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Shefali Agrawal, MD

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Shefali Agrawal, MD

 

Assistant Professor, Surgery

Telephone:  215-707-3626

Email: shefali.agrawal@tuhs.temple.edu

 

Department of Surgery

 

Educational Background:

 

MBBS degree, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

 

Residency, General Surgery, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY

 

Fellowship, Surgical Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY

 

Fellowship, Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

 

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clinical Interests:

 
  • Liver and pancreatic surgery
  • Management of benign tumors and cancer of the liver, gall bladder, bile ducts and pancreas
  • Surgical oncology

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board certification(s):

 

American Board of Surgery

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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

 
  • American Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association
  • Society of Surgical Oncology
  • American Society of Clinical Oncology
  • American College of Surgeons
  • International Liver Transplantation Society
  • Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
  • Association for Academic Surgery

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Research Interests:

 

  • Proteomic and genomic analysis of hepatocellular carcinoma for the development of novel liver-directed therapies
  • Immunologic and genetic mechanisms of cell cycle regulation of liver and pancreatic cancers
  • Identification of molecular prognostic markers in pancreatic adenocarcinoma

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selected publications AND BOOK CHAPTERS

 

Schoemann MB, Bechtold DC, Agrawal S, Lentz CW. Glutamine and wound healing. In: Molnar JA ed. Nutrition and wound healing, First Edition. Florida: CRC Press, 2006: 65-86

 

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PUBMED PUBLICATIONS :


Recent Medically Related Publications, Obtained from PubMed (Click on PubMed ID to view abstract)

19701906. Agrawal S, Kane JM 3rd, Guadagnolo BA, Kraybill WG, Ballo MT, The benefits of adjuvant radiation therapy after therapeutic lymphadenectomy for clinically advanced, high-risk, lymph node-metastatic melanoma. Cancer :()2009 Aug 21

17549572. Agrawal S, McCarron EC, Gibbs JF, Nava HR, Wilding GE, Rajput A, Surgical management and outcome in primary adenocarcinoma of the small bowel. Ann Surg Oncol 14:8(2263-9)2007 Aug

17436128. Agrawal S, Kuvshinoff BW, Khoury T, Yu J, Javle MM, LeVea C, Groth J, Coignet LJ, Gibbs JF, CD24 expression is an independent prognostic marker in cholangiocarcinoma. J Gastrointest Surg 11:4(445-51)2007 Apr

15219464. Agrawal S, Reemtsma K, Bagiella E, Oluwole SF, Braunstein NS, Role of TAP-1 and/or TAP-2 antigen presentation defects in tumorigenicity of mouse melanoma. Cell Immunol 228:2(130-7)2004 Apr

10459547. Oluwole SF, Chowdhury NC, Ingram M, Garrovillo M, Jin MX, Agrawal S, Mechanism of acquired thymic tolerance induced by a single major histocompatibility complex class I peptide with the dominant epitope: differential analysis of regulatory cytokines in the lymphoid and intragraft compartments. Transplantation 68:3(418-29)1999 Aug 15

10379853. Agrawal S, Yao TJ, Coit DG, Surgery for melanoma metastatic to the gastrointestinal tract. Ann Surg Oncol 6:4(336-44)1999 Jun

9723528. Hardy MA, Agrawal S, Suciu-Foca N, Experimental and clinical tolerance induction. Transplant Proc 30:5(2435-7)1998 Aug

8982370. Agrawal S, Rao RS, Parikh DM, Parikh HK, Borges AM, Sampat MB, Histologic trends in thyroid cancer 1969-1993: a clinico-pathologic analysis of the relative proportion of anaplastic carcinoma of the thyroid. J Surg Oncol 63:4(251-5)1996 Dec

8841467. Agrawal S, Deshmukh SP, Patil PK, Bhansali MS, Bhatt RG, Badwe RA, Deshpande RK, Desai PB, Intrathoracic anastomosis after oesophageal resection for cancer. J Surg Oncol 63:1(52-6)1996 Sep

7898112. Agrawal S, Diagnostic accuracy and role of fine needle aspiration cytology in management of thyroid nodules. J Surg Oncol 58:3(168-72)1995 Mar

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