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COL Kurt G. Davis, USA ret

Professor of Clinical Surgery
Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery

Associate Program Director - General Surgery

1542 Tulane Ave. 7th floor

New Orleans, Louisiana 70112

 

Phone: (504) 568-4750

Fax:     (504) 568-4633

 

kdav26@lsuhsc.edu

Degrees

University of Tennessee, B.S., Systems and Organismal Biology, May 1993

Quillen College of Medicine at East Tennessee State University, M.D., May 1997

Clinical Interests

 Surgical Education
 Minimally Invasive Treatment for Colon and Rectal Cancer
 Cancer Health Disparities

Committees & Administrative Responsibilities

 

  • CREST Committee, American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons
  • Surgical Jeopardy Chair 2016 South Texas ACS Meeting, San Antonio, TX
  • Curriculum Committee, Association of Surgical Educators Oct 2014-Present
  • Young Fellows Committee, South Texas Chapter of the ACS January 2014- January 2015.
  • Cancer Liaison Physician for the Commission on Cancer for William Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso, TX, 2012-June 2016.
  • Self Assessment Committee, American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons 2013- Present
  • Graduate Medical Education Committee, Association of Surgical Educators 2012-Present
  • Faculty Development Committee, Association of Surgical Educators 2011-2012
  • Young Surgeons Committee, American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, 2008- 2011

 

Selected Publications

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. Davis KG. Endoscopy in The ASCRS Textbook of Colon and Rectal Surgery
  2. Davis KG, Coviello LC Operating Room Set-Up in Laparoscopic Colectomy.
  3. Davis KG, Armstrong DN Harmonic Scalpel Hemorrhoidectomy in Colon and Rectal Surgery: Anorectal Operations, pp. 15-24, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia PA, 2012.

NON-PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

  1. Davis KG. Foregut Crohn’s Disease in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.  Surg Clin N Am 2015; 95 (6), 1183-93.
  2. Davis KG, Johnson E. Enterocutaneous Fistulas in Considerations and Consequences of Colorectal Surgery. Surg Clin N Am 2013;93.(1), 231-50.

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

  1. Davis KG A Short-Duration Restrictive Diet Reduces Visceral Adiposity in the Morbidly Obese Surgical Patient. Am J Surg 2016:
  2. Sirkin MR, Cook P, Davis KG. Evaluating Alternatives to Traditional Cotton Laparotomy Sponges for Blood Absorption in the Austere and Mobile Surgical Environment. J Spec Ops Med. Dec 2015: 54-58.
  3. Davis KG, Williams M, Crossett JR, Cleveland EM, Smoot CP, Aluka KJ, Coviello LC.  Equivalence in Colonoscopy Results between Gastroenterologists and General Surgery Residents following an Endoscopy Simulation Curriculum.  J Surgical Educ.  72(4) July/August 2015.
  4. Peirce GS, Swisher JP, Freemyer JD, Crossett JR, Wertin TM, Aluka KJ, Tobias S, Lee LV, Hetz SP, Davis KG. Postoperative pneumoperitoneum on computed tomography: is the operation to blame? Am J Surg 2014; Sep 28.

PRESENTATIONS

  1. Training the Next Generation of Combat Surgeons. Presented at LSU Grand Rounds 2015
  2. The Modern Treatment of Hemorrhoids: Moving Beyond the Bands. Presented at the Piedmont Society Southern Colorectal Society Meeting 20-22 March 2014, Ft Lauderdale, FL

Additional Info

Curriculum Vitae