GeorgNHerlitzMDJD

Trauma Surgery & Surgical Critical Care

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Office
975 E 3rd St
Chattanooga, TN 37403
Phone+1 423-778-7000

Fax+1 423-778-4833

Rutgers Health/Robert Wood Johnson Medical SchoolResidency, Surgical Critical Care, 2012 - 2013
Rutgers Health/Robert Wood Johnson Medical SchoolResidency, Surgery, 2006 - 2012
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and SurgeonsClass of 2004
Louisiana State UniversityJD, Law, Louisiana Law Review, Jessup International Moot Court, 1992 - 1995

J.H. Landor Award for Excellence in Teaching, Surgery Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 2012
Susan P. Deak Award for Excellence in Resident Research Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 2011
Arthur P. Gold Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award, Surgery, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Arthur P. Gold Foundation, 2011-2012
Owen H. Wangensteen Surgical Forum Excellence in Resident Research Award, Critical Care, American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress 2009 American College of Surgeons, 2009
Louisiana Law Review (see publications for comment title) Louisiana Law Review, 1994
American Jurisprudence Award, Constitutional Law Lawyers Cooperative Publishing, 1993
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PubMed

22 citations
Treatment of Diaphragmatic Hernia Occurring After Transhiatal Esophagectomy.
Sumana Narayanan, Renee L. Sanders, Georg N. Herlitz, John Langenfeld, David A. August
Annals of Surgical Oncology. 2015-02-24
18 citations
Physiologic variability at the verge of systemic inflammation: multiscale entropy of heart rate variability is affected by very low doses of endotoxin.
Georg N. Herlitz, Renee L. Arlow, Nora H. Cheung, Susette M. Coyle, Benjamin Griffel
Shock. 2015-02-01
30 citations
Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections
Adam M. Shiroff, Georg N. Herlitz, Vicente H. Gracias
Journal of Intensive Care Medicine. 2014-05-01

Journal Articles

Reconstruction after Partial (D2/D3) Duodenectomy using a Roux-en-Y Lateral Duodenojejunostomy: A Single Center Retrospective Analysis.
Narayanan S, Herlitz GN, Gomez D, Melstrom L , August DA, Carpizo DR, Surgical Techniques Development, 1/1/2015
Platelet activation in the postoperative period after lung transplantation
Sternberg DI, Shimbo D, Kawut SM, Sarkar J, Herlitz GN, D'Ovidio F, Lederer DJ, Wilt JS, Arcasoy SM, Pinsky DJ, D'Armiento JM, Sonett JR, J Thoracic Cardiovasc Surg, 3/2008
The Meaning of the Term “Prima Facie”
Herlitz GN, Louisiana Law Review, 11/1994

Lectures

ICU Management of Traumatic Brain Injury: Current Concepts
Grand Rounds, Dept. of Acute Care Surgery, Rutgers Medical School-RWJ, New Brunswick, NJ - 6/13/2013
64-year-old Man with Head and Spine Trauma -- Panel Discussion Presenter
John P. Pryor Memorial PennTRAC Conference, Philadelphia, PA - 5/8/2013
Evidence of Autonomic Dysregulation Precedes Systemic Inflammation in Endotoxinemia
American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress Owen H. Wangensteen Forum, Chicago, IL - 10/9/2009
Nocturnal Variation in Human Response to Endotoxin
Combined Meeting of the Surgical Infection Societies of North America and Europe. Chicago, IL - 5/8/2009
Influence of Stress Hormones on Complexity Measures Induced by Endotoxinemia
International Sepsis Forum, St. Charles, IL - 5/5/2009
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Other

TXA in Trauma - online CME lecture
Herlitz GN, NORTN EMS education outreach program
Northeast Ohio Regional Trauma Network - 2015

Surgical InvestigatorSupervisor Stephen F. Lowry, MD Research in biological markers of inflammation2008 - 2009
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, surgerySupervisor Mehmet C. Oz, MD Research in LVADs, heart and lung transplantation, health care policy2004 - 2006