Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • General Surgery Chief Resident, Surgery, Northwestern University 2013 - 2015
  • Surgical Outcomes Research Fellow, Surgery, Northwestern University 2011 - 2013
  • M.Sc., Northwestern University 2013
  • General Surgery Resident, Surgery, Northwestern University 2008 - 2011
  • M.D., Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine 2008
  • B.A., Kalamazoo College 2004
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Book Sections

    • Sherman, KL, and Mahvi, DM. "Liver Metastases." In Abeloff's Clinical Oncology: Fifth Edition, 778-793. October 22, 2013.  Full Text

  • Journal Articles

    • Sherman, KL, Kinnier, CV, Farina, DA, Wayne, JD, Laskin, WB, Agulnik, M, Attar, S, Hayes, JP, Peabody, T, and Bilimoria, KY. "Examination of national lymph node evaluation practices for adult extremity soft tissue sarcoma." Journal of surgical oncology 110, no. 6 (November 2014): 682-688.  Full Text
    • Baker, MS, Sherman, KL, Stocker, SJ, Hayman, AV, Bentrem, DJ, Prinz, RA, and Talamonti, MS. "Using a modification of the Clavien-Dindo system accounting for readmissions and multiple interventions: defining quality for pancreaticoduodenectomy." Journal of surgical oncology 110, no. 4 (September 2014): 400-406.  Full Text
    • Merkow, RP, Bilimoria, KY, Keswani, RN, Chung, J, Sherman, KL, Knab, LM, Posner, MC, and Bentrem, DJ. "Treatment trends, risk of lymph node metastasis, and outcomes for localized esophageal cancer." Journal of the National Cancer Institute 106, no. 7 (July 16, 2014).  Full Text
    • Sherman, KL, Wayne, JD, Chung, J, Agulnik, M, Attar, S, Hayes, JP, Laskin, WB, Peabody, TD, Bentrem, DJ, Pollock, RE, and Bilimoria, KY. "Assessment of multimodality therapy use for extremity sarcoma in the United States." Journal of surgical oncology 109, no. 5 (April 2014): 395-404.  Full Text
    • Sherman, KL, Gordon, EJ, Mahvi, DM, Chung, J, Bentrem, DJ, Holl, JL, and Bilimoria, KY. "Surgeons' perceptions of public reporting of hospital and individual surgeon quality." Medical care 51, no. 12 (December 2013): 1069-1075.  Full Text
    • Merkow, RP, Bilimoria, KY, Sherman, KL, McCarter, MD, Gordon, HS, and Bentrem, DJ. "Efficiency of colorectal cancer care among veterans: analysis of treatment wait times at Veterans Affairs Medical Centers." Journal of oncology practice 9, no. 4 (July 2013): e154-e163.  Full Text
    • Sherman, KL, Merkow, RP, Shah, AM, Wang, CE, Bilimoria, KY, and Bentrem, DJ. "Assessment of advanced gastric cancer management in the United States." Annals of surgical oncology 20, no. 7 (July 2013): 2124-2131.  Full Text
    • Sherman, KL, Wayne, JD, and Bilimoria, KY. "Overcoming specialty bias: another important reason for multidisciplinary management of soft tissue sarcoma." JAMA surgery 148, no. 7 (July 2013): 640-.  Full Text
    • Sherman, KL, and Bentrem, DJ. "To ablate or not to ablate?: that is the question." JAMA surgery 148, no. 7 (July 2013): 601-.  Full Text
    • Sherman, KL, and Bentrem, DJ. "To ablate or not to ablate?." JAMA Surgery 148, no. 7 (July 1, 2013): 601-.  Full Text
    • Sellers, MM, Hanson, K, Schuller, M, Sherman, K, Kelz, RR, Fryer, J, DaRosa, D, and Bilimoria, KY. "Development and participant assessment of a practical quality improvement educational initiative for surgical residents." Journal of the American College of Surgeons 216, no. 6 (June 2013): 1207-1213.e1.  Full Text
    • Baker, MS, Sherman, KL, Stocker, S, Hayman, AV, Bentrem, DJ, Prinz, RA, and Talamonti, MS. "Defining quality for distal pancreatectomy: does the laparoscopic approach protect patients from poor quality outcomes?." Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract 17, no. 2 (February 2013): 273-280.  Full Text
    • Sherman, KL, Merkow, RP, Bilimoria, KY, Wang, CE, Mulcahy, MF, Benson, AB, and Bentrem, DJ. "Treatment trends and predictors of adjuvant and neoadjuvant therapy for gastric adenocarcinoma in the United States." Annals of surgical oncology 20, no. 2 (February 2013): 362-370.  Full Text
    • Merkow, RP, Bilimoria, KY, McCarter, MD, Phillips, JD, DeCamp, MM, Sherman, KL, Ko, CY, and Bentrem, DJ. "Short-term outcomes after esophagectomy at 164 American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program hospitals: effect of operative approach and hospital-level variation." Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) 147, no. 11 (November 2012): 1009-1016.  Full Text
    • Phillips, JD, Merkow, RP, Sherman, KL, DeCamp, MM, Bentrem, DJ, and Bilimoria, KY. "Factors affecting selection of operative approach and subsequent short-term outcomes after anatomic resection for lung cancer." Journal of the American College of Surgeons 215, no. 2 (August 2012): 206-215.  Full Text
    • Sobol, UA, Sherman, KL, Smith, J, Nagda, SN, Micetich, K, Nickoloff, BJ, and Shoup, MC. "Sweet's syndrome with neurologic manifestations in a patient with esophageal adenocarcinoma: case report and review of the literature." International journal of dermatology 48, no. 10 (October 2009): 1062-1065. (Review)  Full Text
    • Sherman, KL, Obi, SH, Aranha, GV, Yao, KA, and Shoup, MC. "Heparin-coated stents do not protect cancer patients from cardiac complications after noncardiac surgery." The American surgeon 75, no. 1 (January 2009): 61-65.

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