John Martin Draus, MD

Surgery

Primary Office

Nemours Children's Health, Jacksonville Nemours Children's Health, Jacksonville 807 Children's Way Jacksonville, FL 32207 Appointment: (904) 697-3600

Other Offices

Get to Know Me

John Draus, MD is a pediatric general surgeon and the chief of surgery and trauma medical director at Nemours Children’s Health, Jacksonville. He’s been named among the Best Doctors in America for numerous consecutive years and was selected as an Honored Caregiver by University of Kentucky HealthCare in 2020. He earned the Recognition of Excellence in Student & Resident Teaching Award at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in 2017 and 2018. Dr. Draus has been an active researcher and presenter and has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles. He’s been on the editorial board of The American Surgeon since 2015 and is an ad hoc reviewer for Journal of Pediatric Surgery, World Journal of Pediatrics, Pediatric Emergency Care, and Surgical Infections.

How I Try to Make A Difference

Dr. Draus has volunteered his time and talent as a surgeon with Solid Rock Medical Missions in the Dominican Republic, Children of the Americas in Guatemala, and Surgery on Sunday in Lexington, Ky.

Education & Training

Residency

  • General Surgery/Pediatric Surgery - Indiana University Medical Center, 2010
  • General Surgery - University of Louisville Affiliated Hospitals, 2008
  • General Surgery - University of Louisville Affiliated Hospitals, 2007

Medical/Dental School

  • M.D. - University of Louisville, 2002

Board Certifications

  • American Board of Surgery/General Surgery
  • American Board of Surgery/Pediatric Surgery

Awards & Recognition

  • 2022 Best Doctors in America
  • 2021 Best Doctors in America
  • 2020 Honored Caregiver, University of Kentucky HealthCare
  • 2020 Best Doctors in America
  • 2019 Best Doctors in America
  • 2018 Recognition of Excellence in Student & Resident Teaching Award, University of Kentucky College of Medicine
  • 2018 Best Doctors in America
  • 2017 Recognition of Excellence in Student & Resident Teaching Award, University of Kentucky College of Medicine
  • 2017 Best Doctors in America
  • 2016 Best Doctors in America
  • 2015 Best Doctors in America

Insurance Accepted

  • Aetna Better Health FL Medicaid and Healthy Kids
  • Aetna HMO/POS/PPO/EPO
  • AmeriGroup GA MCAID HMO JAX/GA
  • AmeriGroup GA PeachCare For Kids Jax/GA
  • AvMed
  • Blue Cross and Blue Shield HMO
  • Blue Cross and Blue Shield Non HMO
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield Florida Blue Select
  • Cigna & Great West HMO/POS Open Access
  • Cigna & Great West PPO/EPO
  • Community Care Plan Medicaid
  • Employers Health Network PPO
  • Evolutions Healthcare
  • First Health Aetna PPO/EPO
  • Florida Community Care
  • Florida Medicaid
  • Georgia Medicaid/Georgia Better Health/Peachcare
  • HealthSmart Health Plans PPO
  • HUMANA HEALTHY HORIZONS (FKA HUMANA MEDICAID)
  • Humana HMO/POS
  • Humana PPO/EPO
  • Molina Healthcare Medicaid
  • Multiplan PPO
  • Prime Health Services PPO Specialty Florida
  • Seminole Tribe of Florida
  • Simply Healthcare Healthy Kids
  • Simply Healthcare Medicaid HMO
  • Star Healthcare Network
  • Sunshine SMI/CMS 19 & 21
  • Sunshine State Health Plan Medicaid
  • Three Rivers Provider Network
  • Tricare/Humana Military Health Services/CHAMPVA
  • United Healthcare Commercial Products
  • United Healthcare Community Plan Medicaid
  • Volusia Health Network PPO/EPO

  • Abdominal Masses
  • Anti-Reflux Surgery
  • Breast Disorders
  • Burn Care
  • Chest Wall Disorders
  • Gall Bladder Disease
  • Hernias and Hydroceles
  • Wound Care

  • Pediatric Cervical Spine Injury Following Blunt Trauma in Children Younger Than 3 Years: The PEDSPINE II Study; JAMA surgery; (2023).

