
Neurogenic inflammation
Ulcerative colitis
Crohn's disease
Neuropeptides
Receptors
Vanilloid receptor
Substance P
Intestinal motility
Colorectal cancer outcomes
Colon cancer
Rectal cancer
Education and Training
- Resident, Surgery, Duke University, 1991 - 1998
- M.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1991
Selected Grants
- Inhibition of CaMKK2 sensitizes rectal cancers to radiation therapy
- Prevention of Surgical Site Infection using Statistical Process Control Charts
- A Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo Controlled Efficacy, Safety, and Tolerability Study of up to 20 mL of DFA-02 in Patients Undergoing Abdominal Surgery
- Cancer Control Using Message Framing to Promote Physical Activity in Colorectal Cancer Survivors
- Coherence Imaging for Assessing Colorectal Neoplasia
- Effects of Short Chain Fatty Acids on Colonic Motility
- Cancer Care Quality Measures: Diagnosis and Treatment of Colorectal Cancer