlick RA, Flint ND, Cizik AM, Hess R, Kean J, Secrest AM, Dermatology PRO Consortiu (2023). Patient-Reported Outcome Measures and Their Clinical Applications in Dermatology. American journal of clinical dermatology, 24(4), 499-511.
  42. Thorne T, Kellam P, Nelson C, Li H, Zhang Y, Cizik A, Marchand L, Haller J (2023). Minimal Clinically Important Differences of Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Physical Function in Patients With Tibial Shaft Fracture. Journal of orthopaedic trauma, 37(8), 401-406.
  43. Thorne T, Cizik A, Dong W, Da Silva Z, Wei Y, Zhang Y, Haller J (2023). The trajectory of patient-reported outcomes and minimal clinically important differences in isolated and polytraumatic pelvis and acetabular fractures. European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology,
  44. Sato EH, Treu EA, Froerer DL, Zhang C, O'Neill DC, Cizik AM, Haller J (2024). Establishing the Patient Acceptable Symptom State Thresholds for Patient-Reported Outcomes after Operatively Treated Tibial Plateau Fractures. Journal of orthopaedic trauma, 38(3), 121-128.
  45. Skolasky RL, Cizik AM, Jain A, Neuman B (2024). Measuring Value in Spine Care Using the PROMIS-Preference Scoring System. The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume, 106(1), 21-29.
  46. Thorne TJ, Cizik AM, Kellam PJ, Rothberg DL, Higgins TF, Dekeyser GJ, Haller J (2024). The MCID of the PROMIS physical function instrument for operatively treated tibial plateau fractures. Injury, 55(4), 111375.
  47. Simister SK, Bhale R, Cizik AM, Wise BL, Thorpe SW, Ferrell B, Randall RL, Fauer (2024). Supportive care interventions in metastatic bone disease: scoping review. BMJ supportive & palliative care,
  48. Cizik AM, Zhang C, Presson AP, Randall D, Kazmers N (2024). Linking QuickDASH and PROMIS Upper-Extremity Computer-Adaptive Test Scores in Hand Surgery: A Crosswalk Study. The Journal of hand surgery, 49(7), 664-674.
  49. North K, Simpson G, Geiger W, Cizik A, Rothberg D, Hitchcock (2024). Predicting the Healing of Lower Extremity Fractures Using Wearable Ground Reaction Force Sensors and Machine Learning. Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 24(16),
  50. Rogers MJ, Daryoush JR, Zhang C, Cizik A, Presson AP, Kazmers N (2024). Crosswalk between the PROMIS physical function CAT and PROMIS upper extremity CAT v1.2 in a hand surgery population. Journal of patient-reported outcomes, 8(1), 53.
  51. Holeman TA, Hales J, Cizik AM, Zickmund S, Kean J, Brooke B (2024). Factors that impact the implementation of patient reported outcomes in routine clinical care for peripheral artery disease from the patient perspective. Quality of life research,
  52. Hanmer J, Zeng C, Cizik AM, Raad JH, Tsevat J, Rodriguez A, Hays RD, Edelen M (2024). Agreement of PROMIS Preference (PROPr) scores generated from the PROMIS-29¿+¿2 and the PROMIS-16. Quality of life research,
  53. Groundland J, Tokson JH, Hakim A, Cizik A, Blank A, Lerman D, Jones K, Lor Randall (2024). Length of Time to Clinical Improvement After Orthopedic Oncology Surgery in Patients With Metastatic Cancer: A Multi-Institution Patient-Reported Outcome Study. Journal of surgical oncology,
  54. Daryoush JR, Rogers MJ, Zhang C, Quesada MJ, Cizik AM, Presson AP, Kazmers N (2024). Developing Linkages Between PROMIS Physical Function CAT and QuickDASH Scores in Hand Surgery: A Crosswalk Study. The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume, 107(6), 614-620.
  55. Yamauchi J, Cizik AM, Fornadi K, Thomas D, Raghavan D, Jweehan D, Oygen S, Marineci S, Buff M, Selim M, Zimmerman M, Mucsi I, Molnar M (2025). Associations of Pretransplant Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Physical Function Score With Kidney Transplant Outcomes. Transplant international, 38, 13884.
