Assistant Professor, Surgery; Member, JCCC Patients and Survivors Program Area, UCLA School of Medicine
General Surgery
Dr. Melinda A. Gibbons, MD
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Melinda Gibbons is an expert in the field of General Surgery. She went to Harvard Medical School. Harvard Medical School is one of the top medical schools in the US. Harvard Medical School has a rank of 1 in research and a 12 in primary care She has 1 awards "Fellow". Dr. Melinda A. Gibbons has written publications. She has 72 publications published with PubMed. The lastest paper is: 'Long-term results of pediatric liver transplantation: an analysis of 569 transplants.'
Publications
- Trends, patterns, and outcomes in the management of malignant colonic polyps in the general population of the United States.
- Trends and outcomes of adolescent bariatric surgery in California, 2005-2007.
- Invasive lobular vs. ductal breast Cancer: a stage-matched comparison of outcomes.
- Use of interpreters by physicians treating limited English proficient women with breast Cancer: results from the provider survey of the Los Angeles Women's Health Study.
- Underuse of axillary dissection for the management of sentinel node micrometastases in breast Cancer.
- Appropriateness criteria for bariatric surgery: beyond the NIH guidelines.
- Are 12 nodes needed to accurately stage T1 and T2 colon Cancers?
- Readmissions following pancreaticoduodenectomy for pancreas Cancer: a population-based appraisal.
- Pregnancy and fertility following bariatric surgery: a systematic review.
- What is the rate of small bowel Obstruction after colectomy?
- Survival after resection of ampullary Carcinoma: a national population-based study.
- How much do standardized forms improve the documentation of quality of care?
- Accuracy of staging node-negative pancreas Cancer: a potential quality measure.
- Meta-Analysis in surgery: methods and limitations.
- Development of quality indicators: lessons learned in bariatric surgery.
- Quality indicators in bariatric surgery: improving quality of care.
- Thirty-day mortality statistics underestimate the risk of repair of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms: a statewide experience.
- Age stratified, perioperative, and one-year mortality after abdominal aortic aneurysm repair: a statewide experience.
- Malignancies of the appendix: beyond case series reports.
- Negative appendectomy rate: influence of CT scans.
- A meta-Analysis of perioperative beta blockade: what is the actual risk reduction?
- A 10-year outcomes evaluation of mucinous and signet-ring cell Carcinoma of the colon and rectum.
- Meta-Analysis: surgical treatment of obesity.
- Beyond the clinical trials: how often is sentinel lymph node dissection performed for breast Cancer?
- Are survival rates different for young and older patients with Rectal cancer?
- Cancer-directed surgery for localized disease: decreased use in the elderly.
- Colon Cancer survival rates with the new American Joint Committee on Cancer sixth edition staging.
- A report card on outcomes for surgically treated gastrointestinal Cancers: are we improving?
- What proportion of patients with an ostomy (for diverticulitis) get reversed?
- Updated population-based review of carcinoid tumors.
- Do young colon Cancer patients have worse outcomes?
- The increasing workload of general surgery.
- ColoRectal cancer in the young.
- Workload projections for surgical oncology: will we need more surgeons?
- Anal cAnal cancer: a population-based reappraisal.
- Elderly patients in surgical workloads: a population-based Analysis.
- Inpatient surgery in California: 1990-2000.
- Characterizing the performance and outcomes of obesity surgery in California.
- Rates of colon and Rectal cancers are increasing in young adults.
- The aging population and its impact on the surgery workforce.
- Sample size calculations in surgery: are they done correctly?
- Using volume criteria: do California hospitals measure up?
- Do young breast Cancer patients have worse outcomes?
- Why do breast Cancer mortality rates vary across states?
- Do Breast columnar cell lesions with atypia need to be excised?
- Is high BMI associated with specific complications after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass?
- Do racial/ethnic disparities exist in the utilization of high-volume surgeons for women with ovarian Cancer?
- Bariatric surgery in women of reproductive age: special concerns for pregnancy.
- Quality in surgery: current issues for the future.
- Pharmacological and surgical treatment of obesity.
- What predicts serious complications in coloRectal cancer resection?
- Laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication improves quality of life in patients with atypical symptoms of gastroEsophageal reflux.
- K-ras status does not predict successful hepatic resection of coloRectal cancer metastasis.
- Evaluating health utility in patients with melanoma, breast Cancer, colon Cancer, and lung Cancer: a nationwide, population-based assessment.
- Antisense TGF-beta2 immunotherapy for hepatocellular Carcinoma: treatment in a rat tumor model.
- Rational manipulation of oxygen deLivery.
- Long-term results of pediatric liver transplantation: an Analysis of 569 transplants.
- Liver transplantation for fulminant hepatic failure in the pediatric patient.
- Liver transplantation for adult polycystic Liver disease.
- Incidence of acute rejection in African-American Liver transplant recipients.
- Pravastatin increases survival and inhibits natural killer cell enhancement factor in Liver transplanted rats.
- Irradiation-induced up-regulation of Fas in esophageal squamous cell Carcinoma is not accompanied by Fas ligand-mediated apoptosis.
- Inhibition of transplant vasculopathy is associated with attenuated host allo-antibody response.
- Reduction of epidermal growth factor receptor phosphorylation by activated Mullerian inhibiting substance is vanadate-sensitive.
- Fas ligand gene transfer to renal allografts in rats: effects on allograft survival.
- Effects of pravastatin on chronic rejection of rat cardiac allografts.
- Liver transplantation in polysplenia syndrome: use of a living-related donor.
- Same admission colon resection with primary anastomosis for acute diverticulitis.
- Surgical diverticulitis: treatment options.
- Rare tumors of the colon and rectum: a national review.
- Indications for performing carpal tunnel surgery: clinical quality measures.
Schools
Harvard Medical School
UCLA Med CtrUCLA D Geffen School
Procedures Preformed
- Appendectomy, Laparoscopic
- Colectomy
- Gallbladder Removal (Cholecystectomy), Laparoscopic
- Intestinal Transplant (incl. Enterectomy)
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Conditions Treated
- Anal and Rectal Cancer
- Appendicitis
- Atelectasis
- Breast Cancer
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Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow
Education
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UCLA Medical Center -
Harvard Medical School
Hospital
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Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
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