Nichole Starr, MD, MPH

Title(s)Fellow, Surgery
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    UCSF , San Francisco, CAGeneral Surgery
    Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MAMD05/2015Medicine
    Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MAMPH05/2008Public Health
    University of Miami, Miami, FLBS05/2006Neuroscience
    University of Miami, Miami, FLBA05/2006Theatre Arts
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    UCSF 2022William B. Schecter Trauma Resident Award
    UCSF2019  - 2022Muriel Steele Society Influential Women in Surgery Honor Roll
    Surgical Infection Society2019Surgical Infections Society Best Oral Presentation, Second Place
    UCSF 2018Junior Resident Teaching Award
    UCSF 2017Department of Emergency Medicine Surgical Consultant of the Year
    Boston University School of Medicine2015The Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Student Award
    Boston University School of Medicine2015Dora Savenor Memorial Prize for Excellence in Surgery

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    Dr. Nichole Starr is a general surgery resident at University of California, San Francisco, a fellow at Lifebox Foundation from 2018-2021 and the senior fellow at Lifebox Foundation in 2020-2021. She was an NIH Fogarty Global Health Equity Scholar from 2020-2021. Her areas of interest are in academic global surgery, surgical quality improvement and infection prevention, and strengthening trauma care systems in resource limited environments, as well as trauma induced coagulopathy and platelet function in injured patients. Dr. Starr served in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia from 2007 - 2009, and has worked in Ethiopia, Brazil and Liberia on health services research including improving surgical safety, quality of surgical and trauma care, and creating tools and technologies for safeguarding surgical providers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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    Global Health Equity Scholars Program - D43 Fogarty Training
    NIH D43TW010540Jul 1, 2017 - Jun 30, 2022
    Role: Co-Investigator
    Research Training in Gastrointestinal Surgery
    NIH T32DK007573Jul 1, 1988 - Jun 30, 2021
    Role: Co-Investigator

