MichelleRichardsonBrownsteinMD

Trauma Surgery & Surgical Critical Care

Associate Professor of Surgery

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Office
302 Trent Dr
Durham, NC 27705
Phone+1 252-847-4299

Fax+1 252-847-8208

Dr. Michelle Brownstein is an acute care surgeon in Durham, NC and is affiliated with Duke University Hospital. She received her medical degree from David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and did her surgical residency and fellowships at UNC Chapel Hill. She specializes in trauma and urgent/emergent general surgery & surgical critical care. She has more than 30 publications and over 500 citings.

University of North Carolina HospitalsResidency, Surgical Critical Care, 2012 - 2013
University of North Carolina HospitalsResidency, Surgery, 1991 - 1996
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLAClass of 1991

PubMed

240 citations
Relatively short diagnostic delays (<8 hours) produce morbidity and mortality in blunt small bowel injury: an analysis of time to operative intervention in 198 patient...
Samir M. Fakhry, Michelle R. Brownstein, Dorraine D. Watts, Christopher C. Baker, Dale Oller
The Journal of Trauma. 1999-07-01
159 citations
Women in academic general surgery.
Anneke T. Schroen, Michelle R. Brownstein, George F. Sheldon
Academic Medicine. 2004-04-01
15 citations
Blunt small bowel perforation (SBP): An Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma multicenter update 15 years later.
Samir M. Fakhry, Ahmed Allawi, Pamela L. Ferguson, Christopher P. Michetti, Anna B. Newcomb
The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. 2019-04-01

Journal Articles

Associations of Various Subspecialties in Surgery with Career Satisfaction and Personal Life Among Surgeons by Gender—Reply
Michelle Brownstein, MD, JAMA Surgery
Development and Assessment of a Systematic Approach for Detecting Disparities in Surgical Access
Jan H Wong, Eric J Demaria, Walter J Pories, Michelle R Brownstein, Maria S Altieri, Carl E Haisch, David B Leeser, JAMA Surgery
Practice Characteristics and Job Satisfaction of Private Practice and Academic Surgeons
Stephen T Mahoney, Julie A Freischlag, Michelle R Brownstein, JAMA Surgery
Associations Between Career Satisfaction, Personal Life Factors, and Work-Life Integration Practices Among US Surgeons by Gender
Julie A Freischlag, Michelle R Brownstein, JAMA Surgery
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