Elisabeth Tomlinson Tracy

Elisabeth Tomlinson Tracy
Assistant Professor of Surgery

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Assistant Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Pediatric General Surgery, Surgery 2014

Contact Information

Box 3443 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710
Department Of Surgery, Durham, NC 27710
elisabeth.tracy@duke.edu (919) 684-8111

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Chief Resident-Pediatric Surgery, Surgery, Boston University 2013 - 2014
- Associate Chief Resident-Pediatric Surgery, Surgery, Boston University 2012 - 2013
- Chief Resident-General Surgery, Surgery, Duke University 2011 - 2012
- Senior Resident-General Surgery, Surgery, Duke University 2009 - 2011
- Research Fellow-Surgery & Pediatric Blood & Marror Tx Program, Surgery, Duke University 2007 - 2009
- Junior Resident-General Surgery, Surgery, Duke University 2006 - 2007
- Intern-General Surgery, Surgery, Duke University 2005 - 2006
- M.D., Harvard Medical School 2005
Research
Selected Grants
- An integrated and diverse genomic medicine program for undiagnosed diseases awarded by National Institutes of Health 2014 - 2022
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Ezekian, B, Mulvihill, MS, Schroder, PM, Gilmore, BF, Leraas, HJ, Gulack, BC, Jane Commander, S, Mavis, AM, Kreissman, SG, Knechtle, SJ, Tracy, ET, and Barbas, AS. "Improved contemporary outcomes of liver transplantation for pediatric hepatoblastoma and hepatocellular carcinoma." Pediatric Transplantation 22, no. 8 (December 2018): e13305-null. Full Text
  - Kamyszek, RW, Leraas, HJ, Nag, UP, Olivere, LA, Nash, AL, Kemeny, HR, Kim, J, Hill, KD, Fleming, GA, Jooste, EH, Otto, J, and Tracy, ET. "Routine postprocedure ultrasound increases rate of detection of femoral arterial thrombosis in infants after cardiac catheterization." Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions : Official Journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions (November 23, 2018). Full Text
  - Leraas, HJ, Kuchibhatla, M, Nag, UP, Kim, J, Ezekian, B, Reed, CR, Rice, HE, Tracy, ET, and Adibe, OO. "Cervical seatbelt sign is not associated with blunt cerebrovascular injury in children: A review of the national trauma databank." American Journal of Surgery (October 15, 2018). Full Text
  - Jammeh, ML, Adibe, OO, Tracy, ET, Rice, HE, Clark, RH, Smith, PB, and Greenberg, RG. "Racial/ethnic differences in necrotizing enterocolitis incidence and outcomes in premature very low birth weight infants." Journal of Perinatology : Official Journal of the California Perinatal Association 38, no. 10 (October 2018): 1386-1390. Full Text
  - Freischlag, K, Ji, K, Kamyszek, RW, Leraas, HJ, Olivere, LA, Gefter, L, Mann, B, Migaly, J, and Tracy, ET. "Health Career Academy: Addition of a Surgical Case-Based Learning Curriculum Captures the Interest of High School Students." Journal of Surgical Education (August 12, 2018). Full Text
  - Leraas, HJ, Rosenberger, LH, Ren, Y, Ezekian, B, Nag, UP, Reed, CR, Thomas, SM, Hwang, E-SS, and Tracy, ET. "Pediatric phyllodes tumors: A review of the National Cancer Data Base and adherence to NCCN guidelines for phyllodes tumor treatment." Journal of Pediatric Surgery 53, no. 6 (June 2018): 1123-1128. Full Text
  - Leraas, HJ, Kim, J, Sun, Z, Ezekian, B, Gulack, BC, Reed, CR, and Tracy, ET. "Solid Pseudopapillary Neoplasm of the Pancreas in Children and Adults: A National Study of 369 Patients." Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology 40, no. 4 (May 2018): e233-e236. Full Text
  - Gulack, BC, Greenberg, R, Clark, RH, Miranda, ML, Blakely, ML, Rice, HE, Adibe, OO, Tracy, ET, and Smith, PB. "A multi-institution analysis of predictors of timing of inguinal hernia repair among premature infants." Journal of Pediatric Surgery 53, no. 4 (April 2018): 784-788. Full Text
