Congratulations to all members of the Department of Surgery who were published in January! Published faculty were Doctors Mazen Al-Mansour, Letitia Bible, Azra Bihorac, Chasen Croft, Sergio Duarte, Jennifer Fieber, Steven Hughes, Benjamin Jacobs, Jeffrey Jacobs, Crystal Johnson-Mann, Sailesh Konda, Giles Peek, Mindaugas Rackauskas, Steven Raymond, George Sarosi, Salvatore Scali, Aditya Shirali, Yuriy Stukov, Tyler Loftus, Gilbert Upchurch, Jr., Georgios Vrakas, and Ali Zarrinpar.
Circulation
- Suthar D, Yang Y, Beshish AG, Knight J, Song X, Thomas A, Hao H, Shaw FR, Jenkins K, Jacobs JP, Oster ME, Alonso A, Huang Y, Raghuveer G, Hiremath G, Marino B, Wright L, Deshpande SR, John AS, Gaitonde MM, Alsoufi B, Overman DM, Canter C, St Louis J, Devanagondi R, McHugh KE, Kochilas L. Association of pre-fontan hemodynamics with long-term outcomes after fontan palliation: a study from the Pediatric Cardiac Care Consortium. Circulation. 2026 Feb 10;153(6):382-395. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.125.076880. Epub 2026 Jan 22. PMID: 41568447.
Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology
- Radwan RM, Huang W, Barney G, Fieber J, Guo J, Novikov A. Evaluation of Endoscopic ultrasound delays in the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer in older adults in the United States. Clin Transl Gastroenterol. 2026 Jan 30. doi: 10.14309/ctg.0000000000000986. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41614718.
Critical Care Medicine
- De Piero ME, Alessandri F, Mariani S, Di Mauro M, Alunni Fegatelli D, Pugliese F, Ravaux JM, Brodie D, Abrams D, Broman LM, Mueller T, Taccone FS, Belliato M, Dos Reis Miranda D, Swol J, Malfertheiner MV, Kowalewski M, Peek GJ, Hou X, Fraser JF, MacLaren G, Tonna JE, Di Nardo M, Lorusso R. Conversion from venovenous to venoarterial or hybrid extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: analysis from the extracorporeal life support organization registry. Crit Care Med. 2026 Jan 20. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000007027. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41556746.
Endocrine Connections
- Kabbash M, Anton SD, Leeuwenburgh C, Shirali AS. The impact of hyperparathyroidism on skeletal muscle pathophysiology and physical function. Endocr Connect. 2026 Feb 2;15(2):e250801. doi: 10.1530/EC-25-0801. PMID: 41532573; PMCID: PMC12865277.
European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
- Scali ST, Upchurch GR Jr. When More Monitoring Delivers Less Value: Lessons from activated clotting time guided heparinisation during open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2026 Jan 19:S1078-5884(25)01321-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2025.12.052. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41565100.
JAAD Case Reports
- Hammond AM, Farahbakhsh N, Vincek V, Konda S. Expanding the role of Mohs surgery: management of cutaneous metastases in 3 cases. JAAD Case Rep. 2025 Dec 10;68:121-123. doi: 10.1016/j.jdcr.2025.12.001. PMID: 41551631; PMCID: PMC12809480.
Journal of Robotic Surgery
- Hussein AM, Rackauskas M, Vijayan K, Mehta HJ, Aladaileh M. Robotic-assisted tracheobronchoplasty for excessive central airway collapse: a systematic review of clinical outcomes, safety, and functional recovery. J Robot Surg. 2026 Jan 19;20(1):181. doi: 10.1007/s11701-026-03143-9. PMID: 41553634.
Journal of Surgical Education
- Furey MJ, Westfall-Snyder JA, Fieber J, Shabahang M, Buonpane C, White B, Kashyap R, Hoffman RL. How you say it matters: using growth mindset to improve faculty feedback and resident motivation. J Surg Educ. 2026 Apr;83(4):103825. doi: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2025.103825. Epub 2026 Jan 23. PMID: 41579620.
Journal of the American College of Surgeons
- Javanshir S, Angeli-Pahim I, Iyengar P, Chambers A, Smarandache IM, Ganguli R, Hughes S, Sahin I, Duarte S, Zarrinpar A. Quantification of DNA methylation for diagnosis and monitoring of hepatocellular carcinoma. J Am Coll Surg. 2026 Jan 23. doi: 10.1097/XCS.0000000000001792. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41575457.
- Diaconescu A, White E, McLeod MC, Wilson DDM, Sarosi G, Barry C, Jones A, Minter R, Brasel K, Lindeman B. Resident Satisfaction with feedback quantity on best and worst rotations. J Am Coll Surg. 2026 Jan 23. doi: 10.1097/XCS.0000000000001799. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41575449.
