Home town: Boise, Idaho
Interests/Hobbies: Outdoors, Playing soccer, Travel, Good food, My wife and dog
EDUCATION
Undergraduate: Pomona College
Medical School: David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Internship: General Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Residency: Orthopedic Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
RESEARCH INTEREST
Capacity building and training in global surgery
Funding and research productivity in academic orthopedic departments
AWARDS/ GRANTS
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
Infectious Disease Society of America Medical Scholar
PUBLICATIONS
Alexandra I Stavrakis, Ankur D Patel, Zachary DC Burke, Amanda H Loftin, Erik M Dworsky, Mauricio Silva, Nicholas M Bernthal. The role of chairman and research director
in influencing scholarly productivity and research funding in academic orthopaedic surgery. Journal of Orthopedic Research. 2015 May 5. PMID: 25940983.
Burke ZDC, Jabaji Z, de Virgilio C. "Cold, Painful Extremity in an Elderly Woman" in de Virgilio C, Grigorian A, Frank P, "Surgery: A Case Based Clinical Review",
Springer. 2015.
Wu JX, Burke ZDC, Brunicardi FC. Personalized medicine and surgery. CellR4. March 2014; 2 (2): e856
Burke ZDC, Boechat I, Tabsh K, Deugarte DA. Solitary diverticular type V bile duct cyst.
Pediatr Surg Int. 2013 Jun 5. PMID: 23736702.
Burke ZDC, Chen JB, Conceicao C, Hoffman RM, Miller LT, Taela A, DeUgarte DA. Evaluation of preoperative and intraoperative red blood cell transfusion practices at
Maputo Central Hospital, Mozambique. Transfusion. 2013 May 21. PMID: 23692441.
PRESENTATIONS
Stavrakis A, Patel A, Burke ZDC, Scaduto A, Bernthal N. The Role of Chairman and Research Director in Influencing Scholarly Productivity and Research Funding in Academic
Orthopaedic Surgery, AOA 2015 Annual Meeting. Providence, RI.
Chen JB, Burke ZDC, Conceicao C, Hoffman RM, Miller LT, Taela A, DeUgarte DA. Evaluation of Pre-operative Blood Transfusion Practices at a Public Teaching Hospital in
Mozambique. Abstract/poster presented at: Pacific Coast Surgical Association, 84th Annual Meeting. Kauai, HI. February 2013.
Burke ZDC, Chen JB, Conceicao C, Hoffman RM, Miller LT, Taela A, DeUgarte DA. Evaluation of Pre-operative Blood Transfusion Practices at Maputo Central Hospital,
Mozambique. Presented at: Josiah Brown Poster Fair. Los Angeles, CA. July 2012.
