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Dr. Christopher Dente
TRAUMA/SURGICAL CRITICAL CARE: Clinical/Research | Training/Fellowship
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Christopher J. Dente, MD
 
Faculty Appointments
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Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Trauma/Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine

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Associate Director of Surgical Critical Care Residency, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine


Clinical Appointment
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Associate Director of Trauma, Grady Memorial Hospital


Telephone
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404.616.3550


Affiliation
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Grady Memorial Hospital


Board Certification
green arrow General Surgery
green arrow Surgical Critical Care
green arrow Course Director, Advanced Trauma Life Support
green arrow Surgical Ultrasound Instructor

Medical Degree
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Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Class of 1995


Postgraduate Training
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General Surgery Residency, Wayne State University/Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, MI, 1995-2002

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Fellowship in Trauma/Surgical Critical Care, Emory University, 2002-2004


Honors and Awards
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"Young Surgeon" Representative of the Georgia Chapter of American College of Surgeons, ACS Surgical Leadership Conference, June 2007, Washington, DC


Current Organizational Memberships
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Fellow; Program Committee, Georgia Chapter; Georgia Chapter, Committee on Trauma: American College of Surgeons

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Society of Critical Care Medicine

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Membership Committee, Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma

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Acute Care Surgery, Subcommitte on Test Questions, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma

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Southeastern Surgical Congress

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Atlanta Surgical Association

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Detroit Surgical Association


Clinical Interests
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Ultrasound in trauma

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Abdominal trauma

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Intra-abdominal colonic trauma

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Mechanical ventilation

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Open pelvic fractures


Research Interests
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Retrospective and prospective studies on surgeon performed ultrasound in the trauma setting

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Injuries to the intraperitoneal colon

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Modes of ventilatory support

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Outcomes of pelvic fractures


Year Joined Emory as a Faculty Member
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2004

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