Barbara Anne Gaines, MD
Pediatric Surgeon
Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
Surgeon-in-Chief at Children's Health
- Languages Spoken:
- English
Education and Training
- Medical School
- University of Virginia School of Medicine (1990)
- Residency
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center GME (1997), General Surgery
Vanderbilt University Medical Center GME (1993), General Surgery - Fellowship
- Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh - UPMC (2000), Pediatric Surgery
Vanderbilt University Medical Center GME (1998), Surgical Critical Care - Board Certification
- American Board of Surgery/Pediatric Surgery
Treatments
Departments and Programs
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Research Interests
- Post-traumatic coagulopathy
- The use of whole blood for resuscitation of injured children
- Primary pediatric injury prevention research
- Surgical education
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Publications
- Shock in the pediatric trauma patient in Pediatric Trauma Care Rinehardt HN, Gaines BA (2023), Cham, Switzerland, Springer
- Trauma pediatrico in Trauma. Sociedad Panamericana De Trauma (3rd ed.) Gaines BA, Emr B (In press)
- Pediatric thoracic trauma in Pediatric Trauma Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Treatment (2nd ed.) Leeper CM, Gaines BA (2017), Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press.
- Abdominal and renal trauma in Ashcraft’s Pediatric Surgery (6th ed.) Austin KM, Gaines BA (2014), Philadelphia, PA, Saunders
- Pediatric injury in The Trauma Manual: Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (3rd ed.). Gaines BA, Scheidler MG, Lynch JM, Ford HR (2007), Philadelphia, PA, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Professional Activities
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
- American College of Surgeons
- American Medical Association
- American Pediatric Surgical Association
- American Surgical Association
- Association for Academic Surgery
- Association of Women Surgeons
- Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma
- Injury Free Coalition for Kids
- Pediatric Trauma Society
- Society of Critical Care Medicine
- Society of University Surgeons
- Southern Surgical Association
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Awards and Honors
- Eugene S. Wiener Award for Excellence (2016), Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
- Inaugural Medical Student Research Mentoring Merit Award (2013), University of Pittsburgh Medical School
- Top Doctors Award in Pediatric Surgery (2010-2023), Pittsburgh Magazine
- Research and Education Foundation Scholarship 2007, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
- Four-Star Customer Service Award (2007), Professional Research Consultants, Inc.
- Outstanding Surgeon, Critical Care Staff, (2000-2004, 2006), Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
- Alfred E. Blalock Award, Surgical Research (1997), Vanderbilt University
- Young Investigator Award (1991), American Motility Society
