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Charles J Yeo

Surgery

Thomas Jefferson University
Jefferson Medical College
Department of Surgery
Samuel D. Gross Professor and Chair of Surgery

Member, Kimmel Cancer Center

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Mailing Address
Contact Info.
Qualifications
Research Interests
Publications

Mailing Address

1015 Walnut Street, 620 Curtis
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107
United States

Contact Information

Phone: 215-955-8643
Fax: 215-923-6609
Charles.Yeo@jefferson.edu
Personal Web Site

Qualifications

MD, FACS

Undergraduate: Princeton University, 1975

Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1979

Internship: Johns Hopkins Hospital

Residency: Johns Hopkins Hospital

Research Fellowship: S.U.N.Y. Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY

Board Certification: Surgery

Expertise and Research Interests

Dr. Yeo's primary interests and research have been in the fields of hepatopancreaticobiliary surgery - the evaluation of patients with pancreatic and related cancer, and the management of patients with unusual pancreatic neoplasms, as well as acute or chronic pancreatitis.

Editor-in-chief of the two-volume encyclopedic Shackelford's Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, 6th Edition, published in 2007 Press Release
Serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery and Surgery
Associate Editor of Advances in Surgery and Current Problems in Cancer
Author of over 325 peer reviewed scientific papers, numerous abstracts, and over 75 book chapters
Travels nationally and internationally teaching and lecturing on the treatment of benign and malignant pancreatic diseases
Personally performed over 770 Whipple procedures, and has treated well over 1200 patients with pancreatic and related cancers

Dr. Charles J. Yeo was born in East Orange, NJ, and graduated from high school in Spring Valley, New York. He graduated from Princeton University in 1975, summa cum laude with an A.B. degree in Biochemistry. Dr. Yeo then graduated in 1979 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, receiving the Upjohn Achievement Award and being elected to Alpha Omega Alpha and Phi Beta Kappa. Upon completing his internship and residency in General Surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, he pursued a Research Fellowship at the S.U.N.Y. Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. Dr. Yeo joined the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University as an Instructor and Assistant Chief of Service in the Department of Surgery in 1985, and rose to the rank of Professor in 1996. In 1997, he became a Professor in the Department of Oncology. Dr. Yeo directed the Pancreatic Cancer Interdisciplinary Working Group at Johns Hopkins, and served as the Surgical Clerkship Coordinator and Surgical Curriculum Consultant. In 2001, Dr. Yeo received the Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. As of October 1, 2005, Dr. Yeo was named the Samuel D. Gross Professor and assumed the chairmanship of the Department of Surgery at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Publications

Yeo, Charles J., ed. Shackelford''s Surgery of the Alimentary Tract. Philadelphia: Saunders, 2007.

Peer Reviewed Publications (PubMed)

Selected Publications:

Bassi C, Dervenis C, Butturini G, Fingerhut A, Yeo C, Izbicki J, Neoptolemos J, Sarr M, Traverso W, Buchler M. International Study Group on Pancreatic Fistula Definition. Postoperative pancreatic fistula: an international study group (ISGPF) definition. Surgery 138:8-13, 2005.

Matsubayashi H, Skinner HG, Iacobuzio-Donahue CA, Abe T, Sato N, Riall TS, Yeo CJ, Kern SE, Goggins M. Pancreatobiliary cancers with deficient methylenetetrahydrofate reductase genotypes. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 3:752-760, 2005.

Laheru D and Yeo CJ. Role of adjuvant therapy in the management of pancreatic cancer. Adv Surg 39:223-244, 2005.

Hruban RH, Canto MI, Griffin C, Kern SE, Klein AP, Laheru D, Yeo CJ. Treatment of familial pancreatic cancer and its precursors. Curr Treat Options Gastroenterol 8:365-375, 2005.

Riall TS, Cameron JL, Lillemoe KD, Campbell KA, Sauter PK, Coleman J, Abrams RA, Laheru D, Hruban RH, Yeo CJ. Pancreaticoduodenectomy with or without distal gastrectomy and extended retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy for periampullary adenocarcinoma part 3: Update on 5-year survival. J Gastrointest Surg 9:1191-1206, 2005.

House MG, Cameron JL, Lillemoe KD, Schulick RD, Choti MA, Hansel DE, Hruban RH, Maitra A, Yeo CJ. Differences in survival for patients with resectable versus unresectable metastases from pancreatic islet cell cancer. J Gastrointest Surg 10:138-145, 2006.

Makary MA, Winter JM, Cameron JL, Campbell KA, Chang D, Cunningham SC, Riall TS, Yeo CJ. Pancreaticoduodenectomy in the very elderly. J Gastrointest Surg 10:347-356, 2006.

Weiss ES, Burkart AL, Yeo CJ. Fibromatosis of the remnant pancreas after pylorus-preserving pancreaticoduodenectomy. J Gastrointest Surg 10:679-688, 2006.

