Katherine Gross
Phoenix
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Primary Care Physician
Preventative Health Alliance
11.2023 - Current
- Working as a primary care physician in a community setting.
- Oversee functioning of the clinic as the sole physician practicing at my location.
- Excellent patient care and rapport with patients!
Center Medical Director and Laboratory Director
Grifols Biomat Casa Grande
10.2023 - Current
- Perform donor record file audits, review of all medical communications, donor adverse events, and select laboratory tests.
- Direct observations of members of the medical staff performing donor eligibility evaluations and exams, pre-donation screening, and initiating and discontinuing the plasmapheresis process on a donor.
- Certification and recertification of center medical staff.
- Assessment and certification of pre-donation screening staff.
- Monthly medical education session with all center medical staff.
- Participation at center management meetings as a member of the center quality and safety team.
- Laboratory Director responsibilities as outlined in the CLIA requirements.
- Review of proficiency testing for moderate complexity laboratory tests.
- Review of daily refractometer controls.
Critical Care Physician
Valleywise Health Medical Center
07.2019 - 09.2021
- Company Overview: Previously Maricopa County Medical Center
- Worked in the county hospital as primarily critical care capacity, handling up to 30 patients per shift during the Covid 19 pandemic.
- Also performed pulmonary consultations, procedures as well as pulmonary clinic.
- Bronchoscopy and EBUS regular job requirements.
- Worked with residents and fellows primarily in the critical care setting.
- Co-authorship/sponsorship of multiple residents on successful applications to Chest Conference medical presentations.
- Amazing and excellent rapport with coworkers!
- Excel at common ICU procedures including (but not limited to) intubations, central lines, dialysis catheters, percutaneous tracheostomies, thoracotomy tubes and much more!
- Worked at hospital with 2 weeks of ICU (night and day shift) and ICU 'backup' in addition to 1 week of pulmonology consultations and 1 week of pulmonology clinic.
- Previously Maricopa County Medical Center
Fellow
University of Connecticut
Farmington
07.2016 - 07.2019
- Company Overview: Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program
- Experience included outpatient pulmonary clinic, inpatient pulmonary consultation, and critical care unit’s three hospital sites.
- Primary hospital: University of Connecticut – Academic center with combined medical, surgical, cardiac and neurologic ICU.
- Equal time spent at St.Francis Hospital, an intercity community hospital with busy inpatient consultation service and large medical surgical/and cardiac ICUs and the Hospital of Central Connecticut in 24 bed ICU.
- Interventional Pulmonary experience with experience and comfort with large range of procedures including flexible bronchoscopy, EBUS, thoracentesis, percutaneous chest tube placement, percutaneous tracheostomy placement and navigational bronchoscopy.
- Competent in additional medical procedures such as central and arterial line placement, paracentesis, and dialysis catheter placement.
- Robust Thoracic Oncology exposure and participation in Tumor Board at the UCONN health center.
- Competent with the use of full body ultrasound for the purposes of diagnosis, resuscitation assessment, and for ultra-soundguided procedures.
- Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program
Resident
University of Connecticut
Farmington
06.2013 - 06.2016
- Company Overview: Primary Care Internal Medicine Program
- Training at The Hospital of Central Connecticut and the University of Connecticut Health Center.
- Attended secondary continuity clinic in University of Connecticut Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine Department.
- Primary Care Internal Medicine Program
Education
M.D. -
Saba University School of Medicine
Saba, Dutch Caribbean 04-2013
Bachelor of Science - Neuroscience/Spanish Language And Literature
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI04-2008
Accomplishments
- Participated as a speaker during the Community Lung Cancer Education Session organized by Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCONN health at Hartford community center.
- Presenter at Connecticut Pulmonary Section Annual Meeting 2017 : Therapeutic considerations in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Poster Presentation: Incidentally found synchronous adenocarcinoma and primary pulmonary lymphoma within a single lobe. Jones E, Gross K, Ibrahim O. American Thoracic Society Meeting. May 2018.
- Poster Presentation: Gross K, Waring T, Chawla H, Bulathsinghala C, Soucier, R, ZuWallack R. Physical activity after discharge for exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or congestive heart failure (CHF). European Respiratory Society International Conference. Amsterdam,Netherlands.September 2015.
- Poster Presentation: Gross K, Bensen M, Coyle, T. “Fryer’s Lung”: A Case of Exogenous Lipoid Pneumonia in A Fast Food Worker. American Thoracic Society International Conference. Denver, CO. May 2015.
- Poster Presentation: Gross K, Vredenburgh J. Necrotizing Histiocytic Lymphadenitis Masquerading as Lymphoma. ACP Connecticut Chapter. Southington, CT. October 2014.
- Poster Presentation: Gross, K, Phillips A, Ek, K. Transverse Myelitis: An Unusual Presentation of EGPA. SGIM Northeast Regional Meeting. Boston, MA. May, 2014.
Certification
ABIM # 371349
- Internal Medicine - October 26, 2023
- Critical Care Medicine - November 13, 2023
- Pulmonary Medicine - November 14, 2023
Publications
- Waring T, Gross K, Soucier R, ZuWallack, R. Measured Physical Activity and
30 – Day Rehospitalization in Heart Failure Patients. J Cardiopulmonary
Rehabilitation and Prevention. 2017;37:124-129
Research
Research Assistant, Multiple Projects: Wayne State University Medical
School, Detroit, MI 2012
- Novel Cardiac Biomarkers in Cardiac Injury
- Platelet Oriented Therapy in New TIA and Minor Ischemic Stroke
(POINT) - Use of Insulin-Like Growth Factor in Traumatic Brain Injury
- A Phase III Study to Evaluate IV Peramivir in Treatment of Influenza
Research Assistant, Wayne State University Medical School, Detroit, MI 2011
- The Use of Novel EEG Device in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Research Assistant, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 2007
- Interaction of Early Steroid Hormone Exposure on the Development of Adult Behavior in
Sheep
Research Clerk, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 2006
Professional Memberships
• American College of Chest Physicians - 2016
• European Respiratory Society - 2015
• American Thoracic Society - 2014
• American College of Physicians - 2014
Medical Volunteer Experience
- Medical Clinc Volunteer: Clínica Liberación, Phoenix - 2025
- Medical Clinic Volunteer: AM Edwards Hospital, Netherlands-Antilles – 2010
- Medical Clinic Volunteer: Shelter Association of Washtenaw County, Ann Arbor, MI 2009
- Medical Clinic Volunteer: Michigan Student Assembly Health Issues Commission, Ann Arbor, MI
- Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit MI 2008
- Medical Clinic Volunteer: Cass Clinic for the Indigent, Detroit MI 2008
Activities and Interests
• Trail Running
• Indoor Rock Climbing
• Trail Mountain Bike Riding
• Zumba
• Crochet
• Reading
• Hiking
• Boxing/Kickboxing
Timeline
Primary Care Physician
Preventative Health Alliance
11.2023 - Current
Center Medical Director and Laboratory Director
Grifols Biomat Casa Grande
10.2023 - Current
Critical Care Physician
Valleywise Health Medical Center
07.2019 - 09.2021
Fellow
University of Connecticut
07.2016 - 07.2019
Resident
University of Connecticut
06.2013 - 06.2016
M.D. -
Saba University School of Medicine
Bachelor of Science - Neuroscience/Spanish Language And Literature
University of Michigan
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