Kristy Hawley, MD, MPH

Professional Titles

• Program Director, Surgical Critical Care Fellowship
• Associate Program Director, Acute Care Surgery Fellowship
• Director of Robotic Surgery Education, General Surgery Residency Program

Publications

• Mathai S, Wolverton R, Hildebrand R, Jenson W, Marshall WA, Cripps MW, Schroeppel TJ, Hawley KL. Hybrid Delivery of ATLS Maintains Learner Outcomes. J Surg Educ. 2026 Mar;83(3):103852. PubMed PMID: 41576561
• Hawley KL, Jenson WR, Etra JW, Marshall WA. Letter to the editor: Enoxaparin in trauma patients with epidural analgesia - it is time to challenge ASRA's warnings. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2025 Dec 5;50(12):996. PubMed PMID: 39142720
• Stocker BWW, Raeburn CD, Marshall WA, Cripps MW, Hawley KL. Management of penetrating neck injury to zone III in an initially unstable patient. Trauma Surg Acute Care Open. 2025;10(2):e001724. PubMed PMID: 40390865
• Hawley KL, Nagaraj M, Marshall WA. Optimizing robotic utilization: the role of preoperative grading scales in prioritizing robotic surgery for minimally invasive cholecystectomy. Trauma Surg Acute Care Open. 2025;10(1):e001713. PubMed PMID: 39845999
• Sater A, Meiler S, Jenson WR, Hawley KL, Marshall WA. Drain erosion into duodenum after cholecystectomy. Trauma Surg Acute Care Open. 2025;10(4):e001899. PubMed PMID: 41426501
• Hawley KL, Burlew CC. Operative management of enteral access in acute care surgery-What you need to know. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2025 Dec 17. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 41417699
• Dhillon NK, Harfouche MN, Hawley KL, DuBose JJ, Kozar RA, Scalea TM. Embolization of Pseudoaneurysms is Associated With Improved Outcomes in Blunt Splenic Trauma. J Surg Res. 2024 Jan;293:656-662. PubMed PMID: 37839096
• Schaid TR, Marshall WA, Burlew CC, Hawley KL. Endovascular control of ongoing pelvic hemorrhage after intraoperative arterial shunting and venous ligation in peripheral vascular trauma. Trauma Surg Acute Care Open. 2024;9(1):e001595. PubMed PMID: 39563660
• Dhillon NK, Harfouche MN, Hawley KL, DuBose JJ, Kozar RA, Scalea TM. Embolization of Pseudoaneurysms is Associated With Improved Outcomes in Blunt Splenic Trauma. J Surg Res. 2024 Jan;293:656-662. PubMed PMID: 37839096
• Hawley KL, Jenson WR, Etra JW, Marshall WA. Letter to the editor: Enoxaparin in trauma patients with epidural analgesia - it is time to challenge ASRA's warnings. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2024 Aug 13. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 39142720
• Sater A, Marshall WA, Jenson WR, Hawley KL. Beyond guidelines: surgical stabilization of rib fractures in patients with chronic pain. Trauma Surg Acute Care Open. 2024;9(1):e001556. PubMed PMID: 39161374
• Radding S, Harfouche MN, Dhillon NK, Ko A, Hawley KL, Kundi R, Maddox JS, Radowsky JS, DuBose JJ, Feliciano DV, Kozar RA, Scalea TM. A PSEUDO-DILEMMA: ARE WE OVER-DIAGNOSING AND OVER-TREATING TRAUMATIC SPLENIC INTRAPARENCHYMAL PSEUDOANEURYSMS?. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2023 Aug 21. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 37599423
• Hawley KL, Dhillon NK, DuBose JJ, Kozar RA, Scalea TM, Harfouche MN. Surveillance Imaging Associated With Delayed Splenectomy in High-Grade Blunt Splenic Trauma. Am Surg. 2023 Jul;89(7):3214-3216. PubMed PMID: 36802823
• Harfouche MN, Dhillon NK, Hawley KL, DuBose JJ, Kozar RA, Feliciano DV, Scalea TM. Time to Splenic Angioembolization Does Not Impact Splenic Salvage Rates. Am Surg. 2023 Aug;89(8):3493-3495. PubMed PMID: 36878008
• Hall DJ, Mira JC, Hoffman MR, Keshava HB, Olsen KR, Hardaway JC, Underwood PW, Hawley KL, Turner PL, Antony AB, Vasilopoulos T, Mouawad NJ. Postoperative surgical trainee opioid prescribing practices (POST-OPP): A national survey. J Opioid Manag. 2019 Jul Aug;15(4):307-322. PubMed PMID: 31637683
• Mehta A, Xu T, Bai G, Hawley KL, Makary MA. The Impact of Price Transparency for Surgical Services. Am Surg. 2018 Apr 1;84(4):604-608. PubMed PMID: 29712614
• Mazer-Amirshahi M, Goyal M, Umar SA, Fox ER, Zocchi M, Hawley KL, Pines JM. U.S. drug shortages for medications used in adult critical care (2001-2016). J Crit Care. 2017 Oct;41:283-288. PubMed PMID: 28622641
• Hawley KL, Mazer-Amirshahi M, Zocchi MS, Fox ER, Pines JM. Longitudinal Trends in U.S. Drug Shortages for Medications Used in Emergency Departments (2001-2014). Acad Emerg Med. 2016 Jan;23(1):63-9. PubMed PMID: 26715487
• Mazer-Amirshahi M, Hawley KL, Zocchi M, Fox E, Pines JM, Nelson LS. Drug shortages: Implications for medical toxicology. Clin Toxicol (Phila). 2015 Jul;53(6):519-24. PubMed PMID: 25951876
• Quadri F, Mazer-Amirshahi M, Fox ER, Hawley KL, Pines JM, Zocchi MS, May L. Antibacterial drug shortages from 2001 to 2013: implications for clinical practice. Clin Infect Dis. 2015 Jun 15;60(12):1737-42. PubMed PMID: 25908680
• Hawley KL, Roberto CA, Bragg MA, Liu PJ, Schwartz MB, Brownell KD. The science on front-of-package food labels. Public Health Nutr. 2013 Mar;16(3):430-9. PubMed PMID: 22440538
• Singh N, Hawley KL, Viswanathan K. Efficacy of porcine versus bovine surfactants for preterm newborns with respiratory distress syndrome: systematic review and meta-analysis. Pediatrics. 2011 Dec;128(6):e1588-95. PubMed PMID: 22123870

Practice Locations

• University of Colorado Hospital

Specialty Information

• Surgery, Board Certification
• Surgical Critical Care, Board Certification

• Critical Care
• Digestive System - Hernia
• Digestive System
• Digestive System - Biliary Surgery
• Digestive System - Gastrointestinal Surgery
• Emergency Care
• Injuries and Wounds
• Surgery - Laparoscopic Surgery
• Surgery
• Surgery - Trauma and Acute Care
• Surgery - Robotic Surgery