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Robert A. Swendiman, MD, MPP, MSCE

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Languages Spoken: English

Specialties

  • Pediatric Surgery
  • Pediatric Trauma Surgery

Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments Surgery - Visiting Instructor
Academic Divisions Pediatric Surgery
Board Certification American Board of Surgery (Sub: General Surgery)

Academic Locations

Primary Children's Hospital

801-662-1000

100 N Mario Capecchi Drive
Salt Lake City, UT  84113

Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments Surgery - Visiting Instructor
Academic Divisions Pediatric Surgery
Board Certification American Board of Surgery (Sub: General Surgery)

Education History

Chief Resident Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
General Surgery
Chief Resident, 2021
Residency Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
General Surgery
Resident, 2020
Graduate Training Harvard Kennedy School
Public Policy
M.P.P., 2014
Professional Medical University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Medicine
M.D., 2014
Undergraduate University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chemistry and Political Science
B.A., 2008
Fellowship University of Utah School of Medicine
Pediatric General Surgery
Fellow,

Selected Publications - Journal Articles

Journal Article

  1. Taylor MA, Lewis AE, Swendiman RA, Fenton SJ, Russell KW (2021). Interest in Improving Access to Pediatric Trauma Care Through Telemedicine. J Med Syst, 45(12), 108.
  2. Swendiman RA, Abramov A, Fenton SJ, Russell KW, Nance ML, Nace GW Jr, Iii MA (2021). Use of angioembolization in pediatric polytrauma patients: WITH BLUNT SPLENIC INJURYAngioembolization in Pediatric Blunt Splenic Injury. J Pediatr Surg, 56(11), 2045-2051.
  3. Swendiman RA, Jones RE, Blinman TA, Krummel T (2020). Disrupting the Fellowship Match: COVID-19 and the Applicant Arms Race. J Surg Educ, 78(4), 1069-1072.
  4. Abdallah HO, Zhao C, Kaufman E, Hatchimonji J, Swendiman RA, Kaplan LJ, Seamon M, Schwab CW, Pascual JL (2020). Increased Firearm Injury During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Hidden Urban Burden. J Am Coll Surg, 232(2), 159-168.e3.
  5. Swendiman RA, Luks VL, Hatchimonji JS, Nayyar MG, Goldshore MA, Nace GW Jr, Nance ML, Allukian M 3rd (2020). Mortality After Adolescent Firearm Injury: Effect of Trauma Center Designation. J Adolesc Health.
  6. Hatchimonji JS, Swendiman RA, Seamon MJ, Nance ML (2020). Trauma Does not Quarantine: Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Ann Surg, 272(2), e53-e54.
  7. Hatchimonji JS, Swendiman RA, Kaufman EJ, Scantling D, Passman JE, Yang W, Kit Delgado M, Holena DN (2020). Multiple Complications in Emergency Surgery : Identifying Risk Factors for Failure-to-Rescue. Am Surg, 86(7), 787-795.
  8. Swendiman RA, Goldshore MA, Fenton SJ, Nance ML (2019). Defining the role of angioembolization in pediatric isolated blunt solid organ injury. J Pediatr Surg, 55(4), 688-692.
  9. Hatchimonji JS, Swendiman RA, Goldshore MA, Blinman TA, Nance ML, Allukian M 3rd, Nace GW Jr (2020). Pediatric firearm mortality in the United States, 2010 to 2016: A National Trauma Data Bank analysis. J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 88(3), 402-407.
  10. Song Y, Swendiman RA, Shannon AB, Torres-Landa S, Khan FN, Williams NN, Dumon KR, Brooks AD, DeMatteo RP, Aarons CB (2020). Can We Coach Resilience? An Evaluation of Professional Resilience Coaching as a Well-Being Initiative for Surgical Interns. J Surg Educ, 77(6), 1481-1489.
  11. Swendiman RA, Sharoky CE, Russell KW, Goldshore MA, Blinman TA, Nance ML (2019). Life-saving interventions in pediatric trauma: A National Trauma Data Bank experience. J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 87(6), 1321-1327.
