Sharline Zacur Aboutanos, M.D.

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Educational Background

  • Fellowship
    • Primary Children's Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, Craniomaxillofacial and Pediatric Plastic Surgery, Director: Louis Morales, Jr., MD
  • Residency
    • VCU Medical Center/Medical College of Virginia, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
  • Medical School
  • Undergraduate

Memberships

Awards

  • Dawson Theogaraj Award in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, 2009
  • Virginia American College of Surgery Humanitarian Resident Travel Grant, 2009
  • Third Prize, Virginia Committee on Trauma Paper Presentation, 2006. "Multi-Dimensional Protocols: How a Team Approach to Patient Care Can Influence Outcomes in a Trauma ICU"
  • Lazar Greenfield Award for Humera Surgical Society, 2005. "Prostpective Evaluation of an Extubation Protocol in a Trauma ICU Population"
  • First Prize, VCU Health Systems Resident Research Day, 2004. "Duck Hepatitis Core Antigen Cross-Presents, Activates and Matures Dendritic Cells"
  • Jedi Knight Award in Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2002
  • Intern of the Year Award in General Surgery, 2001

Invited Presentations

  • "Management of Craniofacial Clefts." University of Utah Speech Pathology Department, Salt Lake City, UT, February 2010.
  • "Sagittal Synostosis: Surgical Approach and Outcomes." Utah Facial Surgery Meeting, Park City, UT, February 2010.
  • "The Pregnant Trauma Patient." Ninth Annual VCU Health Systems Trauma Symposium, Richmond, VA, 2008.

Book Chapters

  • Aboutanos M, Mora F, Duong M, Wolf L, Anderson C, Denwiddie M, Sahhar I, Rodas E, Aboutanos S, Duane T, Malhotra A, Ivatury R. Inexpensive Telemedicine Applications and Trauma System Development in Latin America: Ecuador's Experience.  In: Jordanova M and Lievens F, eds. Med-e-Tel 2007 Proceedings: Then International Educational and Networking Forum for eHealth, Telemedicine and Health ICT. Luxepro, April 2007. ISSN 1819-186X.
  • Zacur S, Kaplan BJ. Esophageal Cancer. In: Dyke C and DeMaria EJ, eds. Surgical Attending Rounds, Third Edition. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004.

Publications

  • Aboutanos SZ, Spinos E, Blanchet NP. Angiographic delay, a viable alternative to surgical delay. Annals of Plastic Surgery. Manuscript accepted, publication pending.
  • Aboutanos MB, Aboutanos SZ, Dompkowski D, Duane TD, Malhotra AK, Ivatury RR. Significance of motore vehicle crashes and pelvic injury on fetal mortality: A five-year institutional review. Journal of Trauma. 65(3):616-20, 2008.
  • Pozez AL, Aboutanos SZ, Lucas VS. Diagnosis and treatment of uncommon wounds. Clinics in Plastic Surgery. 34(4)749-64, 2007.
  • Aboutanos SZ, Aboutanos MB, Dompkowski D, Duane TD, Malhotra AK, Ivatury RR. Predictors of fetal outcome in pregnant trauma patients: A five-year institutional review. The American Surgeon. 73(8):824-7, 2007.
  • Aboutanos MB, Rodas E, Aboutanos SZ, Mora FE, Duane TM, Malhotra AK, Ivatury RR. Trauma education and care in the jungles of Ecuador: Where there is no Advanced Trauma Life Support. Journal of Trauma. 62(3):714-9, 2007.
  • Aboutanos SZ, Duane TD, Malhotra AK, Borchers CT, Wakefield TA, Wolfe LG, Aboutanos MB, Ivatury RR. Prospective evaluation of an extubation protocol in a trauma intensive care unit population. The American Surgeon. 72(5):393-6, 2006.
  • Aboutanos SZ, Aboutanos MB, Malhotra AK, Duane TM, Ivatury RR. Management of a pregnant patient with an open abdomen. Journal of Trauma. 59(5):1052-6, 2005.
  • Chin CS, Miller CH, Graham L, Parviz M, Zacur S, Patel B, Duong A, Bear H. Bryostatin 1/ionomycin (B/I) ex vivo stimulation preferentially activates L-selectinlow tumor-sensitized lymphocytes. International Immunology. 16(9):1283-94, 2004.
  • Whinney RR, Cohn SM, Zacur S. Fluid resuscitation for trauma patients in the 21st century. Current Opinion in Critical Care. 6:395-400, 2000.