Jade M. Nunez

Jade M. Nunez, MD

Languages spoken: English

Academic Information

Departments Adjunct - Surgery

Divisions: General Surgery

Research Interests

  • Health Economics
  • Public Health Surveillance Systems

Dr. Nunez is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Utah and an acute care surgeon specializing in the care of critically ill and injured patients. He completed his general surgery residency and fellowships in surgical critical care and acute care surgery at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC. As Associate Trauma Medical Director, he is responsible for developing targeted interventions to ensure the best care for trauma patients.

Serving as the site lead for the Center for Global Surgery's programs in Mongolia, he directs initiatives to increase surgical capacity through educational programs, including rural laparoscopy and Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) training. His research focuses on perioperative metrics in Mongolia and Ghana, where he leads multidisciplinary teams to improve access to safe surgical care in resource-limited settings.

Education History

Post Graduate Training London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
 MSc
Fellowship Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
 Fellow
Residency Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
 Resident
Fellowship Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
 Fellow
Residency Ochsner Clinic Foundation
 Resident
Professional Medical Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
 MD
Undergraduate Louisiana State University
 BS

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Batsuuri B, Avirmed S, Batbold C, Lopez-Verdugo F, Nunez J, Togtokh A, Orgoi S (2024). Risk factors for renal impairment after liver transplantation in Mongolia: a retrospective single-center study. Clin Transplant Res, 38(2), 128-135.
  2. Davis AN, Wan N, Erdene S, Lundeg G, VanDerslice J, Nunez J (2024). Mapping essential surgical care in Mongolia: Do natural barriers and seasonality alter access to essential surgical care? Appl Geogr, 167(103297).
  3. Lombardo S, McCrum M, Knudson MM, Moore EE, Kornblith L, Brakenridge S, Bruns B, Cipolle MD, Costantini TW, Crookes B, Haut ER, Kerwin AJ, Kiraly LN, Knowlton LM, Martin MJ, McNutt MK, Milia DJ, Mohr A, Rogers F, Scalea T, Sixta S, Spain D, Wade CE, Velmahos GC, Nirula R, Nunez J (2024). Weight-based enoxaparin thromboprophylaxis in young trauma patients: analysis of the CLOTT-1 registry. Trauma Surg Acute Care Open, 9(1), e001230.
  4. Findlay MC, Sarriera-Valentin G, Earl ER, Cole KL, Hamrick FA, Baradaran H, Cortez J, Lombardo S, Nunez J, Kilburg C, Grandhi R, Menacho ST (2023). Management Patterns and Outcomes After Traumatic Brain Injury With Associated Blunt Cerebrovascular Injury. Neurosurgery, 94(2), 340-349.
  5. Cole KL, Nguyen S, Gelhard S, Hardy J, Cortez J, Nunez JM, Menacho ST, Grandhi R (2023). Factors Associated with Venous Thromboembolism Development in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury. Neurocrit Care.
  6. Argandykov DDorken-Gallastegi AEl Moheb MGebran AProao-Zamudio JABokenkamp MRenne AMNepogodiev DBhangu AKaafarani HMACOVIDSurg Collaborative (2023). Is perioperative COVID-19 really associated with worse surgical outcomes? A nationwide COVIDSurg propensity-matched analysis. J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 94(4), 513-524.
  7. Nunez JM, Nellermoe J, Davis A, Ruhnke S, Gonchigjav B, Bat-Erdene N, Zorigtbaatar A, Jalali A, Bagley K, Katz M, Pioli H, Bat-Erdene B, Erdene S, Orgoi S, Price RR, Lundeg G (2022). Establishing a baseline for surgical care in Mongolia: a situational analysis using the six indicators from the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery. BMJ Open, 12(7), e051838.
