Kevin Kemp, M.D., is a new faculty member at UNMC.
- Name: Kevin Kemp, M.D.
- Hometown: Fremont, Calif.
- New title and department at UNMC/Nebraska Medicine: Assistant professor, UNMC Department of Surgery, Division of General Surgery, Section
of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency General Surgery
Research/professional interests:
- Medical education;
- Extracorporeal life support
- Trauma outreach and system development; and
- Novel methods of hemorrhage control.
How I fell in love with surgery:
I had always known I wanted to be a physician, but it wasn’t until I was a third-year medical student that I decided to become a surgeon. I was helping to care for a lady with a small bowel obstruction caused by a retained foreign body from a previous surgery. The patient was clearly in agony and had been shuffled between multiple doctors, not having her problem taken seriously. What was striking to me was the impact her surgeon made by listening to her and then appropriately intervening. Her suffering had been relieved with an operation, and she was on the road to healing. I knew then that surgery was the field of medicine I wished to dedicate myself to.
Degrees:
- B.S., chemistry, University of California, Riverside
- M.D., American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, St. Maarten
- Internship, surgery, Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education, Rochester, Minn.
- Residency, general surgery, Kern Medical Center-UCLA, Bakersfield, Calif.
- Fellowship, surgical critical care, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Memberships:
- American College of Surgeons
- Society of Critical Care Medicine
- Extracorporeal Life Support Organization
- Mayo Clinic Alumni Association
Three things people may not know about me:
- My wife and I have two small children, so that keeps us busy
- I like doing home improvement projects and taking care of the yard when I have time
- In college, my friends and I hiked the entire John Muir Trail which goes from Yosemite Valley to Mt. Whitney (highest mountain in the lower 48 states).