ELLEN OMI, MD

CLINICAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SURGERY

General Profile

Specialty:

General Surgery

Sub-Specialties:

Surgical critical care

Appointments:

Attending Surgeon at University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System; Attending Surgeon at Advocate Christ Medical Center

Clinical Interests:

Critical care in traumatically injured patients

Languages Spoken:

English

Education

Medical Education:

The University of Illinois College of Medicine Champaign Urbana, Champaign, IL

Residency:

General Surgery Residency, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Chicago, IL

Fellowship:

Surgical Critical Care Fellowship, Washington University – Barnes Jewish Hospital, Saint Louis, MO

Certifications:

American Board of Surgery certified in Surgical Critical Care

Publications, Awards, & Memberships

Awards:

Active Teacher in Family Medicine, Advocate Christ Medical Center (2013-2014)

Society Memberships:

American College of Surgeons; The Association of Women Surgeons; Society of Critical Care Medicine; Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma; Warren H. Cole Society

Publications:

Omi EC, Gamelli RG. Transfusion Therapy in the Care of Trauma and Burn Patients. In: Rossi’s Principles of Transfusion Medicine, 4th Edition. Simon TL, Snyder EL, Solheim BG, Stowell CP, strauss RG, Petrides M, ed. Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 3

Schermer CR, Omi EC. Chapter 130, Acid Base Disorders. In: The Interface of Neurology and Internal Medicine, First Edition. Biller J, ed. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2008.

Sakai L, Esposito T, Ton-That H, Omi E, Kovacs E, Schermer C: Comparison of objective screening and self-report for alcohol and drug use in traumatically injured patients. Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly.30(4):433-442, 2012.

Sharp BS, Schermer CR, Ton-That HH, Omi EC, Santaniello JM, Esposito TJ. Alcohol withdrawl syndrome in trauma patients: A prospective cohort study. J Trauma Treat. 2012, 1:128.

Schermer CR, Omi EC, Ton-That HH, et al. A clustering of injury behaviors. J Trauma. 2008 Nov, 65:5: 1000-4.
Omi EC, Boyle WA. Diuretics in Critical Care. Contemporary Critical Care. 2007, 5(5): 1-12.

Selvaraj NG, Omi EC, Gibori G, Rao MC. Janus Kinase 2 (JAK2) regulates prolactin-mediated chloride transport in mouse mammary epithelial cells through tyrosine phosphorylation of Na+-K+-2Cl- cotransporter. Mol Endocrinol. 2000, 14(12): 2054-2065.

Omi EC, Zhao S, Sherwood OD, Shanks R. Evidence that systemic relaxin promotes moderate water consumption during late pregnancy in rats. J Endocrinol. 1997, 153: 33-40.