Biography
Jensen understands that surgery can be frightening for children and their parents. He works with a team of providers to help families navigate the experience, and strives to be informative and transparent so they know what to expect throughout the process.
Jensen's research focuses on all aspects of injury, ranging from prevention to which techniques improve care provided by medical professionals immediately after injury and over the long term. He develops and evaluates educational programs to help prevent injuries in kids before they occur, covering issues such as safe street-crossing habits, helmet use and car seat use. He also develops and evaluates programs that use realistic patient simulators to train nurses and doctors to provide high-quality care as a team for injured kids in the emergency room. He studies the impact of different methods of providing nutritional support to severely injured kids in the intensive care unit, and he studies the outcomes of specific injuries, with the goal of improving methods of identifying and treating them.
After earning his medical degree at Temple University's Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Jensen completed a residency in general surgery at the University of Washington. He completed fellowships in surgical critical care, pediatric minimally invasive surgery and pediatric surgery at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. He has completed additional research training in education at the University of Washington and in clinical and translational science at the University of Southern California.
Jensen is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Academy of Pediatrics. He belongs to numerous professional organizations, including the Society for Critical Care Medicine, American Pediatric Surgical Association, International Pediatric Endosurgery Group, Pediatric Trauma Society, Association for Surgical Education, Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma and Society for Simulation in Healthcare.
In his free time, Jensen enjoys spending time with his spouse and kids, and cheering for Bay Area sports teams.
Awards & Honors
Award | Conferred By | Date |
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New Member Award for Research | Pacific Coast Surgical Association | 2019 |
Future Trauma Leaders Program Travel Scholarship | American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma | 2016/2018 |
Barbara M Korsch Award for Research in Medical Education | Children's Hospital Los Angeles | 2014 |
Linnea Hauge PhD Promising Educational Scholar Award | Association for Surgical Education | 2012 |
Resident Award for Exemplary Teaching | American College of Surgeons | 2011 |
David Tapper Resident Teaching & Leadership Award | University of Washington Department of Surgery | 2011 |
Jeannette and H. Peter Kriendler Charitable Trust Leadership Scholarship | Resident and Associate Society of the American College of Surgeons | 2010 |
Surgical Education Research Fellowship | Association for Surgical Education | 2006/2008 |
Herman Brown Award for Excellence in the Study of the Art and Science of Surgery | Temple University School of Medicina | 2004 |
Education
Institution | Degree | Dept or School | End Date |
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University of California | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training | 2019 | |
University of Southern California | MS | Clinical, Biomedical, and Translational Science | 05/2019 |
Children's Hospital Los Angeles | Fellowship, Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery | 06/2015 | |
Children's Hospital Los Angeles | Fellowship, Pediatric Minimally Invasive Surgery | 06/2013 | |
Children's Hospital Los Angeles | Fellowship, Pediatric Surgical Critical Care | 06/2012 | |
University of Washington | Residency, General Surgery | 06/2011 | |
University of Washington College of Education | MEd | Curriculum and Instruction / Educational Communication and Technology | 06/2008 |
Temple University School of Medicine | MD | Medicine | 06/2004 |
California State University | BS | Biochemistry | 06/2000 |
Board Certifications
American Board of Surgery - General Surgery
American Board of Surgery - Pediatric Surgery
American Board of Surgery - Surgical Critical Care
Clinical Expertise
Pediatric Trauma
Surgical Critical Care
Minimally Invasive Surgery
Neonatal Surgery
Pediatric Surgery
Program Affiliations
Pediatric Trauma Program, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland
In the News
Research Narrative
Dr. Jensen's research program spans the translational spectrum related to pediatric trauma. His research includes injury prevention, acute resuscitation, processes of care in the ICU, and long-term outcomes after injury. Dr. Jensen works with the injury prevention team to develop and evaluate programs to decrease the incidence of injury in children. He also utilizes large datasets such as the National Trauma Databank (NTDB) and Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP) to study outcomes related to procedures, nutritional support, and injury patterns in children. His funded research includes the use of simulation-based training to improve teamwork, quality, and efficiency of pediatric trauma resuscitation, with a unique focus on impact on clinical outcomes.
