Timothy Pawlik

BACKGROUND: The majority of HCC patients within Milan criteria, compete with cirrhosis patients with high MELD for liver transplantation based on an exceptional score which is the calculated MELD at registration, 28 after six months of waiting, 31 after 1 year and thereafter capped at 34 after one…

BACKGROUND: The majority of HCC patients within Milan criteria, compete with cirrhosis patients with high MELD for liver transplantation based on an exceptional score which is the calculated MELD at registration, 28 after six months of waiting, 31 after 1 year and thereafter capped at 34 after one…

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) exists in several morphological subtypes differing in prognostic significance. However, to date, a clinico-morphological correlation of these subtypes in the context of neoadjuvant therapy (NAT) has not been performed…

BACKGROUND: To address the persistent ethnoracial and socioeconomic disparities in access to quality surgical cancer care, it is imperative to rigorously understand the role of clinician-level factors including clinician-to-clinician connectedness…

BACKGROUND: To address the persistent ethnoracial and socioeconomic disparities in access to quality surgical cancer care, it is imperative to rigorously understand the role of clinician-level factors including clinician-to-clinician connectedness…

SOCIETY: AASLD

INTRODUCTION: The cost of healthcare is widely recognized as a substantial barrier to access essential medical care…

INTRODUCTION: Telemedicine use increased with the COVID-19 pandemic, yet the effect of telemedicine on resource utilization has not been investigated. We sought to characterize the impact of telemedicine on healthcare utilization and medical spending among patients with gastrointestinal (GI) cancer…

INTRODUCTION: Affiliation with a major regional hospital system is often promoted to patients as an opportunity to benefit locally from the same standard of care experienced at the flagship hospital…

BACKGROUND: Recurrence of neuroendocrine tumor liver metastasis (NELM) following curative-intent resection occurs in a large subset of patients. Artificial intelligence (AI) may help predict outcomes among patients with cancer…

EUS-guided needle-based confocal laser endomicroscopy (EUS-nCLE) can effectively differentiate high-grade dysplasia/adenocarcinoma (HGD-Ca) in branch duct (BD) intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (BD-IPMNs)…

INTRODUCTION: Preoperative cholangitis (PC) is an important risk factor for postoperative morbidity among patients undergoing pancreatic surgery. We sought to characterize the impact of PC on surgical outcomes and healthcare costs…

Objectives: Neoadjuvant therapy (NT) is increasingly utilized prior to surgery for most gastrointestinal (GI) and hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) malignancies. However, chemotherapy and radiation therapy can cause significant symptoms and a high incidence of adverse events…

ELEVATED RED CELL DISTRIBUTION WIDTH TO PLATELET RATIO IS ASSOCIATED WITH LOW GRADE DYSPLASIA IN IBD