Michael Lekawa MD (He/Him)
Trauma Surgery & Surgical Critical Care
Professor, Surgery, University of California, Irvine College of Medicine
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Uci Medical Center101 The City Drive SouthOrange, CA 92868
Phone+1 714-456-8978
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Summary
- Dr. Michael Lekawa is a general surgeon in Orange, CA and is affiliated with UCI Medical Center. He received his medical degree from Jefferson (Sidney Kimmel) Medical College and completed his surgical training at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He has been in practice 25 years since completing his fellowship in Surgical Critical Care at UC Irvine. He specializes in trauma surgery, acute care surgery & surgical critical care As well as elective general surgery.
Education & Training
University of California (Irvine)Fellowship, Surgical Critical Care, 1995 - 1996
Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterResidency, Surgery, 1990 - 1995
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson UniversityClass of 1990
Certifications & Licensure
CA State Medical License 1992 - 2026
American Board of Surgery Surgery- American Board of Surgery Surgical Critical Care
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Fellow (FACS) American College of Surgeons
Clinical Trials
- Use of Diffuse Optical Spectroscopy for Evaluation of the Trauma/Critically Care Patients Start of enrollment: 2007 Mar 01
- Controlled Trial of ABELADRUG200 in Closed, Severe Head Injury Start of enrollment: 2010 Oct 01
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Emergency Department Placed Central Lines for Trauma Patients: A Retrospective Case-Control Study on Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infection Risk From Central L...Larissa Epstein, Jeffry Nahmias, Sebastian Schubl, Kenji Inaba, Kazuhide Matsushima
Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open. 2025-04-01 - Risk Factors and Timing of Fasciotomy for Isolated Pediatric Lower Extremity Trauma.Mennatalla Hegazi, Jeffry Nahmias, Michael Lekawa, Matthew Dolich, Allen Kong
The American Surgeon. 2025-04-01 - Packed red blood cell transfusion: a catalyst for thrombosis in patients with traumatic brain injury?Lily Nguyen, Jeffry Nahmias, Patrick Chen, Jefferson Chen, Michael Lekawa
Brain Injury. 2025-03-24
Press Mentions
Doctors Reattach Teen’s Mangled Arm in Laguna AccidentAugust 9th, 2018
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