Alexandra Highet, MD, MSc
RESIDENT
Surgery
School of Medicine

She collaborated in clinical and quality improvement research, worked in outdoor education, and completed a Fulbright Fellowship in Turkey prior to matriculating at the University of Michigan Medical School in 2016. Between her third and fourth years of medical school, she completed a Master's of Science in Clinical Research funded through a National Institutes of Health training grant and engaged in a variety of health services research and medical education initiatives.

Alex is thrilled to be pursuing her surgical training at UCSF. She is currently interested in pediatric surgical disparities research, surgical education, and enhancing surgery as a pivot point to advance population and behavioral health.

• Cost-effectiveness of Staple Line Reinforcement in Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy.
  Annals of surgery 2021 Highet A, Johnson EH, Bonham AJ, Hutton DW, Zhou S, Thalji AS, Ghaferi AA
• Unacknowledged Alternate Determinants of Medicine Subject Exam Performance.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2021 Kurtz JB, Spadafore M, Highet A
• Every Emergency General Surgery Patient Deserves Pathway-Driven Care.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2020 Eton RE, Highet A, Englesbe MJ
• Introduction to the Best-Case/Worst-Case Framework Within Transplantation Surgery to Improve Decision-Making for Increased Risk Donor Organ Offers.
  Progress in transplantation (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) 2020 Highet A, Cassidy DE, Gomez-Rexrode AE, Kirsch MJ, Eton R, Brown CS, Waits SA, Englesbe MJ
• Fostering Passion and Skills in Surgical Research Across the Medical Education Continuum: The Transplant Research, Education, and Engagement Group.
  Journal of surgical education 2020 Highet A, Gomez-Rexrode AE, Barrett M, Santos-Parker KS, Santos-Parker JR, Cassidy DE, Herman AE, Kulick AA, Brown CS, Montgomery JR, Wakam GK, Englesbe MJ, Waits SA
• Knowing Your Team: Rapid Assessment of Residents and Fellows for Effective Horizontal Care Delivery in Emergency Events.
  Journal of graduate medical education 2020 Dennis B, Highet A, Kendrick D, Mazer L, Loiselle S, Bandeh-Ahmadi H, Gupta T, Abbott K, Lea J, Dang T, Ramey M, George B, Terhune K
• Practice change amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: Harnessing the momentum for expanding telehealth in transplant.
  Clinical transplantation 2020 Santos-Parker KS, Santos-Parker JR, Highet A, Montgomery JR, Wakam GK, Sonnenday CJ, Waits SA
• Going the distance for procurement of donation after circulatory death livers for transplantation-Does reimbursement reflect reality?
  Clinical transplantation 2020 Montgomery JR, Highet A, Hobeika MJ, Englesbe MJ, McElroy LM
• Competency Committees in Undergraduate Medical Education: Approaching Tensions Using a Polarity Management Framework.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2019 Monrad SU, Mangrulkar RS, Woolliscroft JO, Daniel MM, Hartley SE, Gay TL, Highet A, Vijayakumar N, Santen SA
• True to Reality or True to Ourselves? Rationalism vs Idealism for Matching Medical Students.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2019 Highet A, Kurtz JB, Spadafore M
• Characterizing Pediatric Tuberculosis with and without Human Immunodeficiency Virus Coinfection in Harare, Zimbabwe.
  The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 2018 Earley M, Chirenda J, Highet A, Mujuru HA, Yang Z
• Human cord blood-derived unrestricted somatic stem cells promote wound healing and have therapeutic potential for patients with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa.
  Cell transplantation 2013 Liao Y, Itoh M, Yang A, Zhu H, Roberts S, Highet AM, Latshaw S, Mitchell K, van de Ven C, Christiano A, Cairo MS