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Richard Bland, MD 

Professional Information and Resume

Address:
Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Santa Rosa, California
Department of General Surgery
401 Bicentennial Way
Santa Rosa, California 95403-2192

Education:
1977 - 1981 University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine
M.D. awarded June 1981

1976 - 1977 UCLA, graduate study in Biomathematics

1971 - 1975 UCLA, major in Biology, minor in Mathematics
BA awarded December 1975

1973 College of the Seven Seas

Postgraduate Training:
6/88 - 12/88 Fellow in Trauma Surgery and Critical Care Services, Emanuel Hospital, Portland Oregon

6/87 - 6/88 Fellow in Trauma Surgery/Critical Care Medicine
St. Mary Medical Center and University of California, Los Angeles

7/83 - 6/87 Resident, Department of Surgery,
Harbor/UCLA Medical Center, Torrance California

7/82 - 6/83 Fellow in Surgical Intensive Care Research
Harbor/UCLA Medical Center, Torrance California

6/81 - 6/82 Intern, Department of Surgery
University of California, San Diego, California

Work Experience:
6/96 - Present General Surgery, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Santa Rosa, California

3/95 - 6/96 Solo practice in General, Vascular and Laparoscopic Surgery
Locum Tenens in General Surgery, Trauma and Acute Surgical Care

9/95 - 3/96 Consultant for EMTEK (Motorola) as Physician Specialist assisting with development of a patient data repository and hospital information system

1/91 - 3/95 Member of a General and Vascular Surgery group in Sebastopol, California

1/89 - Present Staff General Surgeon, in affiliation with the University of California School of Medicine at the Santa Rosa Community Hospital Family Practice Residency Program, Santa Rosa, California

6/90 - 12/90 Trauma Surgeon, Mercy Hospital, San Diego, California
In association with the U.S. Navy Surgery Residency Program

6/83 - 7/87 Emergency Department Physician, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Harbor City, California

1976 - 1980 Research Associate, Department of Surgery, Harbor/UCLA Medical Center,
Software design and research in computerized patient monitoring

1976 - 1987 Consultant and software engineer, Hewlett-Packard (Waltham Mass) ICU patient monitoring

1975 - 1976 Thermodynamics Department, B-1 Division, North American Rockwell
Analysis and design of aircraft environmental controls

Board and Licensure Status:
American College of Surgeons, July 1988
Recertified July, 1997
State of California, June 1982
State of New Mexico, June, 1996

Honors:
Outstanding Clinical Faculty by the UCSF Family Practice Residency/ Santa Rosa Community Hospital, 1990
Summa Cum Laude, UCLA, 1975
Dean's List, UCLA, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975

Valedictorian, South Torrance High, 1971

Professional Affiliations:
American Medical Informatics Association
American Medical Association
California Medical Association
Sonoma County Medical Association
Phi Beta Kappa
Pi Mu Epsilon (Mathematics Honor Society)

Publications:
Bland R, Shoemaker WC, Shabot MM: Physiologic Monitoring Goals for the Critically Ill Patient. Surg Gynecol Obstet 1978; 147:833

Shoemaker WC, Chang PC, Czer LS, Bland R, Shabot MM, State D: Cardiorespiratory Monitoring in Postoperative Patients: I. Prediction of Outcome and Severity of Illness. Crit Care Med 1979; 7:237

Shoemaker WC, Chang PC, Bland R, Czer LS, Shabot MM, Clifton JF: Cardiorespiratory Monitoring in Postoperative Patients: II. Quantitative Therapeutic Indices as Guides to Therapy. Crit Care Med1979; 7:243

Shoemaker WC, Appel PL, Bland R, Chang PC: Clinical Trials of a Computerized Algorithm for Measurement of the Severity of Illness and Prediction of Outcome in Postoperative Shock. Proc Fourth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, IEEE, 9180, P 1594, 1980

Shoemaker WC, Appel PL, Czer L, Bland R, Schwartz S, Hopkins J: Physiologic Pattern of Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome following Hemorrhagic and Traumatic Shock. Fed Proceed 1980; 39:365

Shoemaker WC, Appel PL, Czer LS, Bland R, Schwartz SA, Hopkins JA: "Pathogenesis of Respiratory Failure (ARDS) After Hemorrhage and Trauma." Crit Care Med 1980; 8:504

Shoemaker WC, Appel PL, Bland R, Hopkins JA, Chang PC: Clinical Trial of an Algorithm for Outcome Prediction in Acute Circulatory Failure. Crit Care Med 1982; 10:390

Shoemaker WC, Appel P, Bland R: Use of Physiologic Monitoring to Predict Outcome and to Assist in Clinical Decisions in Critically Ill Postoperative Patients. Am J Surg1983; 146:43

Bland RD, Shoemaker WC: The Severity Index Score as a Method for Data Reduction in the Surgical ICU. Comput Biomed Res 1983; 16:395

Abraham E, Shoemaker WC, Bland RD, Cobo JC: Sequential Cardiorespiratory Patterns in Septic Shock. Crit Care Med 1983; 11:799

Cobo JC, Abraham E, Bland RD, Shoemaker WC: Sequential Hemodynamic and Oxygen Transport Abnormalities in Patients with Acute Pancreatitis. Surgery 1984; 95:324

Abraham E, Cobo JC, Bland RD, Shoemaker WC: Cardiorespiratory Effects of Pneumatic Trousers in Critically Ill Patients. Arch Surg 1984; 119:912

Abraham E, Bland RD, Cobo JC, Shoemaker WC: Predictive Sequential cardiorespiratory Patterns Associated with Outcome in Septic Shock. Chest 1984; 85:75

Bland RD, Shoemaker WC, Abraham E, Cobo JC: Hemodynamic and Oxygen Transport Patterns in Surviving and Nonsurviving Postoperative Patients. Crit Care Med 1985; 13:85

Bland RD, Shoemaker WC: Probability of Survival as a Prognostic and Severity of Illness Score in Critically Ill Surgical Patients. Crit Care Med 1985; 13:91

Bland RD, Shoemaker WC: Common Physiologic Patterns in General Surgical Patients: Hemodynamic and Oxygen Transport Changes During and After Operation in Patients With and Without Associated Medical Problems. Surg Clin North Am, 1985; 65:793

Shoemaker WC, Bland RD, Appel PL: Therapy of Critically Ill Postoperative Patients Based on Outcome Prediction and Prospective Clinical Trials. Surg Clin North Am, 1985; 65:811

Book Chapter:

Shabot MM, Bland R, Shoemaker WC: On-line Computerized Cardiorespiratory Analysis and Indices in Critically Ill Sick Patients. In: Computers in Critical Care Monitoring. Epple E (Ed). Stuttgart, Germany, George Thieme Verlag, 1982

 


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