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Oscar W. Cummings

Oscar W. Cummings

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Medicine

D-Index
81
Citations
31388
World Ranking
16449
National Ranking
8272

Overview

Oscar W. Cummings is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States and has a research focus primarily in the field of Medicine, with notable contributions in subfields such as Epidemiology, Hepatology, Surgery, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and Oncology.

The scientist's work concentrates on topics including Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, Diet, Metabolism, and Disease, Liver Disease and Transplantation, Liver Diseases and Immunity, Pancreatitis Pathology and Treatment, Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis, and Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research.

Recent publications by Oscar W. Cummings include:

  • "Tirzepatide for Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatohepatitis with Liver Fibrosis", 2024, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Fibrosis Progression Rate in Biopsy-Proven Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Among People With Diabetes Versus People Without Diabetes: A Multicenter Study", 2023, Gastroenterology
  • "Integrated sensing and delivery of oxygen for next-generation smart wound dressings", 2020, Microsystems & Nanoengineering
  • "Progression of Fatty Liver Disease in Children Receiving Standard of Care Lifestyle Advice", 2020, Gastroenterology
  • "Automated quantification and architectural pattern detection of hepatic fibrosis in NAFLD", 2020, Annals of Diagnostic Pathology

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Laura Wilson
  • Cynthia Behling
  • Naga Chalasani
  • Arun J. Sanyal
  • David E. Kleiner

Many of Oscar W. Cummings's papers have been published in key venues such as:

  • Journal of Hepatology
  • Gastroenterology
  • Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
  • Annals of Diagnostic Pathology
  • Hepatology

Best Publications

  • Design and validation of a histological scoring system for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

    David E. Kleiner;Elizabeth M. Brunt;Mark Van Natta;Cynthia Behling

  • Comparison of endoscopic ultrasonography and multidetector computed tomography for detecting and staging pancreatic cancer.

    John DeWitt;Benedict Devereaux;Melissa Chriswell;Kathleen McGreevy

  • Screening for Barrett's esophagus in colonoscopy patients with and without heartburn.

    Douglas K Rex;Oscar W Cummings;Michael Shaw;Mark D Cumings

  • Pancreaticoduodenectomy: A 20-year experience in 516 patients

    C. Max Schmidt;Emilie S. Powell;Constantin T. Yiannoutsos;Thomas J. Howard

  • Portal chronic inflammation in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD): a histologic marker of advanced NAFLD-Clinicopathologic correlations from the nonalcoholic steatohepatitis clinical research network

    Elizabeth M. Brunt;David E. Kleiner;Laura A. Wilson;Aynur Unalp

  • IL-17–dependent cellular immunity to collagen type V predisposes to obliterative bronchiolitis in human lung transplants

    William J. Burlingham;Robert B. Love;Robert B. Love;Ewa Jankowska-Gan;Lynn D. Haynes

  • Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms: predictors of malignant and invasive pathology.

    C Max Schmidt;Patrick B. White;Joshua A. Waters;Constantin T. Yiannoutsos

  • A Combination of Molecular Markers and Clinical Features Improve the Classification of Pancreatic Cysts

    Simeon Springer;Yuxuan Wang;Marco Dal Molin;David L. Masica

  • KIT mutations are common in testicular seminomas.

    Kathleen Kemmer;Christopher L. Corless;Jonathan A. Fletcher;Laura McGreevey

  • Role of EUS in the preoperative staging of pancreatic cancer: a large single-center experience.

    Frank G. Gress;Robert H. Hawes;Thomas J. Savides;Steven O. Ikenberry

  • Endoscopic Ultrasonography, Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy Guided by Endoscopic Ultrasonography, and Computed Tomography in the Preoperative Staging of Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: A Comparison Study

    Frank G. Gress;Thomas J. Savides;Alan Sandler;Kenneth Kesler

  • Presence and significance of microvesicular steatosis in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

    Sweta Tandra;Matthew M. Yeh;Elizabeth M. Brunt;Raj Vuppalanchi

  • No significant effects of ethyl-eicosapentanoic acid on histologic features of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis in a phase 2 trial.

    Arun J. Sanyal;Manal F. Abdelmalek;Ayako Suzuki;Oscar W. Cummings

  • Genome-wide association study identifies variants associated with histologic features of nonalcoholic Fatty liver disease.

    Naga Chalasani;Xiuqing Guo;Rohit Loomba;Mark O. Goodarzi

  • Molecular pathology of lung cancer: key to personalized medicine.

    Liang Cheng;Riley E Alexander;Gregory T MacLennan;Oscar W Cummings

  • Relationship of steatosis grade and zonal location to histological features of steatohepatitis in adult patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

    Naga Chalasani;Laura Wilson;David E. Kleiner;Oscar W. Cummings

  • Association of Histologic Disease Activity With Progression of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

    David E. Kleiner;Elizabeth M. Brunt;Laura A. Wilson;Cynthia Behling

  • Fulminant hepatic failure as the initial presentation of acute autoimmune hepatitis.

    William R Kessler;Oscar W Cummings;George Eckert;Naga Chalasani

  • Glycogenic hepatopathy: an underrecognized hepatic complication of diabetes mellitus.

    Michael Torbenson;Yunn Yi Chen;Elizabeth Brunt;Oscar W. Cummings

  • CT vs MRCP: Optimal Classification of IPMN Type and Extent

    Joshua A. Waters;C. Max Schmidt;Jason W. Pinchot;Patrick B. White

Frequent Co-Authors

Naga Chalasani
Naga Chalasani Indiana University
Douglas K. Rex
Douglas K. Rex Indiana University
Thomas M. Ulbright
Thomas M. Ulbright Indiana University
James Tonascia
James Tonascia Johns Hopkins University
Elizabeth M. Brunt
Elizabeth M. Brunt Washington University in St. Louis
David E. Kleiner
David E. Kleiner National Institutes of Health
Stuart Sherman
Stuart Sherman Indiana University
Liang Cheng
Liang Cheng Brown University
Joel E. Lavine
Joel E. Lavine Columbia University
Jeffrey B. Schwimmer
Jeffrey B. Schwimmer University of California, San Diego

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