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Overview

David W. Rattner is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans several fields within medicine and health professions, with a particular focus on surgery and gastroenterology as well as speech and hearing. The scientist's work explores critical topics related to dysphagia assessment and management, esophageal and gastrointestinal pathology, diverticular disease and its complications, gastroesophageal reflux and treatments, and eosinophilic esophagitis.

The scientific output includes publications in established journals, primarily Surgical Endoscopy and the Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery. Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Rattner are:

  • "Automated operative phase identification in peroral endoscopic myotomy," published in 2020 in Surgical Endoscopy
  • "Outcomes of Laparoscopic Heller Myotomy for Achalasia: 22-Year Experience," published in 2020 in Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery
  • "Trailblazers in foregut surgery: Peter Nau, MD (University of Iowa) interviews David Rattner, MD (Harvard University)," published in 2025 in Surgical Endoscopy

Frequent coauthors working with Rattner include Thomas M. Ward, Daniel A. Hashimoto, Yutong Ban, Haruhiro Inoue, and Keith D. Lillemoe. Collaboration with these researchers supports a multidisciplinary approach to their fields of study.

The main fields of study reflected by their publications are Medicine and Health Professions, with specific subfields in Surgery, Speech and Hearing, and Gastroenterology. The main topics intersect clinical and surgical approaches to digestive system disorders and functional impairments related to swallowing and esophageal diseases.

The venues where Rattner frequently publishes provide insight into the gravity and focus of their work, with Surgical Endoscopy hosting the majority of their research articles, followed by contributions to the Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery.

Best Publications

  • A better model of acute pancreatitis for evaluating therapy.

    Jan Schmidt;David W. Rattner;Kent Lewandrowski;Carolyn C. Compton

  • Ten-Year Experience With 733 Pancreatic Resections: Changing Indications, Older Patients, and Decreasing Length of Hospitalization

    James H. Balcom;David W. Rattner;Andrew L. Warshaw;Yuchiao Chang

  • NOTES transanal rectal cancer resection using transanal endoscopic microsurgery and laparoscopic assistance.

    Patricia Sylla;David W. Rattner;Salvadora Delgado;Antonio M. Lacy

  • Incidental pancreatic cysts: clinicopathologic characteristics and comparison with symptomatic patients.

    Carlos Fernández-Del Castillo;Javier Targarona;Sarah P. Thayer;David W. Rattner

  • Standards for pancreatic resection in the 1990s.

    Carlos Fernández-del Castillo;David W. Rattner;Andrew L. Warshaw

  • Serous cystadenoma of the pancreas: tumor growth rates and recommendations for treatment

    Jennifer F. Tseng;Andrew L. Warshaw;Dushyant V. Sahani;Gregory Y. Lauwers

  • Paraesophageal hernias: operation or observation?

    Nicholas Stylopoulos;G. Scott Gazelle;David W. Rattner

  • Débridement and closed packing for the treatment of necrotizing pancreatitis.

    C. Fernandez-Del Castillo;D. W. Rattner;Martin A Makary;A. Mostafavi

  • Transcolonic endoscopic cholecystectomy: a NOTES survival study in a porcine model (with video).

    Reina D. Pai;Derek G. Fong;Michele E. Bundga;Robert D. Odze

  • Debridement and closed packing for sterile or infected necrotizing pancreatitis: insights into indications and outcomes in 167 patients.

    J. Ruben Rodriguez;A. Oswaldo Razo;Javier Targarona;Sarah P. Thayer

  • Early results of laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer. Retrospective analysis of 372 patients treated by Clinical Outcomes of Surgical Therapy (COST) Study Group.

    James W. Fleshman;Heidi Nelson;Walter R. Peters;H. Charles Kim

  • Introduction of appendiceal CT: impact on negative appendectomy and appendiceal perforation rates.

    Patrick M. Rao;James T. Rhea;David W. Rattner;Lisa G. Venus

  • Transanal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) rectal resection: “down-to-up” total mesorectal excision (TME)—short-term outcomes in the first 20 cases

    Antonio M. de Lacy;David W. Rattner;Cedric Adelsdorfer;Marta M. Tasende

  • Risk Factors for Pancreatic Cellular Injury after Cardiopulmonary Bypass

    Fernández-del Castillo C;Harringer W;Warshaw Al;Vlahakes Gj

  • Outcome of Pancreaticoduodenectomy With Pylorus Preservation or With Antrectomy in the Treatment of Chronic Pancreatitis

    Ramon E. Jimenez;Carlos Fernandez-del Castillo;David W. Rattner;YuChiao Chang

  • Metastases to the Pancreas and Their Surgical Extirpation

    Kaspar Z'graggen;Carlos Fernández-del Castillo;David W. Rattner;Honorio Sigala

  • Morphometric characteristics and homogeneity of a new model of acute pancreatitis in the rat.

    Jan Schmidt;Kent Lewandrowsi;Andrew L. Warshaw;Carolyn C. Compton

  • Obesity adversely affects the outcome of antireflux operations.

    A R Perez;A C Moncure;D W Rattner

  • Factors associated with successful laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis.

    David W. Rattner;Charles Ferguson;Andrew L. Warshaw

  • Prevalence of activating K-ras mutations in the evolutionary stages of neoplasia in intraductal papillary mucinous tumors of the pancreas.

    Kaspar Z'graggen;Jaime A. Rivera;Carolyn C. Compton;Michael Pins

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew L. Warshaw
Andrew L. Warshaw Harvard University
William R. Brugge
William R. Brugge Harvard University
Carolyn C. Compton
Carolyn C. Compton Arizona State University
David H. Berger
David H. Berger Harvard University
Gregory Y. Lauwers
Gregory Y. Lauwers Harvard University
Mari Mino-Kenudson
Mari Mino-Kenudson Harvard University
David P. Ryan
David P. Ryan Harvard University
Dushyant V. Sahani
Dushyant V. Sahani University of Washington
Jeffrey W. Clark
Jeffrey W. Clark Harvard University

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