Jocelyn E Hunter Rose, MD

Dr. Jocelyn Hunter is a double board-certified surgeon who specializes in trauma, surgical critical care, emergency general surgery and general surgery, collectively known as the specialty of acute care surgery.

Dr. Hunter is a member of the acute care surgery (ACS) 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. Hunter 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. Hunter is an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Kansas Medical Center, where she enjoys teaching residents, students and fellows who learn and work with her in the hospital setting. She is one of the associate program directors for the general surgery residency program. She has a special interest in surgical education as well as minimally invasive and robotic surgery.

She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Oklahoma in Norman and graduated from medical school from the University of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City. She completed a residency in general surgery at Orlando Health in Orlando, Florida, and completed her training in trauma and critical care at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio.

In her spare time, she loves to travel, exercise, explore local restaurants and spend time with her husband and 2 children.