Clinical Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest
military-civilian integration, robotic surgery, disaster response
Biography
Major Robert Laverty is an active duty Air Force trauma surgeon with the Special Operations Surgical Team (SOST) based out of UAB. He joined UAB in 2024, when he became a clinical assistant professor with the Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery.
Before coming to UAB, Laverty served as a surgeon and teaching fellow at Brook Army Medical Center (BAMC), located on Joint Base San Antonio. He was the simulation chief, open skills curriculum developer, and robotic skills curriculum developer, as well as a lecturer, for the BAMC General Surgery program.
Laverty completed his general surgery residency at BAMC and earned his medical degree from Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland.
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Baird MD, Madha ES, Arnaouti M, Cahill GL, Hewa Kodikarage SN, Harris RE, Murphy TP, Bartel MC, Rich EL, Pathirana YG, Kim E, Bain PA, Alswaiti GT, Ratnayake AS, Worlton TJ, Joseph MN; IMPACT Scoping Review Group. Global assessment of military and civilian trauma systems integration: a scoping review. Int J Surg. 2024 Jun 1;110(6):3617-3632. doi: 10.1097/JS9.0000000000001265. PMID: 38935828; PMCID: PMC11175771.
Laverty RB, Ivins-O'Keefe KM, Adams AM, Flatley MJ, Sobieszczyk MJ, Mason PE, Sams VG. Tube Thoracostomy Complications in Patients With ARDS Requiring ECMO: Worse in COVID-19 Patients? Mil Med. 2023 Dec 11:usad454. doi: 10.1093/milmed/usad454. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38079460.
Treffalls RN, Scheidt J, Lee C, Laverty RB, DuBose JJ, Scalea TM, Moore LJ, Podbielski JM, Inaba K, Piccinini A, Kauvar DS. Arterial Access Complications Following Percutaneous Femoral Access in 24-Hour Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta Survivors. J Surg Res. 2023 Jun 2;290:203-
Laverty RB, Khan MT, Patnaik R, Lee CS, Leonardo CD, Krell RW, Stull MC. Intentional enterotomies: validation of a novel robotic surgery training exercise. J Robot Surg. 2023 May 23. doi: 10.1007/s11701-023-01625-8. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37219784.
Schaffner TJ, Wilkes M, Laverty R, Schwab SD, Zahradka N, Pugmire J, Yourk D, Masella PC, Walter R. Remote patient monitoring to facilitate same-day discharge following laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy: a pilot evaluation. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. 2023. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soard.2023.02.028
Khan MTA, Patnaik R, Lee CS, Willson CM, Demario VK, Krell RW, Laverty RB. Systematic review of academic robotic surgery curricula. J Robot Surg. 2022 Nov 21. doi: 10.1007/s11701-022-01500-y. PMID: 36413255.
Arnaouti MKC, Cahill G, Baird MD, Mangurat L, Harris R, Edme LPP, Joseph MN, Worlton T, Augustin S Jr and The Haiti Disaster Response – Junior Research Collaborative (HDR-JRC) (2022) Medical disaster response: A critical analysis of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Front. Public Health 10:995595. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.995595
Vora K, Saiyed S, Salvi F, Shah AR, Laverty RB, Riaz MMA, et al. SATHI: Surgical Accredited and Trained Healthcare Initiative for task shifting in India. Journal of Surgical Protocols and Research Methodologies. 2022;2022(3). doi: 10.1093/jsprm/snac018.
Laverty RB, Jindal RM. Unconditional cash transfer to reduce the burden of unmet surgical needs. Ann Med Surg (Lond). 2022 Jul 14;80:104185. doi: 10.1016/j.amsu.2022.104185. PMID: 35866009; PMCID: PMC9293727.
Laverty RB, Jindal RM. Could global surgery overcome a decline in surgical cases? Annals of Medicine and Surgery. 2022;78:103704. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.103704.
Lee CS, Khan MT, Patnaik R, Stull MC, Krell RW, Laverty RB. Model Development of a Novel Robotic Surgery Training Exercise With Electrocautery. Cureus. 2022 Apr 27;14(4):e24531. doi: 10.7759/cureus.24531. PMID: 35651377; PMCID: PMC9138208.
Laverty RB, Treffalls RN, McEntire SE, DuBose JJ, Morrison JJ, Scalea TM, Moore LJ, Podbielski JM, Inaba K, Piccinini A, Kauvar DS; Aortic Occlusion for Resuscitation in Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (AORTA) Investigators. Life over limb: Arterial access-related limb ischemic complications in 48-hour REBOA survivors. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2022 Apr 1;92(4):723-728. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000003440. PMID: 34789696.
Laverty RB, Treffalls RN, Kauvar DS. Systematic review of temporary intravascular shunt use in military and civilian extremity trauma. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2022 Jan 1;92(1):232-238. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000003399. PMID: 34538830.
Laverty RB, Morris E, Brooks DI, Hohman MH, Teixeira J. Biochemical Compositional Analysis of Cadaveric Rib Cartilage. Facial Plast Surg Aesthet Med. 2021 Nov 26. doi: 10.1089/fpsam.2021.0156. PMID: 34860118.
Laverty RB, Brock SG, Walters TJ, Kauvar DS. Outcomes of Arterial Grafts for the Reconstruction of Military Lower Extremity Arterial Injuries. Ann Vasc Surg. 2021 Apr 5:S0890-5096(21)00238-7. doi: 10.1016/j.avsg.2021.03.006. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33831531.
Laverty RB, Yoon BS, Sokol KK, Sparkman BK. Perforated Peptic Ulcer of the Duodenum After the Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass. Am Surg. 2021 Nov 3:31348211050582. doi: 10.1177/00031348211050582. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34730448.
Laverty R, Anvari A, Polmear M, Qureshi U. 55-Word Stories about Medical Students’ Clerkship Experiences: No Reply At All. Military Medicine. 2017;182(11):1744.
Swol J, Laverty RB, DeSoucy E, Ichiba S, Cannon JW. Extracorporeal life support in trauma and environmental injuries. The ELSO Red Book. 6th Edition, Chapter 35. 2022.
Laverty RB, Gallagher ME. Role of emergency laparoscopy in pediatric patients. Minimally Invasive Surgery in Acute Care Surgery. 2021.
Education
Medical School
Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences
Residency
Brooke Army Medical Center
Contact
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