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Nichole Starr, M.D., MPH

Nichole Starr, M.D., MPH

  • Chief Resident (PGY-5)
  • General Surgery

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Biography

Dr. Nichole Starr is a general surgery resident at University of California, San Francisco, a fellow at Lifebox Foundation from 2018-2021 and the senior fellow at Lifebox Foundation in 2020-2021. She was an NIH Fogarty Global Health Equity Scholar from 2020-2021. Her areas of interest are in academic global surgery, surgical quality improvement and infection prevention, and strengthening trauma care systems in resource limited environments, as well as trauma induced coagulopathy and platelet function in injured patients. Dr. Starr served in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia from 2007 - 2009, and has worked in Ethiopia, Brazil and Liberia on health services research including improving surgical safety, quality of surgical and trauma care, and creating tools and technologies for safeguarding surgical providers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Education & Training

  Institution  
  Degree    
  Dept or School    
  End Date    
  • Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
  • MD
  • Medicine
  • 05/2015
  • Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA
  • MPH
  • Public Health
  • 05/2008
  • University of Miami, Miami, FL
  • BS
  • Neuroscience
  • 05/2006
  • University of Miami, Miami, FL
  • BA
  • Theatre Arts
  • 05/2006
  • UCSF, San Francisco, CA
  • General Surgery

  • Awards & Honors

      Award  
      Confired By    
      Date    
  • William B. Schecter Trauma Resident Award
  • UCSF
  • 2022
  • Muriel Steele Society Influential Women in Surgery Honor Roll
  • UCSF
  • 2019 - 2022
  • Surgical Infections Society Best Oral Presentation, Second Place
  • Surgical Infection Society
  • 2019
  • Junior Resident Teaching Award
  • UCSF
  • 2018
  • Department of Emergency Medicine Surgical Consultant of the Year
  • UCSF
  • 2017
  • Dora Savenor Memorial Prize for Excellence in Surgery
  • Boston University School of Medicine
  • 2015
  • The Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Student Award
  • Boston University School of Medicine
  • 2015

    • Residencies

    • General Surgery Residency 2015-present

    Research Interests

    • Barriers to Accessing Surgical Care
    • Cost-Effectiveness Analyses of Surgical Organizations
    • Trauma Care

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    Foreign Languages Spoken

    • Spanish, Amharic

    Publications

    MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 20
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    1. Starr NE, Moore JN, Shreckengost CSH, Fernandez K, Ambulkar RP, Capo-Chichi N, Varallo JE, Ademuyiwa AO, Krouch S, Rana PS, Ingabire JA, Weiser TG, Mammo TN, Evans FM. Perioperative provider safety in the pandemic: Development, implementation and evaluation of an adjunct COVID-19 Surgical Patient Checklist. Anaesth Intensive Care. 2022 Nov; 50(6):457-467. View in PubMed
    2. Starr N, Nofal MR, Gebeyehu N, Forrester JA, Derbew M, Weiser TG, Mammo TN. Sustainability of a Surgical Quality Improvement Program at Hospitals in Ethiopia. JAMA Surg. 2022 01 01; 157(1):68-70. View in PubMed
    3. Starr N, Capo-Chichi N, Moore J, Shreckengost CH, Fernandez K, Ambulkar R, Varallo JE, Ademuyiwa AO, Krouch S, Rana PS, Ingabire JA, Weiser TG, Mammo TN, Evans FM. Perioperative Provider Safety in Low- and Middle-income Countries During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Call for Renewed Investments in Resources and Training. Ann Surg. 2021 12 01; 274(6):e525-e627. View in PubMed
    4. Forrester JA, Starr N, Negussie T, Schaps D, Adem M, Alemu S, Amenu D, Gebeyehu N, Habteyohannes T, Jiru F, Tesfaye A, Wayessa E, Chen R, Trickey A, Bitew S, Bekele A, Weiser TG. Clean Cut (adaptive, multimodal surgical infection prevention programme) for low-resource settings: a prospective quality improvement study. Br J Surg. 2020 Sep 21. View in PubMed
    5. Purschke M, Elsamaloty M, Wilde JP, Starr N, Anderson RR, Farinelli WA, Sakamoto FH, Tung M, Tam J, Hesselink L, Baer TM. Construction and validation of UV-C decontamination cabinets for filtering facepiece respirators. Appl Opt. 2020 Sep 01; 59(25):7585-7595. View in PubMed
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    In the News

    • Winners Announced for Presentations at 33rd Annual J. Engelbert Dunphy Resident Research Symposium

      UCSF General Surgery Residency Program - Alexi Callen - November 13, 2020
      The UCSF Department of Surgery held the 33rd Annual J. Engelbert Dunphy Resident Research Symposium virtually on Wednesday, October 28, 2020. The program showcased the laboratory research of residents, fellows, and medical students in the Department of Surgery, and honors the life and accomplishments of J. Engelbert Dunphy, M.D., a legendary surgeon and a former chair of the UCSF Department of Surgery. This year's J. Engelbert Dunphy Visiting Professor, Melina R. Kibbe, M.D., FACS, FAHA, [...]

    • Nichole Starr, M.D., MPH, and Research Team Demonstrate Significant Reduction of Surgical Site Infections in Ethiopia

      UCSF General Surgery Residency Program - Alexi Callen - October 16, 2020
      A recent study published in the British Journal of Surgery by Nichole Starr, M.D., MPH and a team of researchers at Lifebox, showed a dramatic reduction in the risk of surgical site infections (SSIs) after implementing Clean Cut, a quality improvement program that helps surgical teams address the causes of SSIs. The study, Outcomes Following Implementation of Clean Cut, an Adaptive, Multimodal Surgical Infection Prevention Program for Low Resource Settings: A Prospective Quality Improvement [...]

    • Research Resident Nichole Starr, M.D., MPH Awarded NIH Fogarty Global Health Scholars Fellowship

      UCSF General Surgery Residency Program - Alexi Callen - August 18, 2020
      Nichole Starr, M.D., MPH, a general surgery research resident, was awarded an NIH Fogarty Global Health Scholars Fellowship for the 2020-21 year. Dr. Starr will spend her fellowship year at Addis Ababa University in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia under the mentorship of Milliard Derbew, M.D., Tom Weiser, M.D., MPH, Andi Tenner, M.D., MPH, and Doruk Ozgediz, M.D., MSc. Her research will focus on building and implementing trauma quality improvement programs in Ethiopian public hospitals. Dr. Starr's team [...]

     

     
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