Professor of Surgery, Brown University
General Surgery
Dr. William G. Cioffi, MD
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William Cioffi works in the field of General Surgery. He studied medicine at University of Vermont College of Medicine. He over the years received 4 awards: "America's Top Doctors", "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "America's Top Doctors for Cancer" and "Fellow (FACS)". William G. Cioffi, MD is a published doctor and has 93 publications published. The lastest was: 'Inhaled nitric oxide prevents left ventricular impairment during endotoxemia.' He is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program as a quality-measurement tool for advanced cancer patients.
- Divergent Invariant Natural Killer T-Cell Response to Sepsis of Abdominal vs. Non-Abdominal Origin in Human Beings.
- The geriatric cytokine response to trauma: time to consider a new threshold.
- Elevated C-reactive protein as a predictor of patient outcomes following palliative surgery.
- A Multi-institutional Benchmark of Burn Outcomes as a Spur to Further Improvements in Burn Care.
- A divergent response of innate regulatory T-cells to sepsis in humans: Circulating invariant natural killer T-cells are preserved.
- Assessment of surgical residents in a vascular anastomosis laboratory.
- Neutrophils from critically ill septic patients mediate profound loss of endothelial barrier integrity.
- A mentorship-based preclinical elective increases exposure, confidence, and interest in surgery.
- Transgene Expression up to 7 Years in Nonhuman Primates Following Hepatic Transduction with Helper-Dependent Adenoviral Vectors.
- Inflammatory mechanisms in sepsis: elevated invariant natural killer T-cell numbers in mouse and their modulatory effect on macrophage function.
- Surgical residents' perceptions of 2011 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education duty hour regulations.
- Infections after trauma are associated with subsequent cardiac injury.
- Undiagnosed medical comorbidities in the uninsured: A significant predictor of mortality following trauma.
- The reflective statement: a new tool to assess resident learning.
- Programmed death 1 expression as a marker for immune and physiological dysfunction in the critically ill surgical patient.
- Empiric antibiotics pending bronchoalveolar lavage data in patients without pneumonia significantly alters the flora, but not the resistance profile, if a subsequent p...
- Mechanisms of Indirect Acute Lung Injury: A Novel Role for the Coinhibitory Receptor, Programmed Death-1.
- The development of a urinary tract infection is associated with increased mortality in trauma patients.
- The palliative triangle: improved patient selection and outcomes associated with palliative operations.
- Local Tissue Expression of the Cell Death Ligand, FasL, Plays a Central Role in the Development of Extra-Pulmonary Acute Lung Injury.
- Impact of socioethnic factors on outcomes following traumatic brain injury.
- NIH Roundtable on Emergency Trauma Research.
- Normal presenting vital signs are unreliable in geriatric blunt trauma victims.
- Training and certification in surgical critical care: a position paper by the Surgical Critical Care Program Directors Society.
- Decreasing the incidence of prolonged air leak after right upper lobectomy with the anterior fissureless technique.
- An international volunteer program for general surgery residents at Brown Medical School: the Tenwek Hospital Africa experience.
- Mass-casualty incidents: how does an ICU prepare?
- Pregnancy outcomes after bariatric surgery: maternal, fetal, and infant implications.
- A time-cost analysis of teaching a laparoscopic entero-enterostomy.
- Fas-induced pulmonary apoptosis and inflammation during indirect acute lung injury.
- Polymicrobial sepsis enhances clearance of apoptotic immune cells by splenic macrophages.
- Beneficial versus detrimental effects of neutrophils are determined by the nature of the insult.
- Use of the round ligament of the liver to decrease pancreatic fistulas: a novel technique.
- Deficiency of gammadelta T lymphocytes contributes to mortality and immunosuppression in sepsis.
- Splenic artery embolization: Have we gone too far?
- Sixteen-slice computed tomographic angiography is a reliable noninvasive screening test for clinically significant blunt cerebrovascular injuries.
- Improved hepatic transduction, reduced systemic vector dissemination, and long-term transgene expression by delivering helper-dependent adenoviral vectors into the sur...
- Surgical Critical Care (SCC).
- Halo-vest immobilization increases early morbidity and mortality in elderly odontoid fractures.
- Silencing of Fas, but not caspase-8, in lung epithelial cells ameliorates pulmonary apoptosis, inflammation, and neutrophil influx after hemorrhagic shock and sepsis.
- Erlotinib and chemoradiation followed by maintenance erlotinib for locally advanced pancreatic cancer: a phase I study.
