Gregory E. Tasian

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Associate Professor of Surgery
Attending Physician, Division of Urology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Faculty Member, Kidney Stone Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Faculty Member, Center for Clinical Futures, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Surgical Director, Kidney Stone Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Senior Scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Faculty Member, PolicyLab, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Associate Director for Clinical Trials, CHOP Clinical Futures, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Endowed Chair, Cheers for CHOP Endowed Chair in the Clinical Epidemiology of Pediatric Urologic Disease, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Director, Center for Outcomes REsearch in Surgery (CORES), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Department: Surgery

Contact information
Division of Urology
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
3400 Civic Center Boulevard
9th Floor, HUB for Clinical Collaboration
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-590-7890
Fax: 215-590-3985
Education:
BA (Biology and English)
Trinity University, 2000.
MSc (Neuroscience)
University of Oxford, 2004.
MD
Baylor College of Medicine, 2005.
MSCE (Clinical Epidemiology)
University of Pennsylvania, 2014.
Post-Graduate Training
Internship in General Surgery, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 2005-2006.
Resident in Surgery, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 2006-2007.
Resident in Urology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 2007-2011.
Fellow in Pediatric Urology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 2011-2013.
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Description of Itmat Expertise

Dietary and environmental determinants of nephrolithiasis

Changing behavior to reduce kidney stone recurrence among adolescents

Reduction of inappropriate CT utilization for children with suspected nephrolithiasis

Selected Publications

Kolon TF, Tasian GE: Cryptorchidism. The Kelalis-King-Belman Textbook of Clinical Pediatric Urology, 6th Edition. Docimo SG, Canning DA, Khoury AE, Salle JLP (eds.). New York: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Page: 1345-1358, 2019 Notes: Sect. 6, Chap. 79.

Tasian GE, Kabarriti AE, Kalmus A, Furth SL: Kidney stone recurrence among children and adolescents. Journal of Urology 197(1): 246-252, Jan. 2017 Notes: (Epub Aug. 10, 2016).

Van Batavia JP, Tasian GE: Clinical effectiveness in the diagnosis and acute management of pediatric nephrolithiasis. International Journal of Surgery (London, England) 36(Pt D): 698-704, Dec. 2016 Notes: (Epub Nov. 14, 2016).

Tasian GE: Editorial comment. Journal of Urology 197(3 Pt 2): 950, Mar. 2017 Notes: (Epub Nov. 4, 2016).

Tasian GE, Ross ME, Song L, Grundmeier RW, Massey J, Denburg MR, Copelovitch L, Warner S, Chi T, Killilea DW, Stoller ML, Furth SL: Dietary zinc and incident calcium kidney stones in adolescence. Journal of Urology 197(5): 1342-1348, May 2017 Notes: (Epub Nov. 23, 2016).

Chu DI, Zderic SA, Shukla AR, Srinivasan AK, Tasian GE, Weiss DA, Long CJ, Canning DA, Kolon TF: Does varicocelectomy improve semen analysis outcomes in adolescents without testicular asymmetry? Journal of Pediatric Urology 13(1): 76e1-76e5, Feb. 2017 Notes: (Epub Oct. 26, 2016).

Chu DI, Zderic SA, Shukla AR, Srinivasan AK, Tasian GE, Weiss DA, Long CJ, Canning DA, Kolon TF: The natural history of semen parameters in untreated asymptomatic adolescent varicocele patients: a retrospective cohort study. Journal of Pediatric Urology 13(1): 77e1-77e5, Feb. 2017 Notes: (Epub Oct. 24, 2016).

Chu DI, Canning DA, Tasian GE: Race and 30-day morbidity in pediatric urologic surgery. Pediatrics 138(1): pii: e20154574, July 2016 Notes: (Epub June 17, 2016).

Scales CD, Tasian GE, Schwaderer AL, Goldfarb DS, Star RA, Kirkali Z: Urinary stone disease: Advancing knowledge, patient care, and population health. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 11(7): 1305-1312, July 2016 Notes: (Epub Mar. 10, 2016).

Chu DI, Tasian GE, Copelovitch L: Pediatric kidney stones: Avoidance and treatment. Current Treatment Options in Pediatrics 2(2): 104-111, June 2016 Notes: (Epub Mar. 21, 2016).

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