David Eugene Clark

MD, MS, MPH

Trauma Surgeon, Maine Medical Center
Investivator, Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation

Maine Medical Center

(207) 774-2381 Office

(207) 774-0459 Fax

After graduating from Dartmouth College and George Washington University Medical School, Dr. David Clark completed the Maine Medical Center surgical residency in 1980. He was a Trauma Fellow at the University of Maryland for a year, then rejoined the MMC surgical staff and developed its trauma service. After ten years of practice, he returned to academics, receiving degrees in statistics from USM and public health from Harvard in 1995. He has continued surgical practice, while also remaining a core faculty member with the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. Dr. Clark is currently an active member of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma.

Selected peer-review publications (in chronological order)

Clark DE. Computational methods for probabilistic decision trees. Computers Biomed Research 1997; 30:19-33.
Clark DE, Ryan LM. Modeling injury outcomes using time-to-event methods. J Trauma 1997; 42:1129-1134.
Clark DE, Cushing BM, Bredenberg CE. Monitoring hospital trauma mortality using statistical process control methods. J Amer Coll Surg 1998; 186:630-635.
Clark DE, El-Taha M. Generation of correlated logistic-normal random variates for medical decision trees. Meth Inform Med 1998; 37:235-238.
Clark DE. Comparing institutional trauma survival to a standard: Current limitations and suggested alternatives. J Trauma 1999; 47: S92-S98
Clark DE, Cushing BM. Predicting regional variations in mortality from motor vehicle crashes. Acad Emerg Med 1999; 6: 125-130
Clark DE, Hahn DR. Hospital trauma registries linked with population-based data. J Trauma 1999; 47: 448-454
Clark DE, Wildner M. Violence and fear of violence in East and West Germany. Soc Sci Med 2000; 51:373-379
Clark DE, Wildner M, Bergmann KE. Injury mortality in East Germany. Amer J Pub Health 2000; 90:1761-1764
Clark DE, Dainiak CN, Reeder S. Decreasing incidence of burn injury in a rural state. Inj Prev 2000; 6:259-262
Clark DE. Motor vehicle crash fatalities in the elderly: Rural versus urban. J Trauma 2001; 51:896-900
Wildner M, Sangha O, Clark DE, Döring A, Manstetten A. Independent living after fractures in the elderly. Osteoporosis International 2002; 13:579-585
Clark DE, Chu MK. Increasing importance of the elderly in a trauma system. Amer J Emerg Med 2002; 20:108-11
Hochheiser GM, Clark DE, Morton JR. Operative technique, paraplegia, and mortality after blunt traumatic aortic injury. Arch Surg 2002; 137:434-438
Clark DE, Cushing BM. Predicted effect of automatic crash notification on traffic mortality. Accid Anal Prev 2002; 34:103-9
Clark DE, Ryan LM. Concurrent prediction of hospital mortality and length of stay from risk factors on admission. Health Services Research 2002; 37:631-645
Hartnett KL, Winchell RJ, Clark DE. Management of adult splenic injury: A 20-year perspective. Amer Surg 2003; 69:608-11
Clark DE. Trauma system evaluation using the Fatality Analysis Reporting System. J Trauma 2003; 54:1199-1204
Shinoda-Tagawa T, Clark DE. Trends in hospitalization after injury: Older women are displacing young men. Inj Prev 2003; 9:214-9
Clark DE. Effect of population density on mortality after motor vehicle collisions. Accid Anal Prev 2003; 35:965-971
Clark DE, Cushing BM. Rural and urban traffic fatalities, vehicle miles, and population density. Accid Anal Prev 2004; 36:967-972
Clark DE. A practical introduction to record linkage for injury research. Inj Prev 2004; 10:186-191.
Clark DE, Winchell RJ. Risk adjustment for injured patients using administrative data. J Trauma 2004; 57:130-140.
Clark DE, Anderson KL, Hahn DR. Evaluation of an inclusive trauma system using linked population-based data. J Trauma 2004; 57:501-509.
Clark DE, Delorenzo MA, Lucas FL, Wennberg DE. Epidemiology and short-term outcomes of injured Medicare patients. J Amer Geriatric Soc 2004; 52:2023-2030
Clark DE, Delorenzo MA, Lucas FL, Wennberg DE. Injuries in older Americans with and without Medicare. Amer J Pub Health 2005; 95:273-8.
Clark DE, Ahmad S. Is the number of traffic fatalities in American hospitals decreasing? Accid Anal Prev 2005; 37:755-760
Clark DE, Ahmad S. Estimating injury severity using the Barell matrix. Inj Prev 2006; 12:111-116
Donohue JT, Clark DE, DeLorenzo MA. Long-term survival of Medicare patients with head injury. J Trauma 2007; 62:419-423
Clark DE, Lucas FL, Ryan LM. Predicting hospital mortality, length of stay, and transfer to long- term care for injured patients. J Trauma 2007; 62:592-600
Clark DE, et al. DeLorenzo MA, Lucas FL, Cushing BM. Initial presentation of older injured patients to high-volume hospitals is not associated with lower 30-day mortality in Medicare data. Crit Care Med 2007; 35:1829-1836
Clark DE, Ryan LM, Lucas FL. A multi-state piecewise exponential model of hospital outcomes after injury. J Applied Statistics 2007; 34:1225-1239
Gorra AS, Clark DE, Mullins RJ, DeLorenzo MA. Regional variation in hospital mortality and 30 day mortality for injured Medicare patients. World J Surg2008; 32:954-959