Research Interests
Pediatric Trauma Epidemiology and Outcomes
Patient Reported Outcomes after Injury
Simulation-Based Team Training for Pediatric Trauma Resuscitation
Surgical Nutrition
Publications
- Prevalence and Outcomes of High versus Low Ratio Plasma to Red Blood Cell Resuscitation in a Multi-Institutional Cohort of Severely Injured Children| | UCSF Research Profile
- Evaluating Health Literacy in Families of Injured Children:| | UCSF Research Profile
A Prospective Observational Cohort Study at a Level One Pediatric Trauma Center - The Sensitivity of Limited-Sequence MRI in Identifying Pediatric Cervical Spine Injury: A Western Pediatric Surgery Research Consortium Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study| | UCSF Research Profile
- Decision-making in Pleural Drainage Following Lung Resection in Children: A Western Pediatric Surgery Research Consortium Survey| | UCSF Research Profile
- Pediatric Readiness and Trauma Centers: History, Relevance, and Practical Application| | UCSF Research Profile
- TQIP Mortality Reporting System Case Reports: Unanticipated Mortality due to Communication and Handoff Failures| | UCSF Research Profile
- TQIP Mortality Reporting System Case Reports: Unanticipated Mortality due to Airway Loss| | UCSF Research Profile
- TQIP Mortality Reporting System Case Reports: Unanticipated Mortality due to Failures in Clinical Performance| | UCSF Research Profile
- TQIP Mortality Reporting System Case Reports: Unanticipated Mortality due to Inadequate Preoperative ICU ‘Clearance'| | UCSF Research Profile
- Post-discharge rehabilitation and functional recovery after pediatric injury.| | PubMed
- Developing a National Trauma Research Action Plan: Results from the Pediatric Research Gap Delphi Survey.| | PubMed
- Torso vascular trauma.| | PubMed
- Hospital-based intervention is rarely needed for children with low-grade blunt abdominal solid organ injury: An analysis of the Trauma Quality Improvement Program registry.| | PubMed
- Functional status impairment at six-month follow-up is independently associated with child physical abuse mechanism.| | PubMed
- Factors Associated With Functional Impairment After Pediatric Injury.| | PubMed
- Attitudes Affecting Decision-Making for Use of Radiologic Enteral Contrast in the Management of Pediatric Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction: A Survey Study of Pediatric Surgeons.| | PubMed
- Isolated low-grade solid organ injuries in children following blunt abdominal trauma: Is it time to consider discharge from the emergency department?| | PubMed
- Timing and volume of crystalloid and blood products in pediatric trauma: An Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma multicenter prospective observational study.| | PubMed
- Patient-centered outcomes research and the injured patient: a summary of application.| | PubMed
- Cervical Spine Clearance in the Pediatric Trauma Patient| | UCSF Research Profile
- Simulation-based training is associated with lower risk-adjusted mortality in ACS pediatric TQIP centers.| | PubMed
- Timing of tracheostomy placement among children with severe traumatic brain injury: A propensity-matched analysis.| | PubMed
- Symptomatic catheter-associated thrombosis in pediatric trauma patients: Choose your access wisely.| | PubMed
- Identifying Targets to Improve Coding of Child Physical Abuse at a Pediatric Trauma Center.| | PubMed
- EAST multicenter trial of simulation-based team training for pediatric trauma: Resuscitation task completion is highly variable during simulated traumatic brain injury resuscitation.| | PubMed
- Interactive Education is Associated With Lower Incidence of Pedestrian-Related Injury in Children.| | PubMed
- Parenteral nutrition prolongs hospital stay in children with nonoperative blunt pancreatic injury: A propensity score weighted analysis.| | PubMed
- Multidisciplinary Simulation-Based Team Training for Trauma Resuscitation: A Scoping Review.| | PubMed
- Laparotomy complications on extracorporeal life support: Surgical site bleeding does not increase mortality.| | PubMed
- Non-Operative Management is More Cost-Effective than Immediate Operation in Perforated Appendicitis Patients with Seven or More Days of Symptoms.| | PubMed
- Pediatric firearm injuries in Los Angeles County: Younger children are more likely to be the victims of unintentional firearm injury.| | PubMed
