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John L. Rombeau, MD

Professor, Surgery

Telephone:  215-707-7725

Email: john.rombeau@tuhs.temple.edu

Department of Surgery, Section of Colorectal Surgery

MD, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, CA

 

Residencies:  Internship (rotating), Los Angeles County USC Medical Center; General Surgery, Good Samaritan Hospital; General Surgery, Los Angeles County USC Medical Center; Chief, General Surgery, Los Angeles County USC Medical Center

 

Fellowships:  Colon and Rectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic; Surgical Research, Cleveland Clinic; Nutrition and Metabolism Research, Joslin Diabetes Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University Medical School

 

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• Colorectal cancer
• Colonic diverticulitis
• Inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, intestinal fistulae)
• Anorectal conditions such as hemorrhoids, fistulae, fissures and condylomata

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• National Board of Medical Examiners
• American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery
• American Board of Surgery

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

19861531. Rombeau JL, Jonathan E. Rhoads Lecture: Mentoring and Nutritional Care. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr :()2009 Oct 27

18212220. Kessler JM, Levine MS, Rubesin SE, Rombeau JL, Laufer I, Accuracy of retrograde ileostomy radiographic examination for detecting small-bowel abnormalities. AJR Am J Roentgenol 190:2(353-60)2008 Feb

18200663. Roses RE, Rombeau JL, Recent trends in the surgical management of inflammatory bowel disease. World J Gastroenterol 14:3(408-12)2008 Jan 21

17579147. Dolinsky D, Levine MS, Rubesin SE, Laufer I, Rombeau JL, Utility of contrast enema for detecting anastomotic strictures after total proctocolectomy and ileal pouch-anal anastomosis. AJR Am J Roentgenol 189:1(25-9)2007 Jul

17377016. Patel S, Levine MS, Rombeau JL, Appearance of the rectum on barium enema examination after the Delorme procedure. AJR Am J Roentgenol 188:4(W396)2007 Apr

16850151. Mattei P, Rombeau JL, Review of the pathophysiology and management of postoperative ileus. World J Surg 30:8(1382-91)2006 Aug

15908540. Wagner-Bartak NA, Levine MS, Rubesin SE, Laufer I, Rombeau JL, Lichtenstein GR, Crohn's disease in the ileal pouch after total colectomy for ulcerative colitis: findings on pouch enemas in six patients. AJR Am J Roentgenol 184:6(1843-7)2005 Jun

15728022. Schutz JC, Levine MS, Woo EY, Rombeau JL, Antegrade ileography for evaluating a distal anastomotic stricture after loop ileostomy. AJR Am J Roentgenol 184:3 Suppl(S56-7)2005 Mar

12933486. Dinan D, Levine MS, Gordon AR, Rubesin SE, Rombeau JL, Gastric wall weakening resulting in separate perforations in a patient with Duchenne's muscular dystrophy. AJR Am J Roentgenol 181:3(807-8)2003 Sep

12891531. Aberra FN, Lewis JD, Hass D, Rombeau JL, Osborne B, Lichtenstein GR, Corticosteroids and immunomodulators: postoperative infectious complication risk in inflammatory bowel disease patients. Gastroenterology 125:2(320-7)2003 Aug

11975937. Chen CN, McVay LD, Batlivala ZS, Hendren SK, Swain GP, Salzman N, Williams NN, Rombeau JL, Anatomic and functional characteristics of the rat ileal pouch. Am J Surg 183:4(464-70)2002 Apr

11932890. Rombeau JL, Jonathan Evans Rhoads, M.D.: in memoriam 1907-2002. Cancer 94:7(1907-9)2002 Apr 1

11218163. McClane SJ, Rombeau JL, Anorectal Crohn's disease. Surg Clin North Am 81:1(169-83, ix)2001 Feb

11026925. Pfau PR, Rombeau JL, Nutrition. Med Clin North Am 84:5(1209-30)2000 Sep

10910251. Shapiro M, Hark L, Rombeau JL, Proposed association between ileoanal j-pouch perforation and rapid consumption of a high-calorie, high-fiber meal: report of two cases. Dis Colon Rectum 43:7(1008-11)2000 Jul

10897270. Dabrowski GP, Rombeau JL, Practical nutritional management in the trauma intensive care unit. Surg Clin North Am 80:3(921-32, x)2000 Jun

10589377. Stein RB, Lichtenstein GR, Rombeau JL, Nutrition in inflammatory bowel disease. Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care 2:5(367-71)1999 Sep

10565380. Burke A, Lichtenstein GR, Rombeau JL, Nutritional and metabolic advances in inflammatory bowel disease. Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care 1:5(387-90)1998 Sep

10485439. Compher CW, Frankel WL, Tazelaar J, Lawson JA, McKinney S, Segall S, Kinosian BP, Williams NN, Rombeau JL, Wheat bran decreases aberrant crypt foci, preserves normal proliferation, and increases intraluminal butyrate levels in experimental colon cancer. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr 23:5(269-77; discussion 277-8)1999 Sep-Oct

10483888. McClane SJ, Rombeau JL, Cytokines and inflammatory bowel disease: a review. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr 23:5 Suppl(S20-4)1999 Sep-Oct

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