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Heidi Nelson

Heidi Nelson

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Medicine

D-Index
86
Citations
35733
World Ranking
13924
National Ranking
7068

Overview

Heidi Nelson is affiliated with the Mayo Clinic in the United States and has a primary research focus in the field of Medicine, with a concentration on Oncology. Their scholarly work spans a variety of subfields including Oncology, Economics and Econometrics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Surgery, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's research topics prominently cover Global Cancer Incidence and Screening, COVID-19 and healthcare impacts, Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer, Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection, Gut microbiota and health, Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments, and Breast Cancer Treatment Studies.

Heidi Nelson has contributed to numerous publications in well-regarded journals, with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • Annals of Surgical Oncology
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • JAMA Network Open
  • Annals of Surgery
  • Nature Communications

Notable recent papers include:

  • Recommendations for prioritization, treatment, and triage of breast cancer patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. the COVID-19 pandemic breast cancer consortium (2020) published in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
  • A predictive index for health status using species-level gut microbiome profiling (2020) published in Nature Communications
  • COVID-19 guidance for triage of operations for thoracic malignancies: A consensus statement from Thoracic Surgery Outcomes Research Network (2020) published in Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
  • COVID-19 Guidance for Triage of Operations for Thoracic Malignancies: A Consensus Statement From Thoracic Surgery Outcomes Research Network (2020) published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
  • Association Between Surgical Technical Skill and Long-term Survival for Colon Cancer (2020) published in JAMA Oncology

Heidi Nelson has collaborated extensively with other researchers, with frequent co-authors including Bryan E. Palis, Daniel J. Boffa, Timothy W. Mullett, Joseph H. Cotler, and Letícia Nogueira.

Best Publications

  • A comparison of laparoscopically assisted and open colectomy for colon cancer.

    Heidi Nelson;Daniel J Sargent;H Sam Wieand

  • Guidelines 2000 for Colon and Rectal Cancer Surgery

    Heidi Nelson;Nicholas Petrelli;Arthur Carlin;Jean Couture

  • The international position on laparoscopic liver surgery: The Louisville Statement, 2008.

    Joseph F. Buell;Daniel Cherqui;David A. Geller;Nicholas O'Rourke

  • Sentinel Lymph Node Surgery After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Patients With Node-Positive Breast Cancer: The ACOSOG Z1071 (Alliance) Clinical Trial

    Judy C. Boughey;Vera J. Suman;Elizabeth A. Mittendorf;Gretchen M. Ahrendt

  • Laparoscopic colectomy for cancer is not inferior to open surgery based on 5-year data from the COST Study Group trial.

    James Fleshman;Daniel J. Sargent;Erin Green;Mehran Anvari

  • Effect of Laparoscopic-Assisted Resection vs Open Resection of Stage II or III Rectal Cancer on Pathologic Outcomes: The ACOSOG Z6051 Randomized Clinical Trial

    James Fleshman;Megan Branda;Daniel J. Sargent;Anne Marie Boller

  • Short-term Quality-of-Life Outcomes Following Laparoscopic-Assisted Colectomy vs Open Colectomy for Colon Cancer: A Randomized Trial

    Jane C. Weeks;Heidi Nelson;Shari Gelber;Daniel Sargent

  • Multiple sclerosis patients have a distinct gut microbiota compared to healthy controls

    Jun Chen;Nicholas Chia;Krishna R. Kalari;Janet Z. Yao

  • Impact of Physical Activity on Cancer Recurrence and Survival in Patients With Stage III Colon Cancer: Findings From CALGB 89803

    Jeffrey A. Meyerhardt;Denise Heseltine;Donna Niedzwiecki;Donna Hollis

  • An expansion of rare lineage intestinal microbes characterizes rheumatoid arthritis

    Jun Chen;Kerry Wright;John M. Davis;Patricio Jeraldo

  • Laparoscopically assisted vs open colectomy for colon cancer: a meta-analysis.

    H. Jacob Bonjer;H. Jacob Bonjer;Wim C. J. Hop;Heidi Nelson;Daniel J. Sargent

  • Association of Dietary Patterns With Cancer Recurrence and Survival in Patients With Stage III Colon Cancer

    Jeffrey A. Meyerhardt;Donna Niedzwiecki;Donna Hollis;Leonard B. Saltz

  • Detection of colorectal polyps with CT colography: initial assessment of sensitivity and specificity.

    A K Hara;C D Johnson;J E Reed;D A Ahlquist

  • 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

  • The frequency of hereditary defective mismatch repair in a prospective series of unselected colorectal carcinomas.

    Julie M. Cunningham;Cheong Yong Kim;Eric R. Christensen;David J. Tester

  • Wound recurrence following conventional treatment of colorectal cancer : a rare but perhaps underestimated problem

    Reilly Wt;Nelson H;Schroeder G;Wieand Hs

  • Is the Increasing Rate of Local Excision for Stage I Rectal Cancer in the United States Justified?: A Nationwide Cohort Study From the National Cancer Database

    Y Nancy You;Nancy N. Baxter;Andrew Stewart;Heidi Nelson;Heidi Nelson

  • Curative potential of multimodality therapy for locally recurrent rectal cancer.

    Dieter Hahnloser;Heidi Nelson;Leonard L. Gunderson;Imran Hassan

  • Disease-free Survival and Local Recurrence for Laparoscopic Resection Compared With Open Resection of Stage II to III Rectal Cancer: Follow-up Results of the ACOSOG Z6051 Randomized Controlled Trial

    James Fleshman;Megan E. Branda;Daniel J. Sargent;Anne Marie Boller

  • National Institutes of Health state-of-the-science conference statement: prevention of fecal and urinary incontinence in adults.

    C. Seth Landefeld;Barbara J. Bowers;Andrew D. Feld;Katherine E. Hartmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger R. Dozois
Roger R. Dozois Mayo Clinic
Bruce G. Wolff
Bruce G. Wolff Mayo Clinic
Duane M. Ilstrup
Duane M. Ilstrup Mayo Clinic
John H. Donohue
John H. Donohue Mayo Clinic
Dirk R. Larson
Dirk R. Larson Mayo Clinic
Kelly K. Hunt
Kelly K. Hunt The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

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