Dept. Of Surgery: Spring '23 Research Update

2023 RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

BY THE NUMBERS

  • $6.8M FY22 Research Revenue
  • $8.2M FY22 NIH Funding
  • #23 BRIMR  Ranking FY 22
  • 350 Publications to Date FY23
  • 50 FY23 Grant Submissions to Date
  • 71% FY23 to Date Grant Submission Success Rate

AWARDS

  • 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.  

PUBLICATIONS

  • 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