Professor, Surgery, University of Louisville School of Medicine
General Surgery
Dr. Hiram C. Polk Jr., MD
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Hiram Polk works in the field of General Surgery. He studied medicine at Harvard Medical School. Harvard Medical School is a top medical university. Harvard Medical School has a rank of 1 in research and a 12 in primary care He received awards:"Fellow (FACS)" and "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare". Hiram C. Polk Jr. is also published. He has 88 publications published. The lastest publication: "The Significance and Challenges of Monocyte Impairment: For the Ill Patient and the Surgeon.'
Publications
- The Significance and Challenges of Monocyte Impairment: For the Ill Patient and the Surgeon.
- MicroRNA-155 potentiates the inflammatory response in hypothermia by suppressing IL-10 production.
- Unintentional perioperative hypothermia is associated with severe complications and high mortality in elective operations.
- Interhospital transfer of blunt multiply injured patients to a level 1 trauma center does not adversely affect outcome.
- Transient Receptor Potential Ion Channels: Powerful Regulators of Cell Function.
- MicroRNA as a New Factor in Lung and Esophageal Cancer.
- Sequential improvements in organ procurement increase the organ donation rate.
- Robert m. Zollinger: 25 years on.
- MicroRNAs: New helpers for surgeons?
- Comparative Effectiveness Research: Relative and Efficient Outcomes in Surgery Patients.
- Preserving the quality of training surgical residents.
- In vitro study of variables relevant to perioperative care of the surgical patient: glucose, osmolarity, and rewarming.
- A reassessment of needs and practice patterns in pharmacologic prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism following elective major surgery.
- Is there a role for bowel preparation and oral or parenteral antibiotics in infection control in contemporary colon surgery?
- Commentary on "Compliance with guidelines to prevent surgical site infections: as simple as 1-2-3?".
- The complementary value of trained abstractors and surgeons in the more accurate assessment of surgical quality.
- The evolving importance of readmission data to the practicing surgeon.
- Oxygen and surgical site infection: a study of underlying immunologic mechanisms.
- Introduction: safety and quality improvement in specialty surgery in smaller hospitals.
- A situational overview of surgical quality and safety in 2010.
- A closer look at surgical quality measures across different surgical specialties.
- Standards of surgery beyond metropolitan centers: a fresh look at perioperative quality measures in small-town America.
- Glucose and surgical sepsis: a study of underlying immunologic mechanisms.
- Optimizing surgical care: a contemporary assessment of temperature, oxygen, and glucose.
- Surgical privileging and credentialing: a report of a discussion and study group of the American Surgical Association.
- Invited commentary on "impact of intraoperative behavior on surgical site infections" by Beldi et al.
- Another duel in the sun: weighing the balances between sun protection, tanning beds, and malignant melanoma.
- Hypothermia and surgery: immunologic mechanisms for current practice.
- The very busy urban surgeon: another face of the evermore obvious shortage of general surgeons.
- Perioperative supplemental oxygen therapy and surgical site infection: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
- Venous thromboembolism in elective operations: balancing the choices.
- Rapidly expanding demands on hospital quality personnel threaten the quality of their reports.
- Racial trends in mammography rates: a population-based study.
- Mannitol upregulates monocyte HLA-DR, monocyte and neutrophil CD11b, and inhibits neutrophil apoptosis.
- Attitudes of surgical specialists toward venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in surgical patients.
- Opportunities for improved performance in surgical specialty practice.
- Transforming the surgical "time-out" into a comprehensive "preparatory pause".
- Patient safety and quality in surgery.
- Roger T. Sherman Lecture. Surgical quality and safety: the patient comes first.
- Expanded surgical time out: a key to real-time data collection and quality improvement.
- The evolution of guidelines toward standards of practice.
- The challenge of small numbers to the contemporary excellence of elective specialty surgery.
- Differences and similarities between rural and urban operations.
- Diabetes and hyperglycemia: strict glycemic control.
