Marta McCrum
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Marta McCrum, MD, MPH

Languages spoken: English

Clinical Locations

Primary Location

University of Utah Hospital

General Surgery, Area E
50 N Medical Dr
Salt Lake City , UT 84132
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  • Specialties

    Board Certification

    Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (General Surgery)
    American Board of Surgery (Sub: General Surgery)
    American Board of Surgery (Sub: Surgical Critical Care)

  • Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Surgery -Associate Professor
    Academic Divisions General Surgery
    Board Certification
    Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (General Surgery)
    American Board of Surgery (Sub: General Surgery)
    American Board of Surgery (Sub: Surgical Critical Care)

    Education history

    Undergraduate Integrated Sciences - University of British Columbia B.Sc.
    Professional Medical Medicine - McGill University M.D., C.M.
    Residency General Surgery - University of Alberta Resident
    Graduate Training Clinical Effectiveness - Harvard School of Public Health M.P.H.
    Postdoctoral Fellowship Health Policy and Management - Harvard School of Public Health Postdoctoral Fellow
    Residency General Surgery - Brigham and Women¿s Hospital Resident
    Chief Resident General Surgery - Brigham and Women¿s Hospital Chief Resident
    Fellowship Trauma and Surgical Critical Care - University of Washington School of Medicine Fellow