  12. Swendiman RA, Coons BE, Alter CA, Bamba V, Nance ML, Vogiatzi MG (2019). Histrelin Implantation and Growth Outcomes in Children With Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia: An Institutional Experience. J Endocr Soc, 4(2), bvz004.
  13. Owei L, Swendiman RA, Torres-Landa S, Dempsey DT, Dumon KR (2019). Impact of body mass index on minimally invasive ventral hernia repair: an ACS-NSQIP analysis. Hernia, 23(5), 899-907.
  14. Swendiman RA, Goldshore MA, Blinman TA, Nance ML (2019). Laparoscopic Management of Pediatric Abdominal Trauma: A National Trauma Data Bank Experience. J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A, 29(8), 1052-1059.
  15. Swendiman RA, Vogiatzi MG, Alter CA, Nance ML (2018). Histrelin implantation in the pediatric population: A 10-year institutional experience. J Pediatr Surg, 54(7), 1457-1461.
  16. Swendiman RA, Marcaccio CL, Han J, Hoffman DI, Weiner TM, Nance ML, Chou CM (2019). Attitudes and Habits of Highly Humanistic Surgeons: A Single-Institution, Mixed-Methods Study. Acad Med, 94(7), 1027-1032.
  17. Swendiman RA, Edmondson AC, Mahmoud NN (2018). Burnout in Surgery Viewed Through the Lens of Psychological Safety. Ann Surg, 269(2), 234-235.
  18. Swendiman RA, Hoffman DI, Bruce AN, Blinman TA, Nance ML, Chou CM (2019). Qualities and Methods of Highly Effective Surgical Educators: A Grounded Theory Model. J Surg Educ, 76(5), 1293-1302.
  19. Landa ST, Cohen JB, Swendiman RA, Wirtalla C, Dempsey DT, Dumon KR (2018). The Association of Body Mass Index with Postoperative Outcomes After Elective Paraesophageal Hernia Repair. J Gastrointest Surg, 22(12), 2029-2036.
  20. Owei L, Swendiman RA, Kelz RR, Dempsey DT, Dumon KR (2017). Impact of body mass index on open ventral hernia repair: A retrospective review. Surgery, 162(6), 1320-1329.
  21. Latessa RA, Swendiman RA, Parlier AB, Galvin SL, Hirsh DA (2017). Graduates' Perceptions of Learning Affordances in Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships: A Dual-Institution, Mixed-Methods Study. Acad Med, 92(9), 1313-1319.
  22. Swendiman RA (2017). Cognitive Dissonance in Training: A View From the Middle. Ann Surg, 265(6), 1062-1063.
  23. Swendiman RA (2015). The Clock on the Wall. J Grad Med Educ, 7(2), 306.
  24. Weber AL, Swendiman RA (2014). Talk to me. Med Teach, 36(11), 1005-6.
  25. Swendiman RA (2014). We the living. J Am Geriatr Soc, 62(8), 1594.
  26. Swendiman RA (2014). Deep listening. Acad Med, 89(6), 950.
  27. Swendiman RA (2014). See what you cannot see. Acad Med, 89(4), 631.
  28. Swendiman RA (2014). Drowning. JAMA Pediatr, 168(3), 203.
  29. Swendiman RA (2014). Students need exposure to the joys of rural surgery. Bull Am Coll Surg, 99(1), 46-7.
  30. Swendiman RA, Latessa RA (2013). Medicine and the arts. Between a rock and a hard place: [excerpt] by Robert A. Swendiman. Commentary. Acad Med, 88(6), 778-9.
  31. Salom C, Salom-Grosjean E, Park KD, Morieux P, Swendiman R, DeMarco E, Stables JP, Kohn H (2010). Synthesis and anticonvulsant activities of (R)-N-(4'-substituted)benzyl 2-acetamido-3-methoxypropionamides. J Med Chem, 53(3), 1288-305.

Editorial

  1. Swendiman RA, Hatchimonji JS, Allukian M 3rd, Blinman TA, Nance ML, Nace GW (2020). Pediatric firearm injuries: Anatomy of an epidemic. Surgery, 168(3), 381-384.

Letter

  1. Swendiman RA, Goldshore MA, Allukian M 3rd, Nace GW Jr, Nance ML (2021). In reply to "Abdominal angiography is associated with reduced in-hospital mortality among pediatric patients with blunt splenic and hepatic injury: A propensity-score-matching study from the national trauma registry in Japan". [Letter to the editor]. J Pediatr Surg.
  2. Hoffman DI, Swendiman RA, Chou CM (2020). In Reply to Schattner. [Letter to the editor]. Acad Med, 95(3), 327-328.

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