Education

• MD, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 1975
• Residency in Surgery, Ohio State University Hospitals, Columbus, OH, 1975-1976, 1977-1979, 1981-1983
• Research Fellowship in Respiratory Distress, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1976-1977
• Clinical Fellowship, American Cancer Society, 1976-1977
• Research Fellowship in Trauma and Burn, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 1979-1981

Clinical Specialties

Dr. Kudsk specializes in trauma, surgical critical care, surgical nutrition and adult general surgery.

Dr. Kudsk provides a wide range of services including Appendectomy, Cholecystectomy (Gallbladder Removal), Excision of Ganglion Cyst, Excision of Lipoma, Groin Pain After Hernia, Laparoscopic Groin Hernia Repair, Open Groin Hernia Repair, Sebaceous Cyst Removal, Subcutaneous Tumor Removal, Trauma Surgery, and Ventral / Abdominal Hernia Repair.

Research Interests

Dr. Kudsk conducts basic research studying the interactions between nutritional status and infectious risk in surgical and critically injured patients. His research program investigates the effect of route and type of nutrition on mucosal immunity in the intestinal and respiratory tracts.

Active Clinical Trials

• Phase III Study on the Efficacy of Glutamine Dipeptide-Supplemented Parenteral Nutrition in Surgical ICU Patients
  Principal Investigator(s): Kenneth Allan Kudsk, MD
  Status: Active, not recruiting
  [ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT00248638]
  More Information

Recent Publications

• Route and type of nutrition and surgical stress influence secretory phospholipase A2 secretion of the murine small intestine.
  Pierre JF, Heneghan AF, Tsao FH, Sano Y, Jonker MA, Omata J, Lan J, Kudsk KA
  JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr 2011 Nov; 35(6):748-56.
  [PubMed ID: 22042050, PMC ID: 3341967]
  More Information
• Nutrition and gut immunity.
  Fukatsu K, Kudsk KA
  Surg. Clin. North Am. 2011 Aug; 91(4):755-70, vii.
  [PubMed ID: 21787966, PMC ID: 3144400]
  More Information
• Parenteral nutrition impairs lymphotoxin β receptor signaling via NF-κB.
  Lan J, Heneghan AF, Sano Y, Jonker MA, Omata J, Xu W, Pierre JF, Kudsk KA
  Ann. Surg. 2011 May; 253(5):996-1003.
  [PubMed ID: 21368655, PMC ID: 3079800]
  More Information
• A team-based protocol and electromagnetic technology eliminate feeding tube placement complications.
  Koopmann MC, Kudsk KA, Szotkowski MJ, Rees SM
  Ann. Surg. 2011 Feb; 253(2):287-302.
  [PubMed ID: 21135697]
  More Information
• Injury induces localized airway increases in pro-inflammatory cytokines in humans and mice.
  Jonker MA, Hermsen JL, Gomez FE, Sano Y, Kudsk KA
  Surg Infect (Larchmt) 2011 Feb; 12(1):49-56.
  [PubMed ID: 21166596, PMC ID: 3064869]
  More Information