Kinga A. Powers, MD, PhD — Academic Profile

I am dedicated to help patients achieve their individual health and lifestyle goals using advanced surgical technologies and compassionate care.

My research interests focus on developing clinical pathways for surgical treatments and educational platforms for surgery residents and medical students that enhance quality and safety of patient care.   

With the experienced multidisciplinary team at Stony Brook Bariatric and Weight Loss Center, we provide a wholistic approach and state of the art minimally invasive techniques to treat obesity and its related diseases.

• Top Hat Awards for Clinical Care (2016, 2017, 2018)
  Top Docs 2015 of Roanoke Valley (2015)
  Award for Dedication and Excellence in Clinical Care (2009)
  Region XII Winner, Basic Science, Scientific Papers on Trauma Residents' Competition, The American College of Surgeons (2005)
  Honorable Mention, Gallie Bateman Resident's Competition, University of Toronto (2005)
  Wyeth Scholar Award, Resident Research Scholarship, The American College of Surgeons (2004)
  Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Bayer Healthcare/CIDS Fellowship, University of Toronto (2004)
  William S. Fenwick Fellowship Postgraduate Medicine Award, University of Toronto (2004)
  1st Place The Shock Society Scientific Talk Competition, The Shock Society (2003)
  Travel Award, The Shock Society Abstract Competition, The Shock Society (2003)
  1st Place University of Toronto Annual Assembly of Surgeons and Residents Residents' Competition, University of Toronto (2003)
  1st Place Surgical Infection Society Poster Competition, Surgical Infection Society (2002)
  3rd Place Annual Trauma Research Day, Residents' Competition, University of Toronto (2002) 
  Honorable Mention, Gallie Bateman Residents' Competition, University of Toronto (2002)
  Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Toronto (2002)
  Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Glaxo Welcome/CIDS Fellowship, University of Toronto (2001)
  Reymont Foundation Scholarship of Academic Distinction (1996)
  Massachusetts General Hospital, Research Scholarship, Harvard Medical School (1995)

   

• Book Chapters

  Powers, K.A., Whitmer K., (2019). Chapter 121: Surgical Procedures performed in Radiology Suites. In Daniel B. Jones and Steven D. Schwaitzberg, Operative Endoscopic and Minimally Invasive Surgery (1st Edition). CRC Press. Published.

  Powers, K. A., Knott, E. M., (2015). Chapter 13: Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair. In D. B. Jones, R. Andrews, J. F. Critchlow, & B. E. Schneider (Eds.), Minimally Invasive Surgery Laparoscopy, Therapeutic Endoscopy and NOTES (1st Edition). JP Medical Publishers. Published.

  Powers, K. A., Jones, D. B., (2012). Chapter 202: Totally Extraperitoneal Inguinal Hernia Repair. In J. E. Fischer, F. B. Pompselli, & G. R. Upchurch Jr. (Eds.), Mastery of Surgery (6th Edition). Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Published.

  Powers, K. A., (2012). Chapter 29: High Fidelity Simulation: Mock Operating Room. In S. T. Tsuda, D. J. Scott, & D. B. Jones (Eds.), Textbook of Simulation Surgical Skills and Team Training (1st Edition). Cine-Med Inc.. Published.

  Powers, K. A., (2010). Gastric Pacing/Neuromodulation. In D. B. Jones, B. E. Schneider, & T. Olbers (Eds.), The Atlas of Metabolic and Weight Loss Surgery (1st Edition). Cine-Med Inc.. Published.

  Powers, K. A., Rehrig, S. T., Jones, D. B., (2009). Chapter 7: Simulation and Simulators. In N. J. Soper, L. L. Swanstrom, & W. S. Eubanks (Eds.), Mastery of Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgery (3rd Edition). Lippincott Williams and Wiklins. Published.

  Powers, K. A., Jones, D. B., Rehrig, S. T., (2008). Chapter 53: Safer Surgery Through Simulation. In S. B. Jones (Ed.), Obesity Surgery: Patient Safety and Best Practices (1st Edition). Woodbury: Cine-Med Publishing Inc.. Published.

  
  Journal Articles

  Telem, D. A., Gould, J., Pesta, C., Powers, K. A., Majid, S., Greenberg, J. A., Teixeira, A., Brounts, L., Lin, H., DeMaria, E., Rosenthal, R. (2017, May 1). American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery: care pathway for laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy. Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery, 13(5). doi: 10.1016/j.soard.2017.01.027. PMID: 28416400. Published.

