Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Acute Care Surgery Fellow, Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital 2008 - 2009
  • Surgical Critical Care Fellow, Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital 2007 - 2008
  • General Surgery Resident, Surgery, Waterbury Hospital 2002 - 2007
  • M.D., Ross University, School of Medicine (West Indies) 2001
  • B.S., State University of New York, Albany 1996
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Assistant Professor of Surgery, Trauma, Acute, and Critical Care Surgery, Surgery 2016 - 2020
  • Instructor, Temporary in the Department of Surgery, Trauma, Acute, and Critical Care Surgery, Surgery 2015 - 2016
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Kasotakis, George, Brent Stanfield, Krista Haines, Cory Vatsaas, Amy Alger, Steven N. Vaslef, Kelli Brooks, and Suresh Agarwal. “Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) after trauma: Improving incidence, but increasing mortality.” J Crit Care 64 (August 2021): 213–18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrc.2021.05.003.
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    • Haines, Krista, Jennifer Freeman, Cory Vastaas, Clay Rust, Christopher Cox, George Kasotakis, Matthew Fuller, et al. “"I'm Leaving": Factors That Impact Against Medical Advice Disposition Post-Trauma.” J Emerg Med 58, no. 4 (April 2020): 691–97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jemermed.2019.12.023.
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    • Haines, Krista L., Lauren M. Woldanski, Tiffany Zens, Cory Vatsaas, Amy Alger, Kelli Brooks, George Kasotakis, and Suresh Agarwal. “The Impact of Race and Socioeconomic Status on Treatment and Outcomes of Blunt Splenic Injury.” J Surg Res 240 (August 2019): 60–69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2019.02.040.
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    • Haines, Krista L., Benjamin P. Nguyen, Cory Vatsaas, Amy Alger, Kelli Brooks, and Suresh K. Agarwal. “Socioeconomic Status Affects Outcomes After Severity-Stratified Traumatic Brain Injury.” J Surg Res 235 (March 2019): 131–40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2018.09.072.
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    • Kearns, R. D., S. M. Ortiz-Pujols, C. K. Craig, J. R. Gusler, M. B. Skarote, J. Carter, A. Rezak-Alger, et al. “Erratum: Advanced burn life support for day-to-day burn injury management and disaster preparedness: Stakeholder experiences and student perceptions following 56 advanced burn life support courses (Journal of Burn Care & Research).” Journal of Burn Care and Research 36, no. 6 (January 1, 2015): 606. https://doi.org/10.1097/BCR.0000000000000212.
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    • Rezak, Amy. “Decreased Use of Computed Tomography With a Modified Clinical Scoring System in Diagnosis of Pediatric Acute Appendicitis.” Archives of Surgery 146, no. 1 (January 1, 2011): 64–64. https://doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.2010.297.
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  • Conference Papers

    • Haines, Krista, Christopher Reed, Clayton Rust, Amy Alger, Cory Vatsaas, Kelli Brooks, Sean Montgomery, Steven Vaslef, and Suresh Agarwal. “THE SOCIOECONOMIC AND RACIAL DISPARITIES OF PULMONARY COMORBIDITIES IN TRAUMA PATIENTS.” In Critical Care Medicine, Vol. 47. LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, 2019.
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    • Shchatsko, Anastasiya, Rebecca Brown, Trista Reid, Sasha Adams, Amy Alger, and Anthony Charles. “The Utility of the Alvarado Score in the Diagnosis of Acute Appendicitis in the Elderly.” In Am Surg, 83:793–98, 2017.
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    • Farrell, Timothy M., Iman Ghaderi, Lindsee E. McPhail, Amy R. Alger, Michael O. Meyers, and Anthony A. Meyer. “Measuring Patterns of Surgeon Confidence Using a Novel Assessment Tool.” In Am Surg, 82:28–35, 2016.
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