Kevin Schuster, MD, MPH, FACS, FCCM, BS
Professor of Surgery (General, Trauma & Surgical Critical Care)Cards
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Titles
Professor of Surgery (General, Trauma & Surgical Critical Care)
Section Chief, General Surgery, Trauma & Surgical Critical Care
Biography
Dr. Schuster has certification from the American Board of Surgery in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care. His clinical interests include general surgery, trauma, surgical critical care, emergency and elective general surgery, sepsis, resuscitation, and shock. His research interests include continuous glucose monitoring, long-term outcomes in trauma and emergency surgery, closure of abdominal wall defects, ultrasound in trauma and critical care, and optimizing care in emergency surgery. He has published regularly in all of these areas.
Dr. Schuster earned his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from Drexel University and his medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine. His residency training in general surgery was at UMDNJ/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden, Cooper University Hospital, Camden, New Jersey, and was fellowship trained in surgical critical care and trauma surgery at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida.
Dr. Schuster was the recipient of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) Leadership Workshop Scholarship. He is a member of numerous professional organizations and has held leadership positions in many of these, which include Society of Critical Care Medicine, The Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, Committee on Trauma, Connecticut chapter, Connecticut State Trauma Committee, Connecticut Surgical Quality Collaborative, Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Western Trauma Association, New England Surgical Society, and the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
Appointments
General Surgery, Trauma & Surgical Critical Care
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Other Departments & Organizations
Education & Training
- MPH
- Yale School of Public Health (2015)
- Fellow
- University of Miami - Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL (2006)
- Fellow
- University of Miami -Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL (2005)
- Chief Resident
- University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jerseyl/Cooper University Hospital, Camden, NJ (2004)
- Resident
- UMDNJ, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Cooper University Hospital, Camden, NJ (2003)
- MD
- Temple University School of Medicine (1998)
- BS
- Drexel University, Electrical Engineering (1994)
Research
Academic Achievements & Community Involvement
Clinical Care
Overview
Kevin Schuster, MD, MPH, is an acute care surgeon who specializes in general surgery, trauma, and surgical critical care. As a general surgeon, he treats a range of conditions and has a special interest in benign colon and rectal surgery, in addition to surgical care for gall bladder and hernia issues. He also is a member of a team of surgeons and specialists who provide care 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to patients at Yale New Haven Hospital’s Level 1 Trauma Center.
“General surgery is rewarding for a surgeon, because the disease is not often life-threatening, but the surgery improves lives,” says Dr. Schuster. The routine elective general surgery procedures he performs are almost always minimally invasive, involving short hospital stays and quick recoveries for patients. “You see the patients in the office preoperatively, do the surgery, and then you see them later and see the positive impact you have had,” he says.
As a trauma and emergency surgeon, he uses similar surgical skills to treat injuries to the chest and abdomen in addition to severe abdominal conditions often requiring surgery. “One of the challenges in the emergency room is that you might have to discuss life and death issues with people you met just 10 minutes ago,” he says. “I don't say everything will be okay when it's not, and I won't set the stage for a terrible outcome when a good one is likely. I try to be honest with patients.”
All interactions with patients are rewarding, Dr. Schuster says. “Even though you see them when they are sick—sometimes at their most critical times—they remember. There are patients who still send me Christmas cards,” he says.
In addition to providing surgical care, Dr. Schuster takes a lead role in addressing quality issues in the Yale Medicine Department of Surgery. His research interests include long-term outcomes in trauma patients and the optimization of emergency general surgery care.
Clinical Specialties
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Board Certifications
Surgical Critical Care Medicine
- Certification Organization
- AB of Surgery
- Latest Certification Date
- 2015
- Original Certification Date
- 2005
Surgery General
- Certification Organization
- AB of Surgery
- Latest Certification Date
- 2013
- Original Certification Date
- 2005