Carla M. Pugh, MD, PhD Print Friendly Page
Faculty, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public HealthDr. Pugh is certified by the American Board of Surgery. She specializes in general surgery and is a member of the Department of Surgery's Section of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery and serves on UW Health's Trauma Surgery team.
In 2011 Dr. Pugh received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. She is also the developer of several decision-based simulators that are currently being used to assess intra-operative judgment and team skills.
Specialties
UW Health Clinics
Hospital Affiliation(s)
Languages Spoken
| English |
| Medical interpreters are available to help patients communicate with hospital and clinic staff. For more information, please contact interpreter services at (608) 262-9000. |
UW School of Medicine and Public Health
| Department of Surgery |
Professional Certifications and Education
| Board Certification |
Surgery
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| Fellowship |
Acute Care Surgery, University of Michigan Department of Surgery |
| Residency |
Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC
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| Internship |
Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC
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| Medical School |
Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, D.C., 1998
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Procedures
Our doctors provide a wide range of services. The following list represents some, but not all, of the procedures offered by this physician.
- Trauma Surgery
| Research |
Dr. Pugh's research interests include the use of simulation technology for medical and surgical education. Dr. Pugh holds a method patent on the use of sensor and data acquisition technology to measure and characterize the sense of touch. Currently, more than 100 medical and nursing schools use one of her sensor-enabled training tools for their students and trainees. The use of simulation technology to assess and quantitatively define hands-on clinical skills is one of her major research areas. |
PubMed Articles
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Salud LH Kwan C Pugh CM .
Simplifying touch data from tri-axial sensors using a new data visualization tool. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2013;184:370-6
[PubMed ID: 23400186]
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Huang FC Mussa-Ivaldi FA Pugh CM Patton JL .
Learning Kinematic Constraints in Laparoscopic Surgery. IEEE Trans Haptics. 2012 Oct;5(4):356-364
[PubMed ID: 23293709]
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Pugh CM .
Warm-ups, mental rehearsals and deliberate practice: adopting the strategies of elite professionals. J Surg Res. 2012 Aug;176(2):404-5
[PubMed ID: 21816430]
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Pugh CM .
Medical education meets patient safety. J Surg Res. 2012 Aug;176(2):400-1
[PubMed ID: 21816429]
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Andrew B Plachta S Salud L Pugh CM .
Development and evaluation of a decision-based simulation for assessment of team skills. Surgery. 2012 Aug;152(2):152-7
[PubMed ID: 22503511]
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Rooney DM Hungness ES Darosa DA Pugh CM .
Can skills coaches be used to assess resident performance in the skills laboratory? Surgery. 2012 Jun;151(6):796-802
[PubMed ID: 22652120]
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Clark RE Pugh CM Yates KA Inaba K Green DJ Sullivan ME .
The use of cognitive task analysis to improve instructional descriptions of procedures. J Surg Res. 2012 Mar;173(1):e37-42
[PubMed ID: 22099596]
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Darosa DA Pugh CM .
Error training: missing link in surgical education. Surgery. 2012 Feb;151(2):139-45
[PubMed ID: 22088811]
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Salud LH Ononye CI Kwan C Salud JC Pugh CM .
Clinical examination simulation: getting to real. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2012;173:424-9
[PubMed ID: 22357030]
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Nisky I Huang F Milstein A Pugh CM Mussa-Ivaldi FA Karniel A .
Perception of stiffness in laparoscopy - the fulcrum effect. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2012;173:313-9
[PubMed ID: 22357009]
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Pugh CM Iannitelli KB Rooney D Salud L .
Use of mannequin-based simulation to decrease student anxiety prior to interacting with male teaching associates. Teach Learn Med. 2012;24(2):122-7
[PubMed ID: 22490092]
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Pugh CM Bevan MG Duve RJ White HL Magee JH Wiehagen GB .
A retrospective review of TATRC funding for medical modeling and simulation technologies. Simul Healthc. 2011 Aug;6(4):218-25
[PubMed ID: 21546864]
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Pugh CM .
Mechanical simulators versus patient actors: addressing the content validity question. J Surg Res. 2011 Jun 15;168(2):177-8
[PubMed ID: 20828729]
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Pugh CM Santacaterina S DaRosa DA Clark RE .
Intra-operative decision making: more than meets the eye. J Biomed Inform. 2011 Jun;44(3):486-96
[PubMed ID: 20096376]
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Pugh CM .
Low-cost, locally fabricated simulators: the wave of the future. J Surg Res. 2011 Jun 1;168(1):29-30
[PubMed ID: 20851416]
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Scott DJ Pugh CM Ritter EM Jacobs LM Pellegrini CA Sachdeva AK .
New directions in simulation-based surgical education and training: validation and transfer of surgical skills, use of nonsurgeons as faculty, use of simulation to screen and select surgery residents, and long-term follow-up of learners. Surgery. 2011 Jun;149(6):735-44
[PubMed ID: 21295810]
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Pugh CM DaRosa DA Santacaterina S Clark RE .
Faculty evaluation of simulation-based modules for assessment of intraoperative decision making. Surgery. 2011 Apr;149(4):534-42
[PubMed ID: 21216420]
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Rooney D Pugh CM Darosa DA .
Northwestern Center for Advanced Surgical Education (N-CASE). J Surg Educ. 2011 Jan-Feb;68(1):73-6
[PubMed ID: 21292220]
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Salud LH Pugh CM .
Use of sensor technology to explore the science of touch. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2011;163:542-8
[PubMed ID: 21335853]
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Salud LH Peniche AR Salud JC de Hoyos AL Pugh CM .
Toward a simulation and assessment method for the practice of camera-guided rigid bronchoscopy. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2011;163:535-41
[PubMed ID: 21335852]
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Salud JC Blossfield Iannitelli K Salud LH Pugh CM .
Are commercially available simulators durable enough for classroom use? Stud Health Technol Inform. 2011;163:531-4
[PubMed ID: 21335851]
