Biography
Dr. Mendoza graduated from Loyola University Medical center with her MD in 2008. She went on to complete her general surgery residency at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center.
Awards & Honors
Award | Conferred By | Date |
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Joseph Susman Memorial Award | UCSF-East Bay | 2024 |
Education
Institution | Degree | Dept or School | End Date |
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University of California San Francisco | Trauma and Surgical Critical Care | 07/2017 | |
Louisiana State University Medical Center | General Surgery | 06/2015 | |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | MPH | Health Care and Prevention | 2012 |
Loyola University of Chicago Stritch School of Medicine | MD | Medicine | 06/2008 |
Xavier University of Louisiana | BS | Microbiology | 05/2004 |
Publications
MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 95
- Is Repeat Computed Tomography Angiography for Asymptomatic Grade 1 Blunt Cerebrovascular Injuries Cost-Effective?| | PubMed
- Current fistula management.| | PubMed
- Optimal dose of cryoprecipitate in massive transfusion following trauma.| | PubMed
- Angioembolization in Severe Pelvic Trauma is Associated with Venous Thromboembolism.| | PubMed
- Thromboprophylaxis Timing After Blunt Solid Organ Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.| | PubMed
- Trauma patients with limited English proficiency: Outcomes from two level one trauma centers.| | PubMed
- Prehospital extremity tourniquet placements-performance evaluation of non-EMS placement of a lifesaving device.| | PubMed
- Planning for the Next Pandemic: Trauma Injuries Require Pre-COVID-19 Levels of High-Intensity Resources.| | PubMed
- Hospital Academic Status and the Volume-Outcome Association in Postoperative Patients Requiring Intensive Care: Results of a Nationwide Analysis of Intensive Care Units in the United States.| | PubMed
- Do not forget the platelets: The independent impact of red blood cell to platelet ratio on mortality in massively transfused trauma patients.| | PubMed
- Different Surgeon, Different Duration: Lack of Consensus on the Appropriate Duration of Antimicrobial Prophylaxis and Therapy in Surgical Practice.| | PubMed
- Enteral nutrition is associated with high rates of pneumonia in intensive care unit (ICU) patients with acute pancreatitis.| | PubMed
- Adding to the story, did penetrating trauma really increase? changes in trauma patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic: A multi-institutional, multi-region investigation.| | PubMed
- Risk factors for ischemic gastrointestinal complications in patients undergoing open cardiac surgical procedures: A single-center retrospective experience.| | PubMed
- National adherence to the ASGE-SAGES guidelines for managing suspected choledocholithiasis: An EAST multicenter study.| | PubMed
- Prehospital end-tidal carbon dioxide is predictive of death and massive transfusion in injured patients: An Eastern Association for Surgery of Trauma multicenter trial.| | PubMed
- Bowel Ischemia in COVID-19 Infection: One-Year Surgical Experience.| | PubMed
- Early versus late enteral nutrition in critically ill patients receiving vasopressor support.| | PubMed
- Association Between NEDD4L Variation and the Genetic Risk of Acute Appendicitis: A Multi-institutional Genome-Wide Association Study.| | PubMed
- Low-Molecular Weight Heparin is Superior to Unfractionated Heparin for Elderly Trauma Patients.| | PubMed
- Surgical Infections and the Future of Research: Re-Defining the Research Agenda for the Surgical Infection Society.| | PubMed
- Implications of the national Stop the Bleed campaign: The swinging pendulum of prehospital tourniquet application in civilian limb trauma.| | PubMed
- Study Designs in Clinical Research.| | PubMed
- Intensive Care Unit Volume of Sepsis Patients Does Not Affect Mortality: Results of a Nationwide Retrospective Analysis.| | PubMed
- The Emergency Surgery Score is a powerful predictor of outcomes across multiple surgical specialties: Results of a retrospective nationwide analysis.| | PubMed
- Abdominal Wall Thickness Predicts Surgical Site Infection in Emergency Colon Operations.| | PubMed
- Deep immune profiling of whole blood to identify early immune signatures that correlate to patient outcome after major trauma.| | PubMed