  - Ezekian, B, Leraas, HJ, Englum, BR, Gilmore, BF, Reed, C, Fitzgerald, TN, Rice, HE, and Tracy, ET. "Outcomes of laparoscopic resection of Meckel's diverticulum are equivalent to open laparotomy." Journal of Pediatric Surgery (March 15, 2018). Full Text
  - Ezekian, B, Englum, BR, Gulack, BC, Rialon, KL, Kim, J, Talbot, LJ, Adibe, OO, Routh, JC, Tracy, ET, and Rice, HE. "Comparing oncologic outcomes after minimally invasive and open surgery for pediatric neuroblastoma and Wilms tumor." Pediatric blood & cancer 65, no. 1 (January 2018). Full Text
  - Einhorn, LM, Young, BJ, Routh, JC, Allori, AC, Tracy, ET, and Greene, NH. "Epidemiologic Analysis of Elective Operative Procedures in Infants Less Than 6 Months of Age in the United States." Anesthesia and Analgesia 125, no. 5 (November 2017): 1588-1596. Full Text
  - Ezekian, B, Englum, B, Gilmore, BF, Nag, UP, Kim, J, Leraas, HJ, Routh, JC, Rice, HE, and Tracy, ET. "Renal medullary carcinoma: A national analysis of 159 patients." Pediatric Blood & Cancer 64, no. 11 (November 2017). Full Text
  - Gulack, BC, Leraas, HJ, Ezekian, B, Kim, J, Reed, C, Adibe, OO, Rice, HE, and Tracy, ET. "Outcomes following elective resection of congenital pulmonary airway malformations are equivalent after 3 months of age and a weight of 5 kg." Journal of pediatric surgery (October 9, 2017). Full Text
  - Leraas, HJ, Cox, ML, Bendersky, VA, Sprinkle, SS, Gilmore, BF, Gunasingha, RM, Tracy, ET, and Sudan, R. "Instituting a Surgical Skills Competition Increases Technical Performance of Surgical Clerkship Students Over Time." Journal of surgical education (October 4, 2017). Full Text
  - Ezekian, B, Englum, BR, Gilmore, BF, Kim, J, Leraas, HJ, Driscoll, TA, Tracy, ET, and Rice, HE. "Children Receiving Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation are at Increased Risk of Onychocryptosis Requiring Surgical Management." Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology 39, no. 7 (October 2017): e353-e356. Full Text
  - Konstantinidis, A, Tracy, E, Sosa, JA, and Roman, SA. "Risk prediction in children and adults less than 45 years old with papillary thyroid cancer." Expert Review of Endocrinology & Metabolism 12, no. 5 (September 3, 2017): 355-365. Full Text
  - Newcomb, LK, Rhee, EHJ, Bean, SM, Kim, J, Tracy, ET, and Kuller, JA. "Pregnancy complicated by foetal abdominal mass: Fetiform teratoma versus foetus-in-fetu." Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology : the journal of the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 37, no. 6 (August 2017): 815-817. Full Text
  - Kim, J, Sun, Z, Benrashid, E, Southerland, KW, Lawson, JH, Fleming, GA, Hill, KD, and Tracy, ET. "The impact of femoral arterial thrombosis in paediatric cardiac catheterisation: a national study." Cardiology in the Young 27, no. 5 (July 2017): 912-917. Full Text
  - Cheng, J, Cooper, M, and Tracy, E. "Clinical considerations for blunt laryngotracheal trauma in children." Journal of pediatric surgery 52, no. 5 (May 2017): 874-880. (Review) Full Text
  - Kim, J, Turner, MC, Sun, Z, Rialon, KL, Sinyard, RD, Schooler, GR, Tracy, ET, Rice, HE, and Adibe, OO. "Vascular Complications in Pediatric Port Removal." The American Surgeon 83, no. 4 (April 2017): e143-e145.
  - Kim, J, Sun, Z, Ezekian, B, Schooler, GR, Prasad, VK, Kurtzberg, J, Rice, HE, and Tracy, ET. "Gallbladder abnormalities in children with metachromatic leukodystrophy." The Journal of Surgical Research 208 (February 2017): 187-191. Full Text
  - Kim, J, Sun, Z, Leraas, HJ, Nag, UP, Benrashid, E, Allori, AC, Pabon-Ramos, WM, Rice, HE, Shortell, CK, and Tracy, ET. "Morbidity and healthcare costs of vascular anomalies: a national study." Pediatric surgery international 33, no. 2 (February 2017): 149-154. Full Text
  - Englum, BR, Rialon, KL, Kim, J, Shapiro, ML, Scarborough, JE, Rice, HE, Adibe, OO, and Tracy, ET. "Current use and outcomes of helicopter transport in pediatric trauma: a review of 18,291 transports." Journal of pediatric surgery 52, no. 1 (January 2017): 140-144. Full Text
