About
Dr. Jeremy Warren attended the University of Georgia, graduating in 1999 with a degree in Cellular Biology. After a year of research, Dr. Warren attended the Medical College of Georgia, graduating in 2004. His General Surgery residency was also at the Medical College of Georgia, where he completed his training in 2010. Dr. Warren then opted for fellowship training in Minimally Invasive Surgery in Greenville, completing the program in 2014. He joined the faculty at Prisma Health on completion of his fellowship. He is a member of multiple surgical professional societies. Notably, he is a member of the Hernia Committee through the Society of American Gastrintestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, the Practice Advisory Committee of the American Hernia Society, and on the board of the Abdominal Core Health Quality Collaborative. Dr. Warren currently serve as the Vice Chair of Academics for the Prisma Health Department of Surgery, having served previously as the Director of Research. During that tenure, he has worked to build programs to facilitate undergraduate and medical student clinical research, having brought nearly 100 undergraduate students onto the campus over the last 7 years. Ongoing collaborative research includes an AHRQ grant to study the impact of an opioid prescribing tool integrated into the Electronic Medical Record (with Dr. Sarah Floyd, Clemson University) and participation in Human Factors Research in exploring exoskeleton use in the perioperative setting (with Dr. Jackie Cha, Clemson University, and Dr. Alfredo Carbonell, Prisma Health). Other potential collaborations include evaluation of antimicrobial mesh (with Dr. Alexey Alexandrovich Vertegel).
How their research is transforming health care
During my tenure as Director of Research and, now, Vice Chair of Academics for the Prisma Health Department of Surgery, I have worked to build programs to facilitate undergraduate and medical student clinical research, having brought nearly 100 undergraduate students onto our campus over the last 7 years through SPURS (Summer Program for Undergraduate Research in Surgery). Through this program, numerous students have been able to gain valuable insight into health care and clinical research, helping guide their career choices. It is our hope that this type of program can provide opportunities for underrepresented groups to pursue careers in health care. My clinical practice affords ample opportunity for collaborative research with Clemson University faculty, including biomechanics, microbiology, pharmacology, robotics and technology, and human research factors. Current work in several areas is transformative to the current health-care model: Utilization of video-based artificial intelligence potentially improves surgical outcomes and can change our paradigm of surgical education; utilization of national registry (The Abdominal Core Health Quality Collaborative) has already lead to a significant reduction in participating surgeons’ opioid prescribing while maintaining a focus on patient-reported outcomes; integration of an Electronic Medical Record tool on reducing opioid prescribing is ongoing, an AHRQ-funded study; and use of ultrasound technology to predict abdominal wall compliance prior to abdominal wall reconstruction can better prepare both surgeons and patients for what to expect with complex hernia repair (a project funded through the American Hernia Society).
Health research keywords
Ventral Hernia Repair, Inguinal Hernia Repair, Hiatal / Paraesophageal, Hernia Repair, Abdominal Wall Reconstruction, Robotic Surgery, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Laparoscopic Surgery, Opioid Reduction, Opioid Stewardship, Multimodal Analgesia, Enhanced Recovery After Surgery
