People Publications

Implementation, Maintenance, and Outcomes of an Electronic Referral to a Tobacco Quitline Across Five Health Systems. Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2023.
Tong EK, Zhu SH, Anderson CM, Avdalovic MV, Amin AN, Diamant AL, Fong TW, Clay B, El-Kareh R, Sankaran S, Bonniot C, Kirby CA, Mayoral A, Sarna L.

A Focused Screening and Clinical Intervention with Streamlined Outpatient Linkage for Hospitalized Patients with Opioid Use Disorder Experiencing Homelessness. Substance abuse : research and treatment 2023.
Oreper S, Bond A, Bazinski M, Tierney M, Fang M, Sankaran S, Rambachan A.

Racial Differences in Postoperative Opioid Prescribing Practices in Spine Surgical Patients. Neurosurgery 2022.
Letchuman V, He L, Mummaneni PV, Agarwal N, Campbell LJ, Shabani S, Chan AK, Abrecht CR, Miller C, Sankaran S, Rambachan A, Croci R, Berven SH, Chou D, Holly LT, Guan Z.

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Neurosurgical Transfers: A Single Tertiary Center Study. World neurosurgery 2022.
Reihl SJ, Garcia JH, Morshed RA, Sankaran S, DiGiorgio A, Chou D, Theodosopoulos PV, Aghi MK, Berger MS, Chang EF, Mummaneni PV.

Are preoperative chlorhexidine gluconate showers associated with a reduction in surgical site infection following craniotomy? A retrospective cohort analysis of 3126 surgical procedures. Journal of neurosurgery 2021.
Ammanuel SG, Edwards CS, Chan AK, Mummaneni PV, Kidane J, Vargas E, D'Souza S, Nichols AD, Sankaran S, Abla AA, Aghi MK, Chang EF, Hervey-Jumper SL, Kunwar S, Larson PS, Lawton MT, Starr PA, Theodosopoulos PV, Berger MS, McDermott MW.

Preoperative Chlorhexidine Showers Are Not Associated With a Reduction in Surgical Site Infection Following Craniotomy. Neurosurgery 2020.
Simon G Ammanuel, Caleb S Edwards, Andrew K.H Chan, Praveen V Mummaneni, Joseph Kidane, Enrique Vargas, Sarah D’Souza, Amy D Nichols, Sujatha Sankaran, Adib A Abla, Manish K Aghi, Edward F Chang, Shawn L Her vey-Jumper, Sandeep M Kunwar, Paul S Larson, Michael T Lawton, Philip A Starr, Philip V Theodosopoulos, Mitchel S Berger, Michael W McDermott.

A Safe Transitions Pathway for post-craniotomy neurological surgery patients: high-value care that bypasses the intensive care unit. Journal of neurosurgery 2020.
Young JS, Chan AK, Viner JA, Sankaran S, Chan AY, Imershein S, Meary-Miller A, Theodosopoulos PV, Jacques L, Aghi MK, Chang EF, Hervey-Jumper SL, Ward T, Gibson L, Ward MM, Sanftner P, Wong S, Amara D, Magill ST, Osorio JA, Venkatesh B, Gonzales R, Lau C, Boscardin C, Wang M, Berry K, McCullagh L, Reid M, Reels K, Nedkov S, Berger MS, McDermott MW.

Patient safety movement in neurological surgery: the current state and future directions. Journal of neurosurgery 2019.
Sankaran S, Andrews JP, Chicas M, Wachter RM, Berger MS.

Safe Transitions Pathway for Postcraniotomy Neurological Surgery Patients: High-Value Care That Bypasses the Intensive Care Unit. Neurosurgery 2019.
Jacob S Young, Andrew Kai-Hong Chan, Jennifer Viner, Sujatha Sankaran, Alvin Y Chan, Dominic Amara, Stephen T Magill, Joseph A Osorio, Lizbeth Gibson, Peter Sanftner, Mariann Ward, Tracy Ward, Stacy Wong, Manish K Aghi, Edward F Chang, Shawn L Hervey-Jumper, Line G Jacques, Philip V Theodosopoulos, Mitchel S Berger, Michael W McDermott.

Preoperative risk stratification of patient mortality following elective craniotomy; a comparative analysis of prediction algorithms. Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia 2019.
Rutkowski M, Sankaran S.

