Kent Choi, MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Director, Division of Acute Care Surgery
Department of Surgery
kent-choi@uiowa.edu
Office Telephone: 319-384-6326
Request Appointment or Make Referral
You can request an appointment with or make a referral to this surgeon
online or call:
- Surgery Specialty Clinic: 319-356-2902
Emergency Room and Inpatient Transfer requests should use the UI Transfer Center or call:
- UI Transfer Center: 866-890-5969
Medical School:
- Medical College of Georgia, School of Medicine, Augusta, Georgia
Residency:
- University of West Virginia, General Surgery
Fellowship:
- Critical Care; Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
Certification:
- Iowa state medical license (active)
- American College of Surgeon Board certification in general surgery
- American College of Surgeon Board certification in surgical critical care
- Certified ATLS course instructor
- Certified ATOM course instructor
- Certified FCCS course instructor
- Certified ACLS provider
- Certified PALS provider
Societies, Organizations and Honors:
- American Medical Association
- Association for Academic Surgery
- American College of Surgeons (fellow)
- Iowa Medical Society
- Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons
- Society of Critical Care Medicine
- Outstanding Resident Teaching Award
Research Interests :
- Epidemiology study in traumatic injury prevention
- Trauma system set up and care outcome.
- Morbid obesity and trauma outcome
- Surgical infection control
- Immunology and inflammatory response in obesity
Publications :
Peer-Reviewed Papers :
- Choi K, Peek-Asa C, Lovell M, Zwerling C, Torner JC, Kealey GP; Complications following therapeutic trauma laparotomy Journal of the American College of Surgeons, Vol 201(4), pp.546-553, Oct. 2005
Books and Chapters :
- Choi K: Chapter 20. Gastrostomy versus Jejunostomy in adult with altered mental status - Case and Conclusions - in: CEH Scott-Conner (Ed), The SAGES Manual: Case Studies in Minimal Access Surgery, in press, Springer Verlag.
- Choi K: Chapter 40. Bilateral Inguinal Hernias - Case and Conclusions - in: CEH Scott-Conner (Ed), The SAGES Manual: Case Studies in Minimal Access Surgery, in press, Springer Verlag.
- Choi K, Spence RK, Shander A, Scott-Conner CEH. Chapter 19. Hemostasis, thrombosis, anticoagulation, hematopoiesis, and blood transfusion. In: O’Leary JP, Tabuenca A, The Physiologic Basis of Surgery. 4th edition. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2008, pages 533-575.