Associate Professor, Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine
General Surgery
Dr. Rachel R. Kelz, MD
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Rachel R. Kelz is an expert in the field of General Surgery. She went to medical school at Yale University School of Medicine. Yale University School of Medicine is a top medical college. Yale University School of Medicine is ranked 7/57 in Research/PrimaryCare. She received 4 awards: "Fellow (FACS)", "Recipient, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Healthcare System", "Healthcare Hero" and "Recipient, University of Pennsylvania, Provost Office". Rachel Kelz has written publications. She has 97 publications published with PubMed. The lastest paper is: 'Wide field scanning slit in vivo confocal microscopy of flattening-induced corneal bands and ridges.'
Publications
- Laparoscopic versus open ventral hernia repair: longitudinal outcomes and cost analysis using statewide claims data.
- Surgical Residency Training at a University-Based Academic Medical Center.
- Debunking the July Phenomenon: Are We Asking the Right Questions?
- Bariatric Centers of Excellence: Effect of Centralization on Access to Care.
- Regarding: Social media and surgery: An alternative view.
- Using Patient Outcomes to Evaluate General Surgery Residency Program Performance.
- Is a Colectomy Always Just a Colectomy? Additional Procedures as a Proxy for Operative Complexity.
- Preliminary residency in general surgery: comparative outcomes of International and U.S. Medical Graduates.
- A risk prediction model for mortality in the moribund general surgical patient.
- Long-term blood pressure control in patients undergoing adrenalectomy for primary hyperaldosteronism.
- Metastatic carcinoid: Don't forget the surgical consultation.
- The rise in metastasectomy across cancer types over the past decade.
- Postdischarge occurrences after colorectal surgery happen early and are associated with dramatically increased rates of readmission.
- Outcomes after resection of leiomyosarcomas of the inferior vena cava: A pooled data analysis of 377 cases.
- What Can We Learn from Intraoperative Parathyroid Hormone Levels that Do Not Drop Appropriately?
- Outcomes Registries: An Untapped Resource for Use in Surgical Education.
- Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy at the Time of Surgery is Not Associated with Increased 30-Day Morbidity and Mortality Following Colorectal Resection.
- A Hospital-Specific Template for Benchmarking its Cost and Quality.
- Primary hyperparathyroidism with negative imaging: a significant clinical problem.
- Wind, water, wound, walk--do the data deliver the dictum?
- Clinicopathologic characteristics of incidentally identified pheochromocytoma.
- Reoperative parathyroidectomy: who is at risk and what is the risk?
- Attitude and Perceptions of the Other Underrepresented Minority in Surgery.
- Implications of inadequate lymph node staging in resectable gastric cancer: A contemporary analysis using the National Cancer Data Base.
- Parathyroidectomy in dialysis patients.
- Hernia repair in the presence of ascites.
- The Unmet Need for a National Surgical Quality Improvement Curriculum: A Systematic Review.
- Aldosterone-Secreting Adrenal Cortical Carcinoma. A Case Report and Review of the Literature.
- Morbidity and mortality after total gastrectomy for gastric malignancy using the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database.
- Surgical Palliation for Pancreatic Malignancy: Practice Patterns and Predictors of Morbidity and Mortality.
- Template Matching for Auditing Hospital Cost and Quality.
- The non-designated preliminary pathway in general surgery residency: implications for the national surgical workforce.
- Early discharge and readmission after colorectal resection.
- The influence of socioeconomic factors on gender disparities in lower extremity bypass.
- Goal orientation in surgical residents: a study of the motivation behind learning.
- The ACS NSQIp quality in-training initiative: educating residents to ensure the future of optimal surgical care.
- Preoperative radiation for retroperitoneal sarcoma is not associated with increased early postoperative morbidity.
- Quality in-training initiative-a solution to the need for education in quality improvement: results from a survey of program directors.
- Evidence appraisal of Showalter SL, Kelz RR, Mahmoud NN. Effect of technique on postoperative perineal wound infections in abdominoperineal resection. Am J Surg. 2013;...
- Clark Level Risk Stratifies Patients with Mitogenic Thin Melanomas for Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy.
- Timeliness and quality of surgical discharge summaries after the implementation of an electronic format.
- Preventable mortality: does the perspective matter when determining preventability?
- The Mortality Review Committee: a novel and scalable approach to reducing inpatient mortality.
- Interhospital transfer: an independent risk factor for mortality in the surgical intensive care unit.
- American College of Surgeons NSQIP: Quality In-Training Initiative Pilot Study.
