Faculty Publications July 17-22

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published July 17-22. If you have a published paper from this period that does not appear on this list, please contact Sue Marone.

Cedars-Sinai in the News

What Is Chronic Venous Insufficiency? Trump’s Diagnosis, Explained | Time
Ali Azizzadeh, MD 

What to Know About Chronic Venous Insufficiency—President Trump's Health Diagnosis | The Los Angeles Times 
Ali Azizzadeh, MD 

Doctors at Cedars-Sinai Develop AI-Powered Mental Health ‘Robot’ Therapist | The Los Angeles Times
Omer Liran, MD; Brennan Spiegel, MD; Robert Chernoff, PhD 

Live Q&A: Brain Health as You Age—We Answered Your Questions | The Wall Street Journal
Zaldy Tan, MD, MPH 

Don’t Get Overwhelmed by 10,000 Steps. Here’s How Many You May Really Need | CNN
Martha Gulati, MD

Doctor Discusses President Trump’s Diagnosis of Chronic Venous Insufficiency | KCAL-TV
Elizabeth Chou, MD 

The AI Will See You Now: Clinical Care Agents at Your Service | Forbes
Caroline Goldzweig, MD 

If You Have Ulcerative Colitis, You May Want to Watch out for This Type of Fiber | SELF
Danielle Barsky, RD 

Research Says Run/Walk Intervals Can Help Alleviate Back Pain | Runner’s World
Tracy Zaslow, MD

New Pocket-Size Model of ALS 'Breathes and Flows Like Human Tissue' | Live Science
Clive Svendsen, PhD

Faculty Publications

Biomedical Sciences

Debate: Are We Over-Pathologising Young People’s Mental Health? The Case of Trauma and PTSD Diagnosis. Aboujaoude, Elias, and Ayoub Bouguettaya. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, July.

Cardiology

Optimization of Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone Inhibitor Therapies for Evidence-Based Indications: A Call to Action From the Cardio-Kidney Community. Pecoits-Filho, Roberto, Michelle M. Y. Wong, Monica Moorthy, Debasish Banerjee, Suman Behera, Viviane Calice-Silva, Mogamat-Yazied Chothia, Gates B. Colbert, Martha Gulati, Charles A. Herzog, Fadi Jouhra, Edgar V. Lerma, Charu Malik, Kershaw V. Patel, Amina Rakisheva, Giuseppe M. C. Rosano, Priyanka Satish, Henry H. L. Wu, and Angela Yee-Moon Wang. Kidney International Reports 10 (7): 2081–87.

Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement for Recurrent Tricuspid Regurgitation After Tricuspid Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair. Ozdemir, Denizhan, Jair Basantes de la Calle, Dhairya Patel, Hasan Jilaihawi, Aakriti Gupta, Moody Makar, and Raj Makkar. JACC. Case Reports 30 (19): 104004.

ICD Electrical Reset Message Due to a Programmer Decoding Error - A Rare Cause of No-Concern. Braunstein, Eric D., Yao Chen, Charles D. Swerdlow, Robert G. Hauser, Sumeet S. Chugh, and Michael Shehata. Heart Rhythm, July, S1547-5271(25)02666-9.

Current and Future Treatment Landscape of Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy. Margolin, Emily, Lily K. Stern, Alessia Argiro, Julie L. Rosenthal, Marcus A. Urey, and Kevin M. Alexander. Cardiology and Therapy, July.

Optimization of Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone Inhibitor Therapies for Evidence-Based Indications: A Call to Action From the Cardio-Kidney Community. Pecoits-Filho, Roberto, Michelle M. Y. Wong, Monica Moorthy, Debasish Banerjee, Suman Behera, Viviane Calice-Silva, Mogamat-Yazied Chothia, Gates B. Colbert, Martha Gulati, Charles A. Herzog, Fadi Jouhra, Edgar V. Lerma, Charu Malik, Kershaw V. Patel, Amina Rakisheva, Giuseppe M. C. Rosano, Priyanka Satish, Henry H. L. Wu, and Angela Yee-Moon Wang. American Journal of Preventive Cardiology 23 (September): 100663.

