Jack Stephens
Hospitalist
4401 Harrison Blvd Ogden Utah, 84403About
Dr. Stephens grew up helping his parents run a riding stable in the Provo Mountains and later in Park City Utah. Dr. Stephens graduated from Park City High School and started performing research involving next generation sequencing technologies at ARUP laboratories, after graduating from the University of Utah with a bachelors of science(Physics major, Chemistry minor). Dr. Stephens had three children while attending Albany Medical College and completed his residency at the University of Arizona Internal Mediceine residency program in Tucson. Dr. Stephens moved to his wife's home town after completing his residency, and began working as a Hospitalist at McKay Dee Hospital in Ogden, Utah.
As a Hospitalist, Dr. Stephens specializes in the comprehensive medical care of hospitalized patients. Dr. Stephens manages the clinical problems of hospitalized patients and the acutely ill, while working to improve the performance of the hospital. Dr. Stephens works in collaboration with all of the different doctors that are working with the patient, and helps mentor medical students and residents. Hospitalists are involved in the diagnosis, treatment and medical procedures of their patients. Dr. Stephens empahasizes physician-patient communication in his practice.
Education and Training
University of Utah BS 2008
Albany Medical College MD 2015
Board Certification
American Board of Internal Medicine
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What are the ways to prevent hospital borne infections in a ventilator patient?
This is a tough one. He is approaching the time where he should be considered for tracheostomy tube placement if he is unable to be weaned from the ventilator. Oral care helps and everyone involved in the care or in the room should be washing their hands. Suctioning out secretions helps but in reality ventilator associated pneumonia is frequently unavoidable and frustrating for family and staff. Jack Stephens, MD READ MORE
Professional Memberships
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Areas of research
Next Generation Sequencing Technologies
PUBLICATIONS
· Margraf RL, Durtschi JD, Stephens JE, Perez M, Voelkerding KV. Determination of RET Sequence Variation in an MEN2 Unaffected Cohort Using Multiple-Sample Pooling and Next-Generation Sequencing. Journal of Thyroid Research. 2012;2012:318232. doi: 10.1155/2012/318232. Epub 2012 Apr 1.
· Margraf RL, Durtschi JD, Dames S, Pattison DC, Stephens JE, Voelkerding KV. Variant Identification in Multi-sample Pools by Illumina Genome Analyzer Sequencing. Journal of Biomolecular Techniques. 22(2):74-84, 2011 Jul.
· Margraf RL, Durtschi JD, Dames S, Pattison DC, Stephens JE, Mao R, Voelkerding KV. Multi-sample Pooling and Illumina Genome Analyzer Sequencing Methods to Determine Gene Sequence Variation for Database Development. Journal of Biomolecular Techniques. 21(3):126-40, 2010 Sep.
· Dames S, Durtschi J, Geiersbach K, Stephens J, Voelkerding KV. Comparison of the Illumina Genome Analyzer and Roche 454 GS FLX for Resequencing of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy-Associated Genes. Journal of Biomolecular Techniques. 21(2):73-80, 2010 Jul.
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