PABI Plan - The Sarah Jane Brain Project

2001 - Associate Professor, Sect of Emergency Med, Dept of Surgery; Environmental Health
Division, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2001 - Associate Clinical Professor, Yale School of Nursing, New Haven, CT
2001 - Member, Trauma Information and Exchange Program Advisory Board, Johns Hopkins School of
Public Health, Baltimore, MD
2002 - 2004 Member, Technical Advisory Group, new DAWN implementation, SAMHSA
2004 - Research Director, Section of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Med, New Haven, CT
2005 - Director and Co-PI, Yale Center for Public Health Preparedness, Yale School of Public Health
2007 Distinguished Career Award, Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section,
American Public Health Association
2007 – 2008 President, American Public Health Association
2008 - Fellow (Hon), Royal Society for Public Health
2008 – 2009 Immediate Past President, American Pubic Health Association
2008 - Member, Advisory Board, Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship Program, Institute of
Medicine
2008 - Member, Executive Board, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety
B. SELECTED PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER)
1. Baker CC, Degutis LC, DeSantis JG, Baue AE. The impact of a trauma service on trauma care in a
university hospital. Am J Surg, 149 (4):453-8, 1985.
2. Baker CC, Degutis LC. Predicting outcome in the multiple trauma patient. Infect in Surg, 5 (4):243-5,
1986.
3. Gertler J, Degutis LC, Garvey R, Clay R, Baker CC. Pitfalls in the diagnosis and management of blunt
splenic trauma. Conn Med, 50 (10):645-7, 1987.
4. Degutis LC, Baker CC. Trauma in the elderly - a statewide perspective. Conn Med, 50(3):161-164, 1987.
5. Ross P, Degutis LC, Baker CC. Cardiac contusion: The effect on operative management of the trauma
patient. Arch Surg, 124:506-7, 1989.
6. Longo WE, Baker CC, McMillen MA, Modlin IM, Degutis LC, Zucker KA. Non-operative management of
blunt splenic trauma in adults: criteria for success. Ann Surg, 2 10 (5) 626-9, 1989
7. Higgins RS, Sanchez JA, Degutis LC, Dewar MC, Franco KL, Kopf GS, Elefteriades JA, Hammond GL,
Baldwin JC. Mechanical circulatory support decreases neurologic complications in the treatment of
traumatic injuries of the thoracic aorta. Arch Surg, 127 (5): 516-9, 1992.
8. Burns GA, Cohn SM, Frumento RJ, Degutis LC, Hammers L. Prospective ultrasound evaluation of venous
thrombosis in high-risk trauma patients. J Trauma, 1993 Sept; 35(3):405-408.
9. Gabram SGA, Libby MCN, Jacobs LM, Atweh N, Degutis LC, Reich JJ, Ryan N, Thomas RG, Zelman J.
Peer review of on-scene air medical triage in Connecticut. Conn Med, 58(1):3-12 1994
10. Cohn SM, Pollak JS, McCarthy S, Degutis LC. Detection of aortic tear in the acute trauma patient using
MRI. MRI, 12(6):963-967, 1994.
11. Bretsky PM, Blanc DC, Phelps S, Ransom JA, Degutis LC, Groce NE. Epidemiology of firearm mortality
and injury estimates: State of CT, 1988-1993. Ann Emerg Med, 28(2):176-182, 1996.
12. Moscovitz H, Degutis L, Bruno GR, Schriver J. Emergency department patients with assault injuries:
previous injury and assault convictions. Ann Emerg Med, 29(6):770-775, 1997.
13. Taylor CR, Degutis L, Burns G, Cohn S, Rosenfield AT. CT in abdominal trauma: Impact on clinical
management. J Trauma, 44(5):893-901, 1998.
14. Degutis LC. Screening for alcohol problems in emergency department patients with minor injury: results
and recommendations for practice and policy. Cont Drug Problems, 25:463-475, 1998.
15. Groce NE, Degutis LC. Rehabilitation needs as a result of firearm-related injury: a four year retrospective
study from an inner-city hospital in the US. Int J Rehab Res, 22, 1-3, 1999.
16. Merrell GA, Driscoll JC, Degutis LC, Renshaw TS. Prevention of childhood pedestrian trauma: A study of
interventions over six years. J Bone Joint Surg AM. 9(6):627-638, 2002.
17. D’Onofrio G, Degutis LC. Preventive care in the emergency department: screening and brief intervention
for alcohol problems in the emergency department: a systematic review. Acad Emerg Med 2002;9:627-38.
18. D’Onofrio G, Nadel ES, Degutis LC, et al. Improving emergency medicine residents' approach to patients
with alcohol problems: a controlled educational trial. Ann Emerg Med 2002;40:50-62.
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