Mehta, Kajal

By Michael Hilleary | July 26, 2017

 

 

Kajal Mehta, MD, MPH

Portrait photo of Dr. Kajal Mehta

Hometown:

Lake Jackson, Texas

Undergraduate School:

University of Texas at Austin

Graduate School:

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Medical School:

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Bio:

I’m a native Texan, and made my way to Seattle for residency. During medical school I participated in the global health track, and also got my MPH in Global Health and Population studies. I chose UW because of the fantastic burn and trauma/critical care programs as well as support for global health/global surgery. I spent my two research years as an NIH/Fogarty Global Health Research Fellow working with partners in Nepal and Ghana, focused on global burn injury prevention, management and control.

Personal Interests:

Cooking/exploring new restaurants, gardening, spirituality, spending time with friends and family

Clinical Interests:

Burn/reconstructive surgery, global burn/Injury prevention, health systems strengthening

Professional Activities:

NIH Fogarty Fellow
RAS-ACS Global Surgery Working Group, Executive Leadership
UW Resident Women’s Council, Co-Chair
UW PROGRESS, Resident Lead

Why UW?

UW stood out as a program with excellent opportunities for clinical training across diverse settings. My passion and career goals are in global public health and global surgery, and I found UW to have a long track-record of supporting those interests, but also flexibility to explore and build new partnerships and ideas according to my own interests. My clinical interests are in burns and trauma, and this is one of the top burn/trauma programs in the country – I’ve been really fortunate for the opportunities to combine all of my interests here at UW.

What advice do you have for incoming interns?

Try to connect with the humanity in each person you interact with throughout your day – patients, patient families, staff, your colleagues. It makes life better for everyone.

What do you like best about living in Seattle?

The natural beauty – I think it is one of the most beautiful places in the world! But what makes Seattle home are these my lovely residency friends who have become family.

Publications:

  1. Mesic A, Gyedu A, Mehta K, Goodman S, Mock C, Quansah R, Donkor P, Stewart B. Factors contributing to and reducing delays in the provision of adequate care in Ghana: a qualitative study of trauma care providers. Accepted in World Journal of Surgery, July 2022.
  2. Cockrell H, Maine RG, Hansen EE, Mehta K, Rebollo-Salazar D, Stewart BT, Greenberg SLM. Environmental impact of telehealth use for pediatric surgery. Accepted in Journal of Pediatric Surgery, June 2022.
  3. Gyedu A, Mehta K, Baidoo H, Addo H, Abdullah M, Mesic A, Sanosorn A, Cancio L, Yadav M, Nakarmi K, Stewart BT. Preferences for oral rehydration drinks among healthy individuals in Ghana: a single-blind, cross-sectional survey to inform implementation of an enterally based resuscitation protocol for burn injury. May 2022; DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2022.05.016
  4. Hebron C, Mehta K, Price T, Stewart BT, Potokar T. Lessons learned from the implementation of the WHO Global Burn Registry: barriers and facilitators to adoption, use and promulgation. Annals of Global Health. April 2022; DOI: 10.5334/aogh.3669
  5. Stewart BT, Mehta K, Drago M, Henry S, Joseph K, Strong K, Trostchansky J, Jogensen J, Leung G, Abi-Saad G, Bulger E, Mock . Global Survey of Demand-Side Factors and Incentives that Influence Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) Promulgation. World Journal of Surgery. 2022 Feb; DOI: 10.1007/s00268-022-06461-9
  6. Mehta K, Arega H, Smith NL, Li K, Gause E, Meddings D, Stewart BT. Sex Differences in burn injuries, care and outcomes: a World Health Organization (WHO) Global Burn Registry cohort study. American Journal of Surgery. 2022 January; DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2021.07.041
  7. Mehta K, Thrikutam N, Hoyte-Williams P, Nakarmi K, Meddings D, Stewart BT. Epidemiology and outcomes of cookstove-related burn injuries: A World Health Organization Global Burn Registry Report. Journal of Burn Care and Research. 2021 November; DOI: 10.1093/jbcr/irab166
  8. Scott E, Mehta K, Sherif Y, Davis RW. Leveraging the surgeon’s role in health policy to address global road traffic injury. Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons. August 2021. Volume 106, No. 8.
  9. Li K, Mehta K, Wright A, Lee J, Pham T, Yadav M, Rai S, Nakarmi K, Stewart BT. Identifying hospitals in Nepal for burn care capacity development: Location-allocation modeling for better service delivery. Journal of Burn Care and Research. 2021 April; DOI: 10.1093/jbcr/irab064
  10. Stewart BT, Gyedu A, Otupiri E, Nakkua E, Mehta K, Donkor P, Mock C. Comparison of childhood household injuries and risk factors between urban and rural communities in Ghana: A cluster-randomized, population-based, survey to inform injury prevention research and programming. Accepted 2021 July; DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2021.04.050.
  11. Mehta K, Gyedu A, Otupiri E, Donkor P, Mock C, Stewart BT. Incidence of childhood burn injuries and modifiable household risk factors in rural Ghana: a cluster-randomized, population-based, household survey.   2020 October; DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2020.09.001
  12. Roberson JL, Pham J, Shen J, Stewart K, Hoyte-Williams PE, Mehta K, Rai SM, Morales Pedraza J, Allorto N, Pham TN, Stewart BT. Lessons Learned from Implementation and Management of Skin Allograft Banking Programs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review.  Journal of Burn Care and Research. 2020 June; DOI: 10.1093/jbcr/iraa093
  13. Ready FL, Gebremedhem YD, Worku M, Mehta K, Eshte M, GoldenMerry YL, Nwariaku FE, Wolf SE, Phelan HA. Epidemiologic shifts for burn injury in Ethiopia from 2001 to 2016: Implications for public health measures. 2018 July; DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2018.04.005
  14. Springer AE, Li L, Ranjit N, Delk J, Mehta K, Kelder SH.  School-level economic disadvantage and obesity in middle school children in central Texas.International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. 2015 Jul; DOI: 10.1186/1479-5868-12-s1-s8