Stromal-Platelet Membrane-Inspired Nanoparticles (SPIN) for Targeted Heart Repair. He, Mingqian, Yuan Li, Dashuai Zhu, Junlang Li, Meggie Cangu, Panagiotis Tasoudis, Jiazhu Xu, Thomas G. Caranasos, Yi Hong, and Ke Huang. Bioactive Materials 53 (November): 45–57.

Computational Biomedicine

Adapting the BOADICEA Breast and Ovarian Cancer Risk Models for the Ethnically Diverse UK Population. Ficorella, Lorenzo, Xin Yang, Nasim Mavaddat, Tim Carver, Hend Hassan, Joe Dennis, Jonathan Tyrer, Weang-Kee Ho, Soo-Hwang Teo, Mikael Hartman, Jingmei Li, Mikael Eriksson, Kamila Czene, Per Hall, Tameera Rahman, Andrew Bacon, Steven Hardy, Adam E. Stokes, Francisca Stutzin Donoso, Stephanie Archer, Jacques Simard, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Juliet A. Usher-Smith, Marc Tischkowitz, Douglas F. Easton, and Antonis C. Antoniou. British Journal of Cancer, July.

Enhancing EHR-Based Pancreatic Cancer Prediction With LLM-Derived Embeddings. Park, Jiheum, Jason Patterson, Jose M. Acitores Cortina, Tian Gu, Chin Hur, and Nicholas Tatonetti. NPJ Digital Medicine 8 (1): 465.

Medicine

Interstitial Fibrosis in Kidney Allografts: Know Thy Enemy. Chandran, Sindhu, and Pallavi Prasad. Kidney International Reports 10 (7): 2107–9.

COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Uptake and Effectiveness Among US Adults With Cancer. Skarbinski, Jacek, Eric P. Elkin, Yonah C. Ziemba, Elham Kazemian, Brigid M. Wilson, Hinnah Siddiqui, Cheryl B. Schleicher, Crystal A. Hsiao, Joshua R. Nugent, Karen L. Reckamp, Akil Merchant, James M. Crawford, David A. Zidar, Lawrence H. Kushi, and Jane C. Figueiredo. JAMA Oncology, July, e252020.

Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists and Incidence of Dementia Among Older Adults With Type 2 Diabetes : A Target Trial Emulation. Inoue, Kosuke, Debra Saliba, Hiroshi Gotanda, Tannaz Moin, Carol M. Mangione, Alexandra M. Klomhaus, and Yusuke Tsugawa. Annals of Internal Medicine, July.

The Incidence and Predictors of False-Negative Pancreatobiliary Fluorescence in Situ Hybridization (PB-FISH) in Biliary Strictures: A Prospective Study. Aggarwal, Manik, Gregory J. Gores, Eric J. Vargas, Andrew C. Storm, Ryan J. Law, Barham K. Abu Dayyeh, John A. Martin, Bret T. Petersen, John E. Eaton, Sumera I. Ilyas, Lewis R. Roberts, and Vinay Chandrasekhara. Hepatology Communications 9 (8): e0751.

Neurosurgery

Cervical Deformity Correction: Comparison of Neurological, Radiographic, and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures by Three-Column Osteotomy Level. Mikula, Anthony L., David J. Mazur-Hart, Zach Pennington, Alexa M. Semonche, Winward Choy, Thomas A. Wozny, Jaemin Kim, Terry H. Nguyen, Justin K. Scheer, Aaron J. Clark, Vedat Deviren, and Christopher P. Ames. Journal of Neurosurgery. Spine, July, 1–10.

Nursing

Insights Into Action: Lessons From the 2025 AONL Leadership Insight Study. Marshall, David. The Journal of Nursing Administration 55 (7): 375–77.

OBGYN

12 Steps Toward Sustainability in Gynecologic Surgery. Schneyer, Rebecca, Kacey Hamilton, Ogechukwu Ezike, Raanan Meyer, Katharine Ciesielski, Matthew Siedhoff, Mireille Truong, and Kelly Wright. Obstetrics and Gynecology, July.

