Barbara Wells Trautner, M.D., Ph.D.
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Barbara Wells Trautner, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Clinical and Health Services Research
Positions
- Professor and Director, Clinical and Health Services Research
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Department of Surgery
Baylor College of Medicine
- Professor
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Department of Medicine
Section of Health Services Research
Baylor College of Medicine
- Investigator
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Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety (IQuESt)
Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas
Addresses
- Baylor College of Medicine Medical Center (Office)
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McNair Campus
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Office of Surgical Research
- Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety (IQuESt) (Lab)
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2450 Holcombe Blvd.
Houston, TX 77021
United States
Phone: (713) 794-8601
Education
- MD from University of Virginia Medical Center
- 05/1995 - Charlottesville, VA United States
- Internship at Baylor College of Medicine
- 06/1996 - Houston, TX United States
- Internal Medicine
- A.B. from Princeton University
- 01/1991 - Princeton, NJ United States
Certifications
- Board Certified
- American Board of Internal Medicine
Honors & Awards
- Ben and Margaret Love Foundation Bobby Alford Award for Academic Clinical Professionalism
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Norton Rose Fulbright Faculty Excellence Award for Development of Enduring Educational Materials
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Barbara and Corbin J. Robertson Presidential Award for Excellence in Education
- Baylor College of Medicine
- 2021 Women of Excellence
- Baylor College of Medicine
Professional Interests
- Urinary tract infections
- Healthcare-associated infections
- Antimicrobial stewardship
Professional Statement
Barbara W. Trautner, M.D., Ph.D., is an infectious diseases clinician-investigator at Baylor College of Medicine and the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, affiliated with the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety (IQuESt). While on career development award support, Dr. Trautner obtained a PhD in clinical investigation from Baylor College of Medicine Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Trautner has two productive branches of investigation, one in health services research and one in microbiology translational research, both linked by a unifying focus on urinary tract infection (UTI). Dr. Trautner’s frustration with seeing her patients’ bladder flora become more resistant after courses of unnecessary antibiotics led to her current research projects: (1) novel strategies for prevention and management of UTI, including bacteriophage, and (2) implementation of antibiotic stewardship guidelines, particularly for UTI. In addition to her research, Dr. Trautner is an educator, mentor, and academic program administrator. She is currently the Director of Research Administration in the Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, and she is a co-Program Director of the NHLBI T32 Training Program in Cardiovascular Surgery. She also directs the SHARE @ IQuESt program (Surgical Health services Academy for Research and Education), a collaboration with the department of surgery that supports surgical faculty in their development as health services researchers. Mentoring is a major component of her career, and her mentees are drawn from multiple departments at BCM.Websites
VIICTR Research Database
Trautner HSR Program
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NCBI Bibliography
Selected Publications
- Watson KJ, Trautner BW, Russo H, et al. "Using clinical decision support to improve urine culture diagnostic stewardship, antimicrobial stewardship, and financial cost." Infect Contr Hosp Epidem. 2020 Mar; Pubmed PMID: 32131910
- Lescinskas EH, Trautner BW, Saint S, et al. "Use of and patient-reported complications related to midline catheters and peripherally inserted central catheters." Infect Contr Hosp Epidem. 2020 Mar 4;1-3. Pubmed PMID: 32127066
- Chan-Tack KM, Trautner BW, Morgan DJ "The varying specificity of urine cultures in different populations.." Infect Contr Hosp Epidem. 2020 Mar; Pubmed PMID: 32036807
- 6) Grigoryan L, Salemi JL, Trautner BW "The devil is in the details: observational study finds better outcomes for uncomplicated cystitis treated with fluoroquinolones.." Clin Microbiol Infect. 2020 Jan; Pubmed PMID: 31968271
- Gibson SB, Green SI, Trautner BW "Constructing and Characterizing Bacteriophage Libraries for Phage Therapy of Human Infections.." Front Microbiol. 2019 Nov; Pubmed PMID: 31781060
- Gupta K, Trautner BW "The 2019 USPSTF Report on Screening for Asymptomatic Bacteriuria-Lessons from History.." JAMA Netw Open. 2019 Sep 4;2(9):e1912522. Pubmed PMID: 31550043
- Trautner BW, Naik AD "Taking a Ride on the Stewardship Side of Long-term Care: The Cadillac and the Camry." JAMA Netw Open. 2019 Sep 4;2(9):e199515. Pubmed PMID: 31509203
- Drekonja DM, Grigoryan L, Trautner BW "Teamwork and safety climate affect antimicrobial stewardship for asymptomatic bacteriuria." Infect Contr Hosp Epidem. 2019 Sep;40(9):963-967. Pubmed PMID: 31339085
- Grigoryan L, Germanos G, Trautner BW, et al. "Use of Antibiotics Without a Prescription in the U.S. Population: A Scoping Review." Ann Intern Med. 2019 Jul 23; Pubmed PMID: 31330541
- Trautner BW, Saint S, Fowler KE, et al "What do patients say about their experience with urinary catheters and peripherally inserted central catheters?." Am J Infect Control. 2019 Sep;47(9):1130-1134. Pubmed PMID: 31324486
- Germanos GJ, Trautner BW, Zoorob RJ, et al. "No Clinical Benefit to Treating male Urinary Tract Infection Longer than Seven Days: An Outpatient Database Study." Open Forum Infect Dis. 2019 May 6;6(6) Pubmed PMID: 31249844
- Grigoryan L, Nash S, Trautner BW "Qualitative Analysis of Primary Care Provider Prescribing Decisions for Urinary Tract Infections." Antibiotics. 2019 Jun 19;8(2)
- Nicolle LE, Gupta K, Trautner BW, et al. "Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria: 2019 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America." Clin Infect Dis. 2019 May 2;68(10):1611-1615. Pubmed PMID: 30895288
- Skelton F, Salemi JL, Trautner BW, et al. "Genitourinary Complications are a Leading and Expensive Cause of Emergency Department and Inpatient Encounters for Persons with Spinal Cord Injury.." Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2019 Sep;100(9):1614-1621. Pubmed PMID: 30935942
- Saint S, Krein SL, Trautner BW, et al. "Condom Catheters versus Indwelling Urethral Catheters in Men: A Prospective, Observational Study.." J Hosp Med. 2019 Mar 20;14:E1-E4. Pubmed PMID: 30897057
- Skelton F, Martin LA, Trautner BW, et al. "Determining Best Practices for Management of Bacteriuria in Spinal Cord Injury: Protocol for a Mixed-Methods Study.." JMIR Res Protoc. 2019 Feb 14;8(2):e12272. Pubmed PMID: 30762584
- Barshes NR, Mindru C, Trautner BW, Rodriguez-Barradas MC "Discordant Isolates in Bone Specimens From Patients With Recurrent Foot Osteomyelitis. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases.." Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2019 Apr;38(4):767-769. Pubmed PMID: 30719591
- Krein SL, Saint S, Trautner BW, et al. "Patient-Reported Complications Related to Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters: A Multi-Center Prospective Cohort Study.." BMJ Qual Saf. 2019 Jul;28(7):574-581. Pubmed PMID: 30683751
- Trautner BW "Urinary tract infection as a continuum - Implications for diagnostic and antibiotic stewardship." Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Mar;
Memberships
- Infectious Diseases Society of America
- Fellow
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
- Surgical Outcomes Club
- (07/2014)
- Association for Academic Surgery
- (07/2014)
- Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America
- (06/2014)
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Senator, Department of Medicine (10/2015 - 09/2016)
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