Vicente Gracias, M.D., FACS, FCCP

Professor of Surgery

Chief, Section of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care

Department of Surgery, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Director, Level 1 Trauma Center

Robert Wood Johnson University Hopsital

Vicente Gracias, M.D., is a member of the University Center for Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response. Currently, Dr. Gracias is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine, the American College of Chest Physicians, and the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Gracias current serves on the National Imaging Faculty and the National Ultrasound Faculty for the ACS.

Dr. Gracias has been recognized with the UPHS Excellence and Innovation in Patient Safety Award for the implementation of a critical care telemedicine system (2007) and has served on the House Democratic Policy Committee's Healthcare Excellence and Accountability Response Team (2005). He has served as Guest Reviewer for the Journal of Trauma, the Journal of Thoracic Surgery, the Archives of Surgery, and hte European Journal of Surgery. In addition, Dr. Gracias is principal investigator or coinvestigator on a number of grant awards.

Selected Publications:

Kaye A, Gracias VH, Kim P. “Facial Trauma: Can We Reduce Variability in Management? Accepted. Western Trauma Association Annual Meeting-, February, 2009  

Ding W, Sarani B, Peterson J, Abdurraheim N, Aized M, Sims CA, Gracias VH, Schwab W, Pascual JL. “Hypertonic Saline in Critically III Patients Reduces Neutrophil Adhesion Receptor Expression and Restores Respiratory Burst.” SCCM 39th Critical Care Congress, January 2009

Richmond TS, Hollander JE, Ackerson TH, Robinson K, Gracias VH, Shults J, Amsterdam, J, Guo W. “Emergency Care Must Include a Focus on Psychiatric Consequences of Injury.” APHA 135th Annual Meeting & Exposition, 2007.

Carr B, Kaye A, Wiebe D, Gracias VH, Schwab CW, Reilly P. “Emergency Department Length of Stay: A Major Risk Factor for Pneumonia in Intubated Blunt Trauma Patients.” J Trauma 63(1): 9-12. January, 2007.

Pascual JL, Maloney-Wilensky E, Reilly PM, Sicoutris C, Keutmann MK, Stein S,  LeRoux PD, Gracias VH. “The Effect of An Institutional Pathway On TBI Resuscitation With 7.5% Hypertonic Saline” J Trauma 60(1):250, January 2006.

Sicoutris C, Reilly P, Sonnad S, Gracias V. “Age is a Predictor of Gastrointestinal Bleeding in a Surgical Intensive Care Unit.”:167-M Critical Care Medicine Supplement 33(12):A98, December 2005.

Spiotta AM, Stiefel MF, Gracias VH, Bloom S, Maloney-Wilensky E, Grady MS, LeRoux PD. “Brain Tissue Oxygen Directed Management Improves Outcome after Severe Traumatic Brain Injury” Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting Boston, MA,  2005.

Gracias VH, Kim P, Puri N, Gupta R, Gallagher J,  Sicoutris C, Sonnad S, Hanson CW,  and Schwab CW. “Inter-operator variability adversely affects pac interpretation and treatment decisions. Surgical Critical Care Medicine 32(12) Supplement:A40, December 2004.

Scaff DW, Gracias VH, Sicoutris CP, McMaster J, Puri NK, Sonnad S, Reilly P, and Schwab CW. “Reducing ICU complications in trauma patients: the effect of two different clinical delivery systems”. Surgical Critical Care Medicine 32(12) Supplement:A37, December 2004