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1. Potential risks of nonoperative management of appendicitis in high-risk patients..  Surgery.  176:1568-1575. 2024
2. Don't chase the adenoma: A probabilistic approach to imaging before parathyroidectomy..  Surgery.  175:1299-1304. 2024
3. The risks of failed nonoperative management of appendicitis in older adults..  American journal of surgery.  112-117. 2024
4. Is nonoperative management of appendicitis safe and effective in multi-morbid patients?.  Surgery.  175:258-264. 2023
5. Assessing a Structured Mental Fitness Program for Academic Acute Care Surgeons: A Pilot Study..  The Journal of surgical research.  9-18. 2023
6. Can We Improve the Quality of Quality Improvement?.  JAMA surgery.  158:-. 2023
7. Determining the Power Required for Comparing Lobectomy vs Total Thyroidectomy for Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma..  JAMA surgery.  158:983-984. 2023
8. Reassessing surgical guidelines for papillary thyroid cancer impact on survival: Expanding indications for lobectomy..  Surgery.  174:542-548. 2023
9. Outcomes of Nonoperative vs Operative Management of Acute Appendicitis in Older Adults in the US..  JAMA surgery.  158:625-632. 2023
10. Hospital Performance on Failure to Rescue Correlates With Likelihood of Home Discharge..  The Journal of surgical research.  107-116. 2023
11. Comparison of Postoperative Outcomes of Laparoscopic vs Open Inguinal Hernia Repair..  JAMA surgery.  158:172-180. 2023
12. Chief Residents Can Safely Operate on Older and Frail Patients..  The Journal of surgical research.  121-128. 2023
13. Age is associated with increased morbidity after laparoscopic appendectomy..  Surgery.  172:488-493. 2022
14. Resident Involvement in Inguinal Hernia Repair Is Safe but Associated With Increased Operative Time..  The Journal of surgical research.  305-313. 2022
15. Machine Learning Improves Prediction Over Logistic Regression on Resected Colon Cancer Patients..  The Journal of surgical research.  181-193. 2022
16. Provider Perception of Time During Trauma Resuscitation: A Prospective Quantitative Trauma Video Review Analysis..  The Journal of surgical research.  207-212. 2022
17. Nativity Status is an Important Social Determinant of Health for Hispanic Patients with Gastric Cancer in Texas..  Annals of surgical oncology.  29:3113-3121. 2022
18. Use of local anesthesia for inguinal hernia repair has decreased over time in the VA system..  Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery.  26:1069-1075. 2021
19. How We Did It: Implementing a Trainee-Focused Surgical Research Curriculum and Infrastructure..  Journal of surgical education.  79:35-39. 2021
20. Informed Consent and Informed Decision-Making in High-Risk Surgery: A Quantitative Analysis..  Journal of the American College of Surgeons.  233:337-345. 2021
21. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Local Anesthesia for Inguinal Hernia Repair..  The Journal of surgical research.  366-372. 2021
22. Local Anesthesia is Associated with Fewer Complications in Umbilical Hernia Repair in Frail Veterans..  The Journal of surgical research.  88-95. 2021
23. Using local rather than general anesthesia for inguinal hernia repair may significantly reduce complications for frail Veterans..  American journal of surgery.  222:619-624. 2021
24. An Implementation Assessment of the Virtual Acute Care for Elders Program From the Perspective of Key Stakeholders..  Annals of surgery.  275:e752-e758. 2020
25. Using Local Anesthesia for Inguinal Hernia Repair Reduces Complications in Older Patients..  The Journal of surgical research.  64-72. 2020
26. Using local rather than general anesthesia for inguinal hernia repair is associated with shorter operative time and enhanced postoperative recovery..  American journal of surgery.  221:902-907. 2020
27. ASO Author Reflections: Race and Gender Disparities in Access to Parathyroidectomy: A Need to Change Processes for Diagnosis and Referral to Surgeons..  Annals of surgical oncology.  27:785-786. 2020
28. Race and Gender Disparities in Access to Parathyroidectomy: A Need to Change Processes for Diagnosis and Referral to Surgeons..  Annals of surgical oncology.  28:476-483. 2020
29. Feasibility of a Local Anesthesia Program for Inguinal Hernia Repair at a Veteran Affairs Hospital..  The Journal of surgical research.  1-8. 2020
30. Prospective, multicenter, pairwise analysis of robotic-assisted inguinal hernia repair with open and laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair: early results from the Prospective Hernia Study..  Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery.  24:1069-1081. 2020
31. Is the American College of Surgeons Online Communities a safe and useful venue to ask for surgical advice?.  Surgical endoscopy.  34:5041-5045. 2020
32. Successful Mentor-Mentee Relationship..  The Journal of surgical research.  332-334. 2019
33. Gender and Racial Disparities in Survival After Surgery Among Papillary and Patients With Follicular Thyroid Cancer: A 45-Year Experience..  Clinical medicine insights. Endocrinology and diabetes.  -. 2019
