Victoria M. Gershuni, MD, MSGM, MSTR
Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Active Surgeon, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
Active Surgeon, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Attending Surgeon, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Steering Committee, Penn Center for Nutritional Science and Medicine (PenNSAM)
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.Armaun D Rouhi, Sebastian Leon, Juan E Perez, Colleen M Tewksbury, Victoria M Gershuni, Maria S Altieri, Noel N Williams, Kristoffel R Dumon: Association of inferior vena cava filter placement with perioperative outcomes after bariatric surgery: a contemporary analysis of 721,161 patients. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases July 2025.
Raheema Damani, Shubha Vasisht, Valerie Luks, Gracia Vargas, Charlene Compher, Paul M Titchenell, Gregory Tasian, Hongzhe Li, Gary D Wu, Walter R Witschey, Victoria M Gershuni: Sex-based differences in imaging-derived body composition and their association with clinical malnutrition in abdominal surgery patients. MedRxiv April 2025.
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.
Gracia M. Vargas, Rakesh Sharma, Shubha Vasisht, Raheema Damani, Jeffrey Duda, James C. Gee, Charles M. Vollmer, Walter Witschey, Victoria M. Gershuni : Automated CT-based volumetric body composition analysis predicts post-operative complications following pancreaticoduodenectomy: A retrospective study. Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Annual Conference (Clinical Day) 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 Nov 2024 Notes: doi: 10.1093/ibd/izad304.