- Monocyte HLA-DR and interferon-gamma treatment in severely injured patients--a critical reappraisal more than a decade later.
- Short-term hyperglycemia in surgical patients and a study of related cellular mechanisms.
- Quality and safety in surgical care.
- Effects of hyperglycemia, hyperinsulinemia, and hyperosmolarity on neutrophil apoptosis.
- Renewal of surgical quality and safety initiatives: a multispecialty challenge.
- Commentary on the role of government in health care: a societal issue.
- Impact of diabetes mellitus and metabolic disorders.
- Continuing refinements in surgical antibiotic prophylaxis.
- Profitable versus unprofitable expansion of trauma and critical care surgery.
- Quality, safety, and transparency.
- Comments by Dr. Polk upon occasion of the mid-winter President's dinner of the American Surgical Association, community celebration of his chairmanship at the Universi...
- Keeping score and the application of known principles.
- Acute hyperglycemia and the innate immune system: clinical, cellular, and molecular aspects.
- Further results of incorporating innovative procedures in a surgical residency.
- Methamphetamine laboratory explosions: a new and emerging burn injury.
- Clinical and economic outcomes of oral linezolid versus intravenous vancomycin in the treatment of MRSA-complicated, lower-extremity skin and soft-tissue infections ca...
- A brief private group practice rotation changes junior medical students' perception of the surgical lifestyle.
- Endotoxin inhibits apoptosis but induces primary necrosis in neutrophils.
- Process and outcome measures in specialty surgery: early steps in defining quality.
- Program directors in surgery agree that residents should be formally trained in business and practice management.
- Commentary on the professional career of John S. Spratt, Jr., MD, MPH.
- Mutual reporting of process and outcomes enhances quality outcomes for colon and rectal resections.
- Clinical characteristics of familial adenomatous polyposis and management of duodenal adenomas.
- Practicing surgeons lead in quality care, safety, and cost control.
- Broad-based general surgery training is a model of continued utility for the future.
- A Hamblin Letton Lecture. The continuing need to attract surgery students to surgical specialty careers: a step forward but at what expense?
- Addition of "near-miss" cases enhances a quality improvement conference.
- Is ATLS a mechanism for teaching core competency in ethics?
- Tertiary care centers: a strategy for fiscal survival.
- IL-18 promoter polymorphisms correlate with the development of post-injury sepsis.
- Surgeon-led initiatives cut costs and enhance the quality of endoscopic and laparoscopic procedures.
- Does additional surgical training increase participation in randomized controlled trials?
- Examination of the role of abdominal computed tomography in the evaluation of victims of trauma with increased aspartate aminotransferase in the era of focused abdomin...
- Conference workgroups and summation. Dialogue from the Symposium on Challenges in Surgical Education: Competencies, Work Hours, Workforce, Assessment, and Adaptation.
- Interferon-gamma gene polymorphisms and the development of sepsis in patients with trauma.
- Scientific data from clinical trials: investigators' responsibilities and rights.
- Scientific data from clinical trials: investigators responsibilities and rights.
- Consensus statement on scientific data from clinical trials and investigators' responsibilities and rights.
- A study of added costs of laparoscopic cholecystectomy based on surgery preference cards.
- A neighbor's perspective on Josef E. Fischer.
- Free hemoglobin enhances tumor necrosis factor-alpha production in isolated human monocytes.
- Pharmacoeconomics for surgeons.
- Emergence of resistant microbes in critical care units is transient, despite an unrestricted formulary and multiple antibiotic trials.
Schools
Harvard Medical School
Barnes Hospita St Louis
BarnesJewish Hospital
Lister Institute Of Preventative Medicine
Doctors Specialties
- Surgery
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FACS)
- Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare
Education
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Washington University - Barnes-Jewish Hospital -
Harvard Medical School
Hospital
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Jewish Hospital -
Norton Hospital -
University of Louisville Hospital
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