Doctor's Bio
Dr. Jason D. Sciarretta, MD, received his medical degree from Saba University School of Medicine in the Dutch Caribbean in 2005. His general surgery residency began at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, and was completed at the University of Louisville Hospital in Louisville, KY. He did his surgical critical care and trauma surgery fellowships at Jackson Memorial Hospital System and Ryder Trauma Center in Miami.
Before coming to Grady, Dr. Jason D. Sciarretta served on the faculty of the University of South Carolina and practiced at the acute care surgery/trauma and surgical critical care service at Grand Strand Medical Center, Myrtle Beach, SC, which has a Level I trauma center. He was associate program director of the USC general surgery residency based at Grand Strand Medical from 2015-2019, and served as Grand Strand Medical’s chief of surgery from 2015-2016 and its chief of staff from 2018-2019.
Board Certifications
American Board of Surgery
Affiliations
Emory
Education & Training
- Medical School: Saba University School of Medicine
- Internship: Mount Sinai Medical Center/ Miami Beach
- Residency: Mount Sinai Medical Center
Fellowships
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Locations and Directions
Grady Memorial Hospital
Phone: (404) 616-1000
Location:
80 Jesse Hill Jr Drive SE
Atlanta, GA 30303
Publications
- Hormone replacement before brain death increases organ donation rate after catastrophic brain injury: An EAST multicenter trial.
Nordham KD, Tatum D, Patel MB, Paramesh A, Gragert L, Hossain S, Duchesne JC, Nahmias J, Keeley JA, Himmler AN, Konstantopoulos A, Narisma R, Maiga AW, Peetz AB, Woodward B, Serrano J, Udekwu PO, Stiles A, Shell C, Eagleton A, Murry J, Pero B, Iacullo E, McLafferty B, Coonan E, Boudreau RM, Zimmerman SA, Shammassian BH, Harrell KN, Zhang J, Egodage T, Armento I, Morris P, Metheny J, Farrell MS, Painter MD, Taggart C, Spadafore P, Stodghill JD, Maghsoudi T, Jacobson LE, Williams JM, Sciarretta JD, Kim P, Hayton R, Gonzales D, Santos A, Bayouth CV, Vaughan J, Chowdhury SM, Ahmad F, Haan JM, Lightwine K, Marks JA, Rattigan D, Tabello D, Teicher E, Jacome TH, Davis G, Bernard AC, Smith B, Doles B, Morrissey SL, Patel N, Sawyer R, VandenBerg S, Marcos BS, West MA, Matsushima K, Park S, Lueckel SN, Hornor M, Dronzek V, Mentzer C, Mack TJ, Bugaev N, Abosena W, Alvarez C, Jean RJ, Hicks RC, Lieser MJ, McDonald H, Dumas RP, Fitzgerald CA, Terzian WTH, Tian Y, Mousafeiris V, Mulita F, Berne JD, Mederos DR, Palacio CH, Acosta MB, Garcia NM, Firnhaber J, Smith AA, Taghavi S
The journal of trauma and acute care surgery. 2026;
PMID: 42468021 - Venous thromboembolism burden in IVC injuries: Is there an optimal strategy in prevention?
Himmler A, Preston JD, Guindi A, Wagner V, De Leon Castro L, Fransman RB, Nguyen J, Smith RN, Benarroch-Gampel J, Ramos CR, Garcia-Toca M, Sciarretta JD
Injury. 2026;
PMID: 42055836 - Validation of a safe volumetric cut-off for observation of traumatic hemothorax: A Western Trauma Association multicenter study.
Tatakis A, Wilson D, Al Tannir AH, Sciarretta JD, Cage K, Kessler JJ, Kozar RA, Yeates EO, Medvecz A, Kopelman T, Slivinski A, Echeverria-Rosario K, Florea IB, Cowan J, Wong A, Stephens D, Chaar MA, Weger K, Chang G, Flage M, Von Husen L, Berndtson AE, Anderson J, Newman P, Nowak B, Smoot B, Farrell M, Oller K, Murthy A, Moore J, Swaminathan S, Cocanour C, Kim E, LaSeur D, Boyle K, Blank J, de Moya M
The journal of trauma and acute care surgery. 2026;
PMID: 42029153 - A machine-learning-based tool for stroke risk prediction in blunt cerebrovascular injury: development and preliminary evaluation.
Wagner V, Preston JD, De Leon Castro A, Mueller WF, Nguyen J, Garcia-Toca M, Benjamin ER, Todd SR, Sciarretta JD
European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society. 2026;
PMID: 41961261 - Mechanism-Stratified Complications After Operative Management of Low-Grade Colon Injuries.
