Marta McCrum
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Marta McCrum, MD, MPH

Languages spoken: English

  • Specialties

    Board Certification

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

  • Board Certification and Academic Information

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

    Education history

    Fellowship Trauma and Surgical Critical Care - University of Washington School of Medicine Fellow
    Chief Resident General Surgery - Brigham and Women’s Hospital Chief Resident
    Residency General Surgery - Brigham and Women’s Hospital 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 - University of Alberta Resident
    Professional Medical Medicine - McGill University M.D., C.M.
    Undergraduate Integrated Sciences - University of British Columbia B.Sc.

    Selected Publications

    Journal Article

    1. Empey R, Horns JJ, Das R, Lombardo S, McCrum ML (2025). Safety of early diverting loop ileostomy reversal after sigmoid colectomy with primary anastomosis for perforated diverticulitis. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. (Read full article)
    2. Gautam D, Botros D, Aubrey J, Bounajem MT, Lombardo S, Cortez J, McCrum M, Enniss T, Puckett M, Bowers CA, Menacho ST, Grandhi R (2025). Inappropriate antithrombotic use in geriatric patients with complicated traumatic brain injury. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. (Read full article)
    3. Han J, Wan N, Horns JJ, McCrum ML (2024). Application of Community Detection Methods to Identify Emergency General Surgery-Specific Regional Networks. JAMA Netw Open, 7(10), e2439509. (Read full article)
    4. 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 J (2024). Weight-based enoxaparin thromboprophylaxis in young trauma patients: analysis of the CLOTT-1 registry. Trauma Surg Acute Care Open, 9(1), e001230. (Read full article)
    5. 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 Surgeons (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. J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 97(2), 205-212. (Read full article)
    6. Iantorno SE, Scaife JH, Bryce JR, Yang M, McCrum ML, Bucher BT (2023). Emergency Department Utilization for Pediatric Gastrostomy Tubes Across the United States. J Surg Res, 295, 820-826. (Read full article)
    7. Huang LC, Nibley H, Cheng M, Bleicher J, Ko H, Johnson JE, McCrum ML (2023). Naloxone co-prescriptions for surgery patients prescribed opioids: A retrospective cohort study. Surg Pract Sci, 15. (Read full article)
    8. Scaife JH, Bryce JR, Iantorno SE, Yang M, McCrum ML, Bucher BT (2023). Disparities in Ultrasound Use for Diagnosing Pediatric Appendicitis Across United States Emergency Departments. J Surg Res, 294, 16-25. (Read full article)
    9. Botros D, Gautam D, Hamrick FA, Nguyen S, Cortez J, Young JB, Lombardo S, McCrum ML, Menacho ST, Grandhi R (2023). Impact of premorbid oral anticoagulant use on survival in patients with traumatic intracranial hemorrhage. Neurosurg Focus, 55(4), E2. (Read full article)
    10. Scaife JH, Bryce JR, Iantorno SE, Yang M, McCrum ML, Bucher BT (2023). Secondary Undertriage of Pediatric Trauma Patients Across the United States Emergency Departments. J Surg Res, 293, 37-45. (Read full article)
    11. McCrum ML, Allen CM, Han J, Iantorno SE, Presson AP, Wan N (2022). Greater spatial access to care is associated with lower mortality for emergency general surgery. J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 94(2), 264-272. (Read full article)
    12. Han J, Wan N, Brewer SC, McCrum M (2023). Spatial access to Emergency General Surgery (EGS) services and EGS bypass behaviours in California. Ann GIS, 29(1), 75-85. (Read full article)
    13. Iantorno SE, Bucher BT, Horns JJ, McCrum ML (2022). Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Interhospital Transfer for Complex Emergency General Surgical Disease Across the United States. J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 94(3), 371-378. (Read full article)
    14. Place A, McCrum M, Bell T, Nirula R (2022). EGS plus: Predicting futility in LVAD patients with emergency surgical disease. Am J Surg, 224(6), 1421-1425. (Read full article)
    15. McCrum ML, Wan N, Han J, Lizotte SL, Horns JJ (2022). Disparities in Spatial Access to Emergency Surgical Services in the US. JAMA Health Forum, 3(10), e223633. (Read full article)
    16. Wan N, McCrum M, Han J, Lizotte S, Su D, Wen M, Zeng S (2022). Measuring spatial access to emergency general surgery services: does the method matter? Health Serv Outcomes Res Methodol, 22(1), 79-95. (Read full article)
    17. Cain BT, Horns JJ, Huang LC, McCrum ML (2022). Socioeconomic Disadvantage is Associated with Greater Mortality after High-Risk Emergency General Surgery. J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 92, 691-700. (Read full article)
    18. 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. (Read full article)
    19. Pruitt LCC, Bucher BT, Russell KW, McCrum ML (2021). Impact of Insurance Expansion on Disposition for Pediatric Trauma Patients: A National Trauma Data Bank Cohort Study. J Surg Res, 267, 109-116. (Read full article)
    20. McCrum ML, Wan N, Lizotte SL, Han J, Varghese T, Nirula R (2022). Use of the spatial access ratio to measure geospatial access to emergency general surgery services in California. J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 90(5), 853-860. (Read full article)
    21. McCrum ML, Valmont T, Price RR (2020). Developing a Surgical Quality Improvement Program for Resource-Limited Settings. JAMA Surg, 155(12), 1160-1161. (Read full article)
    22. McCrum ML, Davis KA, Kaafarani HM, Santry HP, Shafi S, Crandall ML (2020). Current opinion on emergency general surgery transfer and triage criteria. J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 89(3), e71-e77. (Read full article)
    23. McCrum ML, Cannon AR, Allen CM, Presson AP, Huang LC, Brooke BS (2020). Contributors to Increased Mortality Associated With Care Fragmentation After Emergency General Surgery. JAMA Surg, 155(9), 841-848. (Read full article)
    24. McCrum ML, Zhang C, Presson AP, Nirula R (2019). Readmissions after nonoperative trauma: Increased mortality and costs with delayed intervention. J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 88(2), 219-229. (Read full article)
    25. 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 article)
    26. Smiley K, Ofori L, Spangler C, Acquaah-Arhin R, Deh D, Enos J, Manortey S, Baiden F, Finlayson S, Price R, McCrum M (2018). Safety Culture and Perioperative Quality at the Volta River Authority Hospital in Akosombo, Ghana. World J Surg, 43(1), 16-23. (Read full article)

    Commentary

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