  8. Krause C, Kwon E, Luo-Owen X, McArthur K, Cochran-Yu M, Swentek L, Burruss S, Turay D, Grigorian A, Nahmias J, Butt A, Gutierrez A, LaRiccia A, Kincaid M, Fiorentino MN, Glass N, Toscano S, Ley E, Lombardo SR, Guillamondegui OD, Bardes JM, DeLaO C, Wydo SM, Leneweaver K, Duletzke NT, Nunez J, Moradian S, Posluszny J, Naar L, Kaafarani H, Kemmer H, Lieser MJ, Dorricott A, Chang G, Nemeth Z, Mukherjee K (2021). Dexmedetomidine and paralytic exposure after damage control laparotomy: risk factors for delirium? Results from the EAST SLEEP-TIME multicenter trial. Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg, 48(3), 2097-2105.
  9. Kwon E, Krause C, Luo-Owen X, McArthur K, Cochran-Yu M, Swentek L, Burruss S, Turay D, Krasnoff C, Grigorian A, Nahmias J, Butt A, Gutierrez A, LaRiccia A, Kincaid M, Fiorentino M, Glass N, Toscano S, Ley EJ, Lombardo S, Guillamondegui O, Bardes JM, DeLaO C, Wydo S, Leneweaver K, Duletzke N, Nunez J, Moradian S, Posluszny J, Naar L, Kaafarani H, Kemmer H, Lieser M, Hanson I, Chang G, Bilaniuk JW, Nemeth Z, Mukherjee K (2021). Time is domain: factors affecting primary fascial closure after trauma and non-trauma damage control laparotomy (data from the EAST SLEEP-TIME multicenter registry). Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg, 48(3), 2107-2116.
  10. COVIDSurg Collaborative (2022). Outcomes and their state-level variation in patients undergoing surgery with perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection in the USA. Ann Surg, 275(2), 247-251.
  11. COVIDSurg Collaborative (2021). Outcomes and Their State-level Variation in Patients Undergoing Surgery With Perioperative SARS-CoV-2 Infection in the USA: A Prospective Multicenter Study. Ann Surg, 275(2), 247-251.
  12. COVIDSurg Collaborative GlobalSurg Collaborative (2022). SARS-CoV-2 infection and venous thromboembolism after surgery: an international prospective cohort study. Anaesthesia, 77(1), 28-39.
  13. COVIDSurg Collaborative GlobalSurg Collaborative (2021). Effects of pre-operative isolation on postoperative pulmonary complications after elective surgery: an international prospective cohort study. Anaesthesia, 76(11), 1454-1464.
  14. The Cardiothoracic Interdisciplinary Research Network and COVIDSurg Collaborative (2021). Early outcomes and complications following cardiac surgery in patients testing positive for coronavirus disease 2019: An international cohort study. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg, 162(2), e355-e372.
  15. Kaitlin McArthur, Cassandra Krause, Eugenia Kwon, Xian Luo-Owen, Meghan Cochran-Yu, Lourdes Swentek, Sigrid Burruss, David Turay, Chloe Krasnoff, Areg Grigorian, Jeffry Nahmias, Ahsan Butt, Adam Gutierrez, Aimee LaRiccia, Michelle Kincaid, Michele N Fiorentino, Nina Glass, Samantha Toscano, Eric Ley, Sarah R Lombardo, Oscar D Guillamondegui, James M Bardes, Connie DeLaO, Salina M Wydo, Kyle Leneweaver, Nicholas T Duletzke, Jade Nunez, Simon Moradian, Joseph Posluszny, Leon Naar, Haytham Kaafarani, Heidi Kemmer, Mark J Lieser, Alexa Dorricott, Grace Chang, Zoltan Nemeth, Kaushik Mukherjee (2021). Trauma and nontrauma damage-control laparotomy: The difference is delirium (data from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma SLEEP-TIME multicenter trial). J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 91(1), 100-107.
  16. COVIDSURG Collaborative (2021). SARS-CoV-2 vaccination modelling for safe surgery to save lives: data from an international prospective cohort study. Br J Surg.
  17. COVIDSURG Collaborative (2021). Timing of surgery following SARS-CoV-2 infection:an international prospective cohort study. Anaesthesia.
  18. COVIDSurg Collaborative (2021). Machine learning risk prediction of mortality for patients undergoing surgery with perioperative SARS-CoV-2: The COVIDSurg mortality score. Br J Surg, 19(4).
