News
March 28, 2025
Uchicago Medical Student Grace Keegan (Mentee of Dr. Knowlton) Presents Research on Trauma Patient Coverage at Prestigious Surgical Conferences
Grace Keegan (4th year medical student at UChicago and mentee of Dr. Knowlton) presented “Traumatic Injury as an Opportunity to Acquire Health Coverage and Reduce Readmission in Trauma Patients” at the podium at the annual Pacific Coast Surgical Association at Kona, Hawaii on February 24, 2025 (see pics attached). Dr. Knowlton closed the discussion.
Earlier this month on February 11th, she presented her work on emergency Medicaid programs within Chicago trauma centers at the Academic Surgical Congress in Las Vegas, Nevada.
August 28, 2024
Knowlton and Team at Stanford Medicine Receive Prestigious ARPA-H Funding through White House Initiative
Lisa Knowlton, MD, MPH, is the co-recipient of up to $22.3 million award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to improve intraoperative anatomy visualization and critical structure identification. The prestigious five-year award will be led by Co-Principal Investigators Dr. Knowlton and Zhongming (Jeremy) Li, PhD, founding CEO of CisionVision, a medical device company in Mountain View, CA.
August 20, 2024
Tennakoon, Knowlton Receive California Firearm Violence Research Center Grant
Drs. Lakshika Tennakoon and Lisa Knowlton have received a grant from the California Firearm Violence Research Center at UC Davis. Almost $100k will fund their research project: “Leveraging natural language processing for identifying intimate partner violence using unstructured healthcare data.” The work will be focused on leveraging natural language processing to identify intimate partner violence using unstructured healthcare data.
June 24, 2024
Dr. Knowlton Selected for ACS, AWS Leadership Programs
In the past month, Dr. Lisa Knowlton was selected to participate in two different leadership programs.
Knowlton was named one of 15 Health Policy Scholars by the American College of Surgeons (ACS). She completed the Leadership Program in Health Policy and Management at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. She will serve in a health policy-related capacity for the ACS and the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, which cosponsored her award.
The Association of Women Surgeons (AWS) selected Knowlton to be part of their 2024 "Breaking the Glass Ceiling” Leadership Education cohort. The program provides funding to attend a leadership conference or course of her choosing. Knowlton will participate in the Executive Program in Leadership course through the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
February 22, 2024
The 95th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Surgical Association took place February 9-12 in Rancho Mirage, CA.
Dr. Knowlton was admitted as one of the new members of the society and mentee Vivian Ho presenting
February 15, 2024
Dr. Knowlton: 2024 Seed Grant & Instrument Funding Recipient
The 2024 Seed Grant and Instrument Funding winners have been announced by the Research and Innovation Committees. Six seed grants were awarded to researchers in the Division of Abdominal Transplantation, General Surgery, Vascular Surgery, and Pediatric Surgery.
December 13, 2023
Dr. Lisa Knowlton has been promoted to Associate Professor of Surgery in the University Medical Line effective Feb 1st, 2024.
December 11, 2023
Stanford medical student Ana Carolina Boncompagni and former Stanford Knight-Hennessy scholar (now UCSD general surgery resident) Dr. Tom Handley publish manuscript in JSR on provider stakeholder experiences with in-hospital Emergency Medicaid HPE programs
A Qualitative Study of Emergency Medicaid Programs From the Perspective of Hospital Stakeholders. The Journal of surgical researchBoncompagni, A. C., Handley, T. J., Sasnal, M., Morris, A. M., Knowlton, L. M.2023; 295: 530-539
November 9, 2023
Knowlton Lab Summer Interns Wesley Hendricks and Alexander Gibson to present at Academic Surgical Congress 2024
Brigham Young University undergraduate students Wesley Hendricks and Alexander Gibson recently completed a productive summer internship at the Knowlton Lab. They have each been recognized with oral presentations at the upcoming 2024 Academic Surgical Congress annual meeting in Washington, DC.
October 30, 2023
Dr. Knowlton Receives James IV Traveling Fellowship Award
Dr. Lisa Knowlton is the recipient of the 2023 James IV Traveling Fellowship award. his international fellowship is awarded to outstanding and accomplished surgeons, providing them with a unique opportunity to engage in academic and clinical exchange programs across various countries and institutions.
September 25, 2023
Dr. Knowlton wins AAST Canizaro Award
Dr. Lisa Knowlton has won the Canizaro Award at the 82nd annual meeting of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST). The Canizaro Award recognizes the best paper by a new full member.
June 28, 2023
Dr. Knowlton Receives NIH R01
Dr. Lisa Knowlton has received an R01 grant from the National Health Institute’s National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD). $3.5 million in funding will support her research project “Increasing Medicaid Acquisition and Sustainment Among the Uninsured.”