  - Kim, J, Sun, Z, Adam, MA, Adibe, OO, Rice, HE, Roman, SA, and Tracy, ET. "Predictors of nodal metastasis in pediatric differentiated thyroid cancer." Journal of pediatric surgery 52, no. 1 (January 2017): 120-123. Full Text
  - Talbot, LJ, Sinyard, RD, Rialon, KL, Englum, BR, Tracy, ET, Rice, HE, and Adibe, OO. "Influence of weight at enterostomy reversal on surgical outcomes in infants after emergent neonatal stoma creation." Journal of pediatric surgery 52, no. 1 (January 2017): 35-39. Full Text
  - Watson, JA, Englum, BR, Kim, J, Adibe, OO, Rice, HE, Shapiro, ML, Daneshmand, MA, and Tracy, ET. "Extracorporeal life support use in pediatric trauma: a review of the National Trauma Data Bank." Journal of Pediatric Surgery 52, no. 1 (January 2017): 136-139. Full Text
  - Cone, EB, Dalton, SS, Van Noord, M, Tracy, ET, Rice, HE, and Routh, JC. "Biomarkers for Wilms Tumor: A Systematic Review." The Journal of Urology 196, no. 5 (November 2016): 1530-1535. (Review) Full Text
  - Kim, J, Sun, Z, Englum, BR, Allori, AC, Adibe, OO, Rice, HE, and Tracy, ET. "Laparoscopy Is Safe in Infants and Neonates with Congenital Heart Disease: A National Study of 3684 Patients." Journal of Laparoendoscopic & Advanced Surgical Techniques. Part A 26, no. 10 (October 2016): 836-839. Full Text
  - Tracy, ET, and Aldrink, JH. "Pediatric melanoma." Seminars in pediatric surgery 25, no. 5 (October 2016): 290-298. (Review) Full Text
  - Brinkley, MF, Tracy, ET, and Maxfield, CM. "Congenital duodenal obstruction: causes and imaging approach." Pediatric radiology 46, no. 8 (July 2016): 1084-1095. (Review) Full Text
  - Kim, J, Sun, Z, Gulack, BC, Adam, MA, Mosca, PJ, Rice, HE, and Tracy, ET. "Sentinel lymph node biopsy is a prognostic measure in pediatric melanoma." Journal of pediatric surgery 51, no. 6 (June 2016): 986-990. Full Text
  - Gulack, BC, Rialon, KL, Englum, BR, Kim, J, Talbot, LJ, Adibe, OO, Rice, HE, and Tracy, ET. "Factors associated with survival in pediatric adrenocortical carcinoma: An analysis of the National Cancer Data Base (NCDB)." Journal of Pediatric Surgery 51, no. 1 (January 2016): 172-177. Full Text
  - Tracy, ET, and Roman, SA. "Current management of pediatric thyroid disease and differentiated thyroid cancer." Current opinion in oncology 28, no. 1 (January 2016): 37-42. (Review) Full Text
  - Rice, HE, Englum, BR, Gulack, BC, Adibe, OO, Tracy, ET, Kreissman, SG, and Routh, JC. "Use of patient registries and administrative datasets for the study of pediatric cancer." Pediatric Blood & Cancer 62, no. 9 (September 2015): 1495-1500. (Review) Full Text
  - Drobyshevsky, A, Cotten, CM, Shi, Z, Luo, K, Jiang, R, Derrick, M, Tracy, ET, Gentry, T, Goldberg, RN, Kurtzberg, J, and Tan, S. "Human Umbilical Cord Blood Cells Ameliorate Motor Deficits in Rabbits in a Cerebral Palsy Model." Developmental Neuroscience 37, no. 4-5 (January 2015): 349-362. Full Text
  - Tracy, ET, Englum, BR, Barbas, AS, Foley, C, Rice, HE, and Shapiro, ML. "Pediatric injury patterns by year of age." Journal of Pediatric Surgery 48, no. 6 (June 2013): 1384-1388. Full Text
  - Rialon, KL, Barfield, ME, Elfenbein, DM, Lunsford, KE, Tracy, ET, and Migaly, J. "Resident designed intern orientation to address the new ACGME Common Program Requirements for resident supervision." J Surg Educ 70, no. 3 (May 2013): 350-356. Full Text Link to Item
  - Tracy, ET, Haas, KM, Gentry, T, Danko, M, Roberts, JL, Kurtzberg, J, and Rice, HE. "Partial splenectomy but not total splenectomy preserves immunoglobulin M memory B cells in mice." Journal of Pediatric Surgery 46, no. 9 (September 2011): 1706-1710. Full Text
  - Reddy, AS, Kim, JH, Hawkins-Salsbury, JA, Macauley, SL, Tracy, ET, Vogler, CA, Han, X, Song, S-K, Wozniak, DF, Fowler, SC, Klein, RS, and Sands, MS. "Bone marrow transplantation augments the effect of brain- and spinal cord-directed adeno-associated virus 2/5 gene therapy by altering inflammation in the murine model of globoid-cell leukodystrophy." The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience 31, no. 27 (July 2011): 9945-9957. Full Text
