Paul J. Schenarts, M.D., FACS

 PJ Schenarts

Professor, Department of Surgery
University of Nebraska Medical Center
983280 Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE 68198-3280, USA
Phone: 402-559-5248
Fax: 402-559-6749

Graduate:

  University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT

Residency:

  Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME

Fellowship:

Surgical Critical Care Surgery, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN

Board Certification:

  American Board of Surgery General Surgery
 American Board of Surgery Surgical Critical Care

Academic Appointment:

 Vice-Chair of Education
 Chief of Trauma/Surgical Critical Care

Sub-Specialty

  Trauma/Critical Care Surgery  


Publications:

  •  Schlitzkus LL, Clark CJ, Agle SC, Schenarts PJ. A six year head-to-head comparison of osteopathic and allopathic applicants to a university-based, allopathic general surgery residency. J Surg Educ. 3/2012: 642-6 Abstract
  • Schenarts PJ. Goettler CE, White MA, Waibel, BH. An objective study of the impact of the electronic medical record on outcomes in trauma patients. Am Surg. 6/2012:642-6
  • Rose JS, Waibel BH, Schenarts PJ. Resident Perceptions of the Impact of Paging on Intra-operative Education. Am Surg 1/2012: 459-64
  • Schenarts PJ, Schenarts KD. Educational impact of the Electronic Medical Record. J Surg Edu. 2012: 105-112 Abstract
  • Schenarts PJ, Meara MP, Waibel BH. A resident’s guide to persuading those who judge you at the surgical M&M. Surg Res 2011
  • Rose JS, Waibel BH, Schenarts PJ. Disparity Between Resident and Attending Surgeons’ Perceptions of Pre-operative Preparation, Intra-operative Teaching, and Post-operative Feedback . J Surg Edu 2011: 459-64 Abstract
  • Schenarts PJ, Termuhen PM, Pasley J, Rose JS, Friedell ML. A Primer on How to Select Osteopathic Applicants to an Allopathic General Surgery Residency. J Surg Educ 5/2011: 239-45 Abstract
  • Meara MP, Schlitzkus LL, Witherington M, Haisch C, Rotondo MF, Schenarts PJ. Surgical Resident Education: What is the Department’s Price for Commitment? J Surg Educ. 11/2010 Abstract
  • Newell MA, Schlitzkus LL, Waibel BH, White MA, Schenarts PJ, Rotondo MF. Damage Control in the Elderly: Futile Endeavor or Fruitful Enterprise? Journal of Trauma 11/2010 1049-1053 Abstract
  • Goettler CE, Waibel B, Goowin J, Watkins F, Toschlog EA, Sagraves S, Schenarts PJ, Bard MR, Newell MA, Rotondo MF. Trauma ICU Suvivial: How Good is an Educated Guess. J Trauma. 6/2010:1049-1053 Abstract
  • Schenarts PJ, Cohen KC. The Leadership Vacuum in Resuscitative Medicine. Crit Care Med. 4/2010: 1216-7 Abstract
  • Schlitzkus LL, Schenarts KD, Schenarts PJ Is your residency ready for generation Y? J Surg Educ. 3/2010: 108-11 Abstract
  • Clayton CS, Schenarts PJ, Sagraves SG. Treatment of traumatic hemisection of the female pelvis with one year follow up. Am Surg. 8/2010: 116-7, 2010 Abstract
  • Rotondo MF, Bard MR, Sagraves SG, Toschlog EA, Schenarts PJ, Goettler CE, Newell MA, Robertson MJ. What Price Committment – What Benefit? The Cost of a Saved Life in a Developing Level I Trauma Center. J Trauma 11/2009: 915-023. Abstract
  • Schenarts PJ, Schlitzkus LL, Goettler CE. Is resident education a casualty or beneficiary of rapid response systems? Crit Care Med. 12/2009: 3180-1 Abstract
