Liechty, Andrew

By Michael Hilleary | October 10, 2022

 

 

Andrew Liechty, MD

Portrait photo of Dr. Andrew Liechty

Hometown:

Edmonds, WA

Undergraduate School:

University of Washington

Medical School:

WSU Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine

Bio:

After graduating from UW with a global health minor, I joined the Peace Corps where I served in Guyana working as a health services volunteer. From that experience I became very interested in expanding rural and underserved surgical care. I joined ESFCOM to be part of their inaugural class where I could shape their rural program.

Personal Interests:

When I am not in the hospital I like to climb, ski, or spend my time eating my way around Seattle. I have climbed all the volcanoes in Washington and hope to soon have skied them all as well.

Clinical Interests:

Personally, I am interested in exploring how we can better deliver surgical care to those in our rural and underserved communities. In those communities, patients often delay their healthcare due to work, travel time/distance to surgeon, and lack of access. In the US, rural hospitals are closing at record rates and the ability to deliver the care to those in these communities will only become more difficult. I aim to start understanding the root causes and finding ways to implement better systems in order to get patients the surgical care they need.

Publications:

  1. Meyerson J, Shields T, Liechty A, O’Brien A. Creating a Rural Plastic Surgery Practice: Social and Financial Impacts. Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open. 2022 May 2;10(5):e4293. doi: 10.1097/GOX.0000000000004293. PMID: 35510225; PMCID: PMC9061147.
  2. Meyerson J, Liechty A, Shields T, Netscher D. A National Survey of Hand Surgeons: Understanding the Rural Landscape. Hand (N Y). 2021 Dec 28:15589447211058811. doi: 10.1177/15589447211058811. PMID: 34963333.
  3. Liechty AE, Pacifico A, Brant-Zawadzki P. Successful Endovascular Treatment of Abdominal Aortic Rupture Secondary to Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine. J Vasc Surg Cases Innov Tech. 2021 Nov 22;8(1):19-22. doi: 10.1016/j.jvscit.2021.11.002. PMID: 35024524; PMCID: PMC8731694.
  4. Liechty AE, Meyerson JM, Manders EK. A Surgical Crisis in America: An Opportunity for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Training. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2021 Nov 1;148(5):871e-872e. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000008473. PMID: 34609998.
  5. Liechty AE, O’Rorke EV, French MM, Vu GH, Robinson EM, Cho DY, Friedrich JB, Susarla SM. Globalization of The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery Over The Last Decade: A Continent, Country, and State Level Analysis. J Craniofac Surg. 2021 Feb 12. doi: 10.1097/SCS.0000000000007450. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33587524 
  6. AE. Liechty, Liu Y. MD, PhD, Kao D.S. MD Brachial Plexus Desmoid Tumor: Care for Functional Preservation, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery – Global Open: December 2020 – Volume 8 – Issue 12 – p e3293 doi: 10.1097/GOX.0000000000003293
  7. AE. Liechty, J.R. Sherpa, J.S. Trejo, M.M. French, C.J. Kneib, D.Y. Cho, J.B. Friedrich.  Globalization of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery: A Continent, Country, and State-Level Analysis of Publications.  Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery: Global Open (2020) 8:e3202.  DOI: 10.1097/GOX.0000000000003202. 
  8. Liechty A, Tsang S, Turkheimer E, Duncan GE. “Association Between Low Back Pain and Body Mass Index in Adult Twins: An analysis of monozygotic and dizygotic twins of the Washington State Twin Registry.” Spine J. 2020; 0(0):1-11. doi:10.1016/j.spinee.2020.06.017