Erin Vanzant

Erin Vanzant, MD

Assistant Professor And Associate Trauma Medical Director

Department: MD-SURGERY-TRAUMA
Business Phone: (352) 273-5670

About Erin Vanzant

I am an assistant professor and associate trauma medical director in the University of Florida Division of Acute Care Surgery. I am also part of the abdominal wall reconstruction, fistula and hernia service team. I specialize in critical care surgery and my areas of interest, include gastrointestinal fistula, hernias, traumatic injury and ventral hernia repair. I am also interested in nutrition and most recently completed a nutrition fellowship in 2022.

I earned my medical degree from the University of Texas School of Medicine at San Antonio and completed my general surgery residency at the University of Florida College of Medicine, where I was recognized as the Distinguished Resident Dedicated to Teaching. Subsequently, I completed fellowships in surgical critical care and acute care surgery.

Prior to joining the UF Department of Surgery faculty, I was a peer-selected member of the UF Health Department of Surgery education/program evaluation committee, as well as the quality improvement committee. In addition to my involvement, I also completed other training programs such as Advanced Surgical Skills for Exposure in Trauma (ASSET) and Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS).

In 2013, I was the recipient of the Collaborative Research Forum Scholarship at the 5th Annual Collaborative Research Forum in Phoenix. The same year, I was awarded the Shock Society Travel Grant for New Investigators at the 37th Annual Conference on Shock in San Diego. Additionally, I have delivered multiple presentations, my most recent being the Diagnosis and Management of Acute Pulmonary Embolism.

Board Certifications

  • General Surgery
    American Board of Surgery
  • Surgical Critical Care
    American Board of Surgery

Clinical Profile

Subspecialties
  • Critical Care Surgery
Areas of Interest
  • Gastrointestinal fistula
  • Hernias
  • Traumatic Injury
  • Ventral hernia repair

Publications

2024
Current fistula management.
Current opinion in critical care. 30(2):172-177 [DOI] 10.1097/MCC.0000000000001147. [PMID] 38441138.
2023
Enterocutaneous Fistula
3rd edition of Clinical Scenarios in Surgery.
2023
Nutritional Support in the Critically Ill Patient
3rd edition of Clinical Scenarios in Surgery.
2022
Nutritional impact of omega 3 fatty acids and metabolites in acute and chronic critical illness.
Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care. 25(2):75-80 [DOI] 10.1097/MCO.0000000000000818. [PMID] 35115447.
2022
Open Cholecystectomy
Operative Techniques in Surgery 2e.
2022
Should Anabolic Agents be Used for Resolving Catabolism in Post-ICU Recovery?
Current Surgical Reports. 10:206-217
2021
Chronic Critical Illness and PICS Nutritional Strategies.
Journal of clinical medicine. 10(11) [DOI] 10.3390/jcm10112294. [PMID] 34070395.
2020
Audiovisual Modules to Enhance Informed Consent in the ICU: A Pilot Study.
Critical care explorations. 2(12) [DOI] 10.1097/CCE.0000000000000278. [PMID] 33251517.
2017
Human Myeloid-derived Suppressor Cells are Associated With Chronic Immune Suppression After Severe Sepsis/Septic Shock.
Annals of surgery. 265(4):827-834 [DOI] 10.1097/SLA.0000000000001783. [PMID] 27163951.
2016
Patterns of gene expression among murine models of hemorrhagic shock/trauma and sepsis.
Physiological genomics. 48(2):135-44 [DOI] 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00072.2015. [PMID] 26578697.
2015
A Detailed Characterization of the Dysfunctional Immunity and Abnormal Myelopoiesis Induced by Severe Shock and Trauma in the Aged.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950). 195(5):2396-407 [DOI] 10.4049/jimmunol.1500984. [PMID] 26246141.
2015
A protocol for the management of adhesive small bowel obstruction.
The journal of trauma and acute care surgery. 78(1):13-9; discussion 19 [DOI] 10.1097/TA.0000000000000491. [PMID] 25539198.
2015
Advanced age is associated with worsened outcomes and a unique genomic response in severely injured patients with hemorrhagic shock.
Critical care (London, England). 19(1) [DOI] 10.1186/s13054-015-0788-x. [PMID] 25880307.
2015
Clostridium difficile Infections after Blunt Trauma: A Different Patient Population?
Surgical infections. 16(4):421-7 [DOI] 10.1089/sur.2013.141. [PMID] 26207402.
2015
Evolving paradigms in the nutritional support of critically ill surgical patients.
Current problems in surgery. 52(4):147-82 [DOI] 10.1067/j.cpsurg.2015.02.003. [PMID] 25946621.
2015
Successful implementation of a packed red blood cell and fresh frozen plasma transfusion protocol in the surgical intensive care unit.
PloS one. 10(5) [DOI] 10.1371/journal.pone.0126895. [PMID] 26010247.
2014
A better understanding of why murine models of trauma do not recapitulate the human syndrome.
Critical care medicine. 42(6):1406-13 [DOI] 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000222. [PMID] 24413577.
2014
A Comparison of the Leukocyte Genomic Responses To Sterile Or Infectious Inflammation
Shock. 41(2)
2014
Advanced Age Is An Independent Predictor of Complicated Outcomes and Mortality Among Severely Injured Pateints in Hemorrhagic Shock
Shock. 41(2)
2014
Aged mice are unable to mount an effective myeloid response to sepsis.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950). 192(2):612-22 [DOI] 10.4049/jimmunol.1302109. [PMID] 24337739.
2014
Enhanced Protective Immunity and Extramedullary Myelopoiesis in Neonatal Sepsis By Ablation of Caspase-1 Signaling
Shock. 41(2)
2014
Genomic Analysis of Individual Leukocyte Populations After Severe Trauma
Shock. 41(2)
2014
Host responses to sepsis vary in different low-lethality murine models.
PloS one. 9(5) [DOI] 10.1371/journal.pone.0094404. [PMID] 24788351.
2014
Inadequate Pmn Chemokine Receptor Expression After Polymicrobial Abdominal Sepsis Contributes To Defective Pmn Chemotaxis in the Aged
Shock. 41(2)
2014
Persistent inflammation, immunosuppression, and catabolism syndrome after severe blunt trauma.
The journal of trauma and acute care surgery. 76(1):21-9; discussion 29 [DOI] 10.1097/TA.0b013e3182ab1ab5. [PMID] 24368353.
2014
Protective immunity and defects in the neonatal and elderly immune response to sepsis.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950). 192(7):3156-65 [DOI] 10.4049/jimmunol.1301726. [PMID] 24591376.
2014
The Female Transcriptomic Response After Severe Trauma Is Different From That of Males
Shock. 41(2)
2013
Is there value in plasma cytokine measurements in patients with severe trauma and sepsis?
Methods (San Diego, Calif.). 61(1):3-9 [DOI] 10.1016/j.ymeth.2013.04.024. [PMID] 23669589.

Education

Fellowship – Acute Care Surgery
2018-2019 · University of Florida
Fellowship – Critical Care
2017-2018 · University of Florida
Residency – General Surgery
2010-2017 · University of Florida
Medical Degree
2010 · University of Texas

Contact Details

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PO Box 100108
GAINESVILLE FL 32610
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GAINESVILLE FL 32608