Kelsey Hills-Dunlap, MD

Research Interests

Publications

• Hills-Dunlap K, McGrath M, Peterson R, Ho PM, Kiser TH, Vandivier RW, Burnham EL, Moss M, Jolley SE. Epidemiology of Substance-Related Admissions to ICUs in the United States. Crit Care Med. 2025 Nov 1;53(11):e2134-e2143. PubMed PMID: 40736366
• Hills-Dunlap K, Moss M. Beyond Binary: The Potential of Ordinal Outcomes in Critical Care Trials. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2025 Jul;211(7):1117-1119. PubMed PMID: 40208105
• Hills-Dunlap K, Knoepke CE, Matlock DD, Burnham EL, Moss M, Jolley SE, Tietbohl CK. Decisional needs of intensive care unit survivors with alcohol use disorder considering alcohol treatment: A qualitative study. J Subst Use Addict Treat. 2025 Dec;179:209798. PubMed PMID: 40946745
• Orlov M, Rhoads SL, Hills-Dunlap K, Sharma S, Jolley S. A career development programme for women at an academic medical centre. Lancet Respir Med. 2024 Dec 5. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 39647485
• Steel TL, Bhatraju EP, Hills-Dunlap K. Critical care for patients with substance use disorders. Curr Opin Crit Care. 2023 Oct 1;29(5):484-492. PubMed PMID: 37641506
• Warner ASC, Ufere NN, Patel NJ, Lau ES, Uchida AM, Hills-Dunlap K, Bromberg GK, Cunningham EA, Tagerman MD, Mills GG, Palamara K, Rigotti NA, Burnett-Bowie SM, Yeh DD, Tanguturi VK. A Women in Medicine Trainees' Council: a model for women trainee professional development. Postgrad Med J. 2023 Mar 31;99(1168):79-82. PubMed PMID: 36841227
• Lee AG, Maley J, Hibbert K, Akgün KM, Hauschildt KE, Law A, Kaminski N, Hayes M, Gesthalter Y, Bosslet GT, Santhosh L, Witkin A, Hills-Dunlap K, Çoruh B, Gershengorn HB, Hardin CC. Medical Societies Must Choose Professional Meeting Locations Responsibly in a Post-Roe World. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2023 Jun;20(6):781-784. PubMed PMID: 36812378
• Bromberg GK, Gay EA, Hills-Dunlap K, Burnett-Bowie SM. Using a Virtual Platform to Teach Residents How to Respond to Bias. J Gen Intern Med. 2022 Aug;37(11):2871-2872. PubMed PMID: 34642859
• Reichheld AM, Hills-Evans K, Sheehan JK, Tocci NX, Tandon M, Hsu D, Marshall J, O'Donoghue S, Stevens JP. A national survey of approaches to manage the ICU patient with opioid use disorder. J Crit Care. 2019 Dec;54:42-47. PubMed PMID: 31349158
• Maldonado JR, Sher Y, Das S, Hills-Evans K, Frenklach A, Lolak S, Talley R, Neri E. Prospective Validation Study of the Prediction of Alcohol Withdrawal Severity Scale (PAWSS) in Medically Ill Inpatients: A New Scale for the Prediction of Complicated Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome. Alcohol Alcohol. 2015 Sep;50(5):509-18. PubMed PMID: 25999438
• Onofrey S, Aneja J, Haney GA, Nagami EH, DeMaria A Jr, Lauer GM, Hills-Evans K, Barton K, Kulaga S, Bowen MJ, Cocoros N, McGovern BH, Church DR, Kim AY. Underascertainment of acute hepatitis C virus infections in the U.S. surveillance system: a case series and chart review. Ann Intern Med. 2015 Aug 18;163(4):254-61. PubMed PMID: 26121304
• Maldonado JR, Sher Y, Ashouri JF, Hills-Evans K, Swendsen H, Lolak S, Miller AC. The "Prediction of Alcohol Withdrawal Severity Scale" (PAWSS): systematic literature review and pilot study of a new scale for the prediction of complicated alcohol withdrawal syndrome. Alcohol. 2014 Jun;48(4):375-90. PubMed PMID: 24657098
• Neumann-Haefelin C, Oniangue-Ndza C, Kuntzen T, Schmidt J, Nitschke K, Sidney J, Caillet-Saguy C, Binder M, Kersting N, Kemper MW, Power KA, Ingber S, Reyor LL, Hills-Evans K, Kim AY, Lauer GM, Lohmann V, Sette A, Henn MR, Bressanelli S, Thimme R, Allen TM. Human leukocyte antigen B27 selects for rare escape mutations that significantly impair hepatitis C virus replication and require compensatory mutations. Hepatology. 2011 Oct;54(4):1157-66. PubMed PMID: 22006856
• Oniangue-Ndza C, Kuntzen T, Kemper M, Berical A, Wang YE, Neumann-Haefelin C, Foote PK, Hills-Evans K, Reyor LL, Kane K, Gladden AD, Bloom AK, Power KA, Thimme R, Lauer GM, Henn MR, Kim AY, Allen TM. Compensatory mutations restore the replication defects caused by cytotoxic T lymphocyte escape mutations in hepatitis C virus polymerase. J Virol. 2011 Nov;85(22):11883-90. PubMed PMID: 21880756

Professional Memberships

• American Thoracic Society, Member, Early Career Professionals Working Group Subcommittee Lead, Critical Care Assembly
• Research Society on Alcohol, Member
• Society of Critical Care Medicine, Member
• Chest, Member

Practice Locations

• University of Colorado Hospital

Specialty Information

• Internal Medicine
• Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, Board Certification

• Critical Care
• Substance Abuse - Alcoholism
• Substance Abuse
• Substance Abuse - Drug Abuse
• Poisoning, Toxicology, Environmental Health
• Lungs and Breathing
• Infections