Kathryn Chu
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Academic Degrees
Research and Professional Experience
Burden of Surgical Disease in the Developing World; Parasites and Inflammatory Bowel Disease;Delivery of Surgical Care in Resource Poor Settings; Kaposi's Sarcoma in Resource Poor Settings, ARV Delivery in Africa
Keywords
Global Health, Africa, Surgery
Honors and Awards
Recipient, Faculty Grant in Global Health Research, 2008
Selected Publications
Chu K (2009) General surgeons: a dying breed? Arch Surg 144: 498-499.
Chu K, Rosseel P, Gielis P, Ford N (2009) Surgical task shifting in Sub-Saharan Africa. PLoS Med 6: e1000078.
Chu KM (2009) Surgery rural Zambia: the rewards and challenges of treating patients in a resource-poor setting. Bull Am Coll Surg 94: 22-28.
Decroo T, Panunzi I, das Dores C, Maldonado F, Biot M,Ford, N, Chu, KM. (2009) Lessons learned during down referral of antiretroviral treatment in Tete, Mozambique. J Int AIDS Soc 12: 6.
Chu, KM. Surgery in rural Zambia: The Rewards and Challenges of Treating Patients in a Resource-Poor Setting. Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons 2009. 96 (1): 22-28.
Mukherjee D, Lidor AO, Chu KM, Gearhart SL, Haut ER, Chang DC. Post-Operative Venous Thromboembolism Rates Vary Significantly After Different Types of Major Abdominal Operations. Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery 2008, 12:2015–2022.
Chu KM and Schoetz DJ. Practice Patterns of Colon and Rectal Surgeons: Implications for Future Training of Colon and Rectal Surgeons and General Surgeons. Dis Col Rectum 2007 80 (5): 1250-1254.
Chu, KM, et al. Association between HSV-2 and HIV-1 viral load in semen, cervico-vaginal secretions, and genital ulcers of Thai men and women. International Journal of STD and AIDS 2006; 17:681-686.
Chu KM, McKerrow JH, Binmoeller KF, et al. Attack of the sushi worm: abdominal pain caused by intestinal anisakiasis. Surgical Rounds. 2005;28(4):180-183.
Chu, KM et al. Identification of Leptospira species in the pathogenesis of uveitis and determination of clinical ocular disease in south India. Journal of Infectious Diseases 1998: 177(5); 1314-1321.
