Gene A. Grindlinger, M.D.

Department of Surgery
887 Congress Street
Suite 210
Portland, Maine 04102
(207) 774-2381 Office
(207) 774-0459 Fax
grindg@mmc.org

Biosketch

Dr. Grindlinger was born in NYC and attended Boston University for undergraduate and Medical School in a combined 6-year AB/MD program. He did his Surgical Residency Training at Boston Medical Center (Boston University) and a Fellowship in Surgical Research at Harvard Medical School, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. He is Certified by the American Board of Surgery in Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, and is a Fellow in the American College of Surgery. He had a faculty position at Boston (University) Medical Center, Department of Surgery, and is a Fellow, American College of Chest Physicians and the American College of Critical Care Medicine. In 1999 he came to MMC as Division Director, Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery. He serves on the following Committees: Infection Control, Critical Care Services Committee, R3 Design Group, Institutional Patient Flow Committee, Product Evaluation Committee (SCU), Surgical Site Infection Committee, Chief’s Committee, Full-Management, Department of Surgery QI Committee and the VAP task force.

Research Interests

1. Noninvasive Monitoring Techniques including the esophageal Doppler, sublingual capnometry, near-infrared cerebral oximetry, noninvasive cardiac Output using end-tidal CO2 (NICO)
2. Nosocomial Infections in the ICU including ventilator-associated pneumonia, catheter related blood-stream infection, nosocomial sinusitis
3. Necrotizing soft tissue infections

Selected Publications

Grindlinger GA, Desjardins S., Ahmad, S., Donaldson J.:  Use of the Esophageal Doppler and Sublingual Capnometer in the Hemodynamic Assessment of Mechanically Ventilated Surgical Patients, Maine Medical Center Research Forum, April 5-8, 2004.               

Montecalvo MA, Korsberg TZ, Craven DE, Grindlinger GA, et al:  Nutritional Outcome and Pneumonia in Critical Care Patients Randomized to Gastric versus ? Tube Feedings.  J Crit Care Med, 20:1377-1387, 1992.

Aihara R, Millham FH, Grindlinger GA, Hirsch EF:  Evaluation of Emergency Room Thoracotomy for Penetrating Chest Injury:  An Institutional Second Look.  J Trauma, Jun; 50(6):1027-30, 2001.  Presented at American College of Surgeons Local and Regional Conference Committee on Trauma.  Waltham, MA and Newton, MA.  Local, October 16, 1998 and Regional, December 11, 1998. 

Owens RC, Desikan S, Grindlinger GA, Goering RV.  Emergence of Linezolid resistance in enterococcus faecium (LRE) associated with reversal of Vancomycin resistance during therapy.  Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.  October 27, 2001.

Grindlinger GA, Ahmad, S., Desjardins, S.:  Noninvasive Cerebral Oximetry in the Assessment of Patients with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), SCCM (submitted).