- The effect of colorectal cancer screening mandates on access to care and clinical outcomes: A retrospective study of patients undergoing operations of the colon and re...
- Racial disparities in the use of outpatient mastectomy.
- Morbidity and Mortality of Cytoreduction with Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy: Outcomes from the ACS NSQIP Database.
- Racial Disparities in Operative Procedure Time: The Influence of Obesity.
- Immediate reconstruction following nipple-sparing mastectomy: one option for young breast cancer patients with early stage disease.
- Comparison of anastomotic leak rate after colorectal surgery using different databases.
- Sartorius transposition during inguinal lymphadenectomy for melanoma.
- Acute Kidney Injury, Renal Function, and the Elderly Obese Surgical Patient: A Matched Case-Control Study.
- Effect of insurance status on patients admitted for acute diverticulitis.
- Trends in immediate breast reconstruction across insurance groups after enactment of breast cancer legislation.
- Development and Participant Assessment of a Practical Quality Improvement Educational Initiative for Surgical Residents.
- Surgery for metastatic neuroendocrine tumors with occult primaries.
- Effect of technique on postoperative perineal wound infections in abdominoperineal resection.
- Validation of new readmission data in the american college of surgeons national surgical quality improvement program.
- Racial disparities in immediate breast reconstruction after mastectomy: impact of state and federal health policy changes.
- APDS panel session IV: intersection of surgical outcomes and medical education.
- Trimming the Fat: Optimizing Overall Educational Value by Defining Factors Associated with Overall Educational Value and Service-to-Education Ratio.
- The surgery clerkship: an opportunity for preclinical credentialing in urinary catheterization.
- Obesity and readmission in elderly surgical patients.
- The Simulated Ward: Ideal for Training Clinical Clerks in an Era of Patient Safety.
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy in necrotizing soft tissue infections.
- Incidence of venous thromboembolism in patients undergoing surgical treatment for malignancy by type of neoplasm: An analysis of ACS-NSQIP data from 2005 to 2010.
- Tertiary Hyperparathyroidism in Kidney Transplant Recipients: Characteristics of Patients Selected for Different Treatment Strategies.
- Medical and financial risks associated with surgery in the elderly obese.
- The effect and durability of a pregraduation boot cAMP on the confidence of senior medical student entering surgical residencies.
- Regional recurrence after lymphadenectomy for clinically evident lymph node metastases from papillary thyroid cancer: a cohort study.
- Matching for Several Sparse Nominal Variables in a Case-Control Study of Readmission Following Surgery.
- Postoperative mortality after esophagectomy for cancer: development of a preoperative risk prediction model.
- Survival among pediatric liver transplant recipients: impact of segmental grafts.
- Scanning slit confocal microscopic observation of cell morphology and movement within the normal human anterior cornea.
- Wide field scanning slit in vivo confocal microscopy of flattening-induced corneal bands and ridges.
- The virtual-patient pilot: testing a new tool for undergraduate surgical education and assessment.
- Patient safety and surgical training: an unhealthy relationship?
- Time-of-day effects on surgical outcomes in the private sector: a retrospective cohort study.
- Revisiting the rotating call schedule in less than 80 hours per week.
- Prevention of surgical resident attrition by a novel selection strategy.
- Teaching status: the impact on emergency and elective surgical care in the US.
- Germ simulation: a novel approach for raising medical students awareness toward asepsis.
- Timing of preoperative pharmacoprophylaxis for pancreatic surgery patients: a venous thromboembolism reduction initiative.
- Transfer status: a risk factor for mortality in patients with necrotizing fasciitis.
- Does the presence of thyroid cancer increase the risk of venous thromboembolism in patients undergoing thyroidectomy?
- Women authors of surgical research.
- Time of day is associated with postoperative morbidity: an analysis of the national surgical quality improvement program data.
- National Cancer Institute designation predicts improved outcomes in colorectal cancer surgery.
- Underuse of esophagectomy as treatment for resectable esophageal cancer.
- Interpretation of intra-operative PTH changes in patients with multi-glandular primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT).
- Morbidity and mortality of colorectal carcinoma surgery differs by insurance status.
- Changes in prognosis after the first postoperative complication.
- Preoperative antibiotics and mortality in the elderly.
- The state of general surgery training: a different perspective.
- DCIS in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers: prevalence, phenotype, and expression of oncodrivers C-MET and HER3.
Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FACS)
- Recipient, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Healthcare System
- Healthcare Hero
- Recipient, University of Pennsylvania, Provost Office
Education
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University of Pennsylvania -
Yale University School of Medicine
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