Doctor's Bio
Dr. Jason D. Sciarretta received his MD 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
- 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;
PMID: 40638837 - Understaffed and overworked: The stark reality of acute care surgeon staffing in the United States, an Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma multicenter study.
Murphy PB, Coleman JJ, Wilson DJ, Maring M, Gellings J, Biesboer E, Kamine TH, Mukherjee K, Bonne S, Boltz MM, Winfield RD, Dumas RP, Kurle J, Guzman-Curtis R, Sciarretta JD, Maqbool B, Morse BC, Cripps MW, Gondek S, Barmparas G, Lilienstein J, Nahmias J, Faucher L, Bayouth CV, Egodage T, Marie Knowlton L, Berne JD, Fasanya C, Shaddix M, Jacobson LE, Farrell MS, Fernandez LG, Manning BM, Martin RS, Kirsch JM, Rakitin I, Englehart MS, Montgomery SC, Blondeau B, Emigh B, McKenzie K, Taghavi S, Tatebe LC, Cunningham KW, de Moya MA,
The journal of trauma and acute care surgery. 2025;
PMID: 40611385 - A blunt look at stroke risk in BCVI: Do multiple injuries increase the risk of stroke?
Wagner V, Preston JD, De Leon Castro A, Adams RW, Garcia-Toca M, Nguyen J, Benjamin ER, Todd SR, Sciarretta JD
American journal of surgery. 2025;
PMID: 40555567 - Primary repair versus resection for American Association for the Surgery of Trauma grades I and II colon injuries: Does the management approach really matter? An Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma multicenter trial.
Fitzgerald CA, Barnes C, Bisgaard EK, McLafferty BJ, Harrell KN, Fleming MM, Meizoso JP, Walker J, Sciarretta JD, Succar BE, Cheng M, Lewis RH, Davis GR, Puli 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, Dumas RP
The journal of trauma and acute care surgery. 2025;99(1):105-112.
PMID: 40474346 - Exploring penetrating carotid Injuries: Low grade, low yield?
Wagner V, Arientyl V, De Leon Castro A, Garcia-Toca M, Nguyen J, Benjamin ER, Todd SR, Sciarretta JD
American journal of surgery. 2025;
PMID: 40473509 - Pancreaticoduodenectomy in trauma patients with grade IV-V duodenal or pancreatic injuries: a post hoc analysis of an EAST multicenter trial.
Choron RL, Piplani C, Kuzinar J, Teichman AL, Bargoud C, Sciarretta JD, Smith RN, Hanos D, Afif IN, Beard JH, Dhillon NK, Zhang A, Ghneim M, Devasahayam R, Gunter O, Smith AA, Sun B, Cao CS, Reynolds JK, Hilt LA, Holena DN, Chang G, Jonikas M, Echeverria-Rosario K, Fung NS, Anderson A, Fitzgerald CA, Dumas RP, Levin JH, Trankiem CT, Yoon J, Blank J, Hazelton JP, McLaughlin CJ, Al-Aref R, Kirsch JM, Howard DS, Scantling DR, Dellonte K, Vella MA, Hopkins B, Shell C, Udekwu P, Wong EG, Joseph B, Lieberman H, Ramsey WA, Stewart CH, Alvarez C, Berne JD, Nahmias J, Puente I, Patton J, Rakitin I, Perea L, Pulido O, Ahmed H, Keating J, Kodadek LM, Wade J, Reynold H, Schreiber M, Benjamin A, Khan A, Mann LK, Mentzer C, Mousafeiris V, Mulita F, Reid-Gruner S, Sais E, Foote CW, Palacio CH, Argandykov D, Kaafarani H, Bover Manderski MT, Moko L, Narayan M, Seamon M
Trauma surgery & acute care open. 2024;9(1):e001438.
PMID: 39717488 - Management of pediatric lower extremity vascular trauma: adult vs pediatric level I trauma centers.
Dantes G, Grady ZJ, Weeks A, Forrester N, Trinidad JB, Stokes A, Dutreuil VL, Cheng A, Kim P, Smith RN, Ramos CR, Todd SR, Smith A, Sciarretta JD
Pediatric surgery international. 2024;40(1):256.
PMID: 39340646 - Impact of catastrophic brain injury guidelines on organ donation rates: Results of an EAST multicenter trial.
Nordham KD, Tatum D, Attia AS, Patel MB, Paramesh A, Duchesne JC, Nahmias J, Maiga AW, Peetz AB, Udekwu PO, Stiles A, Shell C, Stodghill JD, Maghsoudi T, Iacullo E, McLafferty B, Coonan E, Boudreau RM, Zimmerman SA, Shammassian B, Egodage T, Aramento I, Morris P, Metheny J, Farrell MS, Painter MD, McCabe OT, Spadafore P, Wong DT, Serrano J, Sciarretta JD, Kim P, Hayton R, Gonzales D, Murry J, Meadows K, Jacobson LE, Williams JM, Bernard AC, Smith B, Morrissey SL, Patel N, Tabello D, Teicher E, Chowdhury SM, Ahmad F, Marcos BS, West MA, Jacome TH, Davis G, Marks JA, Rattigan D, Haan JM, Lightwine K, Matsushima K, Park S, Santos A, Shrestha K, Sawyer R, VandenBerg S, Jean RJ, Hicks RC, Lueckel S, Bugaev N, Abosena W, Alvarez C, Lieser MJ, McDonald H, Dumas RP, Fitzgerald CA, Terzian WTH, Tian Y, Mousafeiris V, Mulita F, Berne JD, Mederos DR, Smith AA, Taghavi S
The journal of trauma and acute care surgery. 2025;98(1):117-126.
PMID: 39327646 - Does PIC score pick correctly? Evaluation of a modified-PIC based admission a single institution retrospective cohort study.
Meyer CH, Freedberg M, Tanghal J, Castater C, Nguyen CT, Smith RN, Sciarretta JD, Nguyen J
Injury. 2025;56(1):111860.
PMID: 39299821 - Pancreaticoduodenectomy in high-grade pancreatic and duodenal trauma.
Noorbakhsh S, Wagner V, Arientyl V, Orlin S, Koganti D, Fransman RB, Bishop ES, Castater CA, Nguyen J, De Leon Castro A, Davis MA, Smith RN, Todd SR, Sciarretta JD
Injury. 2024;55(9):111721.
PMID: 39084919
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