Department of Surgery

SURGICAL RESEARCH CORE GROUP

The Surgical Research Core Group facilitates research design; assists in preparation of peer-reviewed publications, presentations, abstracts, and grant applications; and identifies funding opportunities for surgical faculty, residents, staff, and students.

Recent Faculty Publications

Active Faculty Research Studies

Daniel L. Davenport, PhD
Assistant Professor
Phone: (859) 323-5940
E-mail: Daniel.Davenport@uky.edu

Dr. Davenport’s research is in assessing surgical outcomes and risk. He also supports the research efforts of other faculty members through methods consultation, data design and management, statistical analysis and reporting, as well as directing the Office of Decision Support.

Curriculum Vitae | Recent Publications

PUBLICATION AND EXTERNAL FUNDING SERVICES

Linda C. Combs
Academic Support Services Director
Phone: (859) 323-2071
E-mail: lcomb4@email.uky.edu

Linda Combs provides assistance with manuscript editing, formatting, and journal submission; grant preparation and finalization; literature search; securing copyright permissions for use; and intellectual property and patent development consultation.

Linda Cantara Abbott, MSLS, MA
Editorial Officer
Phone: (859) 323-5057
E-mail: cantara-abbott@uky.edu

Linda Cantara Abbott provides assistance with scientific posters and abstracts; writes, edits, and publishes the Department of Surgery Web site; provides photographic services; assists faculty and residents in identifying appropriate funding opportunities; and provides manuscript and grant writing, editing and formatting assistance, especially in respect to manuscripts and grant narratives by those for whom English is a second language.

For more information about these services, see the Publications Office and the Residency Writing Program pages.

Brenda Silvestri
Administrative Services Assistant
Phone: (859) 323-6170
E-mail: bdaug0@uky.edu

Brenda Silvestri assists in developing grant budgets and provides grant management services throughout the lifetime of a funded research project; she also facilitates completion of the new Electronic Internal Approval Form (Online at https://myuk.uky.edu/irj/portal — after logging in, click the “Enterprise Services” button).

OFFICE OF DECISION SUPPORT

Rosa Luzuriaga
Business Analyst
Phone: (859) 323-1651
E-mail: rcluzuriaga@uky.edu

In addition to her business and financial analysis role with the Department of Surgery management team, Rosa Luzuriaga supports Dr. Davenport in the development of information tools as well as in data mining and creation of ad-hoc reports from the various surgical outcomes data collection models listed below.

Devauna Riley, RN
NSQIP Surgical Clinical Reviewer, Sr.
Phone: (859) 257-7360
E-mail Devauna.Riley2@uky.edu

Devauna Riley is a data abstractor and program coordinator for the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) and National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Pediatric (ACS NSQIP Peds). These surgical multispecialty risk-adjusted data collection models are designed to collect and analyze 30 day postoperative morbidity and mortality outcomes data for quality improvement and research projects.

Roseanna Adair, RN
NSQIP Surgical Clinical Reviewer
Phone: (859) 323-3685
E-mail: roseanna.adair@uky.edu

As a specially trained Surgical Clinical Reviewer (SCR), Roseanna Adair collects preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative outcome data on all cases that meet the ACS NSQIP and ACS NSQIP Peds criteria. She enters all collected data into the ACS NSQIP Web sites.

Pamela Grant
STS Data Manager
Phone: (859) 323-1364
E-mail: pamela.grant@uky.edu

Pam Grant is the data manager for the Society of Thoracic Surgery National Database (STS). The STS National Database is an initiative for quality improvement and patient safety and collects outcomes data in the areas of Adult Cardiac, General Thoracic and Congenital Heart surgery.

Tanya Smith
Decision Support Data Assistant Support
Phone: (859) 323-4958
E-mail: tanya.smith@uky.edu