Jacob T. Stephenson, MD

Jacob Stephenson, MD, FACS has returned home to Texas after retiring from the US Air Force with 21 years of active service and multiple operational and clinical leadership roles, most recently in surgical education at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Maryland.

After completing his residency and fellowships, Dr. Stephenson began his military career focused on pediatric surgical education for general surgeons with an emphasis on military/civilian partnerships. In addition to performing broad spectrum surgical care for babies and children at military and civilian hospitals stateside, he has served on six combat deployments and a multitude of training missions with special operations surgical resuscitation teams around the world.

Dr. Stephenson is committed to bringing compassionate and high-quality family-centered care to babies and children wherever they are. Through his interests in global surgery, he is actively involved in global pediatric surgical education through the Pan African Academy of Christian Surgeons residency programs in multiple countries on the African continent.

Dr. Stephenson is thrilled to be able to bring this experience and passion for excellence back home to the families of Austin who find themselves in need of surgical care.

Clinical Interests

Trauma, colorectal surgery, chest wall reconstruction, global surgery, minimally invasive procedures, emergency surgery

Education

Organizations

Board Certification

American Board of Surgery - Pediatric and Adult General Surgery. FACS, FAAP

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Research interests

Trauma, global surgery

Stokes SC, Brown EG, Jackson JE, Leshikar DE, Stephenson JT. Implementation of an evidence-based accelerated pathway: can hospital length of stay for children with blunt solid organ injury be safely decreased? Pediatric Surgery International, 2021 Jun;37(6): 695-704

Theodorou CM, Galganski LA, Jurkovich GJ, Farmer DL, Hirose S, Stephenson JT, Trappey AF. Causes of early mortality in pediatric trauma patients. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 2021 Mar 1;90(3):574-581

Theodorou CM, Trappey AF, Beyer CA, Yamashiro KJ, Hirose S, Galante JM, Beres AL, Stephenson JT. Quantifying the need for pediatric REBOA: A gap analysis. Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 2021 Aug;56(8):1395-1400

Yamashiro KJ, Galganski LA, Grayson JK, Johnson MA, Beyer CA, Spruce MW, Caples CM, Trappey AF, Wishy AM, Stephenson JT. Does the pediatric hemodynamic cliff exist in response to hemorrhagic shock? Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 2020 Dec;55(12):2543-2547

Yamashiro KJ, Galganski LA, Grayson JK, Johnson MA, Beyer CA, Spruce MW, Caples CM, Trappey AF, Wishy AM, Stephenson JT. Resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta in a pediatric swine model: Is 60 minutes too long? Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 2020 Oct;89(4):616-622

Stephenson J. Caring for the injured child in settings of limited resource. Seminars in Pediatric Surgery, 2016 Feb;25(1):19-22