  56. Parks AL, Slager SL, Cizik AM, Fang MC, Supiano MA, Katz PP, Witt D (2025). The impact of anticoagulant-related bleeding on quality of life: Development of a novel measure based on perspectives from older adults. PloS one, 20(1), e0316796.
  57. Iacob E, Hollingshaus M, Utz RL, Tay DL, Ornstein KA, Alexander R, Barrientos P, Ellington L, Newman M, Belnap T, Cizik AM, Smith KR, Meeks HD, Stephens C (2025). Caregiving at end-of-life: How do family structure and dementia status impact antidepressant and anxiolytic prescriptions among families?. Alzheimer's & dementia, 21(6), e14590.
  58. May LJ, Stehlik J, Ou Z, Lambert LM, Chen CY, Rosenthal DN, Machado DS, Lopez-Colon D, Shih R, Gibbons T, Madden B, Watanabe K, Presson AP, Cizik AM, Keenan H (2024). PROMIS fatigue scores are moderately correlated with heart failure severity in pediatrics. JHLT open, 6, 100144.
  59. Crossnohere NL, Schuster ALR, Bruckel J, Chen RC, Cizik AM, Cruz Rivera S, Muth C, Nelsen L, Kyte D, Wu AW, Thorner E, Snyder C, Brundage (2025). Patient-reported outcome measures add value as clinical trial endpoints. Nature medicine,
  60. Sato EH, Simister SK, Christensen GV, Cizik AM, Moverman MA, Joyce CD, Chalmers PN, Tashjian R (2025). Two-Year Functional and Radiographic Outcomes Following Large Lesser Tuberosity Osteotomy in Stemless Anatomic Total Shoulder Arthroplasty: A Case Series. The Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 33(20), e1205-e1214.
  61. Rundell SD, Meier EN, Jarvik JG, Friedly JL, Horn ME, Suri P, Cizik AM, Heagerty PJ, Johnston SK, Fillipo R, Burke C, Danyluk ST, Seebeck K, Goode A (2025). Phenotypes of patients with symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis presenting for non-operative care: Baseline data from The Lumbar Stenosis Prognostic Subgroups for Personalizing Care and Treatment (PROSPECTS) Study. Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.),
  62. Holeman TA, Brooke BS, Hales JB, Wei Y, Zhang Y, Steinberg BA, Cizik A (2025). Establishing Minimal Clinically Important Difference for PROMIS Physical Function Improvement After Revascularization for Peripheral Artery Disease. Advances in patient-reported outcomes, 1(1),
  63. Holeman TA, Findley B, Chester C, Hales J, Wei Y, Brooke BS, Cizik (2025). Reliability and Construct Validity of Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement Information System Physical Function in Patients With Peripheral Artery Disease. The Journal of surgical research, 315, 24-31.
  64. Farrukh H, Kunzli A, Virag O, O'Hara N, Sprague S, Cizik A, Gehrke-Becker R, Schubert T, Ghert (2025). The Design of a Patient-Centered Hierarchal Composite Outcome for a Multi-Center Randomized Controlled Trial in Metastatic Bone Disease. Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.), 32(6),
  65. Heaton TB, Behrens NF, Eyring JB, Gililland JM, Pelt CE, Cizik A (2026). Language Barriers as a Driver of Health Disparity in Bone Density Screening Among the Aging Population. American journal of preventive medicine, 108263.
  66. Hansen EJ, Cizik AM, Goldstein EV, Kean J, Singer PM, Wilson F (2025). Changes to Depression-Related Health Care Encounters and Telehealth Adoption in the COVID-19 Era. Telemedicine journal and e-health, 32(2), 167-174.

Review

  1. Simister SK,Bhale R,Cizik AM,Wise BL,Thorpe SW,Ferrell B,Randall RL,Fauer (2024). Supportive care interventions in metastatic bone disease: Scoping review. BMJ supportive & palliative care,

Book Chapter

  1. Vijayakumar G,Blank AT,Cizik A (2024). PROs. Metastatic Bone Disease: An Integrated Approach to Patient Care, Second Edition, 201-207.

Letter

  1. Wolff AC, Austin EJ, Cizik A (2024). Applicability of the PRISMA-COSMIN guidelines for systematic reviews of outcome measurement instruments to ISOQOL's special interest group for clinical practice. Quality of life research,