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Jade M. Nunez, MD

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5 4.2 out of 5 Patient Rating

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 residency and fellowships at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC. Now an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Utah School of Medicine, he is core faculty at the Center for Global Surgery. His academic efforts are aimed at building educational programs and surgical capacity in Mongolia.

Clinical Locations

University Hospital
General Surgery, Area E

801-585-1618

50 N Medical Dr
Salt Lake City, UT  84132
E-15

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Specialties

  • Trauma Surgery
  • Acute Care Surgery
  • Critical Care
  • Surgery, General

Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments Surgery - Assistant 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.

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Likelihood of recommending care provider

4.3/ 5

Care provider's explanation of condition/problem

4.2/ 5

Care provider's effort to include me in decisions

4.2/ 5

Wait time at clinic

3.8/ 5

Care provider's concern for questions & worries

4.3/ 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 January 30, 2022
UH HOSPITALS AND CLINICS

5 out of 5 stars

The Dr was great

UofU Patient November 09, 2021
UH HOSPITALS AND CLINICS

5 out of 5 stars

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

4 out of 5 stars

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

4 out of 5 stars

good

UofU Patient August 08, 2020
UH HOSPITALS AND CLINICS

5 out of 5 stars

when the doctor finely can in he explained alot

As an Acute Care Surgeon, Dr. Nunez’s practice is centered on the surgical care of critically ill and injured patients. He completed his residency and fellowships at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC. Now an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Utah School of Medicine, he is core faculty at the Center for Global Surgery. His academic efforts are aimed at building educational programs and surgical capacity in Mongolia.

Academic Locations

Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments Surgery - Assistant 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
Pending,

Selected Publications - Journal Articles

Journal Article

  1. 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.
  2. COVIDSURG Collaborative (2021). SARS-CoV-2 vaccination modelling for safe surgery to save lives: data from an international prospective cohort study. Br J Surg.
  3. COVIDSURG Collaborative (2021). Timing of surgery following SARS-CoV-2 infection:an international prospective cohort study. Anaesthesia.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. Nunez, Jade Nellermoe, Jonathan Davis, Andrea Ruhnke, Simon Gonchigjav, Battsetseg Bat-Erdene, Nomindari Zorigtbaatar, Anudari Jalali, Ali Bagley, Kevin Katz, Micah Pioli, Hannah Bat-Erdene, Batsaikhan Erdene, Sarnai Orgoi, Sergelen Price, Raymond Lundeg, Ganbold (). Establishing a baseline for surgical care in Mongolia: a situational analysis using the six indicators from the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery. (Epub ahead of print) BMJ Open.

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 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

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