Department of Surgery Faculty
Helen A. Markkowski, MD
Assistant Professor / Clinical
Division: Trauma and Emergency Surgery
Email: Markowski@uthscsa.edu
Board Certifications:
Education:
MD, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, 2004
BS, Biology (Magna Cum Laude), University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 1998
Other Postgraduate Training:
2009-2010, Critical Care Fellowship, University of Texas School of Medicine San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
2004-2009 - Surgery internship and residency program, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL
Publications:
Lewin JJ, Skaggs H, Rogers J, Lin A, Baillie GM, Baliga PK, Fontaine ML, Chavin KD.
The role of plasmapheresis in severe coagulopathy and primary nonfunction.
2002. (American Transplant Congress).
McLaughlin J, Skaggs H, Churchwell J, Powell DA. Medial prefrontal cortex and pavlovian conditioning: trace versus delay conditioning. Behavioral Neuroscience 2002;116:37-47.
Powell DA, Skaggs HA, Churchwell J, McLaughlin J. Posttraining lesions of the medial prefrontal cortex impair performance of pavlovian conditioned eye-blink performance but have no effect on concomitant heart rate changes in rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus). Behavioral Neuroscience 2001;115:1029-1038.
Presentations:
2001, Functional MRI: a prospective study assessing the development of a
stable fMRI language paradigm for pre-surgical evaluations, Student
Research Day Abstracts, Medical University of South Carolina, Columbia,
SC
Research experience:
06/2001-08/2001, Medical University of South Carolina, Department of
Neuroradiology -- fMRI, Diana Vincent, PhD // Research entailed
compilation and interpretation of comparative data to develop a
clinically relevant functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging paradigm that
would reliably demonstrate a correlation between preoperative motor
function maps of patients with primary brain tumors and the probability
of various post-surgical effects
06/2001-06/2002, Medical University of South Carolina, Department of Surgery, Transplant Research, Kenneth Chavin, MD, PhD // Assessed steatotic liver susceptibility to reperfusion ischemia injury due to motochondrial uncoupling protein 2 upregulation by obtaining samples of arterial blood and donor/recipient liver tissue biopsies during transplant surgery for processing, storage, and evaluation.
07/1997-06/2000, Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Shirley L. Buchanan Neuroscience Laboratory, Neuroscience Laboratory Research Assistant, D.A. Powell, PhD // Associative learning models on pre-and post-trained sham and lesioned rabbits were studied to assess aversive versus appetitive conditioned response changes. Strategically placed cortical lesions with subsequent completion of conditioning paradigms altered acquisition or extinction of a measurable conditioned response. These changes were analyzed to better understand the integration of emotional processes with other somatic and sensory information and how the brain adapts to environmental circumstance.
Professional organizations:
American College of Surgeons
Alabama Medical Association
American Medical Association
South Carolina Medical Association
Golden Key National Honor Society
J. Bradley Aust Surgical Society
Honors and Awards:
2007, Golden Humanism Society: University of South Alabama
1999, Part Time Student Honor Roll: Midlands Technical College
1998, Dean's List (1996-1998): University of South Carolina - Columbia
1996, National Dean's List
1995, Dean's List (1993-1995): University of South Carolina - Sumter
1995, President's Honor Roll (1994-1995): University of South Carolina - Sumter
1995, Who's who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges
1991, Dean's List (1991): Glendale Community College
Biosketch: Dr. Markowski earned her medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina in 2004. She completed her surgical residency at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama in June 2009, and completed a surgical critical care fellowship at the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio in June 2010. Currently, Dr. Markowski is an Assistant Professor / Clinical in the Division of Trauma and Emergency at the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio.
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