Jade M. Nunez,
MD
Languages Spoken: English
As an Acute Care Surgeon, Dr. Nunez’s practice is centered on the surgical 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. An Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Utah, he serves as Associate Trauma Medical Director and is responsible for performance improvement initiatives. He is also core faculty at the Center for Global Surgery, focusing on building educational programs and surgical capacity in Mongolia.
Clinical Locations
General Surgery, Area E
801-585-1618
Board Certification and Academic Information
| Academic Departments | Surgery
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Associate Professor (Clinical) |
| Academic Divisions | General Surgery |
| Board Certification | American Board of Surgery (Sub: General Surgery) American Board of Surgery (Sub: Surgical Critical Care) |
Patient Rating
The Patient Rating score is an average of all responses to care provider related questions on our nationally-recognized Press Ganey Patient Satisfaction Survey.
Responses are measured on a scale of 1 to 5 with 5 being the best score.
Likelihood of recommending care provider
4.5/ 5
Care provider's explanation of condition/problem
4.3/ 5
Care provider's effort to include me in decisions
4.4/ 5
Wait time at clinic
4.0/ 5
Care provider's concern for questions & worries
4.5/ 5
Patient Comments
Patient comments are gathered from our Press Ganey Patient Satisfaction Survery and displayed in their entirety. Patients are de-identified for confidentiality and patient privacy.
UofU Patient
September 24, 2022
UH HOSPITALS AND CLINICS
Dr. Nunez was AMAZING. He truly saved my life!
UofU Patient
July 23, 2022
UH HOSPITALS AND CLINICS
All goodVary positive
UofU Patient
January 30, 2022
UH HOSPITALS AND CLINICS
The Dr was great
UofU Patient
November 09, 2021
UH HOSPITALS AND CLINICS
Drs. Nunez and Mortensen were great, put me at ease and were obviously highly knowledgeable - yet approachable with great communication skills!
UofU Patient
October 15, 2021
UH HOSPITALS AND CLINICS
The provider mentioned he got called into a trauma and had to leave soon, so it made me feel rushed and I forgot some of my questions because of this.
UofU Patient
April 19, 2021
UH HOSPITALS AND CLINICS
good
As an Acute Care Surgeon, Dr. Nunez’s practice is centered on the surgical 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. An Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Utah, he serves as Associate Trauma Medical Director and is responsible for performance improvement initiatives. He is also core faculty at the Center for Global Surgery, focusing on building educational programs and surgical capacity in Mongolia.
Academic Locations
Board Certification and Academic Information
| Academic Departments | Surgery
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Associate Professor (Clinical) |
| Academic Divisions | General Surgery |
| Board Certification | American Board of Surgery (Sub: General Surgery) American Board of Surgery (Sub: Surgical Critical Care) |
Education History
| Fellowship | Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Acute Care Surgery Fellow, 2015 |
| Residency | Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center General Surgery Resident, 2014 |
| Fellowship | Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Surgical Critical Care Fellow, 2011 |
| Residency | Ochsner Clinic Foundation General Surgery Resident, 2010 |
| Professional Medical | Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Medicine M.D., 2007 |
| Undergraduate | Louisiana State University Biological Sciences and Minor in Psychology B.S., 2003 |
| Diploma | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Public Health M.S.P.H., |
Selected Publications - Journal Articles
Journal Article
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- COVIDSURG Collaborative (2021). SARS-CoV-2 vaccination modelling for safe surgery to save lives: data from an international prospective cohort study. Br J Surg.
- COVIDSURG Collaborative (2021). Timing of surgery following SARS-CoV-2 infection:an international prospective cohort study. Anaesthesia.
- 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.
- A Colonna, T Enniss, JYoung, MMcCrum, JM Nunez et al (2020). Reducing the Pain: A Cost Effectiveness Analysis of Transversus Abdominis Plane Block using Liposomal Bupivacaine for Outpatient Laparoscopic Ventral Hernia Repair.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Review
- 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. [Review]. Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg, 48(3), 2097-2105.
- 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). [Review]. Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg, 48(3), 2107-2116.
Global Impact
Presentations
| Nunez J. "Workforce Development in Global Surgery". Global Surgery: The Basics, International Student Surgical Network- Nigeria, Lagos, Nigeria | Africa |
Service
| 08/25/2021 | Working Group Member | Access working group member of the Utstein 2 project. Tasked to develop a manual to help Ministries of Health and other organizations with data collection and reporting for the surgical indicators to make anesthesia and surgical care safer and more accessible globally. | Global |
| 07/01/2021 | Chair | Congress Committee. Responsible for establishing a semiannual academic congress for academic global surgeons. | Global |
| 07/01/2021 | Institutional Representative | Representative for the University of Utah Center for Global Surgery in AAGS organizational business. | Africa |
| 03/12/2021 | Abstract Reviewer | Abstract Reviewer Consortium of Universities for Global Health 12th Annual Global Health Conference | Africa |