Delirium Risk Factors and Associated Outcomes in a Neurosurgical Cohort: A Case-Control Study. World neurosurgery 2019.
Morshed RA, Young JS, Safaee M, Sankaran S, Berger MS, McDermott MW, Hervey-Jumper SL.

A Reduced Exogenous Steroid Taper for Postoperative Brain Tumor Patients-A Case-Control Study. World neurosurgery 2019.
Breshears JD, Haddad AF, Viner J, Rau J, Sankaran S, McDermott MW.

Postoperative Delirium in Glioblastoma Patients: Risk Factors and Prognostic Implications. Neurosurgery 2018.
Flanigan PM, Jahangiri A, Weinstein D, Dayani F, Chandra A, Kanungo I, Choi S, Sankaran S, Molinaro AM, McDermott MW, Berger MS, Aghi MK.

334 Interfacility Neurosurgical Transfers: An Analysis of Nontraumatic Inpatient and Emergency Department Transfers With Implications for Improvements In Care. Neurosurgery 2018.
Michael Safaee, Ramin A Morshed, Jordan Spatz, Sujatha Sankaran, Mitchel S Berger, Manish K Aghi.

Interfacility neurosurgical transfers: an analysis of nontraumatic inpatient and emergency department transfers with implications for improvements in care. Journal of neurosurgery 2018.
Safaee MM, Morshed RA, Spatz J, Sankaran S, Berger MS, Aghi MK.

Cost-effectiveness development for the postoperative care of craniotomy patients: a safe transitions pathway in neurological surgery. Neurosurgical focus 2018.
Osorio JA, Safaee MM, Viner J, Sankaran S, Imershein S, Adigun E, Weigel G, Berger MS, McDermott MW.

An NGO-Implemented Community-Clinic Health Worker Approach to Providing Long-Term Care for Hypertension in a Remote Region of Southern India. Global health, science and practice 2017.
Sankaran S, Ravi PS, Wu YE, Shanabogue S, Ashok S, Agnew K, Fang MC, Khanna RA, Dandu M, Harrison JD.

Changing Operating Room Culture: Implementation of a Postoperative Debrief and Improved Safety Culture. World neurosurgery 2017.
Magill ST, Wang DD, Rutledge WC, Lau D, Berger MS, Sankaran S, Lau CY, Imershein SG.

Implementation of graphic health warning labels on tobacco products in India: the interplay between the cigarette and the bidi industries. Tobacco control 2014.
Sankaran S, Hiilamo H, Glantz SA.

Avoiding the Virtual Pitfall: Identifying and Mitigating Biases in Graduate Medical Education Videoconference Interviews. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2021.
Marbin J, Hutchinson YV, Schaeffer S.

Resident Physician Experiences With and Responses to Biased Patients. JAMA network open 2020.
de Bourmont SS, Burra A, Nouri SS, El-Farra N, Mohottige D, Sloan C, Schaeffer S, Friedman J, Fernandez A.

Association of Gender With Learner Assessment in Graduate Medical Education. JAMA network open 2020.
Klein R, Ufere NN, Rao SR, Koch J, Volerman A, Snyder ED, Schaeffer S, Thompson V, Warner AS, Julian KA, Palamara K.

Gender Bias in Resident Assessment in Graduate Medical Education: Review of the Literature. Journal of general internal medicine 2019.
Klein R, Julian KA, Snyder ED, Koch J, Ufere NN, Volerman A, Vandenberg AE, Schaeffer S, Palamara K.

Reasons for HCV non-treatment in underserved African Americans: implications for treatment with new therapeutics. Annals of hepatology 2015.
Schaeffer S, Khalili M.

Demographics of carotid atherosclerotic plaque features imaged by computed tomography. Journal of neuroradiology = Journal de neuroradiologie 2013.
Chien JD, Furtado A, Cheng SC, Lam J, Schaeffer S, Chun K, Wintermark M.

Introduction to the medical professions through an innovative medical student-run pipeline program. Journal of the National Medical Association 2011.
Nair N, Marciscano AE, Vivar KL, Schaeffer S, LaMont E, Francois F.

Carotid atherosclerosis does not predict coronary, vertebral, or aortic atherosclerosis in patients with acute stroke symptoms. Stroke 2010.
Adraktas DD, Brasic N, Furtado AD, Cheng SC, Ordovas K, Chun K, Chien JD, Schaeffer S, Wintermark M.

