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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

  • Acute Care Surgery
  • Surgery, General

Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments Surgery - 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

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School of Medicine

801-213-2084

(801) 587-9370

30 N 1900 E
Salt Lake City, UT  84132

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

Selected Publications - Journal Articles

Journal Article

  1. Bleicher J, Place A, Schoenhals S, Luppens CL, Grudziak J, Lambert LA, McCrum ML (2021). Drivers of Moral Distress in Surgical Intensive Care Providers: A Mixed Methods Study. J Surg Res, 266, 292-299.

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