John A. Aucar, MD

Department

Surgery

Position

Associate Professor

Books

• Aucar, JA, Punja, Viren, Asensio, Juan. IntechOpen - Book Chapter – Biosurgicals and Trauma – Chapter Title: Biosurgicals – The Next Frontier in Operative Approaches. 2019

Articles

• The American Surgeon
  Patel, P, Aucar, J Telemedicine in Acute Trauma Care: A Review of Quantitative Evaluations on the Impact of Remote Consultation. 2024
• Elsevier
  Aucar, J., Veatch, J., Kiscaden E. “Defining a specialty through its literature: A bibliometric Analysis of Acute care surgery 2005-2020”.
  10, p. 43-49 2022
• Am J Surg
  Osborne Z, Rowitz B, Moore H, Oliphant U, Butler J, Olson M, Aucar J. Obesity in trauma: outcomes and disposition trends. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2013.10.013. Epub 2013 Dec 19.
  207(3), p. 387-92 2014
• Am J Surg
  Ozbourn, ZJ, Surgical pulmonary embolectomy in a community hospital. Osborne ZJ, Rossi P, Aucar J, Dharamsy S, Cook S, Wheatley B. Am J Surg. 2014 Mar;207(3):337-41; discussion 340-1. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2013.10.011. Epub 2013 Dec 8. PMID: 24418179
  207, p. 337-41 2013

Presentations

• Career Development Is It An Art or a Science? 2025
• Perspectives on Trauma Care, Centers, and Systems 2024
• Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) at Bryan Health System in Lincoln, NE 2023
• Mock Orals Examiner - Combined Creighton University and University of Nebraska Departments of Surgery 2022
• ATLS teaching/testing - Creighton University Division of Trauma, Critical Care, and Acute Care Surgery 2022
• Surgical Grand Rounds to the Department of Surgery: Evidence Based Surgery and Medicine. 2021
• Presentation Judge for the Nebraska Chapter of the American College of Surgeons 2021
• ATLS: Initial Assessment 2020
• Traumatic Coagulopathy: Adding Insult to Injury - Creighton University Department of Surgery Grand Rounds 2019
• Traumatic Coagulopathy" (1 hour lecture with discussion) at the Southwest Iowa State Trauma Conference (Regional/State Level) in Council Bluffs, IA 2019
• Lecture to Advanced Trauma Life Support - "Trauma in Women", "Pediatric Trauma", Geriatric Trauma" - CHI/Creighton University Medical Center . 2019
• Lecture to Advanced Trauma Care for Nurses "Head Trauma", "Spine Trauma", "Pediatric Trauma", "Geriatric Trauma" - CHI/Creighton University Medical Center 2019
• Lecture to Advanced Trauma Care for Nurses "Abdominal Trauma" and "Thoracic Trauma" - CHI/Creighton University Medical Center 2019
• John Aucar, A Bibliometric Analysis of the Acute Care Surgery Literature 2005 to 2015. North Texas Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, Dallas, TX. 2016
• Jeffry Kashuk MD, John Aucar MD MSHI, Pamela Colvin RN, JOhn Josephs MD, Kent Skipper MD, Ari Lipsky MD PhD. Burnout vs. Nirvana: What is the Ideal Trauma/Acute Care Surgery Model? Southwestern Surgical Congress, Scottsdale, AZ. 2014