The triple rule-out for acute ischemic stroke: imaging the brain, carotid arteries, aorta, and heart. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2010.
Furtado AD, Adraktas DD, Brasic N, Cheng SC, Ordovas K, Smith WS, Lewin MR, Chun K, Chien JD, Schaeffer S, Wintermark M.

Perfusion CT Imaging Follows Clinical Severity in Left Hemispheric Strokes. European neurology 2008.
Furtado AD, Smith WS, Koroshetz W, Dillon WP, Furie KL, Lev MH, Vittinghoff E, Schaeffer S, Biagini T, Hazarika O, Wintermark M.

High-resolution CT imaging of carotid artery atherosclerotic plaques. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2008.
Wintermark M, Jawadi SS, Rapp JH, Tihan T, Tong E, Glidden DV, Abedin S, Schaeffer S, Acevedo-Bolton G, Boudignon B, Orwoll B, Pan X, Saloner D.

Perfusion-CT assessment of the cerebrovascular reserve: a revisit to the acetazolamide challenges. Journal of neuroradiology = Journal de neuroradiologie 2008.
Smith LM, Elkins JS, Dillon WP, Schaeffer S, Wintermark M.

Semi-automated computer assessment of the degree of carotid artery stenosis compares favorably to visual evaluation. Journal of the neurological sciences 2008.
Wintermark M, Glastonbury C, Tong E, Lau BC, Schaeffer S, Chien JD, Haar PJ, Saloner D.

Changes in Gender and Racial/Ethnic Diversity in US Residency Program Applications From 2018 to 2022. Journal of graduate medical education 2024.
Huppert LA, Santhosh L, Alba-Nguyen S, Lai CJ, Babik JM.

Correction: Exploring gender and thematic differences in qualitative assessments of internal medicine resident performance. BMC medical education 2024.
Klein R, Snyder ED, Koch J, Volerman A, Alba-Nguyen S, Julian KA, Thompson V, Ufere NN, Burnett-Bowie SM, Kumar A, White BAA, Park YS, Palamara K.

Analysis of narrative assessments of internal medicine resident performance: are there differences associated with gender or race and ethnicity? BMC medical education 2024.
Klein R, Snyder ED, Koch J, Volerman A, Alba-Nguyen S, Julian KA, Thompson V, Ufere NN, Burnett-Bowie SM, Kumar A, White BAA, Park YS, Palamara K.

Exploring gender and thematic differences in qualitative assessments of internal medicine resident performance. BMC medical education 2023.
Klein R, Snyder ED, Koch J, Volerman A, Alba-Nguyen S, Julian KA, Thompson V, Ufere NN, Burnett-Bowie SM, Kumar A, White BAA, Park YS, Palamara K.

Academic Leadership Academy Summer Program: Clerkship Transition Preparation for Underrepresented in Medicine Medical Students. Teaching and learning in medicine 2023.
Connor DM, Fernandez A, Alba-Nguyen S, Collins S, Teherani A.

Association of Gender and Race/Ethnicity with Internal Medicine In-Training Examination Performance in Graduate Medical Education. Journal of general internal medicine 2022.
Klein R, Koch J, Snyder ED, Volerman A, Simon W, Jassal SK, Cosco D, Cioletti A, Ufere NN, Burnett-Bowie SM, Palamara K, Schaeffer S, Julian KA, Thompson V.

Association Between Resident Race and Ethnicity and Clinical Performance Assessment Scores in Graduate Medical Education. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2022.
Klein R, Ufere NN, Schaeffer S, Julian KA, Rao SR, Koch J, Volerman A, Snyder ED, Thompson V, Ganguli I, Burnett-Bowie SM, Palamara K.

Addressing the Emergency Department Crowding Crisis: Is Discharge by Noon Really the Answer? Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2023.
Scott BS, Fahimi J, Mourad M.

Capturing what matters: A retrospective observational study of advance care planning documentation at an academic medical center during the COVID-19 pandemic. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA) 2021.
Sun F, Lipinsky DeGette R, Cummings EC, Deng LX, Hauser KA, Kopp Z, Penner JC, Scott BS, Raffel KE, Kantor MA.