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  • Injury Pattern and Outcomes Following All-Terrain Vehicle Accidents in Kentucky Children: A Retrospective Study; American Surgeon; (2023).

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  • Evaluation of the learning curve for laparoscopic pyloromyotomy; Surgical Endoscopy; (2023).

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  • Reducing Emergency Department Length of Stay in Critically Injured Pediatric Trauma Patients: A Quality Improvement Initiative; American Surgeon; (2022).

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  • Laparoscopic partial splenectomy for a splenic hamartoma; Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports; (2021).

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  • Gynecomastia in a 15-year-old Boy; Pediatrics in Review; (2020).

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  • Primary closure of clean-contaminated wounds over a silastic drain; American Surgeon; (2019).

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  • Prenatal Diagnosis of a Vanishing Gastroschisis With Subsequent Neonatal Bowel Complications: A Case Study; Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography; (2019).

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  • Pediatric blunt renal trauma practice management guidelines: Collaboration between the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma and the Pediatric Trauma Society; Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery; (2019).

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  • Microvascular volume visualization utilizing computed tomographic angiography data facilitates resection of a complicated massive congenital hemangioma; Clinical Imaging; (2019).

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  • A parent-led intervention to promote recovery following pediatric injury: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial; Trials; (2019).

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  • Injury Prevention and State Law as Strategies for the Reduction of Child Maltreatment Fatalities; Current Trauma Reports; (2017).

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  • Bicycle helmets save more than heads: Experience from a pediatric level I trauma hospital; American Surgeon; (2017).

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  • A multidisciplinary child protection team improves the care of nonaccidental trauma patients; American Surgeon; (2017).

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  • Preduodenal portal vein: A rare cause of neonatal bowel obstruction; American Surgeon; (2016).

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  • Laparoscopic resection of a congenital solitary hepatic cyst in an infant; American Surgeon; (2016).

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  • Advanced technologies in pediatric critical care/surgery and fetal surgery; Technological Advances in Surgery, Trauma and Critical Care; (2015).

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  • Non-accidental trauma injury patterns and outcomes: A single institutional experience; American Surgeon; (2015).

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  • Intussusception clinical pathway: A survey of pediatric surgery practices; American Surgeon; (2014).

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  • Pyloric atresia: Comorbidity determines outcome; Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports; (2014).

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  • Peritoneal drainage as the initial management of intestinal perforation in premature infants; American Surgeon; (2014).

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  • Minimally invasive drainage of subcutaneous abscesses reduces hospital cost and length of stay; Southern Medical Journal; (2013).

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  • Miscellaneous: Intussusception; Handbook of Pediatric Surgical Patient Care; (2013).

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  • External iliac artery injury after a bicycle accident; American Surgeon; (2013).

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  • Chondromyxoid fibroma of the second rib; Journal of Pediatric Surgery; (2013).

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  • Miscellaneous: Meckel's diverticulum; Handbook of Pediatric Surgical Patient Care; (2013).

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  • The role of laparoscopic evaluation to detect a contralateral defect at initial presentation for inguinal hernia repair; American Surgeon; (2011).

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  • Investigation of somatic NKX2-5 mutations in congenital heart disease; Journal of Medical Genetics; (2009).

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  • An analysis of risk-taking behavior among adolescent blunt trauma patients.; The Journal of the Kentucky Medical Association; (2009).

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  • Lipoma as a pathological lead point in a child with ileocolic intussusception; Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition; (2008).

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  • Drug and alcohol use among adolescent blunt trauma patients: dying to get high?; Journal of Pediatric Surgery; (2008).

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  • Hirschsprung's disease in an infant with colonic atresia and normal fixation of the distal colon; Journal of Pediatric Surgery; (2007).

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  • Laparoscopic ladd procedure: A minimally invasive approach to malrotation without midgut volvulus; American Surgeon; (2007).

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  • Enterocutaneous fistula: Are treatments improving?; Surgery; (2006).

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  • Vascular graft infections: Epidemiology, microbiology, pathogenesis, and prevention; Complications in Vascular Surgery, Second Edition; (2004).

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  • p53 gene transfer does not enhance E2F-1-mediated apoptosis in human colon cancer cells; Experimental and Molecular Medicine; (2001).

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