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Justin Wagner, MD, FAAP

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Justin Wagner, MD, FAAP

Teaching Faculty, Division of Pediatric Surgery and Co-Chair, Surgery Clerkship

I am a teaching faculty member in the Division of Pediatric Surgery and Co-Chair of the Surgery Clerkship. My clinical interests are in thoracic, gastrointestinal, trauma, and colorectal surgical conditions in pediatric patients. I am originally from Houston, Texas, though I have been an Angeleno since 2005. Outside of the hospital, I spend time inventing cool games with my daughters, running, and playing my electric violin and mandolin.


Education & Training

  • AB – Human Development, University of Chicago, 2001-2005
  • MD – University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, 2006-2010
  • Residency – General Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine of UCLA, 2010-2017
  • Fellowship – Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center of Omaha/University of Nebraska Medical Center, 2017-2019
  • Fellowship – Medical Education, Innovations in Curriculum Design and Evaluation at David Geffen School of Medicine of UCLA, 2020-2021

Positions

  • Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, UCLA
  • Co-Chair, Surgery Clerkship
  • Chair, Department of Surgery Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Education Subcommittee

Teaching

  • Lectures: Pediatric Surgery, Surgery Clerkship
  • Review Sessions: General Assessment in Surgery, Abdominal CT, Radiographic Studies in Surgery
  • Instructor, Surgical Anatomy Laboratory Dissection Sessions
  • UCLA Division of Pediatric Surgery Weekly Conference, Medical Student Education Program

Current Research & Scholarly Interest

  • My research interests are in surgical education curriculum, global surgical education, innovation in translational therapeutics, and social robotics for pediatric hospitalized patients.

Publications

  • Datta N, MacQueen IT, Schroeder AD, Wilson JJ, Espinoza JC, Wagner JP, Filipi CJ, Chen DC. Wearable technology for global surgical teleproctoring. J Surg Educ 2015;72(6):1290-5.
  • Rouch JD, Wagner JP, Scott A, Sullins VF, Chen DC, DeUgarte DA, Shew SB, Tillou A, Dunn JCY, Lee SL. Innovation in pediatric surgical education for general surgery residents: A mobile web resource. J Surg Educ 2015;72(6):1190-4.
  • Khalil HA, Kobayashi M, Rana P, Wagner JP, Scott A, Yoo J, Dunn JC. Mouse model of endoscopically ablated enteric nervous system. J Surg Res 2016;200(1):117-21.
  • Wagner JP, Schroeder AD, Espinoza JC, Hiatt JR, Mellinger JD, Cusick RA, Fitzgibbons RJ, Campanelli G, Cavalli M, Roll S, Silva RA, Reinpold W, Télémaque LF, Matthews BD, Filipi CJ, Chen DC. Global outreach using a systematic, competency-based training paradigm for inguinal hernioplasty. JAMA Surgery 2017;152(1)66-73.
  • Moore AM, Datta N, Wagner JP, Schroeder AD, Reinpold W, Franciss MY, Silva RA, Chen DC, Filipi CJ, Roll S. Centralized, capacity-building training of Lichtenstein hernioplasty in Brazil. Am J Surg 2017;213(2):277-281.
  • Moore AM, Carter NH, Wagner JP, Filipi CJ, Chen DC. Web-based video assessments of operative performance for remote teleproctoring. Surg Technol Int 2017;30:25-30.
  • Schroeder AD, Campanelli G, Cavalli M, Cusick R, Fitzgibbons R, Gilbert A, Lawson C, Manion J, Matthews B, Reinpold W, Roll S, Telemaque LF, Wagner JP, Chen DC, Filipi CJ. Humanitarianism in surgery. Hernia 2017;21(6):963-71.
  • Wagner JP, Cochran AL, Jones C, Gusani NJ, Varghese TK Jr, Attai DJ. Professional use of social media among surgeons: Results of a multi-institutional study. J Surg Educ 2018;75(3):804-10.
  • Wagner JP, Lewis CE, Tillou A, Agopian VG, Quach C, Donahue TR, Hines OJ. Use of entrustable professional activities in the assessment of surgical resident competency. JAMA Surgery 2018;153(4):335-43.
  • Wagner JP, Cusick RA. Paint and wait management of giant omphaloceles. Semin Pediatr Surg 2019;28(2):95-100.
  • Huang IA, Lu Y, Wagner JP, Quach C, Donahue TR, Tillou A, Chen F, Wu J. Multi-institutional virtual mock oral examinations for general surgery residents in the era of COVID-19. Am J Surg 2021;221(2):429-30.

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