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Kevin Schuster, MD, MPH, FACS, FCCM, BS

Professor of Surgery (General, Trauma & Surgical Critical Care)
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Additional Titles

Section Chief, General Surgery, Trauma & Surgical Critical Care

Contact Info

General Surgery, Trauma & Surgical Critical Care

330 Cedar St BB 310, PO Box 208062

New Haven, CT 06520-8062

United States

About

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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

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

Overview

My current research involves outcomes of the critically ill as well as the less ill emergency surgical patients. This is through both retrospective and prospective local studies as well as conducting national prospective studies. I conduct national prospective observational studies through collaborations with multiple institutions.

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Abdominal Wall; Critical Care; Delivery of Health Care; General Surgery; Glucose

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Kevin Schuster's published research.

Publications

2024

2023

Clinical Trials

Current Trials

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

  • honor

    Edward H. Storer Award for Excellence in Surgical Teaching

  • honor

    Leadership development award

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 Hospitalā€™s Level 1 Trauma Center.

ā€œGeneral surgery is rewarding for a surgeon, because the disease is not often life-threatening, but the surgery improves lives,ā€ 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. ā€œYou see the patients in the office preoperatively, do the surgery, and then you see them later and see the positive impact you have had,ā€ 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. ā€œOne 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,ā€ he says. ā€œI 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.ā€

All interactions with patients are rewarding, Dr. Schuster says. ā€œEven though you see them when they are sickā€”sometimes at their most critical timesā€”they remember. There are patients who still send me Christmas cards,ā€ 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

General Surgery, Trauma & Surgical Critical Care; Colorectal Surgery

Fact Sheets

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

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General Surgery, Trauma & Surgical Critical Care

330 Cedar St BB 310, PO Box 208062

New Haven, CT 06520-8062

United States

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