Nichole Starr, MD, MPH
Fellow
Surgery
School of Medicine

She was an NIH Fogarty Global Health Equity Scholar from 2020-2021. Her areas of interest are in academic global surgery, surgical quality improvement and infection prevention, and strengthening trauma care systems in resource limited environments, as well as trauma induced coagulopathy and platelet function in injured patients. Dr. Starr served in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia from 2007 - 2009, and has worked in Ethiopia, Brazil and Liberia on health services research including improving surgical safety, quality of surgical and trauma care, and creating tools and technologies for safeguarding surgical providers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Prehospital balanced resuscitation may mitigate hypofibrinogenemia in traumatic hemorrhagic shock.
  Trauma surgery & acute care open 2024 Starr N, Kornblith L
• The Devil's in the Depot Details: Case of Iatrogenic Opioid Intoxication After Buprenorphine Injection Requiring Surgical Excision.
  Journal of addiction medicine 2024 Vais S, Starr N, Castro M, Brand N, Murphy A, Tesoriero R, Kryzhanovskaya I
• Addressing knowledge gaps in Surgical Safety Checklist use: statistical process control analysis of a surgical quality improvement programme in Ethiopia.
  The British journal of surgery 2023 Nofal MR, Starr N, Negussie Mammo T, Trickey AW, Gebeyehu N, Koritsanszky L, Alemu M, Tara M, Alemu SB, Evans F, Kahsay S, Weiser TG
• Feasibility of Gastrografin Use for Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction in Low-Income Countries.
  The Journal of surgical research 2023 Starr N, Tadesse M, Igwebuike C, Sherefa K, Genetu A, Aregawi Y, Zewdu E, Tamirat D, Desalegn M, Getahun B, Harris H, Zemenfes D
• Correction: Academic global surgical competencies: A modified Delphi consensus study.
  PLOS global public health 2023 Pawlak N, Dart C, Aguilar HS, Ameh E, Bekele A, Jimenez MF, Lakhoo K, Ozgediz D, Roy N, Terfera G, Ademuyiwa AO, Alayande BT, Alonso N, Anderson GA, Anyanwu SNC, Aregawi AB, Bandyopadhyay S, Banu T, …
• Academic global surgical competencies: A modified Delphi consensus study.
  PLOS global public health 2023 Pawlak N, Dart C, Aguilar HS, Ameh E, Bekele A, Jimenez MF, Lakhoo K, Ozgediz D, Roy N, Terfera G, Ademuyiwa AO, Alayande BT, Alonso N, Anderson GA, Anyanwu SNC, Aregawi AB, Bandyopadhyay S, Banu T, …
• Correction: Exploring the Use of a Fit-for-Purpose Surgical Headlight in Sub-Saharan Africa: Mixed Methods Study.
  World journal of surgery 2023 Hussien M, Capo-Chichi N, Starr N, Johansen E, Negash S, Utam T, Negussie T, Fernandez K, Weiser TG
• Reducing the environmental impact of surgery on a global scale: systematic review and co-prioritization with healthcare workers in 132 countries.
  The British journal of surgery 2023 National Institute for Health and Care Research Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery
• Exploring the Use of a Fit-for-Purpose Surgical Headlight in Sub-Saharan Africa: Mixed Methods Study.
  World journal of surgery 2023 Hussien M, Capo-Chichi N, Starr N, Johansen E, Negash S, Utam T, Negussie T, Fernandez K, Weiser TG
• Bridging the know-do gap in low-income surgical environments: Creating contextually appropriate training videos to promote safer surgery in Ethiopia.
  Surgery open science 2022 Hawkins J, Rangel UJS, Tesfaye A, Gebeyehu N, Weiser TG, Bitew S, Mammo TN, Starr N
• Evaluation of an adaptive, multimodal intervention to reduce postoperative infections following cesarean delivery in Ethiopia: study protocol of the CLEAN-CS cluster-randomized stepped wedge interventional trial.
  Trials 2022 Mammo TN, Feyssa MD, Haile ST, Fikre T, Shiferaw MA, Woldeamanuel H, Temesgen F, Gebeyehu N, Starr N, Fernandez K, Henrich N, Alemu SB, Miller K, Weiser TG
• Platelet Transfusion for Trauma Resuscitation
  Current Trauma Reports 2022 Nichole Starr, Zachary Matthay, Alexander Fields, Matthew D. Neal & Lucy Zumwinkle Kornblith
• Perioperative provider safety in the pandemic: Development, implementation and evaluation of an adjunct COVID-19 Surgical Patient Checklist.
  Anaesthesia and intensive care 2022 Starr NE, Moore JN, Shreckengost CSH, Fernandez K, Ambulkar RP, Capo-Chichi N, Varallo JE, Ademuyiwa AO, Krouch S, Rana PS, Ingabire JA, Weiser TG, Mammo TN, Evans FM
• Perioperative health care provider safety and resource availability during the COVID-19 pandemic in India and other low middle-income countries.
  Indian journal of anaesthesia 2022 Ambulkar R, Rana PS, Starr N, Moore J
• Global Collaboration on a UV-C Cabinet to Decontaminate and Reuse N95 Respirators in Low- and Middle-Income Environments
  NEJM Catalyst 2022 Nichole Starr, MD, MPH, Natnael Gebeyehu, MD, Anderson S. L. Gomes, PhD, E. Rosas, PhD, Tyler N. Chen, MS, Dawit Assefa, PhD, Jared Shless, Jit Bhattacharya, PhD, Arnab Bhattacharya, PhD, David …
• Clean and Confident: Impact of Sterile Instrument Processing Workshops on Knowledge and Confidence in Five Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
  Surgical infections 2022 Harrell Shreckengost CS, Starr N, Negussie Mammo T, Gebeyehu N, Tesfaye Y, Belayneh K, Tara M, Lima I, Jenkin K, Fast C, Weiser TG
• Operating room efficiency in a low resource setting: a pilot study from a large tertiary referral center in Ethiopia.
