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Robert J. Downey is affiliated with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a particular emphasis on pulmonary and respiratory medicine, surgery, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, geriatrics and gerontology, and epidemiology.

Their work spans a range of topics including lung cancer diagnosis and treatment, lung cancer treatments and mutations, frailty in older adults, cardiac, anesthesia and surgical outcomes, heart failure treatment and management, radiomics and machine learning in medical imaging, and enhanced recovery after surgery.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Heart Lung and Circulation
  • Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
  • The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
  • Annals of Surgery
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology

Among their recent papers are:

  • Small Cell Lung Cancer, Version 2.2022, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology, 2021, Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network
  • Association of Geriatric Comanagement and 90-Day Postoperative Mortality Among Patients Aged 75 Years and Older With Cancer, 2020, JAMA Network Open
  • Spatial intra-tumor heterogeneity is associated with survival of lung adenocarcinoma patients, 2022, Cell Genomics
  • Prediction of Relapse After Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor Cessation in Crohn's Disease: Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis of 1317 Patients From 14 Studies, 2021, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
  • Operative Time is Associated With Postoperative Complications After Pulmonary Lobectomy, 2022, Annals of Surgery

They have collaborated frequently with the following co-authors:

  • Daniela Molena
  • Bernard J. Park
  • Smita Sihag
  • Prasad S. Adusumilli
  • Manjit S. Bains

Best Publications

  • Breast cancer cells produce tenascin C as a metastatic niche component to colonize the lungs

    Thordur Oskarsson;Swarnali Acharyya;Xiang H-F Zhang;Sakari Vanharanta

  • Tumor Treatment Response Based on Visual and Quantitative Changes in Global Tumor Glycolysis Using PET-FDG Imaging. The Visual Response Score and the Change in Total Lesion Glycolysis.

    Steven M. Larson;Yusuf Erdi;Timothy Akhurst;Madhu Mazumdar

  • The Influence of Hospital Volume on Survival after Resection for Lung Cancer

    Peter B. Bach;Laura D. Cramer;Deborah Schrag;Robert J. Downey

  • Small cell lung cancer.

    Gregory P. Kalemkerian;Wallace Akerley;Robert J. Downey;David S. Ettinger

  • A phase II trial of surgical resection and adjuvant high-dose hemithoracic radiation for malignant pleural mesothelioma.

    Valerie W. Rusch;Kenneth Rosenzweig;Ennapadam Venkatraman;Larry Leon

  • Intraoperative ketamine for prevention of postoperative delirium or pain after major surgery in older adults: an international, multicentre, double-blind, randomised clinical trial.

    Michael S Avidan;Hannah R Maybrier;Arbi Ben Abdallah;Eric Jacobsohn

  • Lobectomy by video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) versus thoracotomy for lung cancer

    Raja M Flores;Bernard J Park;Joseph Dycoco;Anna Aronova

  • Preoperative F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography maximal standardized uptake value predicts survival after lung cancer resection.

    Robert J. Downey;Timothy Akhurst;Mithat Gonen;Alain Vincent

  • Whole body 18FDG-PET and the response of esophageal cancer to induction therapy: results of a prospective trial

    Robert J. Downey;Tim Akhurst;David Ilson;Robert Ginsberg

  • Morbidity and mortality after neoadjuvant therapy for lung cancer: the risks of right pneumonectomy

    Jocelyne Martin;Robert J Ginsberg;Amir Abolhoda;Manjit S Bains

  • Results of chest wall resection and reconstruction with and without rigid prosthesis.

    Michael J. Weyant;Manjit S. Bains;Ennapadam Venkatraman;Robert J. Downey

  • A grading system of lung adenocarcinomas based on histologic pattern is predictive of disease recurrence in stage I tumors.

    Gabriel Sica;Akihiko Yoshizawa;Camelia S. Sima;Christopher G. Azzoli

  • Human collagenase (matrix metalloproteinase-1) expression in the lungs of patients with emphysema.

    Kazushi Imai;Seema S. Dalal;Edward S. Chen;Robert Downey

  • Role of video-assisted thoracic surgery in the treatment of pulmonary metastases: results of a prospective trial.

    Patricia M. McCormack;Manjit S. Bains;Colin B. Begg;Michael E. Burt

  • Results of the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group Z0050 trial: the utility of positron emission tomography in staging potentially operable non–small cell lung cancer

    Carolyn E Reed;David H Harpole;Katherine E Posther;Sandra L Woolson

  • Use of Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery for Lobectomy in the Elderly Results in Fewer Complications

    Stephen M. Cattaneo;Bernard J. Park;Andrew S. Wilton;Venkatraman E. Seshan

  • Proposed Revision Of The Staging Classification For Esophageal Cancer

    Robert J. Korst;Valerie W. Rusch;Ennapadam Venkatraman;Manjit S. Bains

  • NCCN guidelines® insights: Small cell lung cancer, version 2.2018 featured updates to the NCCN guidelines

    Gregory P. Kalemkerian;Billy W. Loo;Wallace Akerley;Albert Attia

  • Outcomes after resection of synchronous or metachronous hepatic and pulmonary colorectal metastases.

    George Miller;Peter Biernacki;Nancy E. Kemeny;Mithat Gonen

  • Whole B ody 18 FDG-PET a nd t he R esponse o f E sophageal Cancer t o I nduction T herapy: R esults o f a P rospective T rial

    Robert J. Downey;Tim Akhurst;David Ilson;Robert Ginsberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Valerie W. Rusch
Valerie W. Rusch Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Manjit S. Bains
Manjit S. Bains Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Robert J. Ginsberg
Robert J. Ginsberg Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Mark G. Kris
Mark G. Kris Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
David R. Jones
David R. Jones Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
William D. Travis
William D. Travis Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Mithat Gonen
Mithat Gonen Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Malcolm A.S. Moore
Malcolm A.S. Moore Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Franziska Michor
Franziska Michor Harvard University
Ronald G. Crystal
Ronald G. Crystal Cornell University

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