  • Newell MA, Rotondo MF, Toschlog EA, Waibel BH, Sagraves SG, Schenarts PJ, Bard MR, Goettler CE. The elderly trauma patient: an investiment in the future? J Trauma. 8/2009: 337-340 Abstract
  • Schenarts PJ, Proceedings of the 2009 Annual Meetings of the Association for Surgical Education, Teaching & Learning in Medicine. 22(1): 68-73, 2010
  • Schlitzkus LL, McNally MM, Agle SC, Schenarts KD, Schenarts PJ. What do surgical nurses know about surgical residents. J Surg Educ 11/2009: 383-391 Abstract
  • Schenarts PJ, Meara MP. The Next Generation of Surgeons Is More Similar To Previous Generations Than Commonly Thought. Am J Surg. 7/2009: 150-151 Abstract
  • Briggs, S, Goettler CE, Schenarts PJ, Newell MA, Sagraves SG, Bard MR, Toschlog EA, Rotondo MF. High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation as a Rescue Therapy for Adult Trauma Patients. Am J Crit Care 3/2009: 144-148 Abstract
  • Waibel BH, Schenarts PJ, Sagraves SG. High Pressure Water Jet Injury to Neck and Arm. Am Surg 1/2009: 90-91 Abstract
  • Schenarts PJ, Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Meetings of the Association for Surgical Education, Teaching & Learning in Medicine 20(4):352-356, 2008
  • Schenarts PJ, Tyson GH. Combining audiovisual feedback and debreifing: Learning or just imitating? Crit Care Med10/2008: 2948-2949 Abstract
  • Schenarts PJ. Advice for New Residents & Faculty: Keys to an Unsuccessful Career and the Importance of Failure. Focus on Surgical Education, Summer 2008.
  • Schenarts PJ, Love KM, Agle SC, Haisch CE. Comparison of Surgery Applicants from US Medical Schools with US-Born and Foreign-Born International Medical School Graduates. J Surg Educ. 11/2008: 406-412 Abstract
  • Schenarts PJ, Phade SV, Geottler GE,Waibel WH, Agle SC, Bard MR, Rotondo MF. Impact of Acute Care General Surgery Coverage by Trauma Surgeons on the Trauma Patient. Am Surg.6/2008:494-501 Abstract
  • Schenarts PJ Proceedings of the 2007 Annual Meetings of the Association for Surgical Education, Teaching & Learning in Medicine, Janurary 2008
  • Schenarts PJ, Phade SV, Bard MR, Goettler CE, Toschlog EA, Sagraves SG, Newell MA, Rotondo MF. Field Hypotension: A Marker of Severe Injury or Crying Wolf? N C Med J. 7/2008: 265-269 Abstract
  • Schlizkus LL, Schenarts PJ, Rotondo MF. "Personal Achievement and Team Success: Where is the Balance Point? FOCUS on Surgical Education Fall / Winter, 19-22, 2007
  • Schenarts PJ. Incorporating Leadership Training, a Horizontal Approach to Resuscitation and Performance Feedback into Advanced Life Support. Crit Care Med. 7/2007:1781-2 Abstract
  • Toschlog EA, Newton C, Allen N, Newell MA, Goettler CE, Schenarts PJ, Bard MR, Sagraves SG, Rotondo MF. Morbidity Reduction in Critically Ill Trauma Patients Through use of a Computerized Insulin Infusion Protocol: A Preliminary Study. J Trauma. 6/2007: Abstract
  • Newell MA, Bard MR, Goettler CE, Toschlog EA, Schenarts PJ, Sagraves SG, Holbert D, Pories WJ, Rotondo MF. Body mass index and outcomes in critically injured blunt trauma patients: weighing the impact. J Am Coll Surg. 5/2007:1056-61 Abstract
  • Schenarts PJ. Debriefing is an effective method for providing feedback and ensuring adherence to best clinical practice by residents in the intensive care unit. Crit Care Med. 3/2007:957-8 Abstract
