Amy E. Liepert, MD, FACS, has dedicated her life to engaging primarily surgeons, but also all healthcare professionals, in health policy advocacy while pursuing her primary clinical passion of caring for critically ill surgical and trauma patients. Her research interests include multidisciplinary and surgical management of necrotizing pancreatitis, surgical health policy advocacy engagement, rural surgical care delivery, and healthcare worker violence prevention. She has championed a bill through the California legislature to place Stop the Bleed kits in all new public buildings in California.
Her academic work has appeared in medical and research publications, including the American Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, JAMASurgery, and the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. Dr Liepert has presented nationally on surgical health policy advocacy, trauma system consequences of the raised Southern border wall, and the effects of duplicated CT scans on transferred trauma patients. She has also published on the development of a fully automated EHR based registry for Emergency General Surgery.
Dr Liepert has served on faculty as Assistant Professor of Surgery at University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, as Associate Professor and Chief of Acute Care Surgery at the University of Missouri, and as Associate Professor of surgery and medical director of acute care surgery UC San Diego. Dr Liepert completed a fellowship in surgical critical care at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, Pa., and her residency in general surgery at University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