Burke EG, Callaway KJ, Seger CP, Dumas RP, Zielinski MD, Barnes C, Bisgaard EK, McLafferty BJ, Harrell KN, Fleming MM, Meizoso JP, Walker J, Sciarretta JD, Succar BE, Cheng M, Lewis RH, Davis GR, Pulido O, Egodage T, Mooney J, Nguyen S, Kirsch JM, Jose AM, Lumbard D, Finn A, Sheppard K, Shively KS, Butts C, Lasinski AM, Beattie NG, Noory MN, Chaudhary SA, Irish W, Leung P, Luketic K, Noorbakhsh M, Almahmoud K, Cash A, Bernard AC, Kumar A, DeSantis AJ, Kozar RA, Prasad A, Siletz AE, Schroeppel TJ, Rodriquez J, Tackett N, Mentzer C, Sabu-Kurian A, Bankhead BK, Bhattacharya B, Maung AA, Chang G, Ramoutar U, Farrell MS, Hamdan M, Wong YM, Deci RT, Fernandez L, Pero B, Palacio CH, Rendon Garcia JJ, Myall JJ, Riggle AJ, Golestani S, Dilday J, Miller A, Taveras L, Grande P, Scott S, Fitzgerald CA
The Journal of surgical research. 2026;
PMID: 41934833 - Utilization of Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Trauma Patients: A Multi-Institutional Study of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma.
Karamchandani MM, Nahmias J, Alvarez C, Callcut RA, Stadeli KM, Park C, Kost M, Bruce N, Biffl WL, Al-Dulaimi H, Wood FC, Gushing JD, Taghavi S, Ghio M, Kirsch JM, Staszak JK, Collier B, Jordan MB, Sciarretta JD, Chow K, Evans DC, Rady EW, Mukherjee K, Winchell RJ, Hsu CY, Brasel K, Henry R, Doles B, Smith B, Williams JB, Udekwu PO, Bhattacharya B, Jones T, Byrne J, Haut E, Jacobson LE, Williams JM, Brat G, Beaulieu-Jones BR, Harfouche MN, Rao AS, Bauman ZM, Goodman M, Craugh L, Winfield RD, Rakhit S, Maiga AW, Blay E, Fernández LG, Pero B, Brown CVR, Weresh H, Wilson CT, Miles TJ, Barmparas G, Margulies DR, Ra J, O'Keeffe T, Fickle J, Draper B, Barbosa R, Bugaev N
The American surgeon. 2026;92(7):1891-1901.
PMID: 41689481 - Incidence and Risk Factors for Venous Thromboembolism in Hemodynamically Unstable Pelvic Fractures.
Holstein RA, Meyer CH, Herrmann O, De Leon Castro A, Walker J, Todd SR, Smith RN, Nguyen J, Sciarretta JD
The Journal of surgical research. 2026;
PMID: 41650792 - To pack or plug: American Association for the Surgery of Trauma multicenter evaluation of hemorrhage control interventions in pelvic fracture management.
Harfouche MN, Sult L, Sciarretta JD, Todd SR, O'Neil CF, Meizoso JP, McNickle A, Fraser D, Croman M, Dubose JJ,
The journal of trauma and acute care surgery. 2026;100(3):398-404.
PMID: 41533046 - Percutaneous pigtail catheter versus chest tube for the treatment of pediatric traumatic hemothorax: An Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma multicenter study.
Goodman LF, Martino AM, Schomberg J, Sciarretta JD, Freedberg M, Santos A, Taghavi S, Tafazoli M, Shatz DV, Doyle KE, Koenig SM, Russel RT, Sanderfer VC, Ross SW, Willis L, Williams RF, Kotagal M, Hartman SJ, Wyrick D, Krinock D, Namias N, Shatz C, Spurrier R, O'Guinn ML, Eldredge RS, Notrica DN, McNickle AG, Farrell M, Hughes E, Frederick AB, Streck CJ, Guzman-Curtis R, Dimmer A, Armento I, Gallagher SP, Martin MJ, Lao OB, Palladino K, Duncan TK, Diaz G, Chao SD, Peterson ME, Darcy D, Byrne M, Mulita F, Mousafeiris V, Aranda A, Gerardo R, Cullinane DC, Turner CG, Alvarez C, Edwards SB, Coimbra R, Neff LP, Rauh JL, Keeley JA, Kim HKE, Fisher C, Patel P, Staab V, Lu C, Patwardhan U, Ignacio RC, Radulescu A, Mladenov G, Bonasso PC, Regeir DW, Lau PE, Troncoso-Munoz S, Beres A, Papillon S, Carlson A, Bhattacharya SD, Urevick A, Holcomb BM, Castle SL, Bhatti UF, Ley EJ, Ehrlich P, Shah N, Nahmias J
The journal of trauma and acute care surgery. 2025;99(6):850-858.
PMID: 40956282 - The Dirty Truth About Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta: A Descriptive Analysis of Infection Rates in a High-Risk Population.
Walker J, Meyer C, Wagner V, Arientyl V, Aworanti E, Fransman R, Castater C, Todd SR, Smith RN, Sciarretta JD, Nguyen J
Surgical infections. 2025;26(9):676-680.
PMID: 40638837
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