Recommendations From the Women’s Preventive Services Initiative on Breast Cancer Screening for Women at Average Risk and Patient Navigation Services for Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening. Witkop, Catherine T., Carla Picardo, Alexis Vosooney, Heidi D. Nelson, Amy G. Cantor, Sarah Son, Michelle Collins, Susan Hoffstetter, Alayne Markland, Dorianne Mason, Erin Mackay, Mary Rosser, Annamarie Streilein, Amy Weil, Francisco Garcia, Susan M. Kendig, Amir Qaseem, Diana Ramos, Alina Salganicoff, Julie K. Wood, Nancy O’Reilly, Christopher Zahn, Kimberly D. Gregory, and Women’s Preventive Services Initiative. Obstetrics and Gynecology, July.

Identifying and Breaking Barriers: Addressing Disparities in the Care of Patients With Gynecologic Cancers. Pothuri, Bhavana, Michele Muir, Jean Hurteau, John Farley, Michelle D. S. Lightfoot, Summer Dewdney, Tara Castellano, John K. Chan, Sharad Ghamande, Al Asante-Facey, Marina Stasenko, B. J. Rimel, and Electra D. Paskett. Gynecologic Oncology Reports 60 (August): 101799.

Orthopaedics 

Obturator Inlet and Iliac Oblique Fluoroscopic Views Allow for Placement of Longer Iliac Screws. Khela, Monty, Obiajulu Agha, Mark Xu, Neel Anand, David Gendelberg, and Ashraf N. El Naga. North American Spine Society Journal 23 (September): 100751.

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

PTCH1::GLI1 Fusion Tumors of the Ovary: A Clinicopathologic Study of 3 Cases. Bakkar, Rania, Michelle Afkhami, Bonnie Balzer, Horacio Maluf, Mihae Song, Robin Moore, Lois Ramondetta, Diana Bell, and Anais Malpica. International Journal of Gynecological Pathology, July.

Radiation Oncology

Re-Examining Post-Operative Chemoradiotherapy in Head and Neck Cancer: An Updated Long-Term Combined Analysis of RTOG 9501/EORTC 22931. Zumsteg, Z. S., M. Luu, C. Fortpied, J. K. Jang, M. M. Chen, J. Mallen-St Clair, E. Walgama, Q. T. Le, M. Machtay, S. Tribius, A. Forastiere, S. Wong, E. Mahmut Ozsahin, V. Gregoire, J. B. Vermorken, A. S. Ho, and S. S. Yom. Annals of Oncology, July, S0923-7534(25)00853-1.

Transcriptomic Analysis of Localized High-Risk Prostate Cancer Improves Prognostication and Identifies Benefit From Adding Docetaxel to Definitive Radiotherapy With Androgen Suppression in the NRG Oncology/RTOG 0521 Phase 3 Trial. Phillips, Ryan M., James A. Proudfoot, Elai Davicioni, Yang Liu, Daniel E. Spratt, Jeff M. Simko, Robert B. Den, Alan Pollack, Seth A. Rosenthal, A. Oliver Sartor, Christopher J. Sweeney, Gerhardt Attard, Leslie Longoria, Samir Patel, Michael W. Straza, Jason A. Efstathiou, Amit B. Shah, Karen E. Hoffman, Joseph P. Rodgers, Howard M. Sandler, Felix Y. Feng, and Phuoc T. Tran. European Urology Oncology, July, S2588-9311(25)00103-8.

A Scoping Review on the International State of Resident Brachytherapy Education. Ogunmuyiwa, Joy, Emily MacDuffie, Beth Erickson, Alina Sturdza, Mira Keyes, and Mitchell Kamrava. Brachytherapy, July, S1538-4721(25)00091-1.