Ask About What Matters: An Intervention to Improve Accessible Advance Care Planning Documentation. Journal of pain and symptom management 2021.
Kantor MA, Scott BS, Abe-Jones Y, Raffel KE, Thombley R, Mourad M.

Bringing Academic Medical Centers into the Retail Setting New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery 2023.
James M. Weinberger, MD, MBA, Jeffrey T. Fujimoto, MD, MBA, Brandon S. Scott, MD, MBA, Jeff P. Butler, MHA, and Mark S. Grossman, MD, MBA.

Is this heart failure? 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA) 2022.
Thangjui S, Shah O, Zoltick J.

Analysis of the Whole CDR3 T Cell Receptor Repertoire after Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in 2 Clinical Cohorts. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA) 2020.
Shah O, Tamaresis JS, Kenyon LJ, Xu L, Zheng P, Gupta P, Rangarajan K, Lee S, Spellman S, Nikiforow S, Zehnder J, Meyer EH.

Clonal Evolution and Changes in Two AML Patients Detected with A Novel Single-Cell DNA Sequencing Platform. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA) 2019.
Xu L, Durruthy-Durruthy R, Eastburn DJ, Pellegrino M, Shah O, Meyer E, Zehnder J.

Efficacy of Pembrolizumab and Nivolumab in Crossing the Blood Brain Barrier. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA) 2019.
Abid H, Watthanasuntorn K, Shah O, Gnanajothy R.

Donor-Derived Cytokine-Induced Killer Cell Infusion as Consolidation after Nonmyeloablative Allogeneic Transplantation for Myeloid Neoplasms. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA) 2019.
Narayan R, Benjamin JE, Shah O, Tian L, Tate K, Armstrong R, Xie BJ, Lowsky R, Laport G, Negrin RS, Meyer EH.

Erratum: Sorafenib promotes graft-versus-leukemia activity in mice and humans through IL-15 production in FLT3-ITD-mutant leukemia cells. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA) 2018.
Mathew NR, Baumgartner F, Braun L, O'Sullivan D, Thomas S, Waterhouse M, Müller TA, Hanke K, Taromi S, Apostolova P, Illert AL, Melchinger W, Duquesne S, Schmitt-Graeff A, Osswald L, Yan KL, Weber A, Tugues S, Spath S, Pfeifer D, Follo M, Claus R, Lübbert M, Rummelt C, Bertz H, Wäsch R, Haag J, Schmidts A, Schultheiss M, Bettinger D, Thimme R, Ullrich E, Tanriver Y, Vuong GL, Arnold R, Hemmati P, Wolf D, Ditschkowski M, Jilg C, Wilhelm K, Leiber C, Gerull S, Halter J, Lengerke C, Pabst T, Schroeder T, Kobbe G, Rösler W, Doostkam S, Meckel S, Stabla K, Metzelder SK, Halbach S, Brummer T, Hu Z, Dengjel J, Hackanson B, Schmid C, Holtick U, Scheid C, Spyridonidis A, Stölzel F, Ordemann R, Müller LP, Sicre-de-Fontbrune F, Ihorst G, Kuball J, Ehlert JE, Feger D, Wagner EM, Cahn JY, Schnell J, Kuchenbauer F, Bunjes D, Chakraverty R, Richardson S, Gill S, Kröger N, Ayuk F, Vago L, Ciceri F, Müller AM, Kondo T, Teshima T, Klaeger S, Kuster B, Kim DDH, Weisdorf D, van der Velden W, Dörfel D, Bethge W, Hilgendorf I, Hochhaus A, Andrieux G, Börries M, Busch H, Magenau J, Reddy P, Labopin M, Antin JH, Henden AS, Hill GR, Kennedy GA, Bar M, Sarma A, McLornan D, Mufti G, Oran B, Rezvani K, Shah O, Negrin RS, Nagler A, Prinz M, Burchert A, Neubauer A, Beelen D, Mackensen A, von Bubnoff N, Herr W, Becher B, Socié G, Caligiuri MA, Ruggiero E, Bonini C, Häcker G, Duyster J, Finke J, Pearce E, Blazar BR, Zeiser R.

