Publications

Allar BG, Ortega G, Chun MBJ, Rodriguez JGZ, Mullen JT, Lynch KA Jr, Harrington DT, Green AR, Lipsett PA, Britt LD, Haider AH, Smink DS, Kent TS; PACTS Trial Group. Changing Surgical Culture Through Surgical Education: Introduction to the PACTS Trial. J Surg Educ. 2024 Mar;81(3):330-334 

Ortega G, Dacier BM, Zárate Rodriguez J, Chun MBJ, Udyavar NR, Allar BG, Green AR, Haider AH, Smink DS; PACTS Trial Group. Teaching cultural dexterity in surgical care: As essential to a surgeon’s skill set as tying a knot. Am J Surg. 2024 Mar 11:S0002-9610(24)00161-2. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2024.03.001. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38531750.

Caldwell KE, Zarate Rodriguez JG, Wise PE, Reidy E, Ortega G, Mullen JT, Smink DS; PACTS Trial Group. Improving Culturally Dexterous Care for Surgical Patients: The PACTS Trial. ACS. https://www.facs.org/for-medical-professionals/news-publications/journals/rise/articles/improving-culturally-dexterous-care-for-surgical-patients/ 

Zarate Rodriguez, J, Ortega G, and Smink DSS. The Provider Awareness and Cultural Dexterity Toolkit for Surgeons (PACTS) [Internet]. The Surgical Council on Resident Education Inc (SCORE); February 8, 2023. Available from: https://www.surgicalcore.org/modulecontent.aspx?id=1000922   

Atkinson RB, Ortega G, Green AR, Chun M, Harrington DT, Lipsett PA, Mullen JT, Petrusa E, Reidy E., Haider AH, Smink DS, PACTS Trial Group. Concordance of Resident and Patient Perceptions of Culturally Dexterous Patient Care Skills. Journal of Surgical Education. 2020;77(6): e138–e145. 

Lee GJ, Ortega G, Reidy E, Atkinson RB, Pichardo MS, Reich AJ, Ladin K, Chun M, Demko C, Barreiro-Rosado JA, Udyavar NR, Kent TS, Green AR, Haider AH, Smink DS. A Qualitative Analysis of Surgical Faculty and Surgical Resident Perceptions of Potential Barriers to Implementing a Novel Surgical Education Curriculum. Journal of Surgical Education 2021;78(3):896–904. 

Atkinson RB, Khubchandani JA, Chun M, Reidy E, Ortega G, Bain PA, Demko C, Barreiro-Rosado J, Kent TS, Smink DS. Cultural Competency Curricula in US Graduate Medical Education: A Scoping Review. Journal of Graduate Medical Education 2022;14(1):37–52. 

Khubchandani JA, Atkinson RB, Ortega G, Reidy E, Mullen JT, Smink DS, PACTS Trial Group. Perceived Discrimination Among Surgical Residents at Academic Medical Centers. The Journal of Surgical Research. 2022;272:79–87.