  19. Senekjian L, Birkas Y, Buhavac M, Dayal S, Mukherjee K, Nygaard R, Pierce S, Buaza G, Sperry J, Eriksson E, Leon SM, Kopelman T, Spadafore P, Kopatsis A, Moore F, Taylor A, Colonna A, Enniss T, McCrum M, Nunez J, Young J, Nirula R (2020). Stop flailing: The impact of bicortically displaced rib fractures on pulmonary outcomes in patients with chest trauma - an American Association for the Surgery of Trauma multi-institutional study. J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 89(4), 658-664.
  20. Colonna AL, Bellows BK, Enniss TM, Young JB, McCrum M, Nunez JM, Nirula R, Nelson RE (2020). Reducing the pain: A cost-effectiveness analysis of transversus abdominis plane block using liposomal bupivacaine for outpatient laparoscopic ventral hernia repair. Surg Open Sci, 2(2), 75-80.
  21. Carlock TC, Barrett JR, Kalvelage JP, Young JB, Nunez JM, Colonna AL, Enniss TM, Nirula R, McCrum ML (2019). Telephone Follow-Up for Emergency General Surgery Procedures: Safety and Implication for Health Resource Use. J Am Coll Surg, 230(2), 228-236.
  22. Colonna AL, Bellows BK, Enniss TM, Young JB, McCrum M, Nunez JM, Nirula R, Nelson RE (2020). Reducing the pain: A cost-effectiveness analysis of transversus abdominis plane block using liposomal bupivacaine for outpatient laparoscopic ventral hernia repair. Surg Open Sci, 2(2), 75-80.
  23. Colonna AL, Griffiths TM, Robison DC, Enniss TM, Young JB, McCrum ML, Nunez JM, Nirula R, Hardman RL (2019). Cholecystostomy: Are we using it correctly? Am J Surg, 217(6), 1010-1015.
  24. Kornfeld JE, Katz MG, Cardinal JR, Bat-Erdene B, Jargalsaikhan G, Nunez J (2018). Cost Analysis of the Mongolian ATLS© Program: A Framework for Low- and Middle-Income Countries. World J Surg, 43(2), 353-359.
  25. Katz MG, Price RR, Nunez JM (2018). Local Research Catalyzes National Surgical Planning Comment on "Global Surgery - Informing National Strategies for Scaling Up Surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa". Int J Health Policy Manag, 7(11), 1058-1060.
  26. Byrge N, Heilburn M, Winkler N, Sommers D, Evans H, Cattin LM, Scalea T, Stein DM, Neideen T, Walsh P, Sims CA, Brahmbhatt TS, Galante JM, Phan HH, Malhotra A, Stovall RT, Jurkovich GJ, Coimbra R, Berndtson AE, OCallaghan TA, Gaspard SF, Schreiber MA, Cook MR, Demetriades D, Rivera O, Velmahos GC, Zhao T, Park PK, Machado-Aranda D, Ahmad S, Lewis J, Hoff WS, Suleiman G, Sperry J, Zolin S, Carrick MM, Mallory GR, Nunez J, Colonna A, Enniss T, Nirula R (2018). An AAST-MITC Analysis of Pancreatic Trauma: Staple or Sew? Resect or Drain? J Trauma Acute Care Surg.
  27. Wall, V, Fleming KI, Tonna, JE, Nunez J, Lonardo, N, Shiplet RW, Nirula, R, Pannucci, CJ (2017). Anti-factor Xa measurements in acute care surgery patients to examine enoxaparin dose. Am J Surg.
  28. Nunez JM, Becher RD, Rebo GJ, Farrah JP, Borgerding EM, Stirparo JJ, Lauer C, Kilgo P, Miller PR (2015). Prospective Evaluation of Weight-Based Prophylactic Enoxaparin Dosing in Critically Ill Trauma Patients: Adequacy of AntiXa Levels Is Improved. Am Surg, 81(6), 605-9.
  29. Byrnes KW, DeBenedetti A, Holm NT, Luke J, Nunez J, Chu QD, Meschonat C, Abreo F, Johnson LW, Li BD (2007). Correlation of TLK1B in elevation and recurrence in doxorubicin-treated breast cancer patients with high eIF4E overexpression. J Am Coll Surg, 204(5), 925-33; discussion 933-4.
  30. Samuel A Tenhoeve, BA, Kyril L Cole, MPH, MBA, Saachi Jhandi, MS, Matthew C Findlay, BS, Eve Larkin, BS, Julian Brown, BS, Cody J Orton, BA, Keaton Andra, MSc, Janet Cortez, RN, Ramesh Grandhi, MD, Sarah T Menacho, MD (). Applying an Updated Brain Injury Guideline Classification to Interhospital Transfer of Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury: Who Benefits Most? (Epub ahead of print) Clin Neurol Neurosurg.

Letter

  1. COVIDSurg Collaborative (2021). Impact of Bacillus Calmette-Gue´rin (BCG) vaccination on postoperative mortality in patients with perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection [Letter to the editor]. BJS Open, 5(6).
  2. COVIDSurg Collaborative (2020). Delaying surgery for patients with a previous SARS-CoV-2 infection [Letter to the editor]. Br J Surg, 107(12), e601-e602.