David A. Spain, MD

Clinical Focus

• General Surgery
• Critical Care Medicine
• Trauma Surgery

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

Research Interests

Our main areas of interest have been shock, sepsis and mutiple organ failure. We are also interested in the introduction, application and evaluation of new technology in teh care of critically ill and injured patients

Publications

• Demographic and Financial Analysis of EMTALA Hand Patient Transfers. Melkun ET, Ford C, Brundage SI, Spain DA, Chang J. Hand (N Y). 2009
• Commitment to COT verification improves patient outcomes and financial performance. Maggio PM, Brundage SI, Hernandez-Boussard T, Spain DA. J Trauma. 2009; 67 (1): 190-4; discussion 194-5
• The impact of hypopituitarism on function and performance in subjects with recent history of traumatic brain injury and aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage. Srinivasan L, Roberts B, Bushnik T, Englander J, Spain DA, Steinberg GK, Ren L, Sandel ME, Al-Lawati Z, Teraoka J, Hoffman AR, Katznelson L. Brain Inj. 2009; 23 (7): 639-48
• Massive transfusion protocols: the role of aggressive resuscitation versus product ratio in mortality reduction. Riskin DJ, Tsai TC, Riskin L, Hernandez-Boussard T, Purtill M, Maggio PM, Spain DA, Brundage SI. J Am Coll Surg. 2009; 209 (2): 198-205
• Validation of a prehospital trauma triage tool: a 10-year perspective. Purtill MA, Benedict K, Hernandez-Boussard T, Brundage SI, Kritayakirana K, Sherck JP, Garland A, Spain DA. J Trauma. 2008; 65 (6): 1253-7