- Loftus TJ, Ruppert MM, Hu D, Nolan V, Balch JA, Ozrazgat-Baslanti T, Madbak F, Shickel B, Bihorac A, Upchurch GR Jr. Goals of care transitions following postoperative undertriage. J Am Coll Surg. 2026 Jan 20. doi: 10.1097/XCS.0000000000001763. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41556534.
Multimedia Manual of Cardiothoracic Surgery
- Kugler LR, Stukov Y, Stinson G, Bilgili A, Weir W. Redo lung herniation repair. Multimed Man Cardiothorac Surg. 2026 Jan 7;2026. doi: 10.1510/mmcts.2025.130. PMID: 41498267.
- Stukov Y, Croft C, Fassler AM, Steinberg B, Campbell A, Jacobs JP, Bible L. Traumatic diaphragmatic rupture and left chest wall herniation. Multimed Man Cardiothorac Surg. 2026 Jan 5;2026. doi: 10.1510/mmcts.2025.131. PMID: 41498266.
Neuromodulation
- Gongora AG, Gharby C, Wnuk M, Abell T, Islam S. Selecting the right patient for gastric electrical stimulation: using blinded temporary stimulation trials in children and adolescents. Neuromodulation. 2026 Jan 13:S1094-7159(25)01191-2. doi: 10.1016/j.neurom.2025.12.004. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41532946.
Nature Cancer
- Silver NL, Dai J, Kerr TD, Altemus J, Garg R, Simmons H, Alban T, Noel-Romas L, Makarov V, Shih DJH, Kumar SV, Santos A, Akbani R, Burgener A, Dwidar M, Gross N, Sikora AG, Sayour EJ, Stacy A, Jobin C, Chan TA, Ferrarotto R, McGrail DJ. Intratumoral bacteria are immunosuppressive and promote immunotherapy resistance in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Nat Cancer. 2026 Jan;7(1):80-97. doi: 10.1038/s43018-025-01067-1. Epub 2026 Jan 2. PMID: 41482523.
Nucleic Acids Research
- Brown N, Luniewski A, Yu X, Warthan M, Liu S, Zulawinska J, Ahmad S, Prasad N, Congdon M, Santos W, Xiao F, Guler JL. Replication stress increases de novo CNVs across the malaria parasite genome. Nucleic Acids Res. 2026 Jan 5;54(1):gkaf1436. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaf1436. PMID: 41521658; PMCID: PMC12784960.
Pediatric Surgery International
- Hong PKW, Raymond R, Crippen C, Satine J, Neal D, Loftus TJ, Jacobs BN, Khan FA, Upchurch GR Jr, Shirley DA, Raymond SL. Antibiotic prophylaxis in pediatric surgery: when more is not better-or safer. Pediatr Surg Int. 2026 Jan 11;42(1):65. doi: 10.1007/s00383-025-06292-4. PMID: 41521361.
Perfusion
- Mattke AC, Johnson K, Peek GJ, Venugopal P, Horton S. Nitric oxide delivery into the sweep flow of ECMO systems: technical challenges and solutions. Perfusion. 2026 Jan 6:2676591251408659. doi: 10.1177/02676591251408659. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41496462.
Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases
- Mohammad B, Edwards MA, Nimeri A, Thompson C, Johnson-Mann C, Clapp B, Hilton LR; ASMBS Diversity and Inclusion, Research, and Access to Care Committees. Impact of telemedicine on improving access to metabolic/bariatric surgery care in minority and other underserved patients with obesity. Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2026 Mar;22(3):369-375. doi: 10.1016/j.soard.2025.11.026. Epub 2026 Jan 5. PMID: 41617569.
Surgical Innovation
- Sutariya R, Kunamneni S, Zhang WW, Fay K, Al-Mansour M, Narula N. Surgeons’ Experiences and perspectives on physical ergonomics: a need for innovative solutions. Surg Innov. 2026 Jan 23:15533506261420368. doi: 10.1177/15533506261420368. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41574982.
Transplantation
- Ngo TB, Zarrinpar A. Connecting amino acid metabolism to inflammatory modulation in liver ischemia-reperfusion injury. Transplantation. 2026 Mar 1;110(3):e537-e538. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000005619. Epub 2026 Jan 23. PMID: 41572445.
World Journal of Transplanation
- Alquadan KF, Belal AA, Mehta R, Leghrouz M, Ibrahim H, Vrakas G, Santos AH. Simultaneous kidney and pancreas transplantation: current trends and challenges. World J Transplant. 2026 Mar 18;16(1):111064. doi: 10.5500/wjt.v16.i1.111064. PMID: 41607815.