Surgery Research
Since 2006, the Department of Surgery Research Division has experienced substantial growth in federal research funding in basic science and translational medicine. In addition to a marked increase in clinical research, our National Institute of Health (NIH) portfolio has increased substantially, raising our ranking among other departments of surgery from 90th to the top 25 departments of surgery. This success has allowed the division to partner successfully with two of the newly developed basic and clinical science institutes (Cancer and Regenerative Medicine), as well as other areas of research strength at Cedars-Sinai.
Specifically, NIH and U.S. Department of Defense funding has grown from approximately $500,000 in FY06 to more than $5 million in FY15, representing tenfold growth in federal research dollars.
The Department of Surgery has also experienced rapid expansion in clinical research projects and trials over the past nine years, growing from $200,000 in clinical research funding in 2006 to almost $2 million in FY14.
Research in the Department of Surgery both matches and supports the department's clinical efforts by focusing on interdisciplinary and translational work. Our research areas include:
Funding Leap Highlights Research Excellence—Bruce Gewertz, MD
Regenerative Medicine
Other Significant Research
- Human Factors in Trauma Care
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Tissue Engineering
- Pediatric Enterocolitis and Hirschsprung's Disease
- Bioimage Informatics
- Biomechanics of Bone
- Health Services Research
- Women's Urology and Chronic Pelvic Pain
Publications and Reports
As part of our commitment to clinical advancement, research and education, the faculty of the Department of Surgery strives to communicate their findings in publications and reports.
Articles Featured in Sutures
- Genetically Engineered Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Applications in Spine Therapy
- An Analytical Model for Elucidating Tendon Tissue Structure and Biomechanical Function from in vivo Cellular Confocal Microscopy Images
- Circadian Rhythm of Osteocalcin in the Maxillomandibular Complex
- Increased Utilization of MRI for Breast Cancer Surveillance and Staging Does Not Increase Rate of Mastectomy
Please see below for links to publications written by our faculty members.
Author
- Bruce L. Gewertz, MD
- Donald Dafoe, MD
- Edward H. Phillips, MD
- Kenneth Adashek, MD
- Alex Allins, MD
- George Berci, MD
- Brendan Carroll, MD
- Steve C. Chen, MD
- Wen Cheng, MD
- J. Louis Cohen, MD
- Jason S. Cohen, MD
- William Cohen, MD
- David Cossman, MD
- Steven Colquhoun, MD
- Scott Cunneen, MD
- Moses Fallas, MD
- Katherine Facklis, MD
- David Fermelia, MD
- Eiman Firoozmand, MD
- Phillip Fleshner, MD
- Philip K. Frykman, MD
- Clark Fuller, MD
- Gary Furman, MD
- Homayon Ghiasi, PhD
- Leo Gordon, MD
- Jason Hamilton, MD
- Thomas Hui, MD
- Scott Karlan, MD
- Mitchell Karlan, MD
- Andrew Klein, MD
- Sergey Lyass, MD
- Rhoda Leichter, MD
- Alexander Ljubimov, PhD
- Mari A. Madsen, MD
- Ezra Maguen, MD
- Daniel Margulies, MD
- Leslie Memsic, MD
- Ricardo Navas, MD
- Nicholas Nissen, MD
- Ryan Osborne, MD
- Rajeev K. Rao, MD
- Yaron Rabinowitz, MD
- Ali Salim, MD
- Allan Silberman, MD
- Thomas P. Sokol, MD
- Shirin Towfigh, MD
- Alfred Trento, MD
- Willis Wagner, MD
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