Center for Surgery and Public Health

Research and Publications

A Conduit for a Culturally Competent Consent: Medical Interpreters’ Perspectives on Surgical Informed Consent Discussions. Annals of Surgery. 2024.

Applying Cultural Dexterity to Patients in Radiology. Journal of the American College of Radiology. 2024.

A Step Toward Language Equity Using Clinical Trials. JAMA Surgery. 2023.

Breast Cancer Screening Disparity in a Safety Net Health System: The Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, Language, and Mental Health. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2022.

Colorectal cancer screening in a safety-net health system: The intersectional impact of race, ethnicity, language, and mental health. Preventative Medicine. 2023.

Lost in translation: A qualitative analysis of facilitators and barriers to collecting patient reported outcome measures for surgical patients with limited English proficiency. American Journal of Surgery. 2022

Non-English Primary Language is Associated with Emergency Surgery for Diverticulitis. Journal of Surgical Research 2021.

Post-discharge Outcomes and Healthcare Utilization Among Hispanic/Latinx Injury Survivors: English Language Proficiency Matters. Annals of Surgery. 2024.

Prioritizing Health Equity in Patient-reported Outcome Measurement to Improve Surgical Care. Annals of Surgery. 2022

Speaking the Same Language: Improving Language-concordant Care in Surgery. Annals of Surgery. 2022

Trauma patients with limited English proficiency: Outcomes from two level one trauma centers. American Journal of Surgery. 2022

The role of patient primary language in access to brain tumor resection: Evaluating emergent admission and hospital volume. J Cancer Policy. 2021

The Latino Surgical Society and the Hispanic/Latino academic surgical workforce. American Journal of Surgery. 2022

Understanding and Assisting the Recovery of Non-English-Speaking Trauma Survivors: Assessment of the NESTS Pathway. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2024.