Joanna Grudziak, MD, MPH

Languages spoken: English
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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

    Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Surgery - Primary
    Academic Divisions General 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

    Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Surgery -Primary
    Academic Divisions General Surgery

    Education history

    Fellowship Surgical Critical Care - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine Fellow
    Malawi Surgical Initiative, North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center, UNC and Kamuzu Central Hospital Research Fellow
    Graduate Training Public Health Leadership Program - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill M.P.H.
    General Surgery - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine Resident
    Professional Medical Medicine - Emory University School of Medicine M.D.
    English Literature - University of Pennsylvania M.A.
    Undergraduate English Literature - University of Pennsylvania B.A.