- Loss of signal transducer and activator of transduction 4 or 6 signaling contributes to immune cell morbidity and mortality in sepsis.
- Divergent roles of murine neutrophil chemokines in hemorrhage induced priming for acute lung injury.
- Halo vest immobilization in the elderly: a death sentence?
- The evolution of trauma care at a level I trauma center.
- Transfer times to definitive care facilities are too long: a consequence of an immature trauma system.
- Lessons learned from a nightclub fire: institutional disaster preparedness.
- The station nightclub fire.
- Selective clinical management of anterior abdominal stab wounds.
- Complex issue of surgical outcome and hospital volume for several high-risk procedures.
- Putative mechanism of hemorrhage-induced leukocyte hyporesponsiveness: induction of suppressor of cytokine signaling-3.
- Trastuzumab, paclitaxel, cisplatin, and radiation for adenocarcinoma of the esophagus: a phase I study.
- Legal prosecution of alcohol-impaired drivers admitted to a level I trauma center in Rhode Island.
- Isolated brain injury as a cause of hypotension in the blunt trauma patient.
- The station nightclub fire and disaster preparedness in Rhode Island.
- Inhibition of CD1d activation suppresses septic mortality: a role for NK-T cells in septic immune dysfunction.
- Medical disasters: are we really prepared? An analysis of the station fire.
- Portal venous gas detected by computed tomography: is surgery imperative?
- Differential effects of macrophage inflammatory chemokine-2 and keratinocyte-derived chemokine on hemorrhage-induced neutrophil priming for lung inflammation: assessme...
- Implementation of a tertiary trauma survey decreases missed injuries.
- Shock-induced neutrophil mediated priming for acute lung injury in mice: divergent effects of TLR-4 and TLR-4/FasL deficiency.
- Gemcitabine, paclitaxel, and radiation for locally advanced pancreatic cancer: a Phase I trial.
- Mechanism of immune dysfunction in sepsis: inducible nitric oxide-meditated alterations in p38 MAPK activation.
- Female sex hormones regulate macrophage function after trauma-hemorrhage and prevent increased death rate from subsequent sepsis.
- Selectin blockade worsened lipopolysaccharide-induced lung injury in a swine model.
- Inhaled nitric oxide prevents left ventricular impairment during endotoxemia.
- Effect of Sulfo Lewis C on smoke inhalation injury in an ovine model.
- Effects of burns on inhalation injury.
- Ventilatory support following burns and smoke-inhalation injury.
- The use of perfluorocarbon-associated gas exchange to improve ventilation and decrease mortality after inhalation injury in a neonatal swine model.
- Effect of ambient temperature on metabolic rate after thermal injury.
- Inhaled nitric oxide in acute lung disease.
- Peritoneal lavage in the diagnosis of acute surgical abdomen following thermal injury.
- The pulmonary effect of nitric oxide synthase inhibition following endotoxemia in a swine model.
- The effect of inhaled nitric oxide on pulmonary ventilation-perfusion matching following smoke inhalation injury.
- Predicting ventilation failure in children with inhalation injury.
- The effect of inhaled nitric oxide on smoke inhalation injury in an ovine model.
- Intragastric pH monitoring.
- Plasma cytokines following thermal injury and their relationship with patient mortality, burn size, and time postburn.
- Plasma cytokines after thermal injury and their relationship to infection.
- Granulocyte oxidative activity after thermal injury.
- Thromboembolic complications in thermally injured patients.
- Resting energy expenditure in patients with thermal injuries.
- Alterations in intestinal permeability after thermal injury.
- Dissociation of blood volume and flow in regulation of salt and water balance in burn patients.
- Evaluation of serum visceral protein levels as indicators of nitrogen balance in thermally injured patients.
- Prophylactic use of high-frequency percussive ventilation in patients with inhalation injury.
- Resuscitation of thermally injured patients.
- Diagnosis and treatment of inhalation injuries.
- Effects of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor in burn patients.
- Fungal burn wound infection. A 10-year experience.
Schools
University Of Vermont College Of Medicine
Med Center Hospital Vt
Doctors Specialties
- Critical Care Surgery
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- America's Top Doctors for Cancer
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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University of Vermont - Fletcher Allen Health Care -
University of Vermont College of Medicine
Hospital
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Rhode Island Hospital
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1790782225 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | CIOFFI |
| First Name Of The Provider | WILLIAM |
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