David A. Spain, MD

Clinical Focus

• General Surgery
• Critical Care Medicine
• Trauma Surgery
• Splenectomy
• Hernia, Abdominal

Administrative Appointments

• Program Director, Surgical Critical Care (2005 - present)
• Chief of Trauma and Critical Care Surgery, Stanford University (2001 - present)

Honors and Awards

• Collins Teaching Award, General Surgery Residency Progran (2004-2005)
• Teaching Award, Stanford/Kaiser Emergency Medicine Residency (2003-04 and 2007-08)

Professional Education

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Surgery

Current Research Interests

Our main areas of interest are clinical research in shock, sepsis, multiple organ faliure and ICU pneumonia, as well as organizational characteristic of well functioning trauma centers and systems. We are also developing a program in Health Services Research focused on access to specialized, high acuity care

Publications

• Outcomes of complex abdominal herniorrhaphy: experience with 106 cases. Satterwhite TS, Miri S, Chung C, Spain D, Lorenz HP, Lee GK. Ann Plast Surg. 2012; 68 (4): 382-8
• Predictors of emergency department death for patients presenting with ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms. Mell MW, Callcut RA, Bech F, Delgado MK, Staudenmayer K, Spain DA, Hernandez-Boussard T. J Vasc Surg. 2012
• Statins for everyone: are we there yet?: comment on "effect of perioperative statins on death, myocardial infarction, atrial fibrillation, and length of stay". Spain DA, Arch Surg. 2012; 147 (2): 189
• The forgotten trauma patient: Outcomes for injured patients evaluated by emergency medical services but not transported to the hospital. Staudenmayer K, Hsia R, Wang E, Sporer K, Ghilarducci D, Spain D, Mackersie R, Sherck J, Kline R, Newgard C. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2012; 72 (3): 594-600
• Abdominal wall reconstruction with dual layer cross-linked porcine dermal xenograft: The "Pork Sandwich" herniorraphy. Satterwhite TS, Miri S, Chung C, Spain DA, Lorenz HP, Lee GK. J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2011