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Alliric I. Willis, MD

Assistant Professor, Surgery

Assistant Professor, Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology

Telephone:  215-707-2072

Fax:  215-707-3945

Email: alliric.willis@tuhs.temple.edu

Department of Surgery

Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology

MD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 1996

 

Residency, General Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, 2004

 

Research Fellowship, Surgical Research, Yale University School of Medicine, 2000

 

Surgical Oncology Fellowship, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, 2006

 

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• Thyroid and parathyroid surgery
• Breast cancer
• Melanoma
• Skin and soft tissue tumors

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American Board of Surgery

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Society of Surgical Oncology

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

23334252. Nitzkorski JR, Willis AI, Nick D, Zhu F, Farma JM, Sigurdson ER, Association of race and socioeconomic status and outcomes of patients with rectal cancer. Ann Surg Oncol 20:4(1142-7)2013 Apr

22927530. Taghavi S, Jayarajan SN, Davey A, Willis AI, Prognostic significance of signet ring gastric cancer. J Clin Oncol 30:28(3493-8)2012 Oct 1

22828144. Taghavi S, Jayarajan SN, Duran JM, Gaughan JP, Pathak A, Santora TA, Willis AI, Goldberg AJ, Does payer status matter in predicting penetrating trauma outcomes? Surgery 152:2(227-31)2012 Aug

21193465. Willis AI, Sadowitz B, Fuse S, Maier KG, Lee TS, Wang XJ, Tuszynski GP, Sumpio BE, Gahtan V, Thrombospondin 1, fibronectin, and vitronectin are differentially dependent upon RAS, ERK1/2, and p38 for induction of vascular smooth muscle cell chemotaxis. Vasc Endovascular Surg 45:1(55-62)2011 Jan

18319354. Wang XJ, Maier K, Fuse S, Willis AI, Olson E, Nesselroth S, Sumpio BE, Gahtan V, Thrombospondin-1-induced migration is functionally dependent upon focal adhesion kinase. Vasc Endovascular Surg 42:3(256-62)2008 Jun-Jul

17525953. Willis AI, Ridge JA, Discordant lymphatic drainage patterns revealed by serial lymphoscintigraphy in cutaneous head and neck malignancies. Head Neck 29:11(979-85)2007 Nov

14760473. Willis AI, Pierre-Paul D, Sumpio BE, Gahtan V, Vascular smooth muscle cell migration: current research and clinical implications. Vasc Endovascular Surg 38:1(11-23)2004 Jan-Feb

11409850. Smith JD, Davies N, Willis AI, Sumpio BE, Zilla P, Cyclic stretch induces the expression of vascular endothelial growth factor in vascular smooth muscle cells. Endothelium 8:1(41-8)2001

11241132. Nesselroth SM, Willis AI, Fuse S, Olson ET, Lawler J, Sumpio BE, Gahtan V, The C-terminal domain of thrombospondin-1 induces vascular smooth muscle cell chemotaxis. J Vasc Surg 33:3(595-600)2001 Mar

10842153. Willis AI, Fuse S, Wang XJ, Chen E, Tuszynski GP, Sumpio BE, Gahtan V, Inhibition of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase and protein kinase C attenuates extracellular matrix protein-induced vascular smooth muscle cell chemotaxis. J Vasc Surg 31:6(1160-7)2000 Jun

10455885. Gahtan V, Wang XJ, Willis AI, Tuszynski GP, Sumpio BE, Thrombospondin-1 regulation of smooth muscle cell chemotaxis is extracellular signal-regulated protein kinases 1/2 dependent. Surgery 126:2(203-7)1999 Aug

10359937. Gahtan V, Wang XJ, Ikeda M, Willis AI, Tuszynski GP, Sumpio BE, Thrombospondin-1 induces activation of focal adhesion kinase in vascular smooth muscle cells. J Vasc Surg 29:6(1031-6)1999 Jun

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