Canto MI, Goggins MG, Hruban RH, Petersen G, Giardiello F, Yeo CJ, Fishman EK, Brune K, Axilbund J, Griffin C, Ali S, Richman J, Jagannath S, Kantsevoy SV, Kalloo AN. Screening for early pancreatic neoplasia in high-risk individuals: A prospective controlled study. Clin Gastro Hepatol 4:766-781, 2006.

Brune K, Abe T, Canto M, O''Malley L, Klein AP, Maitra A, Adsay NV, Fishman EK, Cameron JL, Yeo CJ, Kern SE, Goggins M, Hruban RH. Multifocal neoplastic precursor lesions associated with lobular atrophy of the pancreas in patients having a strong family history of pancreatic cancer. Am J Surg Path 30:1067-1076, 2006.

Rao AS, Palazzo F, Chung J, Hager E, Abdollahi H, Yeo CJ. Diagnostic and treatment modalities for autoimmune pancreatitis. Curr Treat Options Gastroenterol 9:377-384, 2006.

Cunningham SC, Suh HS, Montgomery E, Winter JM, Schulick RD, Cameron JL, Yeo CJ. Retroperitoneal paraganglioma: Single-institution experience and review of the literature. J Gastrointest Surg 10:1156-1163, 2006.

Winter JM, Maitra A, Yeo CJ. Genetics and pathology of pancreatic cancer. HPB 8:324-336, 2006.

Riall TS, Cameron JL, Lillemoe KE, Winter JM, Campbell KA, Hruban RH, Chang D, Yeo CJ. Resected periampullary adenocarcinoma: 5 year survivors and their 6 to 10 year follow-up. Surgery 140:764-771, 2006.

Winter JM, Cameron JL, Campbell KA, Arnold M, Chang DC, Coleman J, Hodgin MB, Sauter PK, Hruban RH, Riall TS, Schulick RS, Choti MA, Lillemoe KD, Yeo CJ. 1423 pancreaticoduodenectomies for pancreatic cancer: A single institution experience. J Gastrointest Surg 10:1200-1211, 2006.

Winter JM, Cameron JL, Campbell KA, Chang DC, Riall TS, Schulick RD, Choti MA, Coleman J, Hodgin MB, Sauter PK, Sonnenday CJ, Wolfgang CL, Marohn MR, Yeo CJ. Does pancreatic duct stenting decrease the rate of pancreatic fistula following pancreaticoduodenectomy? Results of a prospective randomized trial. J Gastrointest Surg 10:1280-1290, 2006.

Cunningham SC, Kamanger F, Kim MP, Hammoud S, Haque R, Iacobuzio-Donahue C, Ashfaq R, Kern SE, Maitra A, Heitmiller RF, Choti MA, Lillemoe KD, Cameron JL, Yeo CJ, Montgomery E, Schulick RD. MKK4 status predicts survival after resection of gastric adenocarcinoma. Arch Surg 141:1095-1100, 2006.

Emick DM, Riall TS, Cameron JL, Winter JM, Lillemoe KD, Coleman J, Sauter PK, Yeo CJ. Hospital readmission following pancreaticoduodenectomy. J Gastrointest Surg 10:1243-1253, 2006.

deOliveira ML, Winter JM, Shafer M, Cunningham SC, Cameron JL, Yeo CJ, Clavien PA. Assessment of complications after pancreatic surgery: A novel grading system applied to 633 patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy. Ann Surg 244:931-939, 2006.

Jimeno A, Amador ML, Kulesza P, Wang X, Rubio-Viqueira B, Zhang X, Chan A, Wheelhouse J, Kuramochi H, Tanaka K, Danenberg K, Messersmith WA, Almuete V, Hruban RH, Maitra A, Yeo CJ, Hidalgo M. Assessment of celecoxib pharmacodynamics in pancreatic cancer. Mol Cancer Ther 5:3240-3247, 2006.

Rubio-Viqueira B, Jimeno A, Cusatis G, Zhang X, Iacobuzio-Donahue C, Karikari C, Shi C, Danenberg K, Danenberg PV, Kuramochi H, Tanaka K, Singh S, Salimi-Moosavi H, Bouraoud N, Amador ML, Altiok S, Kulesza P, Yeo CJ, Messersmith W, Eshleman J, Hruban RH, Maitra A, Hidalgo M. An in vivo platform for translational drug development in pancreatic cancer. Clin Cancer Res 12:4652-61, 2006.

Sato N, Fukushima N, Matsubayashi H, Iacobuzio-Donahue CA, Yeo CJ, Goggins M. Aberrant methylation of Reprimo correlates with genetic instability and predicts poor prognosis in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Cancer 107:251-257, 2006

Infante JR, Matsubayashi H, Sato N, Tonascia J, Klein AP, Riall TS, Yeo CJ, Iacobozio-Donahue C, Goggins M. Peritumoral fibroblast SPARC expression and patient outcome with resectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma. J Clin Oncol 25:319-325, 2007.

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