  Patient safety in surgery 2022 Negash S, Anberber E, Ayele B, Ashebir Z, Abate A, Bitew S, Derbew M, Weiser TG, Starr N, Mammo TN
• Comment on "COVID-19 Preparedness Within the Surgical, Obstetric, and Anesthetic Ecosystem in Sub Saharan Africa".
  Annals of surgery 2021 Starr N, Weiser TG
• Perioperative Provider Safety in Low- and Middle-income Countries During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Call for Renewed Investments in Resources and Training.
  Annals of surgery 2021 Starr N, Capo-Chichi N, Moore J, Shreckengost CH, Fernandez K, Ambulkar R, Varallo JE, Ademuyiwa AO, Krouch S, Rana PS, Ingabire JA, Weiser TG, Mammo TN, Evans FM
• Academic Global Surgery Curricula: Current Status and a Call for a More Equitable Approach.
  The Journal of surgical research 2021 Jayaram A, Pawlak N, Kahanu A, Fallah P, Chung H, Valencia-Rojas N, Rodas EB, Abbaslou A, Alseidi A, Ameh EA, Bekele A, Casey K, Chu K, Dempsey R, Dodgion C, Jawa R, Jimenez MF, Johnson W, …
• Author response to: Clean Cut (adaptive, multimodal surgical infection prevention programme) for low-resource settings: a prospective quality improvement study.
  The British journal of surgery 2021 Forrester JA, Starr N, Gebeyehu N, Negussie T, Weiser TG
• Early Outcome of Laparotomy Wounds in Pediatric Patients in TASH, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A Six-Months Prospective Study.
  Ethiopian journal of health sciences 2021 Temesgen F, Gosaye A, Starr N, Kiflu W, Getachew H, Dejene B, Tadesse A, Derbew M, Negussie T
• Construction and validation of UV-C decontamination cabinets for filtering facepiece respirators.
  Applied optics 2020 Purschke M, Elsamaloty M, Wilde JP, Starr N, Anderson RR, Farinelli WA, Sakamoto FH, Tung M, Tam J, Hesselink L, Baer TM
• COVID-19 Preparedness Within the Surgical, Obstetric, and Anesthetic Ecosystem in Sub-Saharan Africa.
  Annals of surgery 2020 Ademuyiwa AO, Bekele A, Berhea AB, Borgstein E, Capo-Chichi N, Derbew M, Evans FM, Feyssa MD, Galukande M, Gawande AA, Gueye SM, Harrison E, Jani P, Kaseje N, Litswa L, Mammo TN, Mellin-Olsen J, …
• The Lifebox Surgical Headlight Project: engineering, testing, and field assessment in a resource-constrained setting.
  The British journal of surgery 2020 Starr N, Panda N, Johansen EW, Forrester JA, Wayessa E, Rebollo D, August A, Fernandez K, Bitew S, Mammo TN, Weiser TG
• Value and Feasibility of Telephone Follow-Up in Ethiopian Surgical Patients.
  Surgical infections 2020 Starr N, Gebeyehu N, Tesfaye A, Forrester JA, Bekele A, Bitew S, Wayessa E, Weiser TG, Negussie T
• Diagnosis and management of surgical disease at Ethiopian health centres: cross-sectional survey of resources and barriers to care.
  BMJ open 2019 Starr N, Carpenter S, Carvalho M, Souza A, Chin R, Kasotakis G, Worku M
• Qualitative outcomes of Clean Cut: implementation lessons from reducing surgical infections in Ethiopia.
  BMC health services research 2019 Mattingly AS, Starr N, Bitew S, Forrester JA, Negussie T, Bereknyei Merrell S, Weiser TG
• Global variation in anastomosis and end colostomy formation following left-sided colorectal resection.
  BJS open 2019 GlobalSurg Collaborative
• Pooled analysis of WHO Surgical Safety Checklist use and mortality after emergency laparotomy.
  The British journal of surgery 2019 GlobalSurg Collaborative
• Platelet transfusion increases risk for acute respiratory distress syndrome in non-massively transfused blunt trauma patients.
  European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society 2018 Kasotakis G, Starr N, Nelson E, Sarkar B, Burke PA, Remick DG, Tompkins RG, Inflammation and Host Response to Injury Investigators
• Laparoscopy in management of appendicitis in high-, middle-, and low-income countries: a multicenter, prospective, cohort study.
  Surgical endoscopy 2018 GlobalSurg Collaborative
• Provision of surgical care in Ethiopia: Challenges and solutions.
  Global public health 2018 Kelly CM, Starr N, Raykar NP, Yorlets RR, Liu C, Derbew M
• Socially Responsible Surgery: Building Recognition and Coalition.
  Frontiers in surgery 2017 Robinson TD, Oliveira TM, Timmes TR, Mills JM, Starr N, Fleming M, Janeway M, Haddad D, Sidhwa F, Macht RD, Kauffman DF, Dechert TA
• Determinants of morbidity and mortality following emergency abdominal surgery in children in low-income and middle-income countries.
  BMJ global health 2016 GlobalSurg Collaborative