Jade M. Nunez

Jade M. Nunez, MD

Languages spoken: English

Academic Information

Departments Adjunct - Surgery

Divisions: General Surgery

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

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

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Nunez JM, Becher RD, Rebo GJ, Farrah JP, Borgerding EM, Stirparo JJ, Lauer C, Kilgo P, Miller P (2015). Prospective Evaluation of Weight-Based Prophylactic Enoxaparin Dosing in Critically Ill Trauma Patients: Adequacy of AntiXa Levels Is Improved. The American surgeon, 81(6), 605-9.
  4. COVIDSURG Collaborativ (2021). Timing of surgery following SARS-CoV-2 infection:an international prospective cohort study. Anaesthesia,
  5. COVIDSURG Collaborativ (2021). SARS-CoV-2 vaccination modelling for safe surgery to save lives: data from an international prospective cohort study. The British journal of surgery,
  6. Kornfeld JE, Katz MG, Cardinal JR, Bat-Erdene B, Jargalsaikhan G, Nunez (2019). Cost Analysis of the Mongolian ATLS© Program: A Framework for Low- and Middle-Income Countries. World journal of surgery, 43(2), 353-359.
  7. Byrnes KW, DeBenedetti A, Holm NT, Luke J, Nunez J, Chu QD, Meschonat C, Abreo F, Johnson LW, Li B (2007). Correlation of TLK1B in elevation and recurrence in doxorubicin-treated breast cancer patients with high eIF4E overexpression. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 204(5), 925-33; discussion 933-4.
  8. Carlock TC, Barrett JR, Kalvelage JP, Young JB, Nunez JM, Colonna AL, Enniss TM, Nirula R, McCrum M (2020). Telephone Follow-Up for Emergency General Surgery Procedures: Safety and Implication for Health Resource Use. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 230(2), 228-236.
  9. 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, O'Callaghan 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 (2018). An AAST-MITC Analysis of Pancreatic Trauma: Staple or Sew? Resect or Drain?. The journal of trauma and acute care surgery,
  10. 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 (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. The journal of trauma and acute care surgery, 89(4), 658-664.
  11. 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 DeLa'O, 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 Mukherje (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). The journal of trauma and acute care surgery, 91(1), 100-107.
  12. Katz MG, Price RR, Nunez J (2018). Local Research Catalyzes National Surgical Planning Comment on "Global Surgery - Informing National Strategies for Scaling Up Surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa". International journal of health policy and management, 7(11), 1058-1060.
  13. 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 (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.
  14. Colonna AL, Bellows BK, Enniss TM, Young JB, McCrum M, Nunez JM, Nirula R, Nelson R (2020). Reducing the pain: A cost-effectiveness analysis of transversus abdominis plane block using liposomal bupivacaine for outpatient laparoscopic ventral hernia repair. Surgery open science, 2(2), 75-80.
  15. COVIDSurg Collaborative (2022). Outcomes and Their State-level Variation in Patients Undergoing Surgery With Perioperative SARS-CoV-2 Infection in the USA: A Prospective Multicenter Study. Annals of surgery, 275(2), 247-251.
  16. 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, DeLa'O 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 (2022). Time is domain: factors affecting primary fascial closure after trauma and non-trauma damage control laparotomy (data from the EAST SLEEP-TIME multicenter registry). European journal of trauma and emergency surgery, 48(3), 2107-2116.
  17. 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, DeLa'O 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 (2022). Dexmedetomidine and paralytic exposure after damage control laparotomy: risk factors for delirium? Results from the EAST SLEEP-TIME multicenter trial. European journal of trauma and emergency surgery, 48(3), 2097-2105.
  18. Cole KL, Nguyen S, Gelhard S, Hardy J, Cortez J, Nunez JM, Menacho ST, Grandhi (2023). Factors Associated with Venous Thromboembolism Development in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury. Neurocritical care,
  19. Argandykov D,Dorken-Gallastegi A,El Moheb M,Gebran A,Proaño-Zamudio JA,Bokenkamp M,Renne AM,Nepogodiev D,Bhangu A,Kaafarani HMA,COVIDSurg Collaborativ (2023). Is perioperative COVID-19 really associated with worse surgical outcomes? A nationwide COVIDSurg propensity-matched analysis. The journal of trauma and acute care surgery, 94(4), 513-524.
  20. COVIDSurg Collaborativ (2021). Machine learning risk prediction of mortality for patients undergoing surgery with perioperative SARS-CoV-2: The COVIDSurg mortality score. The British journal of surgery, 19(4),
  21. Colonna AL,Bellows BK,Enniss TM,Young JB,McCrum M,Nunez JM,Nirula R,Nelson R (2020). Reducing the pain: A cost-effectiveness analysis of transversus abdominis plane block using liposomal bupivacaine for outpatient laparoscopic ventral hernia repair. Surgery open science, 2(2), 75-80.
  22. The Cardiothoracic Interdisciplinary Research Network and COVIDSurg Collaborativ (2021). Early outcomes and complications following cardiac surgery in patients testing positive for coronavirus disease 2019: An international cohort study. The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, 162(2), e355-e372.
  23. 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 (2024). Weight-based enoxaparin thromboprophylaxis in young trauma patients: analysis of the CLOTT-1 registry. Trauma surgery & acute care open, 9(1), e001230.
  24. Findlay MC, Sarriera-Valentin G, Earl ER, Cole KL, Hamrick FA, Baradaran H, Cortez J, Lombardo S, Nunez J, Kilburg C, Grandhi R, Menacho S (2024). Management Patterns and Outcomes After Traumatic Brain Injury With Associated Blunt Cerebrovascular Injury. Neurosurgery, 94(2), 340-349.
  25. COVIDSurg Collaborative; GlobalSurg Collaborativ (2022). SARS-CoV-2 infection and venous thromboembolism after surgery: an international prospective cohort study. Anaesthesia, 77(1), 28-39.
  26. COVIDSurg Collaborative; GlobalSurg Collaborativ (2021). Effects of pre-operative isolation on postoperative pulmonary complications after elective surgery: an international prospective cohort study. Anaesthesia, 76(11), 1454-1464.
  27. COVIDSurg Collaborativ (2022). Outcomes and their state-level variation in patients undergoing surgery with perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection in the USA. Annals of surgery, 275(2), 247-251.
  28. Davis AN, Wan N, Erdene S, Lundeg G, VanDerslice J, Nunez (2024). Mapping essential surgical care in Mongolia: Do natural barriers and seasonality alter access to essential surgical care?. Applied geography (Sevenoaks, England), 167(103297),
  29. Batsuuri B, Avirmed S, Batbold C, Lopez-Verdugo F, Nunez J, Togtokh A, Orgoi (2024). Risk factors for renal impairment after liver transplantation in Mongolia: a retrospective single-center study. Clinical transplantation and research, 38(2), 128-135.
  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, M Applying an Updated Brain Injury Guideline Classification to Interhospital Transfer of Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury: Who Benefits Most?. Clinical neurology and neurosurgery,

Letter

  1. COVIDSurg Collaborativ (2021). Impact of Bacillus Calmette-Gue´rin (BCG) vaccination on postoperative mortality in patients with perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection. BJS open, 5(6),
  2. COVIDSurg Collaborativ (2020). Delaying surgery for patients with a previous SARS-CoV-2 infection. The British journal of surgery, 107(12), e601-e602.