- Impact of simulation-based training on perceived provider confidence in acute multidisciplinary pediatric trauma resuscitation.| | PubMed
- Preoperative Educational Intervention Decreases Unplanned Gastrostomy-Related Health Care Utilization.| | PubMed
- Retrospective Cohort Comparison of Fall Height in Children in the Greater Los Angeles Area: Targeting Populations for Injury Prevention.| | PubMed
- Delivery of Advanced Pediatric Surgical Care as a Model for Health Equity, Education, and Development: The First Separation of Conjoined Twins in Haiti| | UCSF Research Profile
- Heads Up, Phones Down: A Pedestrian Safety Intervention on Distracted Crosswalk Behavior.| | PubMed
- Pediatric trauma-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome: Incidence, risk factors, and outcomes.| | PubMed
- Simulation-based training for trauma resuscitation among ACS TQIP-Pediatric centers: Understanding prevalence of use, associated center characteristics, training factors, and implementation barriers.| | PubMed
- Self-assessment of team performance using T-NOTECHS in simulated pediatric trauma resuscitation is not consistent with expert assessment.| | PubMed
- Timing of mortality in pediatric trauma patients: A National Trauma Data Bank analysis.| | PubMed
- A needs assessment of education research topics among surgical educators in the United States.| | PubMed
- Re-evaluation of liver transaminase cutoff for CT after pediatric blunt abdominal trauma.| | PubMed
- Qualitative assessment of simulation-based training for pediatric trauma resuscitation.| | PubMed
- Planning for the Pediatric Patient During a Disaster| | UCSF Research Profile
- Complication risks associated with lower versus upper extremity peripherally inserted central venous catheters in neonates with gastroschisis.| | PubMed
- Infant head injury in falls and nonaccidental trauma: does injury pattern correlate with mechanism?| | PubMed
- Laparoscopic versus open treatment of congenital duodenal obstruction: multicenter short-term outcomes analysis.| | PubMed
- A structured self-directed basic skills curriculum results in improved technical performance in the absence of expert faculty teaching.| | PubMed
- Educational feedback in the operating room: a gap between resident and faculty perceptions.| | PubMed
- Methodologies for establishing validity in surgical simulation studies.| | PubMed
- The use of a spring-loaded silo for gastroschisis: impact on practice patterns and outcomes.| | PubMed
- Expanding surgical clerkships to remote community sites: the success of the Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho experience.| | PubMed
- Acquiring basic surgical skills: is a faculty mentor really needed?| | PubMed
- The association of cyclic parenteral nutrition and decreased incidence of cholestatic liver disease in patients with gastroschisis.| | PubMed
- Laboratory-based instruction for skin closure and bowel anastomosis for surgical residents.| | PubMed
- Using Simulation-Based Training to Improve Clinical Outcomes: Central Venous Catheter Placement as a Model for Programmed Training| | UCSF Research Profile
- Skin flaps and grafts: a primer for the National Technical Skills Curriculum advanced tissue-handling module.| | PubMed
- Expanding resident conferences while tailoring them to level of training: a longitudinal study.| | PubMed
- Effective instruction of vascular anastomosis in the surgical skills laboratory.| | PubMed
- The emotional intelligence of surgical residents: a descriptive study.| | PubMed
- Secondary abdominal compartment syndrome in children with burns and trauma: a potentially lethal complication.| | PubMed
- A Kansas wheat harvest: near-fatal asphyxiation with wheat grains.| | PubMed
- Gastric outlet obstruction secondary to a large trichobezoar.| | PubMed
- An inexpensive ex-vivo porcine laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication training model.| | PubMed
- Short-term sleep deficits do not adversely affect acquisition of laparoscopic skills in a laboratory setting.| | PubMed
- Laparoscopy Is Useful for Successful Distal Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Placement in Children with Previous Abdominal Surgery| | UCSF Research Profile
- Utilization of a Transsternal Spinal Needle for Retrograde Suture Passage During Thoracoscopic Aortopexy| | UCSF Research Profile
- Pediatric surgical images: mixed gonadal dysgenesis.| | PubMed