    Selected Publications

    Journal Article

    1. Bleicher J, Place A, Schoenhals S, Luppens CL, Grudziak J, Lambert LA, McCrum M (2021). Drivers of Moral Distress in Surgical Intensive Care Providers: A Mixed Methods Study. The Journal of surgical research, 266, 292-299. (Read full publication)
    2. Pruitt LCC, Bucher BT, Russell KW, McCrum M (2021). Impact of Insurance Expansion on Disposition for Pediatric Trauma Patients: A National Trauma Data Bank Cohort Study. The Journal of surgical research, 267, 109-116. (Read full publication)
    3. McCrum ML, Leroux B, Fang T, Bulger E, Arbabi S, Wade CE, Fox E, Holcomb JB, Robinson B, PROPPR Study Group (2019). Sex-based differences in transfusion need after severe injury: Findings of the PROPPR study. Surgery, 165(6), 1122-1127. (Read full publication)
    4. Smiley K, Ofori L, Spangler C, Acquaah-Arhin R, Deh D, Enos J, Manortey S, Baiden F, Finlayson S, Price R, McCrum (2019). Safety Culture and Perioperative Quality at the Volta River Authority Hospital in Akosombo, Ghana. World journal of surgery, 43(1), 16-23. (Read full publication)
    5. McCrum ML, Zhang C, Presson AP, Nirula (2020). Readmissions after nonoperative trauma: Increased mortality and costs with delayed intervention. The journal of trauma and acute care surgery, 88(2), 219-229. (Read full publication)
    6. McCrum ML, Davis KA, Kaafarani HM, Santry HP, Shafi S, Crandall M (2020). Current opinion on emergency general surgery transfer and triage criteria. The journal of trauma and acute care surgery, 89(3), e71-e77. (Read full publication)
    7. McCrum ML, Wan N, Lizotte SL, Han J, Varghese T, Nirula (2021). Use of the spatial access ratio to measure geospatial access to emergency general surgery services in California. The journal of trauma and acute care surgery, 90(5), 853-860. (Read full publication)
    8. McCrum ML, Valmont T, Price R (2020). Developing a Surgical Quality Improvement Program for Resource-Limited Settings. JAMA surgery, 155(12), 1160-1161. (Read full publication)
    9. McCrum ML, Cannon AR, Allen CM, Presson AP, Huang LC, Brooke B (2020). Contributors to Increased Mortality Associated With Care Fragmentation After Emergency General Surgery. JAMA surgery, 155(9), 841-848. (Read full publication)
    10. Cain BT, Horns JJ, Huang LC, McCrum M (2022). Socioeconomic Disadvantage is Associated with Greater Mortality after High-Risk Emergency General Surgery. The journal of trauma and acute care surgery, 92(4), 691-700. (Read full publication)
    11. Wan N,McCrum M,Han J,Lizotte S,Su D,Wen M,Zeng (2022). Measuring spatial access to emergency general surgery services: does the method matter?. Health services & outcomes research methodology, 22(1), 79-95. (Read full publication)
    12. McCrum ML, Wan N, Han J, Lizotte SL, Horns J (2022). Disparities in Spatial Access to Emergency Surgical Services in the US. JAMA health forum, 3(10), e223633. (Read full publication)
    13. Place A, McCrum M, Bell T, Nirula (2022). EGS plus: Predicting futility in LVAD patients with emergency surgical disease. American journal of surgery, 224(6), 1421-1425. (Read full publication)
    14. Iantorno SE, Bucher BT, Horns JJ, McCrum M (2022). Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Interhospital Transfer for Complex Emergency General Surgical Disease Across the United States. The journal of trauma and acute care surgery, 94(3), 371-378. (Read full publication)
    15. McCrum ML, Allen CM, Han J, Iantorno SE, Presson AP, Wan (2023). Greater spatial access to care is associated with lower mortality for emergency general surgery. The journal of trauma and acute care surgery, 94(2), 264-272. (Read full publication)
    16. Scaife JH, Bryce JR, Iantorno SE, Yang M, McCrum ML, Bucher B (2023). Disparities in Ultrasound Use for Diagnosing Pediatric Appendicitis Across United States Emergency Departments. The Journal of surgical research, 294, 16-25. (Read full publication)
    17. Scaife JH, Bryce JR, Iantorno SE, Yang M, McCrum ML, Bucher B (2023). Secondary Undertriage of Pediatric Trauma Patients Across the United States Emergency Departments. The Journal of surgical research, 293, 37-45. (Read full publication)
    18. Botros D, Gautam D, Hamrick FA, Nguyen S, Cortez J, Young JB, Lombardo S, McCrum ML, Menacho ST, Grandhi (2023). Impact of premorbid oral anticoagulant use on survival in patients with traumatic intracranial hemorrhage. Neurosurgical focus, 55(4), E2. (Read full publication)
    19. Han J,Wan N,Brewer SC,McCrum (2023). Spatial access to Emergency General Surgery (EGS) services and EGS bypass behaviours in California. Annals of GIS, 29(1), 75-85. (Read full publication)
    20. Iantorno SE, Scaife JH, Bryce JR, Yang M, McCrum ML, Bucher B (2023). Emergency Department Utilization for Pediatric Gastrostomy Tubes Across the United States. The Journal of surgical research, 295, 820-826. (Read full publication)
    21. Lombardo S, McCrum M, Knudson MM, Moore EE, Kornblith L, Brakenridge S, Bruns B, Cipolle MD, Costantini TW, Crookes B, Haut ER, Kerwin AJ, Kiraly LN, Knowlton LM, Martin MJ, McNutt MK, Milia DJ, Mohr A, Rogers F, Scalea T, Sixta S, Spain D, Wade CE, Velmahos GC, Nirula R, Nunez (2024). Weight-based enoxaparin thromboprophylaxis in young trauma patients: analysis of the CLOTT-1 registry. Trauma surgery & acute care open, 9(1), e001230. (Read full publication)
    22. Huang LC, Nibley H, Cheng M, Bleicher J, Ko H, Johnson JE, McCrum M (2023). Naloxone co-prescriptions for surgery patients prescribed opioids: A retrospective cohort study. Surgery in practice and science, 15, (Read full publication)
    23. Matta R, Keihani S, Hebert K, Horns JJ, Nirula R, McCrum M, McCormick BJ, Gross JA, Joyce RP, Rogers DM, Wang SS, Hagedorn JC, Selph JP, Sensenig RL, Moses RA, Dodgion CM, Gupta S, Mukherjee K, Majercik S, Broghammer JA, Schwartz I, Elliott SP, Breyer BN, Baradaran N, Zakaluzny S, Erickson BA, Miller BD, Askari R, Carrick MM, Burks FN, Norwood S, Myers JB, in conjunction with the Trauma and Urologic Reconstruction Network of Surgeon (2024). PROPOSED REVISION OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR SURGERY OF TRAUMA RENAL TRAUMA ORGAN INJURY SCALE: SECONDARY ANALYSIS OF THE MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL GENITOURINARY TRAUMA STUDY. The journal of trauma and acute care surgery, 97(2), 205-212. (Read full publication)
    24. Han J, Wan N, Horns JJ, McCrum M (2024). Application of Community Detection Methods to Identify Emergency General Surgery-Specific Regional Networks. JAMA network open, 7(10), e2439509. (Read full publication)
    25. Gautam D, Botros D, Aubrey J, Bounajem MT, Lombardo S, Cortez J, McCrum M, Enniss T, Puckett M, Bowers CA, Menacho ST, Grandhi (2025). Inappropriate antithrombotic use in geriatric patients with complicated traumatic brain injury. The journal of trauma and acute care surgery, 98(5), 776-784. (Read full publication)
    26. Empey R, Horns JJ, Das R, Lombardo S, McCrum M (2025). Safety of early diverting loop ileostomy reversal after sigmoid colectomy with primary anastomosis for perforated diverticulitis. The journal of trauma and acute care surgery, (Read full publication)
    27. Han J, Wan N, Horns JJ, Brewer S, McCrum M (2025). Hospital Selection Patterns for Emergency Surgical Care: Structural Barriers as a Contributor to Surgical Outcomes. Medical care, (Read full publication)
    28. Greenwood-Ericksen M, Kamdar N, Swenson K, Pruitt P, McCrum ML, Paul G, Myaskovsky L, Kocher KE, Zachrison K (2025). Emergency Department Boarding, Inpatient Census, and Interhospital Transfer Acceptances. JAMA network open, 8(5), e2512299. (Read full publication)
    29. Bryce JR, Iantorno SE, Scaife JH, Yang M, Bucher BT, McCrum M (2025). Secondary Undertriage of Severely Injured Trauma Patients across the US. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, (Read full publication)
    30. McCrum M (2025). Fragmented Care in Emergency General Surgery: A Reflection of Systemic Gaps. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, (Read full publication)

    Commentary

    1. Knowlton LM, Zakrison T, Kao LS, McCrum ML, Agarwal S Jr, Bruns B, Joseph KA, Berry (2023). Quality care is equitable care: a call to action to link quality to achieving health equity within acute care surgery. Trauma surgery & acute care open, 8(1), e001098. (Read full publication)
    2. McCrum ML, Zakrison TL, Knowlton LM, Bruns B, Kao LS, Joseph KA, Berry (2024). Taking action to achieve health equity and eliminate healthcare disparities within acute care surgery. Trauma surgery & acute care open, 9(1), e001494. (Read full publication)
    3. McCrum (2024). Rural Non-Trauma Centers: The Unrecognized Cornerstone of Rural Trauma Care. Annals of surgery, (Read full publication)