General Surgery
Leadership
Name:
Karen Chojnacki, MD
Position:
- Division Director
- Francis E. Rosato Professor in Surgery
1100 Walnut Street
MOB, 5th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Contact Number(s):
Research
Our faculty members head funded research projects, publish in peer-reviewed journals, author book chapters and present frequently at local and national conferences.
Recent Publications
- Pancreatic Cancer—Advances in the Last 50 Years
- Impact of prior sexual trauma on patient experience and comfort in breast cancer radiation therapy
- Re-sleeve gastrectomy: single-center insight into controversial territory
- Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Is Associated with Improved Survival After Hepatectomy: A Matched Analysis of the 2017 to 2022 National Cancer Database †
- Competency, Proficiency, and Mastery: Learning Curves for Robotic Distal Pancreatectomy at 16 International Expert Centers
- Clinical and Financial Validation of the International Study Group for Pancreatic Surgery (ISGPS) Definition of Post-pancreatectomy Acute Pancreatitis (PPAP): International Multicenter Prospective Study
- Solid Pseudopapillary Neoplasms (SPNs) of the Pancreas: Appraisal of Contemporary Clinicopathologic Features - Clinical Implications and Surgical Outcomes of Patients Treated and Followed at a Single Institution
- ASO Author Reflections: Eliminating Surgical Oncology Health Disparities Through Actionable Change
- ASO Education and Training: Taking the Next Step in Surgical Oncology Health Disparities Research: Identifying Root Causes and Targets for Actionable Change
- Consensus Guideline for the Management of Peritoneal Metastases from Neuroendocrine Neoplasms
- Consensus Guideline for the Management of Gastric Cancer with Synchronous Peritoneal Metastases
- Consensus Guideline for the Management of Malignant Gastrointestinal Obstruction in Patients with Peritoneal Surface Malignancies
- Consensus Guideline for the Management of Colorectal Cancer with Peritoneal Metastases
- Initial Site of Metastasis Influences Prognosis in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma
- Survival Impact of Intraoperative Carbon Dioxide Dysregulation in Patients Undergoing Pancreaticoduodenectomy for Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma
- GLP-1 Demand Shock: Work Reallocation, Productivity Decline, and Training Implications Across General and Bariatric Surgery
- Perioperative fluid management in pancreaticoduodenectomy in the era of goal-directed fluid therapy: a review of the literature
- Post-traumatic rupture of primary solid pseudopapillary epithelial neoplasm (SPEN) of the pancreas in a male adolescent: a case report
- Overuse of subtotal cholecystectomy: surgeon practice patterns and outcomes in a large healthcare system
- Pancreatic anastomotic technique during pancreaticoduodenectomy: does it boil down to surgeon preference?