34. Diagnosis and Management of Primary Hyperparathyroidism Across the Veterans Affairs Health Care System..  JAMA internal medicine.  179:1220-1227. 2019
35. Intraoperative Decision Making in Parathyroid Surgery..  The Surgical clinics of North America.  99:681-691. 2019
36. Failure to Diagnose and Treat Hyperparathyroidism Among Patients with Hypercalcemia: Opportunities for Intervention at the Patient and Physician Level to Increase Surgical Referral..  The oncologist.  24:e828-e834. 2019
37. A Surgeon's Guide to Treating Older Patients with Colorectal Cancer..  Current colorectal cancer reports.  15:1-7. 2019
38. The Effect of Financial Conflict of Interest, Disclosure Status, and Relevance on Medical Research from the United States..  Journal of general internal medicine.  34:429-434. 2019
39. Why Is Hyperparathyroidism Underdiagnosed and Undertreated in Older Adults?.  Clinical medicine insights. Endocrinology and diabetes.  -. 2018
40. Post-Acute Care among Older Adults with Stage I to III Colorectal Cancer..  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.  67:937-944. 2018
41. Growing Human Parathyroids in a Microphysiological System: A Novel Approach to Understanding and Developing New Treatments for Hyperparathyroidism..  Cells, tissues, organs.  206:54-61. 2018
42. Hyperthyroidism is Underdiagnosed and Undertreated in 3336 Patients: An Opportunity for Improvement and Intervention..  Annals of surgery.  268:506-512. 2018
43. Can imaging studies be omitted in patients with sporadic primary hyperparathyroidism?.  The Journal of surgical research.  257-262. 2018
44. Variation in postacute care utilization after complex surgery..  The Journal of surgical research.  61-70. 2018
45. Planning post-discharge destination for gastrointestinal surgery patients: Room for improvement?.  American journal of surgery.  216:912-918. 2018
46. Reducing cost and improving operating room efficiency: examination of surgical instrument processing..  The Journal of surgical research.  15-19. 2018
47. New-Onset Cardiovascular Morbidity in Older Adults With Stage I to III Colorectal Cancer..  Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.  36:609-616. 2018
48. Hyperthyroidism is Underdiagnosed and Undertreated in 3336 Patients: An Opportunity for Improvement and Intervention..  Annals of surgery.  268:506-512. 2018
49. New-Onset Cardiovascular Morbidity in Older Adults With Stage I to III Colorectal Cancer..  Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.  36:609-616. 2018
50. Wide variation in cost of surgical care for parathyroidectomy: is there a need for standardization of practice?.  Surgery.  163:638-642. 2017
51. Cost-effectiveness of lobectomy versus genetic testing (Afirma®) for indeterminate thyroid nodules: Considering the costs of surveillance..  Surgery.  163:88-96. 2017
52. Cost-effectiveness of lobectomy versus genetic testing (Afirma®) for indeterminate thyroid nodules: Considering the costs of surveillance..  Surgery.  163:88-96. 2017
53. Editorial: The phantom menace: implications of polyclonality for surgical treatment of primary hyperparathyroidism..  Surgery.  163:15-16. 2017
54. Failure to Diagnose Hyperparathyroidism in 10,432 Patients With Hypercalcemia: Opportunities for System-level Intervention to Increase Surgical Referrals and Cure..  Annals of surgery.  266:632-640. 2017
55. Racial disparities in the cost of surgical care for parathyroidectomy..  The Journal of surgical research.  216-221. 2017
56. Papillary Thyroid Cancer: The Good and Bad of the "Good Cancer"..  Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association.  27:902-907. 2017
57. Postacute Care and Recovery After Cancer Surgery: Still a Long Way to Go..  Annals of surgery.  265:993-999. 2017
58. Expression of pattern recognition receptor genes and mortality in patients with colorectal adenocarcinoma..  International journal of molecular epidemiology and genetics.  8:8-18. 2017
59. Optimizing Outpatient Pain Management After Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery: A Two-Institution Experience..  Annals of surgical oncology.  24:1951-1957. 2017
60. GAUGING THE EXTENT OF THYROIDECTOMY FOR INDETERMINATE THYROID NODULES: AN ONCOLOGIC PERSPECTIVE..  Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists.  23:442-450. 2017
61. How long should we follow patients after apparently curative parathyroidectomy?.  Surgery.  161:54-61. 2016
62. Trends in the presentation, treatment, and survival of patients with medullary thyroid cancer over the past 30 years..  Surgery.  161:137-146. 2016
63. Selective Versus Non-selective α-Blockade Prior to Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy for Pheochromocytoma..  Annals of surgical oncology.  24:244-250. 2016
64. Postacute Care After Major Abdominal Surgery in Elderly Patients: Intersection of Age, Functional Status, and Postoperative Complications..  JAMA surgery.  151:759-66. 2016
65. Should vitamin D deficiency be corrected before parathyroidectomy?.  The Journal of surgical research.  204:94-100. 2016
66. Use of the gamma probe to identify multigland disease in primary hyperparathyroidism..  International journal of endocrine oncology.  3:13-19. 2016
