Kurt Schultz, MD

Surgery resident
Yale New Haven Health
New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Kurt Schultz, MD, is a general surgery resident at Yale and a PhD candidate in the Yale Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. His doctoral work in the SASSY Lab  (PI: Ira Leeds, MD, MBA, ScM) examines patient-reported sociobehavioral comorbidities that contribute to inequities in surgical outcomes. This work aims to explain why patients undergoing similar procedures with comparable biomedical risk profiles can experience markedly different recoveries. Using mixed-methods and causal inference approaches, the SASSY Lab seeks to elucidate mechanisms linking these potentially modifiable factors to perioperative outcomes and to inform targeted, equity-focused interventions. Kurt plans to pursue fellowship training in Colon & Rectal Surgery, with a long-term goal of designing and rigorously testing community-engaged presurgical optimization programs.

Presentation(s):

• P51. Feasibility and Clinical Utility of Mass-Based Response Testing in Patients with Peritoneal Metastases

  Thursday, March 5, 2026
  2:11 PM - 2:18 PM MST