Location information
Address
The Queen's Medical Center 1301 Punchbowl Street POB3 Suite 509 Honolulu HI 96813 United States of America
Hospital type
University-affiliated
Hospital description
Third-Level Hospital (Referral)
Hospital website
This is a teaching hospital
Description
Dr. Josh Ng-Kamstra is an acute care surgeon and intensivist at The Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawai’i with an appointment at the University of Hawaii John A Burns School of Medicine. After completing his medical degree at McGill University, he trained in General Surgery at the University of Toronto and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Calgary. He completed the Paul Farmer Global Surgery Research Fellowship in 2015 and holds an MPH in Quantitative Methods from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. His main research interests include optimal care for intra-abdominal sepsis, health care financing, and equity in the global provision of surgery and critical care.
Member information
Name
Joshua Ng-Kamstra
Member type
Individual independent practitioner
Specialty
General Surgeon
Subspecialties
- Trauma and critical Care
Languages spoken
- English
- French
Professional affiliations / memberships
- Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST)
Social profiles
Conditions treated
- Breast
- Benign breast disease
- Gastrointestinal
- Volvulus
- Bowel Obstruction (parasitic, adhesive, mass)
- Benign polyps
- Malignant disease– colon, rectal, anal, carcinoids
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Diverticular disease
- Appendicitis
- Anal disease: Hemorrhoids, fissures, fistulae, prolapse
- Stomas – colostomies / ileostomies
- GI bleeds
- Trauma and Critical Care
- Ventilator management
- Total parenteral nutrition management
- Pressor management
- Ability to do the following procedures
- Colonoscopy
Equipment used
- Minimally invasive surgery (MIS)
- Other energy sealing devices
- Straight stapling devices
- End-to-end anastomosis (EEA) circular stapler
- Vacuum assisted closure device
- Temporary abdominal wound closure
- Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (FAST)
- Central venous catheters
- Total parental nutrition (TPN)
