Ongoing Projects

Emergency Surgery Research Group

  • Emergency General Surgery: Does an Individual Surgeon's Volume of Cases Matter?
  • Risk Factors for Interhospital Transfer after Emergency Bowel Surgery
  • The Effect of Insurance Status on Patients Admitted for Acute Diverticulitis
  • Teaching Status: The Impact on Emergency and Elective Surgical Care in the United States
  • Enhancing Revenue from Acute Care Surgery: The Value of a Standardized Templated Form
  • Prophylactic Antibiotics and Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis in Emergency Surgery: Do They Contribute to Post-operative Morbidity and Mortality in this at Risk Population?
  • An Investigation into the Increased Risk of Post-operative Fistula Formation After Elective Surgery at Teaching Hospitals Compared to Nonteaching Hospitals: a Matched Case-Control Study
  • Transfer Status: a Risk Factor for Mortality in Patients with Necrotizing Fasciitis

Endocrine and Oncologic Clinical Research Group

  • Diagnosis of Venous Thromboembolism as an Outpatient in Patients Undergoing Surgical Treatment for Malignancy: An Analysis of ACS NSQIP Data 2005-2008
  • Incidence of Venous Thromboembolism in Patients Undergoing Surgical Treatment for Malignancy: An analysis of ACS NSQIP data 2005-2008
  • The Impact of Federal and State Policy Changes on the Likelihood of Immediate Breast Reconstruction Following Mastectomy
  • The State and Federal Health Policy and its Effects on Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer Reconstruction
  • What Can We Tell Surgical Candidates with Follicular Lesions of Uncertain Significance (FLUS) by Thyroid FNA?
  • Neuroendocrine Tumors (NET) of Unknown Primary Site
  • Micropapillary Cancer after Surgery for Nodular Thyroid Disease
  • Role of Adrenal Vein Sampling in Patients with Primary Hyperaldsteronism and Unilateral Adrenal Mass by Imaging
  • Double Adenoma - Assessment of True Incidence in Terms of Pathology, Operative Imaging and Clinical Characteristics
  • Re-operative Parathyroid Procedures in the Era of Minimally Invasive Parathyroidectomy
  • Regional Recurrence after Lymphadenectomy for Clinically Evident Lymph Node Metastases from Papillary Thyroid Cancer: a Cohort Study
  • Reliability of Cytologic Analysis for Identifying Tall Cell Variant in Papillary Thyroid Cancer
  • Parathyroidectomy in Patients over 80 Years of Age
  • Assessment of the Phenotype of DCIS Present in BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers as a Way to Predict the Vaccines that can be Developed to Prevent Disease recurrence or invasive breast cancer.
  • Timing of Pre-operative Pharmacoprophylaxis for Pancreatic Surgery Patients: A VTE Reduction Initiative
  • Does the Presence of Thyroid Cancer Increase the Risk of Venous Thromboembolism in Patients Undergoing Thyroidectomy?
  • Parathyroidectomy for patients with normal initial Intraoperative PTH levels
  • Single gland disease is still the most commonPathology in lithium associated hyperparathyroidism.

Colorectal Surgery Clinical Research Group

  • Effect of Technique on Post-operative Perineal Wound Infections in Abdominoperineal Resection
  • Characterization of Anastomotic Leak Rates by Comparison of Administrative Datasets and Patient Factors to Define and Standardize Classification and Causation

Surgery Education and Simulation

  • A Novel Floor Management Simulation Course for Medical Student
  • Examining the Relationship Between Perceived Service Required and Educational Value
  • Where Simulation Ends and Training Begins "The Effect and Durability of a Pre-graduation Prep Course for Medical Students Entering Surgical Training"
  • Establishment of Proficiency Levels for Laparoscopic Performance by Residents in a Dedicated Simulation Rotation
  • The Surgery Clerkship an Opportunity for Pre-clinical Credentialling in Urinary Catheterization
  • How Good are You? Using Outcomes Data to Inform Resident Driven Quality Improvement Inititatives