Katherine J. Deans, MD

Dr. Deans graduated from Dartmouth Medical School and completed a surgery residency and research fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and the National Institutes of Health. She is board certified by the American Board of Surgery in Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, and Pediatric Surgery. She is a member of the American College of Surgeons, Society of Critical Care Medicine, and the American Pediatric Surgical Association.

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Gender:

• Female

Languages Spoken:

• English

Research Center:

• Center for Innovation in Pediatric Practice

Research Funding*:

• Outcomes and health-care utilization for children born with esophageal atresia. A multi-institution retrospective review utilizing the PHIS database. Human Research Protocol IRB 11-008039.
• Reliability of sonography findings for diagnosis of acute cholecystitis in the pediatric population. Human Research Protocol IRB: 11-008038
• Outcomes and health-care utilization in neonatal Hirschsprung's Disease: A multi-institution retrospective review utilizing the PHIS database. Human Research Protocol IRB 11-008142.
• The use of sentinel lymph node biopsy in childhood melanoma and sarcoma. Human Research Protocol IRB 11-008218.

Medical School

• Dartmouth College
  Date Completed: 06/30/1998

Internship

• Massachuttes General Hospital
  Date Completed: 06/30/2001

Fellowship

• National Institute of Health
  Date Completed: 06/30/2005

Residency

• Massachuttes General Hospital
  Date Completed: 06/30/2007

Fellowship

• Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
  Date Completed: 06/30/2009

Department:

• Pediatric Surgery

Section:

• General Pediatric Surgery

Speciality:

• Pediatric Surgery
  
• Surgery
  
• Surgical Critical Care
  

Date of Appointment at Nationwide Children’s Hospital:

• 10/31/2011

• Santore MT, Deans KJ, Behar BJ, Blinman TA, Adzick NS, Flake AW. Laparoscopic hepaticoduodenostomy versus open hepaticoduodenostomy for reconstruction after resection of choledochal cyst. J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A. 2011 May;21(4):375-8. Epub 2011 Mar 28. PubMed ID: 21443442
• Deans KJ, Minneci PC, Danner RL, Eichacker PQ, Natanson C. Practice misalignments in randomized controlled trials: Identification, impact, and potential solutions. Anesth Analg. 2010 Aug;111(2):444-50. PubMed ID: 19820238
• Deans KJ, Minneci P, Eichacker PQ, Danner RL, Natanson C.Walk a mile in whose shoes? Anesth Analg. 2010 Aug;111(2):576-7; author reply 577. PubMed ID: 20664096
• Deans KJ, Minneci PC, Klein HG, Natanson C. The relevance of practice misalignments to trials in transfusion medicine. Vox Sang. 2010 Jul 1;99(1):16-23. Epub 2010 Mar 21. PubMed ID: 20345517
• Deans KJ, Minneci PC. ACP Journal Club. Intensive insulin therapy did not reduce mortality more than conventional therapy in septic shock treated with corticosteroids. Ann Intern Med. 2010 May 18;152(10):JC5-5. PubMed ID: 20479022