  Hamill, M. E., Reed, C. R., Fogel, S. L., Bradburn, E. H., Powers, K. A., Bower, K. L., Baker, C. C., Collier, B. R. (2017, April 1). Contact Isolation Precautions in Trauma Patients: An Analysis of Infectious Complications. Surgical infections, 18(3), 273-281. doi: 10.1089/sur.2015.094. PMID: 28085576. Published.

  Telem, D. A., Majid, S. F., Powers, K. A., DeMaria, E., Morton, J., Jones, D. B. (2017, February 1). Assessing national provision of care: variability in bariatric clinical care pathways. Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery, 13(2). doi: 10.1016/j.soard.2016.08.002. PMID: 27887932. Published.

  Seymour, N. E., Paige, J. T., Arora, S., Fernandez, G. L., Aggarwal, R., Tsuda, S. T., Powers, K. A., Langlois, G., Stefanidis, D. (2016, January 1). Putting the MeaT into TeaM Training: Development, Delivery, and Evaluation of a Surgical Team-Training Workshop. Journal of surgical education, 73(1). doi: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2015.08.008. PMID: 26481423. Published. Page 10

  Tawadros, P. S., Powers, K. A., Ailenberg, M., Birch, S. E., Marshall, J. C., Szaszi, K., Kapus, A., Rotstein, O. D. (2015, August 1). Oxidative Stress Increases Surface Toll-Like Receptor 4 Expression in Murine Macrophages Via Ceramide Generation. Shock (Augusta, Ga.), 44(2). doi: 10.1097/SHK.0000000000000392. PMID: 25944793. Published.

  Powers, K. A., Rehrig, S. T., Schwaitzberg, S. D., Callery, M. P., Jones, D. B. (2009, May 1). Seasoned surgeons assessed in a laparoscopic surgical crisis. Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, 13(5). doi: 10.1007/s11605-009-0802-1. PMID: 19190969. Published.

  Powers, K. A., Rehrig, S. T., Jones, D. B. (2008). Integrating Simulation in Surgery as a Teaching Tool and Credentialing Standard. J Gastrointest Surg. Published.

  Powers, K. A., Rehrig, S. T., Irias, N., Albano, H. A., Malinow, A., Jones, S. B., Moorman, D. W., Pawlowski, J. B., Jones, D. B. (2008, April 1). Simulated laparoscopic operating room crisis: An approach to enhance the surgical team performance. Surgical endoscopy, 22(4). doi: 10.1007/s00464-007-9678-x. PMID: 18071813. Published.

  Rehrig, S. T., Powers, K. A., Jones, D. B. (2008, February 1). Integrating simulation in surgery as a teaching tool and credentialing standard. Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, 12(2). doi: 10.1007/s11605-007-0250-8. PMID: 18004630. Published.

  Powers, K. A., Rehrig, T. S., Irias, N., Albano, H. A., Feinstein, D. M., Johansson, A. C., Jones, A. B., Malinow, A., Moorman, D. W., Pawlowski, J. B., Jones, D. B. (2007). Simulated Laparoscopic Operating Room Crisis: Approach to Enhance the Surgical Team Performance. Surg Endosc.. Published.

  Tawadros, P. S., Powers, K. A., Yang, I., Becker, D. A., Ginsberg, M. D., Szaszi, K., Kapus, A., Rotstein, O. D. (2007, November 1). Stilbazulenyl nitrone decreases oxidative stress and reduces lung injury after hemorrhagic shock/resuscitation and LPS. Antioxidants & redox signaling, 9(11). doi: 10.1089/ars.2007.1765. Published.

  Powers, K. A., Rehrig, S. T., Jones, D. B. (2007, May 1). Financial impact of obesity and bariatric surgery. The Medical clinics of North America, 91(3). doi: 10.1016/j.mcna.2007.01.001. PMID: 17509381. Published.

  Powers, K. A., Szászi, K., Khadaroo, R. G., Tawadros, P. S., Marshall, J. C., Kapus, A., Rotstein, O. D. (2006, August 7). Oxidative stress generated by hemorrhagic shock recruits Toll-like receptor 4 to the plasma membrane in macrophages. The Journal of experimental medicine, 203(8). doi: 10.1084/jem.20060943. PMID: 16847070. Published.

  Powers, K. A., Zurawska, J., Szaszi, K., Khadaroo, R. G., Kapus, A., Rotstein, O. D. (2005, January 1). Hypertonic resuscitation of hemorrhagic shock prevents alveolar macrophage activation by preventing systemic oxidative stress due to gut ischemia/reperfusion. Surgery, 137(1). doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2004.05.051. Published.

