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Mark S. Roh, M.D.

Principal hospital base:
Allegheny General Hospital

Current professional and academic appointments (Include starting date):

1998 - present:   Chairman, Department of Surgery, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
1998 - present:   Professor of Surgery, Drexel University College of Medicine (formerly MCP Hahnemann)

Undergraduate medical education (including dates and degrees):

1979:   M.D., Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH

Postgraduate medical education (including dates of internships, residencies, fellowships, etc.):

1979 - 1982:   General Surgery Residency, University Health Center of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
1982 - 1984:   Surgical Research Fellow, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
1984 - 1986:   Senior Surgical Resident, University Health Center of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
1986 - 1987:   Surgical Fellow, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Therapeutic interventions:

Therapeutic interventions:     "Phase I/II Study of Intratumoral Injection of ATI-015 for Unresectable Hepatic Tumors"
Funding source:     Direct Therapeutics

Therapeutic interventions:     "Gene Therapy of Primary and Metastatic tumors of the Liver Using SCH 58500 (rAD/p53) via Hepatic Artery Infusion"
Funding source:     Schering-Plough Research Institute

Therapeutic interventions:     "Percutaneous Radiofrequency Ablation of Hepatic Metastases"
Funding source:     Radionics Research Corporation

Recent publications and presentations:

Peer-reviewed publications (i.e., journal articles).

Meric F, Patt YZ, Curley SA, Chase J, Roh MS, Vauthey JN, Ellis LM. Surgery after downstaging of unresectable hepatic tumors with intra-arterial chemotherapy. Ann Surg Oncol. 2000 Aug;7(7):490-5.

Pearson AS, Izzo F, Fleming RY, Ellis LM, Delrio P, Roh MS, Granchi J. Curley SA. Intraoperative radiofrequency ablation or cryoablation for hepatic malignancies. Am J. Surg. 1999 Dec;178(6):592-9.

Kubo S, Roh MS, Oyedeji C, Romsdahl MM, Nishioka K. Effect of Tuftsin on Human Kupffer cel. Hepatogastroenterology. 1998 - Nov-Dec;45(24):2270-4.

Other publications (i.e., non-peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, etc.)

Roh MS, (ed): A Clinical Atlas of Surgical Oncology. St. Louis, Quality Medical Publishing, Inc., 2000.

Gagne D, Roh MS: Cryosurgery for Hepatic Malignancies. Liver Cancer, pp 173 - 200. New York, Springer-Verlag, Inc., 1998

Roh MS: Colorectal Cancer Metastatic to the Liver: Resection and other Techniques, in Cameron JL, (ed): Current Surgical Therapy, pp. 71.1-71.3. St. Louis, Mosby-Yearbook, 1998.

Roh MS. Should a potentially noncurative resection that prolongs survival be offered to patients with colorectal liver metastases? Ann Surg Oncol. 2002 Jun'9(5):423-4.

Fowler DL, Hogle NJ, Martini F, Roh MS. The use of a personal digital assistant for wireless entry of data into a database via the Internet. Surg Endosc. 2002 Jan;16(1):221-3.

Jones SM, Roh MS. Results of surgical resection for hepatocellular carcinoma. Cancer Treat Res. 2001;109:59-75. Review.

Roh MS. Increasing the number of patients undergoing resection of colorectal liver metastases. Ann Surg Oncol. 2000 Oct;7(9):634-5.

Roh MS. Extending the indications for hepatic resection. Ann Surg Oncol. 1999 Oct-Nov;6(7):625-6.

Roseman BJ, Roh MS. Prognostic factors in surgical resection for hepatocelluar carcinoma. Cancer Treat Res. 1997;90-331-45. Review.

National/regional presentations

Visiting Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN



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