GalenVPooleMD

Trauma Surgery & Surgical Critical Care

Physician

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After 34 years of practicing surgery in military, academic, and private practice settings, I retired to help take care of my wife who has had recurrent adenocarcinoma of the lung (in remission since December 2019) and to be a father to my grandson, whose father (my son) died in 2020.

Wake Forest University Baptist Medical CenterFellowship, Surgical Critical Care, 1984 - 1985
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical CenterResidency, Surgery, 1978 - 1984
University of Kentucky College of MedicineClass of 1978

CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification athenaClinicals EHR, athenahealth, Inc, 2013
Fellow American College of Surgeons

PubMed

62 citations
Effect of the 80-hour work week on cases performed by general surgery residents
Shannon T. McElearney, Alison R. Saalwachter, Traci L. Hedrick, Timothy L. Pruett, Hilary A. Sanfey
The American Surgeon. 2005-07-01
67 citations
Practice management guidelines for nutritional support of the trauma patient.
David G. Jacobs, Danny O. Jacobs, Kenneth A. Kudsk, Frederick A. Moore, Michael F. Oswanski
The Journal of Trauma. 2004-09-01
9 citations
Management of women who present with T4 breast cancer.
Galen V. Poole, J. Tate Thigpen, Ralph B. Vance, W. Henry Barber, Laura E. Witherspoon
The American Surgeon. 2004-08-01