Giorgos C Karakousis, MD

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Professor of Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Attending Staff Surgeon, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Full Researcher Member, Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, PA
Chair, Cancer Committee, Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Site Co-Team Leader, Melanoma Disease, Abramson Cancer Center, Penn Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Chief, Division of Endocrine & Oncologic Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Department: Surgery

Contact information
Division of Endocrine & Oncologic Surgery
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce St., 4 Silverstein
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-662-2083
Fax: 215-662-7476
Education:
BS, MS (Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry)
Yale University, 1996.
MD
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 2001.
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Selected Publications

Vargas GM, Shafique N, Xu X, Karakousis G: Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes as a prognostic and predictive factor for melanoma. Expert Reviews of Molecular Diagnostics Feb. 5 2024 (Epub) Notes: doi: 10.1080/14737159.2024.2312102.

Maker AV, Karakousis G: Educating cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs): Are they the student or the teacher? Annals of Surgical Oncology Jan. 5 2024 (Epub) Notes: Editorial; doi: 10.1245/s10434-023-14812-6.

Sharon CE, Karakousis GC: Neoadjuvant therapy for resectable melanoma. Clinical & Experimental Metastasis Jan. 28 2024 (Epub) Notes: doi: 10.1007/s10585-023-10263-1.

Miura J, Sabharwal S, Ghert M, Karakousis G, Roland CL: Great debate: Systematic re-resection after macroscopic complete unplanned excision of soft tissue sarcoma. Annals of Surgical Oncology 31(3): 2047-2050, Mar. 2024 Notes: Epub Dec. 19, 2023.

Ma KL, Sharon CE, Tortorello GN, Keele L, Lukens JN, Karakousis GC, Miura JT: Delayed time to radiation and overall survival in Merkel cell carcinoma. Journal of Surgical Oncology 128(8): 1385-1393, Dec. 2023 Notes: Epub Aug. 25, 2023.

Sharon CE, Karakousis GC: Educational Review: Neoadjuvant approaches to melanoma. Annals of Surgical Oncology 29(13): 8492-8500, Dec. 2023 Notes: Epub July 18, 2022.

Rose MA, Miura J, Sharon C, Ermer JP, Karakousis G, Wachtel H: Current patterns of treatment and outcomes in advanced melanoma at a single institution. Journal of Surgical Oncology 291: 25-33, Nov. 2023 Notes: Epub June 16, 2023.

Tortorello G, Sharon CE, Susman CG, Ma KL, Krouse RS, Lee MK, Miura JT, Karakousis GC: Disparities by race and ethnicity in surgical palliative care for pancreatic cancer. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 237(5 Suppl 1): S207, Nov. 2023 Notes: Presented at the 9th Owen H Wangensteen Scientific Forum of the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress, Boston, MA, Oct. 2023.

Wang K, Coutifaris P, Brocks D, Solis S, Han N, Manne S, Kiner E, Sachar C, George S, Yan P, Kiner MW, Laughlin AI, Kothari S, Giles JR, Mathew D, Ghinnagow R, Alanio C, Flowers A, Xu W, Tenney D, Xu X, Amaravadi RK, Karakousis GC, Schuchter LM, Buggert M, Wherry EJ, Minn A, Weber J, Mitchell T, Herati RS, Huang A: Reinvigoration of progenitor-exhausted CD8 T cells by anti-CTLA-4 contributes to the sustained activity of combination checkpoint blockade. Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 11(Suppl 2): A1759, Nov. 2023 Notes: Presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer's, SITC 2023, San Diego, CA, Nov. 2023.

Shannon AB, Karakousis GC: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on new diagnoses of melanoma: A response to additional multi-institution and international reports. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 89(5): e221-e222, Nov. 2023 Notes: Epub Apr. 23, 2023.

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