Academic

Medical Editorials

• The New England Journal of Medicine. Beyond Tuskegee - Vaccine Distrust and Everyday Racism. January 20, 2021.

• Lancet Respiratory Medicine. The 2021 USPSTF lung cancer screening guidelines: a new frontier. May 6, 2021.

• Postgraduate Medical Journal. Words matter, humanity matters: alienating non-citizens from the COVID-19 vaccine. May 26, 2021.

• Blood Transfusion. What the COVID-19 pandemic can teach us about inclusive blood donation. July 29, 2021.

• Journal of General Internal Medicine. The New CDC Mask Guidance: A Catastrophe for Health Equity. August 11, 2021.

• International Journal of Obesity. Locking ourselves into the past: the DentalSlim Diet Control device and an incomplete understanding of obesity. August 26, 2021.

• Nature Medicine. Health-based civic engagement is a professional responsibility. October 12, 2021.

• The Lancet. Superhuman, but never enough: Black women in medicine. October 16, 2021.

• Nature Medicine. Global health responsibilities in a Taliban-led Afghanistan. November 8, 2021.

• American Journal of Public Health. All Infrastructure Is Health Infrastructure. December 22, 2021.

• Contemporary Clinical Trials. Randomized clinical trials of weight loss: Pragmatic and digital strategies and innovations. January 24, 2022.

• The Lancet. Vaccine apartheid: global cooperation and equity. February 23, 2022.

• Obesity. Overcoming congressional inertia on obesity requires better literacy in obesity science. March 4, 2022.

• British Medical Journal. The Ukrainian refugee crisis and the pathology of racism. March 11, 2022.

• Nature Medicine. Building a pandemic supply chain - equity over equality. March 14, 2022.

• Milbank Quarterly. The Infrastructure Bill—Investing in Environmental Justice & Health Equity. June 6, 2022.

• Lancet Digital Health. Paradox of telemedicine: building or neglecting trust and equity. June 22, 2022.

• International Journal of Obesity. International lack of equity in modern obesity therapy: the critical need for change in health policy. July 1, 2022. 

• International Journal of Surgery. The hidden surgical humanitarian response in Ukraine. August 26, 2022.

• British Medical Journal. Reforming global health governance in the face of pandemics and war. September 13, 2022.

• Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. Protecting marginalized women's mental health in the post-Dobbs era. September 23, 2022.

• Nature Medicine. Cigarette package labels to promote lung cancer screening. October 13, 2022.

• American Journal of Infection Control. COVID-19 Pandemic Relief Funding-A Lifeline for Equity. October 13, 2022.

• Journal of Public Health & Management Practice. Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire: COVID-19 as a Roadmap for Integrated Chronic Disease Prevention. December 1, 2022.

• British Medical Journal Oncology. Bridging the Gap: Promoting Equity and Diversity in Global Oncology Research Within Sub-Saharan Africa. January 19, 2023.

• Lancet. Recruitmentology and the Politics of Consent in Clinical Research. January 28, 2023.

• American Journal of Bioethics. ChatGPT: Temptations of Progress. February 28, 2023.

• Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. Affirmative Action and the Supreme Court: Diversity in Medicine at Stake. April 19, 2023.

• Annals of Surgical Oncology. ASO Author Reflections: Colon Cancer Disparities in Stage at Presentation and Time to Surgery for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. April 29, 2023.

• British Medical Journal. Academic hierarchies are an uphill struggle for black women. August 2, 2023.

• American Journal of Medical Sciences. Recruitment to retention - Addressing the needs and driving improvement within the rural physician pipeline. September 29, 2023.

• Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health. Equity in Scientific Publishing: Can Artificial Intelligence Transform the Peer Review Process? November 14, 2023.

​

Original Research

• Surgery. Impact of advanced clinical fellowship training on future research productivity and career advancement in adult cardiac surgery. July 31, 2020.

• Annals of Thoracic Surgery. Women in Thoracic Surgery Scholarship: Impact on Career Path and Interest in Cardiothoracic Surgery. September 19, 2020.

• Annals of Thoracic Surgery. New Attending Surgeons Hired by Their Training Institution Exhibit Greater Research Productivity. November 2, 2020.

• Annals of Thoracic Surgery. Early Engagement in Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Enhances Future Academic Productivity. November 4, 2020.

• Annals of Thoracic Surgery. Off-Pump Minithoracotomy Versus Sternotomy for Left Anterior Descending Myocardial Bridge Unroofing. December 14, 2020.

• Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. National Institutes of Health R01 Grant Funding Is Associated With Enhanced Research Productivity and Career Advancement Among Academic Cardiothoracic Surgeons. December 24, 2020.

• Journal of Surgical Research. Career Research Productivity Correlates With Medical School Ranking Among Cardiothoracic Surgeons. March 29, 2021.

• Surgery. Characterization of academic cardiothoracic surgeons who started as attendings in private or community practice. July 20, 2021.

• Journal of Surgical Research. Characterization of Cardiothoracic Surgeons Actively Leading Basic Science Research. August 14, 2021.

• Journal of Surgical Education. The Academic Impact of Advanced Clinical Fellowship Training among General Thoracic Surgeons. October 19, 2021.

• Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. The impact of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery on National Institutes of Health grant funding for cardiothoracic surgeons. October 28, 2021.

• Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Treatment of Obesity: Pharmacotherapy Trends of Office-Based Visits in the United States From 2011 to 2016. October 30, 2021.

• Annals of Surgical Oncology. Trends in Location of Death for Individuals with Pancreatic Cancer in the United States. November 8, 2021.

• American Heart Journal. Socioeconomic disparities in healthcare utilization for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. January 28, 2022.

• Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Research Open. Quantitative goals for research output and scholarly impact to enhance basic science R01 grant renewal for cardiothoracic surgeons. February 15, 2022.

• Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Research Open. An Automated Line Clearing Chest Tube System After Cardiac Surgery. February 23, 2022.

• Journal of Surgical Research. Analyzing the Scholarly Impact of Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Using the Relative Citation Ratio. March 17, 2022.

• Clinical Lung Cancer. Extended Delay to Treatment for Stage III-IV Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer and Survival: Balancing Risks During the COVID-19 Pandemic. May 5, 2022.

• Journal of the American College of Surgeons. Early vs Delayed Operation for Esophageal Cancer During the COVID-19 Pandemic. May 12, 2022.

• American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Obesity and Eligibility for Obesity Treatments Among Adults With Disabilities in the U.S. May 22, 2022.

• Annals of Thoracic Surgery. Career Progression and Research Productivity of Women in Academic Cardiothoracic Surgery. May 25, 2022.

• Journal of Surgical Research. Diminishing Basic Science Research Experience Among United States Cardiothoracic Surgery Trainees. July 6, 2022.

• World Journal of Surgery. Impact of PhD Degree Versus Non-PhD Research Fellowship on Future Research Productivity Among Academic Cardiothoracic Surgeons. July 24, 2022.

• Annals of Thoracic Surgery. Virtual Surgical Skills Training in a High School Summer Program. August 5, 2022.

• Obesity Surgery. Trends in Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Reimbursement in the USA. October 19, 2022.

• Lancet Regional Health Americas. Racial and ethnic disparities in end-of-life care for patients with oesophageal cancer: Death trends over time. December 8, 2022.

• American Journal of Surgery. Trends in Location of Death for Individuals with Metastatic Lung Cancer in the United States. February 24, 2023.

• Annals of Surgical Oncology. Colon Cancer Disparities in Stage at Presentation and Time to Surgery for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders: A Study with Disaggregated Ethnic Groups. April 5, 2023.

• PLoS One. Results following implementation of a Cardiac Surgery ERAS Protocol. July 14, 2023.

• JAMA Oncology. Deaths Due to COVID-19 in Patients With Cancer During Different Waves of the Pandemic in the US. August 31, 2023.

​

Histories, Case Reports, and Letters to the Editor

• Obesity Surgery. Dignity and Respect: People-First Language with Regard to Obesity. February 27, 2021.

• European Heart Journal. Respectful language and putting the person first with obesity. December 6, 2021.

• British Dental Journal. Promoting Stigma. December 10, 2021.

• Synthesis. Wealthy White Men Only: Examining the American Medical Association's Use of the Flexner Report as Propaganda to Reform Medical Education. December 20, 2021.

• Annals of Thoracic Surgery. History of Surgery for Mitral Stenosis: John Mayow to Charles Bailey. January 17, 2022.

• Nature. COVID-19: LMICs need antivirals as well as vaccines. February 1, 2022.

• Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics. Weight gain after in vitro fertilization: a potential consequence of controlled ovarian stimulation. February 26, 2022.​

• Lancet Regional Health West Pacific. Orthogeriatric co-management care models: The need for integrated practice units. March 15, 2022.