Sorafenib promotes graft-versus-leukemia activity in mice and humans through IL-15 production in FLT3-ITD-mutant leukemia cells. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA) 2018.
Mathew NR, Baumgartner F, Braun L, O'Sullivan D, Thomas S, Waterhouse M, Müller TA, Hanke K, Taromi S, Apostolova P, Illert AL, Melchinger W, Duquesne S, Schmitt-Graeff A, Osswald L, Yan KL, Weber A, Tugues S, Spath S, Pfeifer D, Follo M, Claus R, Lübbert M, Rummelt C, Bertz H, Wäsch R, Haag J, Schmidts A, Schultheiss M, Bettinger D, Thimme R, Ullrich E, Tanriver Y, Vuong GL, Arnold R, Hemmati P, Wolf D, Ditschkowski M, Jilg C, Wilhelm K, Leiber C, Gerull S, Halter J, Lengerke C, Pabst T, Schroeder T, Kobbe G, Rösler W, Doostkam S, Meckel S, Stabla K, Metzelder SK, Halbach S, Brummer T, Hu Z, Dengjel J, Hackanson B, Schmid C, Holtick U, Scheid C, Spyridonidis A, Stölzel F, Ordemann R, Müller LP, Sicre-de-Fontbrune F, Ihorst G, Kuball J, Ehlert JE, Feger D, Wagner EM, Cahn JY, Schnell J, Kuchenbauer F, Bunjes D, Chakraverty R, Richardson S, Gill S, Kröger N, Ayuk F, Vago L, Ciceri F, Müller AM, Kondo T, Teshima T, Klaeger S, Kuster B, Kim DDH, Weisdorf D, van der Velden W, Dörfel D, Bethge W, Hilgendorf I, Hochhaus A, Andrieux G, Börries M, Busch H, Magenau J, Reddy P, Labopin M, Antin JH, Henden AS, Hill GR, Kennedy GA, Bar M, Sarma A, McLornan D, Mufti G, Oran B, Rezvani K, Shah O, Negrin RS, Nagler A, Prinz M, Burchert A, Neubauer A, Beelen D, Mackensen A, von Bubnoff N, Herr W, Becher B, Socié G, Caligiuri MA, Ruggiero E, Bonini C, Häcker G, Duyster J, Finke J, Pearce E, Blazar BR, Zeiser R.

Stimulating Innate Immunity to Enhance Radiation Therapy-Induced Tumor Control. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA) 2017.
Baird JR, Monjazeb AM, Shah O, McGee H, Murphy WJ, Crittenden MR, Gough MJ.

Surgery for Acute Subdural Hematoma: Replace or Remove the Bone Flap? 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA) 2015.
Tsermoulas G, Shah O, Wijesinghe HE, Silva AHD, Ramalingam SK, Belli A.

The Tea House Series: Striving Together to be Antiracist. Journal of general internal medicine 2022.
Shahram Y, Lowry D, Iverson N, Teherani A.

Racial Disparities in 7-Day Readmissions from an Adult Hospital Medicine Service. Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities 2021.
Rambachan A, Abe-Jones Y, Fernandez A, Shahram Y.

Can't Shake This Feeling. Journal of hospital medicine 2017.
Shahram Y, Baudendistel TE, Josephson SA.

Neuroglobin expression in the cochlea of rat pups exposed to chronic very mild carbon monoxide (25ppm) in air during and after the prenatal period. Brain research 2010.
Lopez IA, Acuna D, Shahram Y, Mowlds D, Ngan AM, Rungvivatjarus T, Sharma Y, Edmond J.

Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP): Enigma of an Old Disease Annals of Hematology & Oncology 2020.
Caplan A, Ahlstrom S, Sharma A and Mollick J..

Stop Yelling: A Rare Cause of Internal Carotid Artery Dissection (ICAD) in a Young Professional Annals of Stroke and Vascular Neurology 2020.
Alyssa Caplan, MD and Atul Sharma, MD.

Ileal artery pseudoaneurysm: a rare cause of gastrointestinal bleed. Journal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives 2019.
Kassamali F, Sharma AR.

Leukotriene inhibitors for bronchiolitis in infants and young children. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2015.
Liu F, Ouyang J, Sharma AN, Liu S, Yang B, Xiong W, Xu R.

Nasal decongestants for the common cold Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2012 2012.
Ta'i SH, Ferguson KAM, Singh HK, Sharma AN, Kumar S, van Driel ML, De Sutter AIM.