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Catherine E Sharoky, MD, MSCE, FACS

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Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Presbyterian Medical Center of Philadelphia
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Active Surgeon, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
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Active Surgeon, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
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Attending Surgeon, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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Medical Student Clerkship Site Director, Emergency Surgery Service , University of Pennsylvania
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Emergency Surgery Service Performance Improvement Medical Director, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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Associate Fellowship Director, Division of Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
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51 University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 2013.
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61 University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 2018.
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Selected Publications

162 Rosenthal JW, Bakillah E, Acker RC, Sharpe J, Sharoky CE, Kelz RR.: Pilot study of provider adherence to language services for surgical patients with limited English proficiency. Am J Surg. Page: 247:116473, Jun 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2025.116473. Epub ahead of print.

1b8 Roberson JL, Passman JE, Aloupis M, Caballero-Tilleria Y, Audia A, Ramirez MR, Quinones PM, Kim P, Kaufman EJ, Sharoky CE.: Association between a 6-h feeding protocol and postprocedure hospital length of stay following percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy in hospitalized adults: A before-and-after cohort study. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 49(2): 222-228, Feb 2025.

193 Roberson JL, Gasior JA, Ginzberg SP, Bakillah E, Passman J, Shreve L, Sharoky CE, Nadolski G, Courtright KR, Kaufman EJ: The impact of palliative decompressive gastrostomy tube placement on patients and their caregivers: A mixed methods analysis. Annals of Surgical Oncology 31(10): 6931-6938, Oct. 2024 Notes: Epub July 31, 2024.

169 Bakillah E, Micale C, Rosenthal JW, Grabill M, Sharoky C: The burden of emergency general surgery hospitalization on patients and informal caregivers: A qualitative study. Quickshot Oral Presentation at the American College of Surgeons 2024 Clinical Congress, San Francisco, CA Oct. 2024.

171 Bakillah E, Micale C, Grabill M, Rosenthal JW, Bilger A, Martin N, Sharoky C: The second victim in emergency surgery: The toll of hospitalization on informal caregivers Poster Quickshot presentation at the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma National Meeting, Las Vegas NV Sept. 2024.

144 Haddad DN, Meredyth N, Hatchimonji J, Merulla E, Matta A, Saucier J, Sharoky CE, Bass GA, Pascual JL, Martin ND: Racial disparities in end-of-life suffering within surgical intensive care units. Trauma Surg Acute Care Open 9(1): e001367, Sept. 3 2024.

155 Roberson JL, Caballero-Tilleria Y, Ramirez MR, Audia A, Martinez-Quinones P, Kim P, Sharoky CE: Feeding faster: Standardizing time from gastrostomy to goal enteral feeding. Quickshot Presentation at the 19th Annual Academic Surgical Congress, Washington, DC Feb. 2024.

157 Hatchimonji JS, Bakillah E, Kaufman EJ, Dowzicky PM, Braslow BM, Kalapatapu VR, Reilly PM, Sharoky CE: The open abdomen in mesenteric ischemia: A tool for patients undergoing revascularization. World Journal of Surgery 48(2): 331-340, Feb. 2024 Notes: Epub Jan. 3, 2024.

119 Cabulong A, Sharoky CE: The palliative care effect: Frailty and do not resuscitate in emergency general surgery. Quickshot Presentation at the 19th Annual Academic Surgical Congress, Washington, DC Feb. 2024.

164 Bakillah E, Sharoky CE, Haddad D, Bader A, Liu Y, Martin ND, Kaufman E, Hatchimonji J: Failure to rescue in the geriatric surgical population: A literature review. Current Geriatrics Reports 13: 70-77, Feb. 14 2024 Notes: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13670-024-00408-9.

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