- Development of a field artificial intelligence triage tool: Confidence in the prediction of shock, transfusion, and definitive surgical therapy in patients with truncal gunshot wounds.| | PubMed
- Multisystem outcomes and predictors of mortality in critically ill patients with COVID-19: Demographics and disease acuity matter more than comorbidities or treatment modalities.| | PubMed
- Modified Frailty Index-5 Score and Post-Operative Infectious Complications in Patients Undergoing Surgery for Intestinal-Cutaneous Fistula: A Nationwide Retrospective Cohort Analysis.| | PubMed
- The Current Role of Interventional Radiology in the Management of Acute Trauma Patient.| | PubMed
- Outcomes of same admission cholecystectomy and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography for common bile duct stones: A post hoc analysis of an Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma multicenter study.| | PubMed
- Perceptions of differences in graduated autonomy between male and female surgical residents.| | PubMed
- The Role of Transaminases in Predicting Choledocholithiasis. A Novel Predictive Composite Score Development in a Cohort of 1089 Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy.| | PubMed
- Peri-operative blood transfusion and risk of infectious complications following intestinal-cutaneous fistula surgical repair: A retrospective nationwide analysis.| | PubMed
- Does the Emergency Surgery Score predict failure to discharge the patient home? A nationwide analysis.| | PubMed
- Low-molecular-weight heparin versus unfractionated heparin in pediatric traumatic brain injury.| | PubMed
- Preoperative frailty predicts postoperative outcomes in intestinal-cutaneous fistula repair.| | PubMed
- Timing of thromboprophylaxis in patients with blunt abdominal solid organ injuries undergoing nonoperative management.| | PubMed
- Surgical Infection Society Research Priorities: A Narrative Review of Fourteen Years of Progress.| | PubMed
- Systolic Blood Pressure <110 mm Hg as a Threshold of Hypotension in Patients with Isolated Traumatic Brain Injuries.| | PubMed
- Isolated rib cage fractures in the elderly: Do all patients belong to the intensive care unit? A retrospective nationwide analysis.| | PubMed
- Multi-Biomarker Prediction Models for Multiple Infection Episodes Following Blunt Trauma.| | PubMed
- Acute Kidney Injury in Critically-ill Patients With COVID-19: A Single-center Experience of 206 Consecutive Patients.| | PubMed
- Thirty-day outcomes in the operative management of intestinal-cutaneous fistulas: A NSQIP analysis.| | PubMed
- Comparison of outcomes in non-head injured trauma patients using pre-injury warfarin or direct oral anticoagulant therapy.| | PubMed
- Gastrointestinal Complications in Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19.| | PubMed
- The Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index is a powerful predictor of adverse outcome in the elderly emergency surgery patient.| | PubMed
- COVID-19, Ethics and Equity-What Is Our Role as Surgeons?| | PubMed
- Emergency Resuscitative Thoracotomy: A Nationwide Analysis of Outcomes and Predictors of Futility.| | PubMed
- Identification of a new genetic variant associated with cholecystitis: A multicenter genome-wide association study.| | PubMed
- No news is good news? Three-year postdischarge mortality of octogenarian and nonagenarian patients following emergency general surgery.| | PubMed
- The dose-dependent relationship between blood transfusions and infections after trauma: A population-based study.| | PubMed
- One-way-street revisited: Streamlined admission of critically-ill trauma patients.| | PubMed
- Pre-peritoneal pelvic packing for early hemorrhage control reduces mortality compared to resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta in severe blunt pelvic trauma patients: A nationwide analysis.| | PubMed
- Interdisciplinary approach to enhance trauma residents education of Extended-Focused Assessment for Sonography in Trauma in the emergency department.| | PubMed
- The Effect of Immunosuppression on Emergency Colectomy Outcomes: A Nationwide Retrospective Analysis.| | PubMed
- No place like home: A national study on firearm-related injuries in the American household.| | PubMed
- Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection: Time is Crucial, and the Admitting Service Matters.| | PubMed
- Gallbladder wall thickness as a predictor of intraoperative events during laparoscopic cholecystectomy: A prospective study of 1089 patients.| | PubMed
- Can the Emergency Surgery Score (ESS) predict outcomes in emergency general surgery patients with missing data elements? A nationwide analysis.| | PubMed
- The Emergency Surgery Score (ESS) accurately predicts outcomes in elderly patients undergoing emergency general surgery.| | PubMed
- Bilateral internal iliac artery embolization for pelvic trauma: Effectiveness and safety.| | PubMed
- Fresh Frozen Plasma-to-Packed Red Blood Cell Ratio and Mortality in Traumatic Hemorrhage: Nationwide Analysis of 4,427 Patients.| | PubMed
- Every minute counts: The impact of pre-hospital response time and scene time on mortality of penetrating trauma patients.| | PubMed
- Contemporary management of penetrating renal trauma - A national analysis.| | PubMed
- Most of the variation in length of stay in emergency general surgery is not related to clinical factors of patient care.| | PubMed
- Obesity as protective against, rather than a risk factor for, postoperative Clostridium difficile infection: A nationwide retrospective analysis of 1,426,807 surgical patients.| | PubMed
- Advances in nutrition for the surgical patient.| | PubMed
- Life after 90: Predictors of mortality and performance of the ACS-NSQIP risk calculator in 4,724 nonagenarian patients undergoing emergency general surgery.| | PubMed
- Hartmann's Procedure vs Primary Anastomosis with Diverting Loop Ileostomy for Acute Diverticulitis: Nationwide Analysis of 2,729 Emergency Surgery Patients.| | PubMed
- Emergency Surgery Score Accurately Predicts the Risk of Post-Operative Infection in Emergency General Surgery.| | PubMed
- Do Not Blame the Resident: the Impact of Surgeon and Surgical Trainee Experience on the Occurrence of Intraoperative Adverse Events (iAEs) in Abdominal Surgery.| | PubMed
- Can the emergency surgery score (ESS) be used as a triage tool predicting the postoperative need for an ICU admission?| | PubMed
- Variation of Opioid Prescribing Patterns among Patients undergoing Similar Surgery on the Same Acute Care Surgery Service of the Same Institution: Time for Standardization?| | PubMed
- Routine computed tomography after recent operative exploration for penetrating trauma: What injuries do we miss?| | PubMed
- Fragmentation of Care-The Untold Story.| | PubMed
- Innate Immune Cell Recovery Is Positively Regulated by NLRP12 during Emergency Hematopoiesis.| | PubMed
- Splenic abscess and infarct concealing pancreatic cancer.| | PubMed
- Flagellin treatment prevents increased susceptibility to systemic bacterial infection after injury by inhibiting anti-inflammatory IL-10+ IL-12- neutrophil polarization.| | PubMed
- Burn injury induces high levels of phosphorylated insulin-like growth factor binding protein-1.| | PubMed
- Tracheostomy in the critically ill: the myth of dead space.| | PubMed
- Radiation combined with thermal injury induces immature myeloid cells.| | PubMed
- The natural history of Parkinson's disease in the province of Segovia: mortality in a longitudinal study (20-year follow-up).| | PubMed
- Cultural competence: why surgeons should care.| | PubMed
- A chemoattractant role for NT-3 in proprioceptive axon guidance.| | PubMed
- Quality of life with well-differentiated thyroid cancer: treatment toxicities and their reduction.| | PubMed
- Hepatitis C virus reinfection in orthotopic liver transplant patients with or without concomitant hepatitis B infection.| | PubMed
- Multiple thromboses in a premature infant associated with maternal phospholipid antibody syndrome.| | PubMed
- Colocalization of thrombospondin and syndecan during murine development.| | PubMed
- Combined inguinal herniorrhaphy and transurethral prostatectomy.| | PubMed
- Increased platelet-derived growth factor A-chain expression in human uterine smooth muscle cells during the physiologic hypertrophy of pregnancy.| | PubMed
- [Acute renal insufficiency caused by contrast media. Prospective study on incidence, predisposing factors and course of the disease].| | PubMed
- Sugiura procedure outside Japan. The Mexican experience.| | PubMed
- [Aneurysmatic dilatation of pulmonary veins (pulmonary varicose veins)].| | PubMed