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Thomas G. Travison

Thomas G. Travison

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Overview

Thomas G. Travison is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and focuses primarily on medical research. Their work spans several main disciplines with a strong emphasis on Medicine, supported by contributions in subfields such as Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Physiology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Geriatrics and Gerontology, and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.

Their research covers a variety of topics, including Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders, Frailty in Older Adults, Anesthesia and Neurotoxicity Research, Hormonal and Reproductive Studies, Nutrition and Health in Aging, Anesthesia and Sedative Agents, and Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders.

Thomas G. Travison has published extensively in several venues, with a notable number of papers appearing in:

  • Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series A
  • Innovation in Aging
  • Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia

Recent publications represent a range of research interests and include:

  • "Sarcopenia Definition: The Position Statements of the Sarcopenia Definition and Outcomes Consortium", 2020, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
  • "Cardiovascular Safety of Testosterone-Replacement Therapy", 2023, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "A Randomized Trial of a Multifactorial Strategy to Prevent Serious Fall Injuries", 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "One-Year Medicare Costs Associated With Delirium in Older Patients Undergoing Major Elective Surgery", 2021, JAMA Surgery
  • "Putative Cut-Points in Sarcopenia Components and Incident Adverse Health Outcomes: An SDOC Analysis", 2020, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Collaborations are a significant component of their work, frequently co-authoring with several researchers, including:

  • Sharon K. Inouye
  • Richard N. Jones
  • Tamara G. Fong
  • Eva M. Schmitt
  • Shalender Bhasin

Best Publications

  • Estimating the prevalence of limb loss in the United States: 2005 to 2050.

    Kathryn Ziegler-Graham;Ellen J. MacKenzie;Patti L. Ephraim;Thomas G. Travison

  • Adverse Events Associated with Testosterone Administration

    Shehzad Basaria;Andrea D. Coviello;Thomas G. Travison;Thomas W. Storer

  • An Analysis of Outcomes of Reconstruction or Amputation after Leg-Threatening Injuries

    Michael J. Bosse;Ellen J. MacKenzie;James F. Kellam;Andrew R. Burgess

  • Prevalence of Symptomatic Androgen Deficiency in Men

    Andre B. Araujo;Gretchen R. Esche;Varant Kupelian;Amy B. O’Donnell

  • Opioids versus antidepressants in postherpetic neuralgia: A randomized, placebo-controlled trial

    Srinivasa N. Raja;J. A. Haythornthwaite;M. Pappagallo;M. R. Clark

  • Effectiveness of Multicomponent Nonpharmacological Delirium Interventions: A Meta-analysis

    Tammy T. Hshieh;Jirong Yue;Esther Oh;Margaret Puelle

  • Low sex hormone-binding globulin, total testosterone, and symptomatic androgen deficiency are associated with development of the metabolic syndrome in nonobese men.

    Varant Kupelian;Stephanie T. Page;Andre B. Araujo;Thomas G. Travison

  • The Relative Contributions of Aging, Health, and Lifestyle Factors to Serum Testosterone Decline in Men

    Thomas G. Travison;Andre B. Araujo;Varant Kupelian;Amy B. O’Donnell

  • Sarcopenia Definition: The Position Statements of the Sarcopenia Definition and Outcomes Consortium

    Shalender Bhasin;Thomas G. Travison;Todd M. Manini;Sheena Patel

  • Reference Ranges for Testosterone in Men Generated Using Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry in a Community-Based Sample of Healthy Nonobese Young Men in the Framingham Heart Study and Applied to Three Geographically Distinct Cohorts

    Shalender Bhasin;Michael Pencina;Michael Pencina;Guneet Kaur Jasuja;Guneet Kaur Jasuja;Thomas G. Travison

  • A Population-Level Decline in Serum Testosterone Levels in American Men

    Thomas G. Travison;Andre B. Araujo;Amy B. O’Donnell;Varant Kupelian

  • The short-term and long-term relationship between delirium and cognitive trajectory in older surgical patients

    Sharon K. Inouye;Edward R. Marcantonio;Cyrus M. Kosar;Douglas Tommet

  • Testosterone Induces Erythrocytosis via Increased Erythropoietin and Suppressed Hepcidin: Evidence for a New Erythropoietin/Hemoglobin Set Point

    Eric Bachman;Thomas G. Travison;Shehzad Basaria;Maithili N. Davda

  • Functional outcomes following trauma-related lower-extremity amputation

    Ellen J. Mackenzie;Michael J. Bosse;Renan C. Castillo;Douglas G. Smith

  • Early predictors of long-term work disability after major limb trauma

    Ellen J. MacKenzie;Michael J. Bosse;James F. Kellam;Andrew N. Pollak

  • Postoperative Delirium and Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction: Overlap and Divergence.

    Daiello La;Racine Am;Yun Gou R;Marcantonio Er

  • Factors influencing the decision to amputate or reconstruct after high-energy lower extremity trauma.

    Marc F. Swiontkowski;Ellen J. MacKenzie;Michael J. Bosse;Alan L. Jones

  • Effects of Testosterone Administration for 3 Years on Subclinical Atherosclerosis Progression in Older Men With Low or Low-Normal Testosterone Levels: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    Shehzad Basaria;S. Mitchell Harman;Thomas G. Travison;Howard Hodis

  • Harmonized Reference Ranges for Circulating Testosterone Levels in Men of Four Cohort Studies in the United States and Europe

    Thomas G. Travison;Hubert W. Vesper;Eric Orwoll;Frederick Wu

  • Testosterone suppresses hepcidin in men: a potential mechanism for testosterone-induced erythrocytosis.

    Eric Bachman;Rui Feng;Thomas Travison;Michelle Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Shalender Bhasin
Shalender Bhasin Brigham and Women's Hospital
Sharon K. Inouye
Sharon K. Inouye Harvard Medical School
Edward R. Marcantonio
Edward R. Marcantonio Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
John B. McKinlay
John B. McKinlay New England Research Institutes
Richard N. Jones
Richard N. Jones Brown University
Lewis A. Lipsitz
Lewis A. Lipsitz Harvard Medical School
Roger A. Fielding
Roger A. Fielding Tufts University
Douglas P. Kiel
Douglas P. Kiel Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
David C. Alsop
David C. Alsop Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Peggy M. Cawthon
Peggy M. Cawthon University of California, San Francisco

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