Joanna Grudziak,
MD, MPH
Languages Spoken: English
Joanna Grudziak, MD, MPH earned her medical degree from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She completed both a General Surgery Residency and a Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. During a two year research fellowship in residency, she also earned a Master’s Degree in Public Health with a concentration in Health Leadership, and served as a trauma and burn research fellow at the Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lillongwe, Malawi.
Dr. Grudziak’s clinical interests include:
• Emergency general surgical conditions
• The care of the critically injured trauma patient
Dr. Grudziak’s research interests include:
• Shared decision making in emergency surgical procedures
• Integration of palliative care in the surgical intensive care unit
• Standardization of surgical procedure teaching using simulation-based instruction
• Integration of virtual platforms to improve access to surgical care in low and middle
income countries
Specialties
Board Certification and Academic Information
| Academic Departments | Surgery
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Assistant Professor (Clinical) |
| Academic Divisions | General Surgery |
| Board Certification | American Board of Surgery |
Joanna Grudziak, MD, MPH earned her medical degree from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She completed both a General Surgery Residency and a Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. During a two year research fellowship in residency, she also earned a Master’s Degree in Public Health with a concentration in Health Leadership, and served as a trauma and burn research fellow at the Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lillongwe, Malawi.
Dr. Grudziak’s clinical interests include:
• Emergency general surgical conditions
• The care of the critically injured trauma patient
Dr. Grudziak’s research interests include:
• Shared decision making in emergency surgical procedures
• Integration of palliative care in the surgical intensive care unit
• Standardization of surgical procedure teaching using simulation-based instruction
• Integration of virtual platforms to improve access to surgical care in low and middle
income countries
Academic Locations
School of Medicine
801-213-2084
(801) 587-9370
Board Certification and Academic Information
| Academic Departments | Surgery
-
Assistant Professor (Clinical) |
| Academic Divisions | General Surgery |
| Board Certification | American Board of Surgery |
Education History
| Fellowship | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine Surgical Critical Care Fellow, 2020 |
| Residency | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine General Surgery Resident, 2019 |
| Research Fellow | Malawi Surgical Initiative, North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center, UNC and Kamuzu Central Hospital Research Fellow, 2017 |
| Graduate Training | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Public Health Leadership Program M.P.H., 2016 |
| Professional Medical | Emory University School of Medicine Medicine M.D., 2012 |
| Graduate Training | University of Pennsylvania English Literature M.A., 2000 |
| Undergraduate | University of Pennsylvania English Literature B.A., 2000 |