Samuel U. Takvorian, MD, MSHP

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Hematology-Oncology) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Attending, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Innovation Faculty, Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation, Abramson Cancer Center
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Associate Director, Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation, Abramson Cancer Center
Director, Program in Patient-Generated Health Data, Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation, Abramson Cancer Center
Medical Oncology Lead, GU Disease Team, Abramson Cancer Center
Department: Medicine
Contact information
Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine
3400 Civic Center Blvd
10 South Pavilion
Philadelphia, PA 19104
3400 Civic Center Blvd
10 South Pavilion
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Publications
Education:
AB (High Honors in Social Studies )
Harvard College, 2006.
MD (Medicine)
Harvard Medical School, 2013.
MSHP (Health Policy Research )
University of Pennsylvania , 2019.
Permanent linkAB (High Honors in Social Studies )
Harvard College, 2006.
MD (Medicine)
Harvard Medical School, 2013.
MSHP (Health Policy Research )
University of Pennsylvania , 2019.
Selected Publications
Ravi Bharat Parikh, Emily R Schriver, Joelle Williamson, William Ferrell, Jonathan Wakim, Michael Kopinsky, Mohan Balachandran, Jinbo Chen, Mitesh S Patel, Samuel U Takvorian, Lawrence N. Shulman, Justin E. Bekelman, Ian J Barnett, Christopher Manz: Association of remote, longitudinal patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and step counts with hospitalization or death among patients with advanced cancer undergoing chemotherapy: Secondary analysis of the PROStep randomized trial. American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL Jun 2023.Miles Hsu, Xinhe Shan, Neha Vapiwala, Rebecca Zhang, Austin Pantel, Eva Berlin, Vivek Narayan, Samuel U Takvorian, David J. Vaughn, Naomi B. Haas: Biochemical recurrence after salvage prostate bed radiotherapy captured on PSMA-PET: Patient characteristics and distribution of recurrent disease. American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL Jun 2023.
Samuel U Takvorian, William L Schpero, Daniel Blickstein, Afrah Shafquat, Jingshu Liu, Arnaub Chatterjee, Elizabeth B. Lamont, Paula Chatterjee: Association between state Medicaid policies and accrual of Black and Hispanic patients to cancer clinical trials. American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL Jun 2023 Notes: Poster Discussion.
Gaurav Goyal, MD; Krystal W. Lau, PhD; Xiaoliang Wang, PhD; Amy J. Davidoff, PhD, MS; Scott F. Huntington, MD, MPH; Omer Jamy, MD; Gregory Calip, PharmD, MPH, PhD; Harsh Shah, DO; Deborah M. Stephens, DO; Rebecca Miksad, MD, MPH; Ravi B. Parikh, MD, MPP; Samuel Takvorian, MD, MSHP; Natalia Neparidze, MD; Erlene K. Seymour, MD: The COVID-19 Pandemic and In-Person Visit Rate Disruptions Among Patients With Hematologic Neoplasms in the US in 2020 to 2021. JAMA Netw Open 6(6), Jun 2023.
Katharine A. Rendle, Jocelyn Wainwright, Donna Pucci, Deirdre Yarosh, Christine Cambareri, Linda A. Jacobs, Abigail Blauch, Abigail Mandel, Caleb Johnston, James Colbert, Bethany Mooney, Justin E. Bekelman, Stephen E. Kimmel, Roy Rosin, Lawrence N. Shulman, E. Paul Wileyto, Sarah Cohen, Charu Aggarwal, Corey J. Langer, Samuel U Takvorian: Implementation strategies for monitoring adherence in real time (iSMART): A pilot randomized trial. American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL Jun 2023.
Miles Hsu, Xinhe Shan, Rebecca Zhang, Austin Pantel, Samuel U Takvorian, Vivek Narayan, David J. Vaughn, Neha Vapiwala, Naomi B. Haas: Castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) on PSMA-PET: Imaging features, disease distribution, and a comparison to castration-sensitive prostate cancer (CSPC). American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL Jun 2023.
Samuel U Takvorian, Alicia BW Clifton, Peter Edward Gabriel, E. Paul Wileyto, David A Asch, Alison M Buttenheim, Katharine A. Rendle, Rachel C Shelton, Oluwadamilola Motunrayo Fayanju, Susan Ware, Lynn Mara Schuchter, Pallavi Kumar, Lawrence N. Shulman, Tasnim Salam, Daniel Ragusano, Daniel Blumenthal, Justin E. Bekelman, Rinad S Beidas, Robert Schnoll, Ravi Bharat Parikh: Patient- and clinician-directed implementation strategies to improve serious illness communication for high-risk patients with cancer: A cluster-randomized pragmatic trial. American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL Jun 2023 Notes: Poster Discussion.
John Kent Lin, Caleb Hearn, Emily Getzen, Qi Long, Helayne Drell, David Lee, Tony M. Keaveny, Ravishankar Jayadevappa, Kyle William Robinson, Yu-Ning Wong, Kara Noelle Maxwell, Vivek Narayan, Naomi B. Haas, Samuel U. Takvorian, Daniel Bikle, Janet M. Chiang, Amna N. Khan, Chamith S Rajapakse, Alicia K. Morgans, Ravi Bharat Parikh: External validation of biomechanical computed tomography for fracture risk classification in metastatic hormone sensitive prostate cancer. American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL Jun 2023.
Rendle KA, Beidas RS, Chaiyachati KH, Fayanju O, Bauer A, Jacobs LM, Ware S, Lieberman A, Doucette A, Leone F, Jenssen B, Schnoll R, Bekelman J, Shulman LN, Buttenheim, AM, Asch, DA, Parikh, RB, Takvorian, SU, Scott, CA, Zentgraf K, Blumenthal D, Salam T, Reilly M, Ragusano D, Shelton RC: Outer context sampling: A pragmatic and equitable approach to ensuring diversity in qualitative and mixed method cohorts. 15th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health, Washington, DC Dec 2022 Notes: Poster Presentation.
Pain DJ, Takvorian SU, Narayan V: Disparities in Clinical Care and Research in Renal Cell Carcinoma. Kidney Cancer Jul 2022.