Christopher A Guidry, MD

Dr. Christopher Guidry is a double board-certified surgeon who specializes in trauma, surgical critical care, emergency general surgery, collectively known as the specialty of acute care surgery (ACS).

Dr. Guidry is a member of the acute care surgery team at The University of Kansas Health System in Kansas City. The surgeons of the ACS team work with students, residents, fellows, nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) to provide comprehensive trauma and surgical care to patients who may arrive to the hospital through the Emergency Department or are met by our comprehensive surgical care team for elective general surgery.

As an acute care surgeon, Dr. Guidry cares for a vast array of surgical diseases, including gallbladder problems, appendicitis, bowel obstruction, abdominal and groin hernias, soft tissue injury or infection, as well as injury to the liver, spleen, intestines, ribs and lungs. Patients who require admission to the surgical intensive care unit (SICU) remain under the care of acute care surgeons who are also board-certified in surgical critical care. In the SICU, acute care surgeons manage the ventilator (breathing machine) as well as medications to support blood pressure, antibiotics, pain and sedation. Acute care surgeons perform bedside procedures such as central line placement (large IVs), bronchoscopy (to clear the lungs), tracheostomy (surgically placed breathing tube) and gastric tubes (feeding tubes).

Acute care surgeons help coordinate the care of injured patients and may consult colleagues from other departments such as orthopedic surgery, neurosurgery, plastic surgery, vascular surgery or interventional radiology, depending on the type and severity of illness or injury. Acute care surgeons provide care for patients from hospital admission through hospital discharge and routinely see patients after a hospitalization.

Dr. Guidry is an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Kansas Medical Center, where he conducts research in acute care surgery outcomes with a special interest in surgical infectious disease and critical care. He is active in multiple national professional organizations, where he serves on multiple committees. He has published over 65 peer-reviewed papers in his area of research and is a frequent national presenter on ACS topics.

He earned his undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana, and graduated from medical school from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He completed his general surgery residency at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and completed his fellowship in surgical critical care and acute care surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.

In his spare time, Dr. Guidry loves to cook, read and spend time with his wife and 3 children.