Radiotherapy- Versus Surgery-Based Treatment Strategy in High-Risk Prostate Cancer. Roy, Soumyajit, Yilun Sun, James A. Eastham, Martin Gleave, Christopher J. D. Wallis, Himisha A. Beltran, Amar U. Kishan, Angela Y. Jia, Nicholas G. Zaorsky, Himanshu Nagar, Jorge A. Garcia, Eric J. Small, Paul Nguyen, Gerhardt Attard, Rana R. McKay, Oliver Sartor, Alejandro Berlin, Seth A. Rosenthal, Susan Halabi, Randy Vince, Lee Ponsky, Scott C. Morgan, Raquibul Hannan, Adam Raben, Mack Roach, Jeff M. Michalski, Michael J. Morris, Howard M. Sandler, and Daniel E. Spratt. European Urology Oncology, July, S2588-9311(25)00187-7.

Prognostic Impact of Lymph Node Yield in a Phase III Clinical Trial (NRG/RTOG 9601) of Prostate Cancer Patients Treated With Salvage Radiation Following Prostatectomy. Chan, Emily, Stephanie L. Pugh, Jeffry P. Simko, Felix Feng, William U. Shipley, Himanshu R. Lukka, Jean-Paul Bahary, Thomas M. Pisansky, Kenneth Lee Zeitzer, Elizabeth Gore, Jason A. Efstathiou, Seth A. Rosenthal, Alexander G. Balogh, Richard D. Lovett, Anthony Wong, Robert T. Dess, L. Scott McGinnis, Michael Kuettel, Luda DeMora, and Howard M. Sandler. The Prostate, July.

Surgery 

CAR-T Cell Therapy and Reconstructive Oncologic Surgery in Peripheral Solid Tumors-A Narrative Review. Knoedler, Leonard, Konstantin Herfeld, Daniel A. Schaefer, Fortunay Diatta, James Clune, Brogan Evans, Michelle Seu, Bong-Sung Kim, Michael Alfertshofer, Thomas Schaschinger, Jasper Iske, Samuel Knoedler, Alexandre G. Lellouch, Maxime Jeljeli, Alberto Carturan, Marco Ruella, Max Heiland, Hendrik Poeck, Markus Perl, Bohdan Pomahac, and Martin Kauke-Navarro. Cell Reports. Medicine, July, 102240.

Outcomes Following Extended Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair for Type b Aortic Dissection From the Global Registry for Endovascular Aortic Treatment. Allievi, Sara, Tim J. Mandigers, Fred A. Weaver, Ali Azizzadeh, Gabriele Piffaretti, Marc L. Schermerhorn, Gregory A. Magee, Dennis R. Gable, Chiara Lomazzi, and Santi Trimarchi. Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, July, ivaf156.

Enhancing Diagnostic Accuracy in Sinonasal Neuroendocrine Tumors: The Case for DOTATATE PET Over FDG PET. Sabbaj, Michael, Anandraj Kanwar, Jessica W. Grayson, Nyall R. London, Shirley Y. Su, Carl H. Snyderman, Brian D. Thorp, Dennis Tang, David Gudis, Eric W. Wang, Edward C. Kuan, Garett W. Choby, and Mathew Geltzeiler. International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology, July.

Urology

Roadblocks of Urinary EV Biomarkers: Moving Toward the Clinic. Droste, Marvin, Maija Puhka, Martin E. van Royen, Monica S. Y. Ng, Charles Blijdorp, Gloria Alvarez-Llamas, Francesc E. Borràs, Anja K. Büscher, Benedetta Bussolati, James W. Dear, Juan M. Falcón-Pérez, Bernd Giebel, Cristina Grange, Ewout J. Hoorn, Janne Leivo, Metka Lenassi, Alicia Llorente, Fabrice Lucien, Inge Mertens, Harald Mischak, Desmond Pink, Tobias Tertel, Swasti Tiwari, Dolores Di Vizio, Peter S. T. Yuen, Natasa Zarovni, Guido Jenster, Dylan Burger, Elena S. Martens-Uzunova, and Uta Erdbrügger. Journal of Extracellular Vesicles 14 (7): e70120.

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