Dr. James Isbell, MD

• Thoracic Surgery

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• Johns Hopkins University School Med|university Of Virginia Medical Center

  Fellowship Hospital, 2012

• Vanderbilt University

  Residency Hospital, 2010

• Vanderbilt University

  Internship Hospital, 2004

• University Of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

  Medical School, 2003

• Performance Comparison between SURPAS and ACS NSQIP Surgical Risk Calculator in Pulmonary Resection, 2020-10-16

• ctDNA-based detection of molecular residual disease in stage I-III non-small cell lung cancer patients treated with definitive radiotherapy, 2023-09-19

• Pericardial Effusions in Patients with Cancer: Anesthetic Management and Survival Outcomes, 2020-08-26

• How Effective Is Neoadjuvant Therapy Followed by Surgery for Pathologic Single-Station N2 Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer?, 2020-08-25

• Dynamics of tumor and immune responses during immune checkpoint blockade in non-small cell lung cancer, 2018-12-12

• Predictors of Nodal Metastases for Clinical T2N0 Esophageal Adenocarcinoma, 2018-04-05

• The Underlying Tumor Genomics of Predominant Histologic Subtypes in Lung Adenocarcinoma, 2020-08-10

• External validation of surgical risk preoperative assessment system (SURPAS) in pulmonary resection, 2020-10-17

• Definitive chemoradiotherapy versus neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy followed by surgery for stage II-III esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, 2018-02-15

• Amiodarone With or Without N-acetylcysteine for the Prevention of Atrial Fibrillation After Thoracic Surgery: A Double-Blind, Randomized Trial, 2022-06-01

• Time-Varying Analysis of Readmission and Mortality During the First Year After Pneumonectomy, 2020-03-07

• Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio as Predictor of Treatment Response in Esophageal Squamous Cell Cancer, 2018-05-05

• Factors Associated with Distant Recurrence Following R0 Lobectomy for pN0 Lung Adenocarcinoma, 2017-11-13

• Tumor and Tumor-Associated Macrophage PD-L1 Expression is Associated with Adjuvant Chemotherapy Benefit in Lung Adenocarcinoma, 2021-10-08

• Patterns and Impact of Nodal Metastases After Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation and R0 Resection in Esophageal Adenocarcinoma, 2022-03-01

• Quality of Endoscopy Reports for Esophageal Cancer Patients: Where Do We Stand?, 2018-03-05

• Postinduction therapy pulmonary function retesting is necessary before surgical resection for non-small cell lung cancer, 2021-12-23

• Perioperative blood transfusion has a dose-dependent relationship with disease recurrence and survival in patients with non-small cell lung cancer, 2019-02-12

• KRASG12CMutation Is Associated with Increased Risk of Recurrence in Surgically Resected Lung Adenocarcinoma, 2021-02-16

• Is routine chest radiography necessary after endobronchial ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration?, 2020-10-20

• Minimally invasive lobectomy is associated with lower noncancer-specific mortality in elderly patients - A propensity score matched competing risks analysis, 2020-07-04

• Prospective Study of Giant Paraesophageal Hernia Repair with 1 Year Follow-Up, 2017-04-11

• Corrigendum to "Clinical utility of next-generation sequencing-based ctDNA testing for common and novelALKfusions” [Lung Cancer 159 (2021) 66-73], 2021-10-06

• Improved Preoperative Risk-Assessment Tools Are Needed to Guide Informed Decision-Making Before Esophagectomy, 2020-12-18

• A More Extensive Lymphadenectomy Enhances Survival Following Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy in Locally Advanced Esophageal Adenocarcinoma, 2020-11-17

• Safety and Feasibility of Lung Resection after Immunotherapy for Metastatic or Unresectable Tumors, 2018-03-14

• Postoperative Hypoglycemia Is Associated With Worse Outcomes After Cardiac Surgery, 2016-08-25

• The American College of Surgeons Surgical Risk Calculator performs well for pulmonary resection: A validation study, 2021-01-21

• Propensity-Matched Analysis Demonstrates Long-Term Risk of Respiratory and Cardiac Mortality Following Pneumonectomy Compared with Lobectomy for Lung Cancer, 2022-04-01

• Lung Cancer Screening in the Post-National Lung Screening Trial Era: Applying Screening in the Real World, 2017-11-27

• Bundled Payments in Cardiac Surgery: Is Risk-Adjustment Sufficient To Make It Feasible?, 2015-07-21

• Clinical utility of next-generation sequencing-based ctDNA testing for common and novelALKfusions, 2021-07-17

• Two-Year Quality of Life Outcomes After Robotic-Assisted Minimally Invasive and Open Esophagectomy, 2020-11-04

• HER2-mediated internalization of cytotoxic agents inERBB2amplified or mutant lung cancers, 2020-03-25

• Initial results of pulmonary resection following neoadjuvant nivolumab in patients with resectable non-small cell lung cancer, 2018-12-13

• Analysis of Tumor Genomic Pathway Alterations Using Broad-Panel Next-Generation Sequencing in Surgically Resected Lung Adenocarcinoma, 2019-08-27

• Inferring gene expression from cell-free DNA fragmentation profiles, 2022-03-31

• The Emerging Importance of Tumor Genomics in Operable Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, 2021-07-21