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    1. Perioperative provider safety in the pandemic: Development, implementation and evaluation of an adjunct COVID-19 Surgical Patient Checklist. Anaesth Intensive Care. 2022 Nov; 50(6):457-467. Starr NE, Moore JN, Shreckengost CSH, Fernandez K, Ambulkar RP, Capo-Chichi N, Varallo JE, Ademuyiwa AO, Krouch S, Rana PS, Ingabire JA, Weiser TG, Mammo TN, Evans FM. PMID: 35765829; PMCID: PMC9597157.
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    2. Sustainability of a Surgical Quality Improvement Program at Hospitals in Ethiopia. JAMA Surg. 2022 01 01; 157(1):68-70. Starr N, Nofal MR, Gebeyehu N, Forrester JA, Derbew M, Weiser TG, Mammo TN. PMID: 34730799; PMCID: PMC8567184.
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    3. Comment on "COVID-19 Preparedness Within the Surgical, Obstetric, and Anesthetic Ecosystem in Sub Saharan Africa". Ann Surg. 2021 12 01; 274(6):e779-e780. Starr N, Weiser TG. PMID: 32433299; PMCID: PMC7268881.
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    4. Perioperative Provider Safety in Low- and Middle-income Countries During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Call for Renewed Investments in Resources and Training. Ann Surg. 2021 12 01; 274(6):e525-e627. Starr N, Capo-Chichi N, Moore J, Shreckengost CH, Fernandez K, Ambulkar R, Varallo JE, Ademuyiwa AO, Krouch S, Rana PS, Ingabire JA, Weiser TG, Mammo TN, Evans FM. PMID: 34225300.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 2     Fields:    Translation:HumansCellsPHPublic Health
    5. Clean Cut (adaptive, multimodal surgical infection prevention programme) for low-resource settings: a prospective quality improvement study. Br J Surg. 2020 Sep 21. Forrester JA, Starr N, Negussie T, Schaps D, Adem M, Alemu S, Amenu D, Gebeyehu N, Habteyohannes T, Jiru F, Tesfaye A, Wayessa E, Chen R, Trickey A, Bitew S, Bekele A, Weiser TG. PMID: 32956502.
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    6. Construction and validation of UV-C decontamination cabinets for filtering facepiece respirators. Appl Opt. 2020 Sep 01; 59(25):7585-7595. Purschke M, Elsamaloty M, Wilde JP, Starr N, Anderson RR, Farinelli WA, Sakamoto FH, Tung M, Tam J, Hesselink L, Baer TM. PMID: 32902458.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 7     Fields:    Translation:PHPublic Health
    7. Pulse oximetry in low-resource settings during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lancet Glob Health. 2020 09; 8(9):e1121-e1122. Starr N, Rebollo D, Asemu YM, Akalu L, Mohammed HA, Menchamo MW, Melese E, Bitew S, Wilson I, Tadesse M, Weiser TG. PMID: 32628910; PMCID: PMC7333981.
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    8. COVID-19 Preparedness Within the Surgical, Obstetric, and Anesthetic Ecosystem in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ann Surg. 2020 07; 272(1):e9-e13. Ademuyiwa AO, Bekele A, Berhea AB, Borgstein E, Capo-Chichi N, Derbew M, Evans FM, Feyssa MD, Galukande M, Gawande AA, Gueye SM, Harrison E, Jani P, Kaseje N, Litswa L, Mammo TN, Mellin-Olsen J, Muguti G, Nabukenya MT, Ngoga E, Ntirenganya F, Rulisa S, Starr N, Tabiri S, Tadesse M, Walker I, Weiser TG, Wren SM. PMID: 32301806; PMCID: PMC7188046.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 25     Fields:    Translation:HumansCellsPHPublic Health
    9. Identification of injury and shock driven effects on ex vivo platelet aggregometry: A cautionary tale of phenotyping. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2020 07; 89(1):20-28. Starr NE, Matthay ZA, Fields AT, Nunez-Garcia B, Callcut RA, Cohen MJ, Kornblith LZ. PMID: 32218020; PMCID: PMC7386285.
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    10. The Lifebox Surgical Headlight Project: engineering, testing, and field assessment in a resource-constrained setting. Br J Surg. 2020 12; 107(13):1751-1761. Starr N, Panda N, Johansen EW, Forrester JA, Wayessa E, Rebollo D, August A, Fernandez K, Bitew S, Mammo TN, Weiser TG. PMID: 32592513; PMCID: PMC7938832.
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    11. Value and Feasibility of Telephone Follow-Up in Ethiopian Surgical Patients. Surg Infect (Larchmt). 2020 Aug; 21(6):533-539. Starr N, Gebeyehu N, Tesfaye A, Forrester JA, Bekele A, Bitew S, Wayessa E, Weiser TG, Negussie T. PMID: 32301651; PMCID: PMC7398427.
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    12. Diagnosis and management of surgical disease at Ethiopian health centres: cross-sectional survey of resources and barriers to care. BMJ Open. 2019 10 28; 9(10):e031525. Starr N, Carpenter S, Carvalho M, Souza A, Chin R, Kasotakis G, Worku M. PMID: 31662390; PMCID: PMC6830645.
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    13. Qualitative outcomes of Clean Cut: implementation lessons from reducing surgical infections in Ethiopia. BMC Health Serv Res. 2019 Aug 17; 19(1):579. Mattingly AS, Starr N, Bitew S, Forrester JA, Negussie T, Bereknyei Merrell S, Weiser TG. PMID: 31419972; PMCID: PMC6698005.
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    14. Global variation in anastomosis and end colostomy formation following left-sided colorectal resection. BJS Open. 2019 Jun; 3(3):403-414. GlobalSurg Collaborative. PMID: 31891112; PMCID: PMC6921967.
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    15. Pooled analysis of WHO Surgical Safety Checklist use and mortality after emergency laparotomy. Br J Surg. 2019 Jan; 106(2):e103-e112. GlobalSurg Collaborative. PMID: 30620059; PMCID: PMC6492154.
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    16. Platelet transfusion increases risk for acute respiratory distress syndrome in non-massively transfused blunt trauma patients. Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg. 2019 Aug; 45(4):671-679. Kasotakis G, Starr N, Nelson E, Sarkar B, Burke PA, Remick DG, Tompkins RG, Inflammation and Host Response to Injury Investigators. PMID: 29627883.
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    17. Laparoscopy in management of appendicitis in high-, middle-, and low-income countries: a multicenter, prospective, cohort study. Surg Endosc. 2018 08; 32(8):3450-3466. GlobalSurg Collaborative. PMID: 29623470; PMCID: PMC6061087.
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    18. Provision of surgical care in Ethiopia: Challenges and solutions. Glob Public Health. 2018 11; 13(11):1691-1701. Kelly CM, Starr N, Raykar NP, Yorlets RR, Liu C, Derbew M. PMID: 29448900.
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    19. Socially Responsible Surgery: Building Recognition and Coalition. Front Surg. 2017; 4:11. Robinson TD, Oliveira TM, Timmes TR, Mills JM, Starr N, Fleming M, Janeway M, Haddad D, Sidhwa F, Macht RD, Kauffman DF, Dechert TA. PMID: 28424776; PMCID: PMC5380666.
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    20. Determinants of morbidity and mortality following emergency abdominal surgery in children in low-income and middle-income countries. BMJ Glob Health. 2016; 1(4):e000091. GlobalSurg Collaborative . PMID: 28588977; PMCID: PMC5321375.
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