Nimalan Jeganathan, MD - Penn State Cancer Institute
Researcher Profile

Nimalan Jeganathan, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery
Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery
Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery
Disease Teams:
Cancer Institute, Gastrointestinal Cancer Team
Research Interests
- Therapeutics
- Crohn Disease
- Lymph Nodes
- Colonic Pouches
- Rectal Neoplasms
- Survival
- Databases
- Microbiota
- Fecal Incontinence
- Diverticulitis
- Patient Reported Outcome Measures
- Delphi Technique
Recent Publications
2023
Portolese, AC, McMullen, BN, Baker, SK, Chen See, JR, Yochum, GS, Koltun, WA, Lamendella, R & Jeganathan, NA 2023, 'The Microbiome of Complicated Diverticulitis: An Imbalance of Sulfur-Metabolizing Bacteria', Diseases of the colon and rectum, vol. 66, no. 5, pp. 707-715. https://doi.org/10.1097/DCR.0000000000002647
2022
Mankarious, MM, Deutsch, MJ & Jeganathan, NA 2022, 'Intraoperative Techniques for Gaining Ileoanal Pouch Reach', Clinics in Colon and Rectal Surgery, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 458-462. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1758136
2021
Kline, BP & Jeganathan, NA 2022, 'Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections of the Perineum', Clinics in Colon and Rectal Surgery, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 237-243. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1740102
Cavallaro, PM, Fearnhead, NS, Bissett, IP, Brar, MS, Cataldo, TE, Clarke, R, Denoya, P, Elder, AL, Gecse, KB, Hendren, S, Holubar, S, Jeganathan, N, Myrelid, P, Norton, BA, Wexner, SD, Wilson, L, Zaghiyan, K & Bordeianou, L 2021, 'Patients Undergoing Ileoanal Pouch Surgery Experience a Constellation of Symptoms and Consequences Representing a Unique Syndrome: A Report from the Patient-Reported Outcomes after Pouch Surgery (PROPS) Delphi Consensus Study', Diseases of the colon and rectum, pp. 861-870. https://doi.org/10.1097/DCR.0000000000002099
Jeganathan, NNA & Koltun, WA 2021, 'Special Considerations of Anastomotic Leaks in Crohn's Disease', Clinics in Colon and Rectal Surgery, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 412-416. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1735273
Jeganathan, NA, Davenport, ER, Yochum, GS & Koltun, WA 2021, 'The microbiome of diverticulitis', Current Opinion in Physiology, vol. 22, 100452. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cophys.2021.06.006
2020
Hussain, T, Jeganathan, NA, Karagkounis, G, Stocchi, L, Shawki, S, Holubar, SD, Gordon, I, Hull, T & Liska, D 2020, 'Small bowel adenocarcinoma in Crohn’s disease: a rare but devastating complication', Techniques in Coloproctology, vol. 24, no. 10, pp. 1055-1062. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10151-020-02269-8
Eshelman, MA, Harris, L, Deiling, S, Koltun, WA, Jeganathan, NA & Yochum, GS 2020, 'Transcriptomic analysis of ileal tissue from crohn’s disease patients identifies extracellular matrix genes that distinguish individuals by age at diagnosis', Physiological genomics, vol. 52, no. 10, pp. 478-484. https://doi.org/10.1152/physiolgenomics.00062.2020
2019
Eshelman, MA, Jeganathan, NA, Schieffer, KM, Kline, BP, Mendenhall, M, Deiling, S, Harris, L, Koltun, WA & Yochum, GS 2019, 'Elevated colonic mucin expression correlates with extended time to surgery for ulcerative colitis patients', Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 405-413. https://doi.org/10.15403/jgld-250