Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Washington
General Surgery
Dr. Heather L. Evans, MD
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Dr. Heather L. Evans practices General Surgery. She researched medicine at University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. She has 3 awards "Junior Faculty Fellowship Award", "Fellow" and "Fellow (FACS)". Doctor Heather L. Evans, MD is also a published physician. She has 53 publication published. The most recent publication is: A comparison of Google Glass and traditional video vantage points for bedside procedural skill assessment.
Publications
- A comparison of Google Glass and traditional video vantage points for bedside procedural skill assessment.
- Pneumonia: Challenges in the Definition, Diagnosis, and Management of Disease.
- Reconstruction of the symphysis pubis to repair a complex midline hernia in the setting of congenital bladder exstrophy.
- Necrotizing soft tissue infections: review and current concepts in treatment, systems of care, and outcomes.
- Pre-Hospital Aspiration Is Associated with Increased Pulmonary Complications.
- Moving beyond survival as a measure of success: understanding the patient experience of necrotizing soft-tissue infections.
- Automated tools for phenotype extraction from medical records.
- Sex- and Diagnosis-Dependent Differences in Mortality and Admission Cytokine Levels Among Patients Admitted for Intensive Care.
- Comparative Effectiveness of Skin Antiseptic Agents in Reducing Surgical Site Infections: A Report from the Washington State Surgical Care and Outcomes Assessment Prog...
- Trauma center variation in splenic artery embolization and spleen salvage: a multicenter analysis.
- Infection control for critically ill trauma patients: a systematic approach to prevention, detection, and provider feedback.
- Ventilator-associated pneumonia rates at major trauma centers compared with a national benchmark: A multi-institutional study of the AAST.
- Active surveillance cultures of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as a tool to predict methicillin-resistant S. aureus ventilator-associated pneumonia*.
- Ventilator-associated pneumonia: Bacteremia and death after traumatic injury.
- Helicopter transport: help or hindrance?
- Pre-hospital Intubation Factors and Pneumonia in Trauma Patients.
- Outbreak of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii among non-burn patients in a burn intensive care unit.
- Timing of intubation and ventilator-associated pneumonia following injury.
- Effect of chlorhexidine whole-body bathing on hospital-acquired infections among trauma patients.
- Preventing bacterial resistance in surgical patients.
- An evaluation of multidetector computed tomography in detecting pancreatic injury: results of a multicenter AAST study.
- Choosing antibiotics for intra-abdominal infections: what do we mean by "high risk"?
- Reduction in rates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection after introduction of quarterly linezolid-vancomycin cycling in a surgical intensive care u...
- Outbreak of resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections during a quarterly cycling antibiotic regimen.
- Differences in early- and late-onset ventilator-associated pneumonia between surgical and trauma patients in a combined surgical or trauma intensive care unit.
- Serum estradiol concentration as a predictor of death in critically ill and injured adults.
- Duration of antibiotic therapy for ventilator-associated pneumonia caused by non-fermentative gram-negative bacilli.
- Does body mass index affect infection-related outcomes in the intensive care unit?
- Single-institutional experience with the surgical infection prevention project in intra-abdominal surgery.
- Cost of Gram-negative resistance.
- Can we define the ideal duration of antibiotic therapy?
- Does enteral glutamine supplementation decrease infectious morbidity?
- Primary human hepatocytes in spheroid formation to study hepatitis C infection.
- Does the addition of glutamine to enteral feeds affect patient mortality?
- A nutrition support team led by general surgeons decreases inappropriate use of total parenteral nutrition on a surgical service.
- Comparison of fungal and nonfungal infections in a broad-based surgical patient population.
- Nature of gram-negative rod antibiotic resistance during antibiotic rotation.
- Impact of immunomodulatory oligodeoxynucleotides on cytokine production in the lipopolysaccharide-stimulated human whole blood model.
- E2 quasispecies specificity of hepatitis C virus association with allografts immediately after liver transplantation.
- Effect of an intensive care unit rotating empiric antibiotic schedule on the development of hospital-acquired infections on the non-intensive care unit ward.
- Contact isolation in surgical patients: a barrier to care?
- Lymphoscintigraphy and sentinel node biopsy accurately stage melanoma in patients presenting after wide local excision.
- Impact of antibiotic-resistant Gram-negative bacilli infections on outcome in hospitalized patients.
- Tertiary peritonitis (recurrent diffuse or localized disease) is not an independent predictor of mortality in surgical patients with intraabdominal infection.
- Does prior transfusion worsen outcomes from infection in surgical patients?
- Diagnosis of intra-abdominal infection in the critically ill patient.
- Inflammation and the host response to injury, a Large-Scale Collaborative Project: patient-oriented research core standard operating procedures for clinical care IX. D...
- Cycling chemotherapy: a promising approach to reducing the morbidity and mortality of nosocomial infections.
- HCV infection of the transplanted liver: changing CD81 and HVR1 variants immediately after liver transplantation.
- Predicting death in necrotizing soft tissue infections: a clinical score.
- On-time clinical phenotype prediction based on narrative reports.
- Patient perspectives on post-discharge surgical site infections: towards a patient-centered mobile health solution.
Schools
University Of Rochester
University Of Virginia Health System
Harborview Med Center
Doctors Specialties
- Critical Care Surgery
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Junior Faculty Fellowship Award
- Fellow
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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University of Washington -
University of Virginia -
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Hospital
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UW Medicine/Harborview Medical Center -
University of Washington Medical Center
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1316155575 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | EVANS | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | HEATHER | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 981042420 | |
| NPPES Provider State | WA | |
| Specialty Description | General Surgery | |
| Total Claim Count | 16.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1316155575 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | EVANS |
| First Name Of The Provider | HEATHER |
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