Dr. Heather Evans, Critical Care - Trauma Surgery MUSC Health

Описание: Heather Evans, M.D., MS joins the Department of Surgery September 1, 2018 as Professor in the division of General and Acute Care Surgery. As Vice Chair of Clinical Research and Applied Informatics, Dr. Evans will bring a research focus on the application of telehealth solutions to the unique problems faced by the surgical patient, and looks forward to building upon the established collaborations between MUSC Telehealth, the College of Nursing, the Center for Health Disparities and the Department of Surgery.

Prior to joining MUSC, Dr. Evans served as Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington where she led a multidisciplinary research team with investigators in Biomedical Health Informatics and the School of Nursing, leveraging mobile health (mHealth) solutions to improve the early diagnosis and treatment of surgical site infections. In addition to her practice of trauma surgery and surgical critical care, she also focuses on minimally invasive general surgery including laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair.

Dr. Evans earned her medical degree from the University of Rochester. She completed her general surgery residency, a Masters in Health Evaluation Sciences and a surgical infections research fellowship at the University of Virginia. Dr. Evans was fellowship trained in surgical critical care and trauma at the University of Washington, where she has been a member of the surgical faculty for the past ten years.