67. When patients call their surgeon's office: an opportunity to improve the quality of surgical care and prevent readmissions..  American journal of surgery.  211:599-604. 2015
68. Ninety-day readmission after colorectal cancer surgery in a Veterans Affairs cohort..  The Journal of surgical research.  201:370-7. 2015
69. Outpatient Thyroidectomy: Is it Safe?.  Surgical oncology clinics of North America.  25:61-75. 2015
70. Postoperative transitional care needs in the elderly: an outcome of recovery associated with worse long-term survival..  Annals of surgery.  261:695-701. 2015
71. Does levothyroxine administration impact parathyroid localization?.  The Journal of surgical research.  198:360-5. 2015
72. Chasing calcitonin: reoperations for medullary thyroid carcinoma..  Annals of surgical oncology.  22:7-8. 2014
73. Utility of routine postoperative visit after appendectomy and cholecystectomy with evaluation of mobile technology access in an urban safety net population..  The Journal of surgical research.  190:478-83. 2014
74. Association of high-volume hospitals with greater likelihood of discharge to home following colorectal surgery..  JAMA surgery.  149:244-51. 2014
75. Laparoscopic versus robotic rectal resection for rectal cancer in a veteran population..  American journal of surgery.  206:509-17. 2013
76. Thyroid lobectomy for indeterminate FNA: not without consequences..  The Journal of surgical research.  184:189-92. 2013
77. Disparities in the use of minimally invasive surgery for colorectal disease..  Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract.  16:897-903; discussion 903-4. 2012
78. Hand-assisted laparoscopy leads to efficient colorectal cancer surgery..  The Journal of surgical research.  177:e53-8. 2012
79. Use of a Pfannenstiel incision in minimally invasive colorectal cancer surgery is associated with a lower risk of wound complications..  Techniques in coloproctology.  16:127-32. 2012
80. Clinical outcomes of oncologic gastrointestinal resections in patients with cirrhosis..  Cancer.  118:3494-500. 2011
81. Predictors of relaparotomy after nontrauma emergency general surgery with initial fascial closure..  American journal of surgery.  202:549-52. 2011
82. Minimally invasive surgery in colon cancer patients leads to improved short-term outcomes and excellent oncologic results..  American journal of surgery.  202:528-31. 2011
83. Defining the cancer master switch..  World journal of surgery.  35:1738-45. 2011
84. Depression is associated with prolonged and complicated recovery following colorectal surgery..  Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract.  15:1712-7. 2011
85. Obesity does not increase complications following pancreatic surgery..  The Journal of surgical research.  170:220-5. 2011
86. Minimally invasive surgery is underutilized for colon cancer..  Annals of surgical oncology.  18:1412-8. 2011
87. A multidisciplinary cancer center maximizes surgeons' impact..  The Journal of surgical research.  171:15-22. 2011
88. Minimally invasive surgery improves short-term outcomes in elderly colorectal cancer patients..  The Journal of surgical research.  166:182-8. 2010
89. Outcomes of damage-control celiotomy in elderly nontrauma patients with intra-abdominal catastrophes..  American journal of surgery.  200:783-8; discussion 788-9. 2010
90. Establishment of a minimally invasive surgery program leads to decreased inpatient cost of care in veterans with colon cancer..  American journal of surgery.  200:632-5. 2010
91. Ethnic disparities are reduced in VA colon cancer patients..  American journal of surgery.  200:636-9. 2010
92. The patient-physician relationship in surgical students..  American journal of surgery.  200:624-7. 2010
93. Waist circumference predicts increased complications in rectal cancer surgery..  Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract.  14:1669-79. 2010
94. Intra-abdominal fat predicts survival in pancreatic cancer..  Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract.  14:1832-7. 2010
95. Role of the VA in training surgical scientists..  Surgery.  148:171-7. 2010
96. Validating quantitative obesity measurements in colorectal cancer patients..  The Journal of surgical research.  164:18-22. 2010
97. Obese patients benefit from minimally invasive colorectal cancer surgery..  The Journal of surgical research.  163:29-34. 2010
98. Obesity increases wound complications in rectal cancer surgery..  The Journal of surgical research.  163:35-9. 2010
99. AVAS Best Clinical Resident Award (Tied): management and outcomes of the open abdomen in nontrauma patients..  American journal of surgery.  198:588-92. 2009
100. Establishment of a minimally invasive program at a Veterans' Affairs Medical Center leads to improved care in colorectal cancer patients..  American journal of surgery.  198:685-92. 2009
101. Selective application of the pediatric Ross procedure minimizes autograft failure..  Congenital heart disease.  3:404-10. 2008
102. Human and murine CD4 T cell reactivity to a complex antigen: recognition of the synthetic random polypeptide glatiramer acetate..  Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950).  165:7300-7. 2000