Faculty Profile
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Shishir K. Maithel, MD
– Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
Telephone: 404.778.5777
E-mail: smaithe@emory.edu
Certification: American Board of Surgery
Year Joined Emory as a Faculty Member: 2009
Affiliations
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Emory University Hospital
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The Emory Clinic
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Emory Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
Medical School
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Class of 2000, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine
Postgraduate Training
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Internship and Junior General Surgery Residency, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 2000-2003
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Research Fellowship, General Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, 2003-2005
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Senior and Chief General Surgery Residency, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 2005-2007
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Surgical Oncology Fellowship, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 2007-2009
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Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery Fellowship, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 2008-2009
Honors and Awards
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Medical Student Research Award, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, 1997
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Alpha Omega Alpha, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, 1999
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Department of Surgery, Medical Student Award, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, 2000
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Outstanding Resident Teaching Award, Harvard Medical School, 2003
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Winner of Annual Residents' Research Competition, Harvard Medical School, 2005
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Outstanding Resident Teaching Award, Harvard Medical School, 2006
Current Organizational Memberships
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American College of Surgeons
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Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
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Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons
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American Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association
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The Pancreas Club
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Association for Academic Surgery
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Society of Surgical Oncology
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American Society of Clinical Oncology
Clinical Interests
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Tumors of the liver and biliary tract
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Metastatic liver tumors (colorectal, neuroendocrine, etc)
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Solid and cystic tumors of the pancreas
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Tumors of the gastrointestinal tract (stomach, colon, rectum, small intestine, spleen, adrenal glands)
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Retroperitoneal sarcoma
Research Interests
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Clinical investigation and outcomes analysis of patients treated for tumors of the liver, biliary tract and pancreas
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Studying molecular biomarkers as predictors of outcome and chemotherapeutic response for tumors of the liver, biliary tract and pancreas (including colorectal liver metastases and pancreas cancer)
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Principal Investigator on a novel protocol testing the benefit of giving two chemotherapy drugs instead of one after complete resection of pancreatic cancer
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Member of two multi-institutional research consortiums studying tumors of the liver, biliary tract and pancreas
