Amanda Cooper, MD - Penn State Cancer Institute
Researcher Profile

Amanda Cooper, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery
Division of Trauma, Acute Care and Critical Care Surgery
Division of Trauma, Acute Care and Critical Care Surgery
Disease Teams:
Cancer Institute, Gastrointestinal Cancer Team
Cancer Institute, Melanoma and Skin Cancer Team
Cancer Institute, Melanoma and Skin Cancer Team
Research Interests
- Liver
- Mortality
- Neoplasm Metastasis
- Therapeutics
- Neoplasms
- Drug Therapy
- Morbidity
- Pancreatic Neoplasms
- Survival
- Neoadjuvant Therapy
- Hepatectomy
- Surgeons
Recent Publications
2022
Torres, MB, Schaefer, EW, Jikaria, N, Ortenzi, G & Cooper, AB 2022, 'Does the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) accurately predict mortality for patients with elevated MELD scores?', American Journal of Surgery, vol. 224, no. 1, pp. 475-482. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjsurg.2022.01.012
2021
Khatun, R, Saleh, Z, Adnan, S, Boukerche, F & Cooper, A 2021, 'Covered, but Not Sterile: Reflections on Being a Hijabi in Medicine and Surgery', Annals of surgery, vol. 273, no. 3, pp. E83-E84. https://doi.org/10.1097/SLA.0000000000004655
Khatun, R, Otaibi, BW, Ssentongo, A, Hazelton, JP & Cooper, AB 2022, 'Medical Student Attitudes Toward Blood Donation in Times of Increased Need', American Surgeon, vol. 88, no. 9, pp. 2338-2344. https://doi.org/10.1177/00031348211011083
Lewcun, JA, Khatun, R, Allen, S, Hazelton, JP & Cooper, A 2021, 'Patient Outcomes in Mesenteric Venous Thrombosis Treated With Empiric Antibiotics', American Surgeon, vol. 87, no. 4, pp. 658-663. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003134820954850
Baker, S, Gleason, F, Lovasik, B, Sandhu, G, Cortez, A, Hildreth, A, Cooper, A, Simmons, J, Delman, KA & Lindeman, B 2021, 'Relationship between burnout and mistreatment: Who plays a role?', American Journal of Surgery, vol. 222, no. 6, pp. 1060-1065. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjsurg.2021.06.009
2020
Mullins, CH, Gleason, F, Wood, T, Baker, SJ, Cortez, AR, Lovasik, B, Sandhu, G, Cooper, A, Hildreth, AN, Simmons, JD, Delman, KA & Lindeman, B 2020, 'Do Internal or External Characteristics More Reliably Predict Burnout in Resident Physicians: A Multi-institutional Study', Journal of surgical education, vol. 77, no. 6, pp. e86-e93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsurg.2020.09.024
Cooper, AB & Tisdell, EJ 2020, 'Embodied aspects of learning to be a surgeon', Medical teacher, vol. 42, no. 5, pp. 515-522. https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159X.2019.1708289
2019
Renko, AE, Witte, SR & Cooper, AB 2019, 'Abdominal cocoon syndrome: An obstructive adhesiolytic metamorphosis', BMJ case reports, vol. 12, no. 4, e228593. https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2018-228593
Cooper, AB, Downs, SM, Skill, NJ, Mangus, RS, Kubal, CA & Maluccio, MA 2019, 'Liver Transplantation or Resection for Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Patients with Well-Compensated Cirrhosis: A Decision Analysis Model', OBM Transplantation, vol. 3, no. 2. https://doi.org/10.21926/obm.transplant.1902063
Renko, AE, Mirkin, KA & Cooper, AB 2019, 'Peritoneal encapsulation: A rare cause of small bowel obstruction', BMJ case reports, vol. 12, no. 4, e228594. https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2018-228594