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Adrian Umpierrez De Reguero

  • Department of Medicine
    Associate Professor
  • (303) 726-6688
  • adrian.paolo.umpierrez.de.reguero@emory.edu

  • 49 Jesse Hill Jr Dr
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Overview

Dr. Umpierrez is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. He earned his Medical Doctor degree from the Universidad Catlica de Santiago de Guayaquil, Ecuador, in 2008. He completed his Internal Medicine Residency at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, in 2013. From 2013 to 2023, he worked as a Hospitalist at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital. In October 2023, he joined the Division of Hospital Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, where he currently serves as the Associate Site Director for Hospital Medicine and the 9CD Unit Co-Director at Grady Memorial Hospital.

Dr. Umpierrez has dedicated his career to bedside teaching and developing a sustainable bedside procedure service to provide expedited inpatient care while educating students, residents, and junior faculty in point-of-care ultrasound and bedside procedures. Previously, he served as the Medical Director for the Medicine Bedside Procedure Service, the Resident Procedure Elective Director, the Intern Simulation Workshop Director, the Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program, and the Chair of the Clinical Competency Committee. He also contributed to developing the curriculum for the Point-of-Care Ultrasound Resident Elective at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Dr. Umpierrez has received several teaching awards from Medical Student Clerkship and Sub-Internship programs, the Internal Medicine Residency Program, the Combined Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program, the Medical College of Wisconsin Society of Teaching Scholars, the Young Internist of the Year Award from the American College of Physicians (WI Chapter), and the Ernest O. Henschel Award for the best teacher in all clinical departments. His research interests include peri-procedural anticoagulation and safety profiles, procedural outcomes, and procedural resident education. Beyond procedures and point-of-care ultrasound, he is interested in clinical reasoning, and value-based care.

Academic Appointment

  • Associate Professor, Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine

Education

Degrees

  • Medical Doctor from Universidad Catolica Guayaquil

Research

Publications

  • 40 is the new 50: reducing the need for platelet transfusions prior to lumbar puncture in adults with hematologic malignancies.
    Haematologica
    01/30/2025 Authors: Corrao K; Umpierrez A; Treml A; Szabo A; Michaelis L; Runaas L; Murthy GSG; Abedin S; Carlson K; Kreuziger LB
  • A Triple Threat: Acute Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Unveiled with Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis.
    J Brown Hosp Med Volume: 4 Page(s): 47 - 53
    01/01/2025 Authors: Shah C; Cotter L; Yu E; Wanat K; Harrington A; Sabchyshyn V; Umpierrez A
  • New Onset Heart Failure due to Left Atrial Myxoma.
    J Brown Hosp Med Volume: 4 Page(s): 133512
    01/01/2025 Authors: Ho J; Wills T; Umpierrez A
  • Things We Do for No Reason: Routine use of proton pump inhibitors for peptic ulcer prophylaxis in adults on high-dose corticosteroids.
    J Hosp Med Volume: 18 Page(s): 630 - 632
    07/01/2023 Authors: Kumar SS; Arvind S; Umpierrez AP
  • Advancing Internal Medicine Training: Experience of a Bedside Procedure Service as a Resident Elective.
    Hosp Top Volume: 101 Page(s): 127 - 134
    01/01/2023 Authors: Swartz S; Umpierrez De Reguero A; Puetz JR; Voigt L; Cuzovic N; Bielecki M; Franco Sadud R
  • Bone marrow biopsies: A hospitalist bedside procedure service 5-year experience.
    J Hosp Med Volume: 18 Page(s): 15 - 20
    01/01/2023 Authors: Swartz S; Puetz JR; Madenberg D; Voigt L; Cuzovic N; Bielecki M; Umpierrez De Reguero A
  • Two-Year Experience of 14 French Pigtail Catheters Placed by Procedure-Focused Hospitalists.
    J Hosp Med Volume: 15 Page(s): 526 - 530
    09/01/2020 Authors: Puetz J; Segon A; Umpierrez A
  • Acute Hemoptysis Redefined: A Deadly Presentation.
    Case Rep Pulmonol Volume: 2018 Page(s): 2123140
    01/01/2018 Authors: Galvis C; Galvis JM; Guardiola J; Umpierrez De Reguero AP
  • Lyme Carditis Buried Beneath ST-Segment Elevations.
    Case Rep Cardiol Volume: 2017 Page(s): 9157625
    01/01/2017 Authors: Michalski B; Umpierrez De Reguero A
  • Octreotide for the Management of Gastrointestinal Bleeding in a Patient with a HeartWare Left Ventricular Assist Device.
    Case Rep Cardiol Volume: 2014 Page(s): 826453
    01/01/2014 Authors: Dang G; Grayburn R; Lamb G; Umpierrez De Reguero A; Gaglianello N
  • A patient tumor transplant model of squamous cell cancer identifies PI3K inhibitors as candidate therapeutics in defined molecular bins.
    Mol Oncol Volume: 7 Page(s): 776 - 790
    08/01/2013 Authors: Keysar SB; Astling DP; Anderson RT; Vogler BW; Bowles DW; Morton JJ; Paylor JJ; Glogowska MJ; Le PN; Eagles-Soukup JR
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