Victoria M. Gershuni, MD, MSGM, MSTR
Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Active Surgeon, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
Active Surgeon, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Attending Surgeon, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Department: Surgery
Contact information
Department of Surgery
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce Street, 4th Fl. Silverstein Pvln.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce Street, 4th Fl. Silverstein Pvln.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-614-0092
Education:
BS (Magna cum Laude)
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2008.
MSGM (Global Medicine)
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2009.
MD
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 2014.
MSTR (Translational Research)
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2019.
Permanent linkBS (Magna cum Laude)
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2008.
MSGM (Global Medicine)
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2009.
MD
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 2014.
MSTR (Translational Research)
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2019.
Selected Publications
Vasisht S, Sharma R, Vargas GM, Damani R, Gee JC, Witschey W, Vollmer CM, Gershuni VM : Muscle Quality on Preoperative Imaging is Associated with Postoperative Pancreatic Fistula Risk. Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons October 2025 Notes: Oral Presentation.Raheema Damani, Shubha Vasisht, Valerie Luks, Yue Ren, James Rowe, Charlene Compher, Jeffrey Duda, James Gee, Rachel Kelz, Hongzhe Li, Gary D. Wu, Walter R Witschey, Victoria Gershuni: Development of an Automated, Imaging-Based Pre-operative Screening Tool for the Early Identification of Malnutrition in an Abdominal Surgery Cohort. ASPEN 2025 Nutrition Science & Practice Conference March 2025.
Vasisht S, Bader A, Gershuni V: Robotic-Assisted Laparoscopic Giant Paraesophageal Hernia Repair with Fundoplication for Acute Gastric Outlet Obstruction. Video Reel at Society of Advanced Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons Annual Conference March 2025.
Leon S, Rouhi AD, Ginzberg SP, Perez JE, Tewksbury CM, Gershuni VM, Altieri MS, Williams NN, Dumon KR. : Perioperative Outcomes of Staple Line Reinforcement During Laparoscopic and Robotic Sleeve Gastrectomy: An MBSAQIP Cohort Study of 284,580 Patients. Obesity Surgery 35(3): 992-1000, February 2025.
Grasty M, Gershuni V: Minimally invasive anti-reflux surgery. Illustrative Handbook of General Surgery, 2d Edition. Chen H (eds.). New York: Springer, 2024 (in press).
Leon S, Rouhi AD, Perez JE, Alberstadt AN, Tewksbury CM, Gershuni VM, Altieri MS, Williams NN, Dumon KR: Bariatric surgery in patients with preoperative therapeutic anticoagulation: A 2015-2021 MBSAQIP database study. Surgery for Obesity & Related Disorders Aug. 8 2024 (Epub) Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.soard.2024.07.018.
Krasnovsky L, Weber AT, Gershuni V, Pettke E, Lewis JD: Preoperative exclusive enteral nutrition is associated with reduced skin and soft tissue and intra-abdominal infections in patients with Crohn's disease undergoing intestinal surgery: Results from a meta-analysis. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Jan. 23 2024 (Epub) Notes: doi: 10.1093/ibd/izad304.
Vasisht S, Bader A, Kalva S, Tejada A M, Winawer-Wetzel S, Grischkan J, Bekelman JE, Lee MK, Vollmer CM, Gershuni V: Implementing a multi-modal prehabilitation program to improve surgical outcomes among patients with pancreatic cancer. Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons 2024 October 2024.
Gershuni V, Wall-Wieler E, Liu Y, Zheng F, Altieri MS: Equity in bariatric surgery use: A cohort study. Surgery for Obesity & Related Diseases 20(6): 554-563, June 2024 Notes: Epub Jan. 8, 2024.
Vu PT, Chahine C, Chatterjee N, MacLean MT, Swago S, Bhattaru A, Thompson EW, Ikhlas A, Oteng E, Davidson L, Tran R, Hazim M, Raghupathy P, Verma A, Duda J, Gee J, Luks V, Gershuni V, Wu G, Rader D, Sagreiya H, Witschey WR; Penn Medicine Biobank: CT imaging-derived phenotypes for abdominal muscle and their association with age and sex in a medical biobank. Science Reports 14(1): 14807, June 26 2024.