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Pablo Tarsicio Uribe Leitz, MD, MPH

Affiliate, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change
Instructor in Surgergy, Brigham and Women's Hospitatl

Pablo Tarsicio Uribe Leitz, MD, MPH  is anInstructor in Surgery, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School Investigator Data Manager, Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

 Program in Global Surgery and Social Change

He is interested in Surgery and Global Health research, particularly as it pertains to advocacy, data analysis, and the use geographic information systems to improve access to quality surgical care for underserved populations. He was actively involved in the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery. His current research focuses on geographic visualization of surgical relationships and surgical epidemiology. He plans to complete a General Surgery residency and to become an academic surgeon with a focus on Global Surgery. 

Association of Medicaid Expansion Policy with Outcomes in Homeless Patients Requiring Emergency General Surgery.
Authors: Authors: Manzano-Nunez R, Zogg CK, Bhulani N, McCarty JC, Herrera-Escobar JP, Lu K, Andriotti T, Uribe-Leitz T, de Jager E, Jarman MP, Haider AH, Ortega G.
World J Surg
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Impact of Affordable Care Act-related insurance expansion policies on mortality and access to post-discharge care for trauma patients: an analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank.
Authors: Authors: Scott JW, Neiman PU, Uribe-Leitz T, Scott KW, Zogg CK, Salim A, Haider AH.
J Trauma Acute Care Surg
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Access Delayed Is Access Denied: Relationship Between Access to Trauma Center Care and Pre-Hospital Death.
Authors: Authors: Hashmi ZG, Jarman MP, Uribe-Leitz T, Goralnick E, Newgard CD, Salim A, Cornwell E, Haider AH.
J Am Coll Surg
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Assessment of Patient-Centered Approaches to Collect Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Information in the Emergency Department: The EQUALITY Study.
Authors: Authors: Haider A, Adler RR, Schneider E, Uribe Leitz T, Ranjit A, Ta C, Levine A, Harfouch O, Pelaez D, Kodadek L, Vail L, Snyder C, German D, Peterson S, Schuur JD, Lau BD.
JAMA Netw Open
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Surgeon-driven variability in emergency general surgery outcomes: Does it matter who is on call?
Authors: Authors: Udyavar R, Cornwell EE, Havens JM, Hashmi ZG, Scott JW, Sturgeon D, Uribe-Leitz T, Lipsitz SR, Salim A, Haider AH.
Surgery
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Parents' Knowledge and Education of Retinopathy of Prematurity in Four California Neonatal Intensive Care Units.
Authors: Authors: Eneriz-Wiemer M, Liu SD, Chu MCY, Uribe-Leitz T, Rajani K, Sankar M, Robbins SL, Lee HC, Woodard C, Wang CJ.
Am J Ophthalmol
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Undertriage Remains a Vexing Problem for Even the Most Highly Developed Trauma Systems: The Need for Innovations in Field Triage.
Authors: Authors: Newgard CD, Uribe-Leitz T, Haider AH.
JAMA Surg
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Surgical deserts in California: an analysis of access to surgical care.
Authors: Authors: Uribe-Leitz T, Esquivel MM, Garland NY, Staudenmayer KL, Spain DA, Weiser TG.
J Surg Res
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Why do patients receive care from a short-term medical mission? Survey study from rural Guatemala.
Authors: Authors: Esquivel MM, Chen JC, Woo RK, Siegler N, Maldonado-Sifuentes FA, Carlos-Ochoa JS, Cardona-Diaz AR, Uribe-Leitz T, Siegler D, Weiser TG, Yang GP.
J Surg Res
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The prevalence of psychiatric diagnoses and associated mortality in hospitalized US trauma patients.
Authors: Authors: Townsend LL, Esquivel MM, Uribe-Leitz T, Weiser TG, Maggio PM, Spain DA, Tennakoon L, Staudenmayer K.
J Surg Res
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