  Khadaroo, R. G., Fan, J., Powers, K. A., Fann, B., Kapus, A., Rotstein, O. D. (2004, October 1). Impaired induction of IL-10 expression in the lung following hemorrhagic shock. Shock (Augusta, Ga.), 22(4). Published.

  Khadaroo, R. G., Fan, J., Powers, K. A., Fann, B., Kapus, A., Rotstein, O. D. (2004, October 1). Impaired induction of IL-10 expression in the lung following hemorrhagic shock. Shock (Augusta, Ga.), 22(4). PMID: 15377888. Published.

  Khadaroo, R. G., He, R., Parodo, J., Powers, K. A., Marshall, J. C., Kapus, A., Rotstein, O. D. (2004, August 1). The role of the Src family of tyrosine kinases after oxidant-induced lung injury in vivo. Surgery, 136(2). doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2004.05.029. PMID: 15300219. Published. Page 11

  Khadaroo, R. G., He, R., Parodo, J., Powers, K. A., Marshall, J. C., Kapus, A., Rotstein, O. D. (2004, August 1). The role of the Src family of tyrosine kinases after oxidant-induced lung injury in vivo. Surgery, 136(2). doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2004.05.029. Published.

  Khadaroo, R. G., Kapus, A., Powers, K. A., Cybulsky, M. I., Marshall, J. C., Rotstein, O. D. (2003, November 28). Oxidative stress reprograms lipopolysaccharide signaling via Src kinase-dependent pathway in RAW 264.7 macrophage cell line. The Journal of biological chemistry, 278(48). doi: 10.1074/jbc.M302660200. Published.

  Khadaroo, R. G., Kapus, A., Powers, K. A., Cybulsky, M. I., Marshall, J. C., Rotstein, O. D. (2003, November 28). Oxidative stress reprograms lipopolysaccharide signaling via Src kinase-dependent pathway in RAW 264.7 macrophage cell line. The Journal of biological chemistry, 278(48). doi: 10.1074/jbc.M302660200. PMID: 12896983. Published.

  Powers, K. A., Kapus, A., Khadaroo, R. G., He, R., Marshall, J. C., Lindsay, T. F., Rotstein, O. D. (2003, September 1). Twenty-five percent albumin prevents lung injury following shock/resuscitation. Critical care medicine, 31(9). doi: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000084846.45830.AA. PMID: 14501967. Published.

  Powers, K. A., Woo, J., Khadaroo, R. G., Papia, G., Kapus, A., Rotstein, O. D. (2003, August 1). Hypertonic resuscitation of hemorrhagic shock upregulates the anti-inflammatory response by alveolar macrophages. Surgery, 134(2). doi: 10.1067/msy.2003.246. PMID: 12947335. Published.

  Khadaroo, R. G., Parodo, J., Powers, K. A., Papia, G., Marshall, J. C., Kapus, A., Rotstein, O. D. (2003, August 1). Oxidant-induced priming of the macrophage involves activation of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase through an Src-dependent pathway. Surgery, 134(2). doi: 10.1067/msy.2003.228. PMID: 12947324. Published.

  Powers, K. A., Kapus, A., Khadaroo, R. G., Papia, G., Rotstein, O. D. (2002, August 1). 25% Albumin modulates adhesive interactions between neutrophils and the endothelium following shock/resuscitation. Surgery, 132(2). Published.

  Powers, K. A., Kapus, A., Khadaroo, R. G., Papia, G., Rotstein, O. D. (2002, August 1). 25% Albumin modulates adhesive interactions between neutrophils and the endothelium following shock/resuscitation. Surgery, 132(2). PMID: 12219040. Published.

  Khadaroo, R. G., Lu, Z., Powers, K. A., Papia, G., Kapus, A., Rotstein, O. D. (2002, August 1). Impaired activation of mitogen-activated protein kinases after hemorrhagic shock. Surgery, 132(2). PMID: 12219035. Published.

  Powers, K. A., Lohmann, R., Souba, W. W., Bode, B. P. (1998). Stimulation of rat hepatic amino acid transport by burn injury. Metabolism. Published.

  Powers, K. A., Dackiw, A. P., Nathens, A. B., Cheung, P. Y., Fingerote, R., Levy, G. A., Rotstein, O. D. (1995). Induction of macrophage procoagulant activity by murine hepatitis virus strain 3: role of tyrosine phosphorylation. J Virol. Published.