  • Sagraves SG, Phade S, Spain T, Bard MR, Goettler CE, Schenarts PJ, Toschlog EA, Newell MA, Cairns B, Peck M, Rotondo MF: A Collaborative Systems Approach to Rural Burn Care. J Burn Care Res.2/2007: 111-4 Abstract
  • Toschlog EA, Sagraves SG, Bard MR, Schenarts PJ, Goettler CE, Newell MA, Rotondo MF. Rural trauma recidivism: a different disease. Arch Surg. 1/2007: 77-81 Abstract
  • Bard, MR, Goettler CE, Toschlog EA, Sagraves, SG, Schenarts PJ, Newel MA, Fugate M, Rotondo MF. Alcohol withdrawal syndrome: turning minor injuries into major problem. J Trauma. 12/2006: 1441-1446 Abstract
  • Schenarts PJ. Resident dismissal – the basics. Focus on Surgical Education, Winter 2006
  • Goettler CE, Fugo JR, Bard MR, Newell MA, Sagraves SG, Toschlog EA, Schenarts PJ, Rotondo MF. Predicting the need for early tracheostomy. J Trauma. 5/2006: 991-6 Abstract
  • Schenarts PJ, Sagraves SG, Bard MR, Toschlog EA, Goettler CE, Newell MA, Rotondo MF. Low-Dose Dopamine: a Physiologically based review. Curr Surg. 5/2006 :219-25 Abstract
  • Schenarts PJ, Anderson Schenarts KD, Rotondo MF. Myths and Realities of the 80-hour Work Week. Curr Surg. 7/2006: 269-74 Abstract
  • Schenarts PJ, Goettler CE. Anterior Urethral Disruption in a Female Patient with a Traumatic Pelvic Fracture. Surgery Journal, 1(1): 14-16, 2006.
  • Rotondo MF, Schenarts PJ. Invited Critique of article “Corticosteroid Use in the Intensive Care Unit” by Britt RC, Devine A, Swallen KC et al. Archives of Surgery 141, 149 (critique; article 145-149), February 2006.
  • Beaver TM, Schenarts PJ. Battlefield Surgery 2005. Int J Surg. 6/2005: 171-5 Abstract
  • Schenarts PJ, Bowen J, Bard MR, Sagraves SG, Toschlog EA, Goettler CE, Cromwell S, Rotondo MF. The Effect of a Rotating Night-Float Coverage Scheme on Preventable and Potentially Preventable Morbidity at a Level I Trauma Center. The American Journal of Surgery 190 (1), 147-152, July 2005.
  • Bard MR, Goettler CE, Schenarts PJ, Collins BA, Toschlog EA, Sagraves SG, Rotondo MF. Language Barrier Leads to the Unneccesary Intubation of Trauma Patients. American Surgeon 70(9), 783-6, September 2004.
  • Schenarts PJ. Three year old boy with burn wound sepsis: A challenge to the ethics of a responsible surgeon. Current Surgery 61(3):245-6, May-Jun 2004.
  • Toschlog EA, MacElligot J, Sagraves SG, Schenarts PJ, Bard MR, Goettler CE, Rotondo MF, Swanson MS. The relationship of injury severity score (ISS) and Glasgow coma score (GCS) to rehabilitative potential in patients suffering traumatic brain injury. American Surgeon 69(6):491-7, 2003.
  • Toschlog EA, Rotondo MF, Blount KP, Sagraves SG, Bard MR, Schenarts PJ, Swanson M, Goettler CE. Clinical predictors of subtherapeutic aminoglycoside levels in trauma patients undergoing once-daily dosing. Journal of Trauma 55(2):255-60, August 2003.
  • Sagraves SG, Conquest AM, Albrecht RJ, Toschlog EA, Schenarts PJ, Bard MR, Powell CS, Rotondo MF. Popliteal artery trauma in a rural level 1 trauma center. American Surgeon 69(6):485-9, June 2003.
  • Toschlog EA, Rotondo MF, Spain T, Walker J, Crowder G, Barrett A, Joyner M, Sagraves SG, Schenarts PJ, Bard MR, Swanson M, Goettler CE. Characterization Of Trauma Patients Lost To Follow-Up. Journal of Trauma 53(6):1214, 2002.
  • Bone HG, Sakurai H, Schenarts PJ, Traber LD, Traber DL. Effects of manganese superoxide dismutase, when given after inhalation injury had been established. Crit Care Med 30(4):856-60, April 2002.