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Lumbard, Derek#256

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Derek Lumbard, MD, is a surgeon-scientist specializing in trauma, critical care, and acute care surgery.

Dr. Lumbard is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at UT Health San Antonio and recently became a White Paper Scholar with Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute (HHRI). He completed medical school at the Medical College of Wisconsin. After finishing his general surgery residency at Hennepin County Medical Center, he completed a Surgical Critical Care fellowship at UT Health San Antonio.

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Rachel Nygaard, PhD, joined the Department of Surgery as Research Director and Associate Program Director of the General Surgery Residency at Hennepin County Medical Center in 2012.

She completed her Ph.D. in Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Her focus was the pathogenesis of viral respiratory infections. Prior to her graduate education, she was a high school science teacher; this symbiosis merges her love for research and education in her departmental role. She built the research program in the department to focus on health disparities and traumatic injury.

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Dr. Lumbard’s research interests focus on understanding the underlying risk factors that contribute to gun violence and developing evidence-based interventions that prevent firearm injuries and deaths. This is a complex issue that deserves to be treated as a public health problem with intermixing individual, environmental, and societal factors.
To help with this systemic issue, hospital-based violence intervention programs (HVIP) like Next Step are utilized. Patients presenting with violent injuries are a vulnerable population remaining at high risk of reinjury and rehospitalization due to violence. The main goal of the Next Step HVIP program at Hennepin Healthcare is to break the cycle of intergenerational violence.
Gun violence has become an alarming public health crisis in the United States, causing significant morbidity and mortality. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 39,000 people in 2019 alone, died due to firearm-related injuries, and over 100,000 suffered nonfatal firearm injuries. Gun violence has a far-reaching impact on individuals, families, communities, and the nation’s economy.In addition to his work with mitigating firearm injuries, he is a member of both the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) and the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST). He is on the Violence and Injury Prevention committee through EAST. He also serves as the Vice Chair for Violence and Injury Prevention through the Minnesota chapter of the Committee on Trauma (COT) through the American College of Surgeons.

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/derek.lumbard.1/bibliography/public/

Presentations

  • Lumbard DC, Nygaard RM, Richardson CJ, Liao LF, Stewart RM, Eastridge BJ, Nicholson SN. Burden of unintentional pediatric firearm injury: an examination of the Nationwide Readmission Database. PTS Nov 2022.
  • Lumbard DC, Richardson CJ, Endorf FW, Nygaard RM. Firearm injury is only the beginning: the impact of socioeconomic factors on unplanned readmission after injury. AAST Sept 2022
  • Lumbard D, Nygaard RM, Richardson CJ, Liao L, Stewart R, Eastridge B, Nicholson S. Beyond surviving initial firearm injury: unplanned readmission after pediatric unintentional firearm injury. Bradley J Aust Society 2022.
  • Lumbard D, Brigmon E, Chakales S, Brigmon M, Nicholson S. A Fungus Among Us. Bradley J Aust Society 2022.
  • Lumbard D.C, Nygaard RM, Richardson CJ, Nicholson SE. Burden of unintentional pediatric firearm injury: an examination of the national readmission database. South Texas ACS 2022.
  • Lumbard, D.C, Richardson C.J, Endorf F.W, Nygaard, R.M. Readmissions following assault-related firearm injury: An examination of the national readmission database. Region 5 COT Trauma Paper Competition 2021.
  • Lumbard D.C, West M, Cich I, Shankar S, Hassan S, Nygaard RM.  Pooled analysis of level 1 trauma centers better predicts risk factors for gun violence. Military City USA Trauma Collaborative Research Conference 2021.

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Dr. Rachel Nygaard, Director of Surgery Research

Violent injury is a leading cause of death among young Americans and survivors of violent injury are at increased risk of reinjury and rehospitalization due to violence. Breaking this cycle of violence is the main goal of hospital-based violence intervention programs (HVIPs). Dr. Nygaard joined the Department of Surgery as Research Director and Associate Program Director of the General Surgery Residency at Hennepin County Medical Center in 2012.

Our American College of Surgeons verified Level I trauma program was the first established in Minnesota and continues to be the premier center for the treatment and management of traumatic injury in the region. She built the research program in the department to focus on health disparities and traumatic injury.

She has been the site Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on numerous sponsored industries, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST), and Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) multicenter trials. She has co-authored more than 80 publications in the areas of trauma, burn, and general surgery – with first and last author publications focused on gun violence. She has a track record working across hospital systems to study outcomes following firearm injury that has resulted in presentations at national and international meetings.

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Lumbard, Derek#256

Key Researcher

Clinical Profile

Derek Lumbard, MD, is a surgeon-scientist specializing in trauma, critical care, and acute care surgery.

Dr. Lumbard is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at UT Health San Antonio and recently became a White Paper Scholar with Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute (HHRI). He completed medical school at the Medical College of Wisconsin. After finishing his general surgery residency at Hennepin County Medical Center, he completed a Surgical Critical Care fellowship at UT Health San Antonio.

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