  - Tracy, ET, Zhang, CY, Gentry, T, Shoulars, KW, and Kurtzberg, J. "Isolation and expansion of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells from cryopreserved human umbilical cord blood." Cytotherapy 13, no. 6 (July 2011): 722-729. Full Text
  - Buesing, KL, Tracy, ET, Kiernan, C, Pastor, AC, Cassidy, LD, Scott, JP, Ware, RE, Davidoff, AM, Rescorla, FJ, Langer, JC, Rice, HE, and Oldham, KT. "Partial splenectomy for hereditary spherocytosis: a multi-institutional review." Journal of Pediatric Surgery 46, no. 1 (January 2011): 178-183. Full Text
  - Tracy, ET, Mears, SE, Smith, PB, Danko, ME, Diesen, DL, Fisher, KA, Hoehner, JC, Goldberg, RN, Cotten, CM, and Rice, HE. "Protocolized approach to the management of congenital diaphragmatic hernia: benefits of reducing variability in care." Journal of Pediatric Surgery 45, no. 6 (June 2010): 1343-1348. Full Text
  - Tracy, ET, Talbot, LJ, Kurtzberg, J, and Rice, HE. "Splenectomy and partial splenectomy improve hematopoietic stem cell engraftment in hypersplenic mice." J Pediatr Surg 45, no. 6 (June 2010): 1365-1369. Full Text Link to Item
  - Kuluz, MA, Smith, PB, Mears, SP, Benjamin, JR, Tracy, ET, Williford, WL, Goldberg, RN, Rice, HE, and Cotten, CM. "Preliminary observations of the use of high-frequency jet ventilation as rescue therapy in infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia." Journal of Pediatric Surgery 45, no. 4 (April 2010): 698-702. Full Text
  - Scarborough, JE, Bennett, KM, Davis, RD, Lin, SS, Tracy, ET, Kuo, PC, and Pappas, TN. "Temporal trends in lung transplant center volume and outcomes in the United States." Transplantation 89, no. 6 (March 27, 2010): 639-643. Full Text Link to Item
  - Tracy, ET, Bennett, KM, Danko, ME, Diesen, DL, Westmoreland, TJ, Kuo, PC, Pappas, TN, Rice, HE, and Scarborough, JE. "Low volume is associated with worse patient outcomes for pediatric liver transplant centers." J Pediatr Surg 45, no. 1 (January 2010): 108-113. Full Text Link to Item
  - Tracy, ET, Bennett, KM, Aviki, EM, Pappas, TN, Collins, BH, Tuttle-Newhall, JE, Marroquin, CE, Kuo, PC, and Scarborough, JE. "Temporal trends in liver transplant centre volume in the USA." Hpb : the Official Journal of the International Hepato Pancreato Biliary Association 11, no. 5 (August 2009): 414-421. Full Text
  - Tracy, ET, and Rice, HE. "Partial splenectomy for hereditary spherocytosis." Pediatr Clin North Am 55, no. 2 (April 2008): 503-x. (Review) Full Text Link to Item
  - Tracy, E, Aldrink, J, Panosian, J, Beam, D, Thacker, J, Reese, M, and Kurtzberg, J. "Isolation of oligodendrocyte-like cells from human umbilical cord blood." Cytotherapy 10, no. 5 (2008): 518-525. Full Text Link to Item
- Book Sections
  - Tracy, ET, and Rice, HE. "Surgical disorders of the spleen." In Fundamentals of Pediatric Surgery, Second Edition, 687-694. January 1, 2016. Full Text
  - Tracy, E, and Pappas, TN. "Surgical techniques: Enucleation procedures and central pancreatectomy." In Contemporary Surgical Management of Liver, Biliary Tract, and Pancreatic Disease, 621-630. January 1, 2013. Full Text
  - Tracy, E, and Tuttle-Newhall, J. "Management of unusual sources of upper GI bleeding." In Gastrointestinal Bleeding: A Practical Approach to Diagnosis and Management, 65-77. December 1, 2010. Full Text
  - Tracy, E, and Skinner, MA. "Reoperative thyroid and parathyroid surgery." In Reoperative Pediatric Surgery, 103-118. December 1, 2008. Full Text
Teaching & Mentoring
Recent Courses
- SURGERY 409C: Surgical Technique and Review Course (STAR) 2019

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Education, Training, & Certifications

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Selected Publications

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Book Sections

Recent Courses