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Education

POSTGRADUATE:
Vanderbilt University
Designation: Acute Care Surgery Fellow

Atlanta Medical Center (AMC), Atlanta, GA
Residency: Administrative Chief Resident General Surgery
Residency: Preliminary PGY-1 General Surgery

MEDICAL SCHOOL:
Semmelweis University of Medicine, Budapest, Hungary
University of Sint Eustatius School of Medicine, St. Eustatius, Netherlands-Antilles
Degree: MD

UNDERGRADUATE:
Creighton University, Omaha, NE
College International, Budapest, Hungary

Specialties

• Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Board Certification

• American Board of Surgery, General Surgery, Certificate No. 055919 2011
• Present American Board of Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, Certificate No. 002922 2011

Publications

• Pilkington C, Thind T, Bowman SM, Sexton KW, Kimbrough MK, Porter A, Davis B, Bennett J, Bhavaraju A, Jensen HK. Readmissions After Traumatic Brain Injury in the Nationwide Readmissions Database. J Surg Res. 2024;298:36-40. doi:10.1016/j.jss.2024.02.018
• Wade DJ, Pilkington C, Henson JC, Jensen HK, Kalkwarf KJ, Bhavaraju A, Bruce N, Bowman S, Margolick J. Higher Doses of Calcium Associated With Survival in Trauma Patients. J Surg Res. 2024 Nov;303:788-794. doi:10.1016/j.jss.2024.02.014
• Thind T, Heye T, Henson C, Reif R, Jensen HK, Kalkwarf KJ, Bhavaraju A, Robertson R, Jenkins A. Weight-Based Dosing for Low-Molecular-Weight Heparin (Enoxaparin)
  Administration to Achieve Optimal VTE Prophylaxis in Trauma Patients. Am Surg. 2024;90(6):1406-1411. doi:10.1177/00031348241241620
• Moore B, Jensen H, Patel K, Modi Z, Reif RJ, Lal S, Bowman SM, Kost M, Kalkwarf KJ, Margolick J, Bhavaraju A, Corwin HL. Outcomes of trauma patients on chronic antithrombotic
  therapies in a trauma center in a rural state: Chronic antithrombotic therapies in trauma patients. Surgery in Practice and Science. 2023; 15:100221.
  
• Shewmake C, Speed O, Gammill S, Hartzell LD, Thrush CR, Phelan KD, Golinko M, Bhavaraju A. Improved confidence and clinical application: The effects of a longitudinal suture curriculum for medical students. Southern Med J. 2023 Oct;116(10):806-811. PMID: 37788814
• Bennett JW, Schlortt KR, Yao T, Jensen HK, Reif RJ, Bennett JL, Karim SA, Kimbrough MK, Bhavaraju A. The association of closed-collaborative SICU modeling on emergency general
  surgery patient outcomes. Surgery in Practice and Science. 2023;14:100914.
• Heye T, Thind T, Jenkins A, Reif R, Jensen HK, Sexton K, Kalkwarf K, Bhavaraju A. Weightbased Dosing for Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis in Spinal Trauma Patients Appears Safe. J Surg Res. 2023;290:209-214. doi:10.1016/j.jss.2023.04.019
• Doucet J, Shatz DV, Kaplan LJ, Bulger EM, Capella J, Kuhls DA, Fallat M, Remick KN, Newton C, Fox A, Jawa R, Harvin JA, Blake DP, Bukur M, Gates J, Ficke J, Gestring ML; American Association for Surgery of Trauma Disaster Committee, Bhavaraju A, et al. Are
  trauma surgeons prepared? A survey of trauma surgeons’ disaster preparedness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Trauma Surg Acute Care Open. 2023 Jun 28;8(1):e001073. PMID 37564125.
• Wang HP, Reif RJ, Kalkwarf KJ, Jensen HK, Jenkins AK, Bhavaraju A. Prophylactic Antibiotics in Patients with Traumatic Pneumocephalus or Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak. Am Surg. 2023;89(7):3037-3042. doi:10.1177/00031348221117041
• COVIDSurg Collaborative [Bhavaraju A, local contributor]. Is perioperative COVID-19 really
  associated with worse surgical outcomes? A nationwide COVIDSurg propensity-matched analysis. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2023;94(4):513-524. doi:10.1097/TA.0000000000003859

Honors and Awards

• UAMS Red Sash Award 2023, Selected by the College of Medicine Class of 2023 as an exemplary teacher
• UAMS Trauma S.T.A.R Award 2022
• UAMS Red Sash Award 2021, Selected by the College of Medicine Class of 2021 as an exemplary teacher
• UAMS Red Sash Award 2020, Selected by the College of Medicine Class of 2020 as an exemplary teacher
• UAMS Red Sash Award 2019, Selected by the College of Medicine Class of 2019 as an exemplary teacher
  UAMS ED Outstanding Teaching Faculty of the Year Award 2019