SamuelSOommenMD

Colon & Rectal Surgery • Walnut Creek, CA

Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery, UCSF

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Office
1479 Ygnacio Valley Rd
# 200
Walnut Creek, CA 94598
Phone+1 925-296-7340

Education & Training

One Brooklyn Health System/Brookdale University Hospital and Medical CenterResidency, Surgery, 1978 - 1982
St John's Episcopal Hospital-South ShoreInternship, Surgery, 1977 - 1978
Karnataka Institute of Medical ScienceClass of 1974

Certifications & Licensure

NY State Medical License 1980 - Present
CA State Medical License 1987 - 2026
TX State Medical License 1985 - 1988
American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery Colon & Rectal Surgery
American Board of Surgery Surgery

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Super Doctor SuperDoctors.com
Top MD Consumers Checkbook

Clinical Trials

PROSPECT: Chemotherapy Alone or Chemotherapy Plus Radiation Therapy in Treating Patients With Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer Undergoing Surgery Start of enrollment: 2012 Jun 12
Active, not recruiting
Phase 2, Phase 3
RObotic Versus LAparoscopic Resection for Rectal Cancer Start of enrollment: 2011 Dec 01
Completed
Not Applicable

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

207 citations
Organ preservation for clinical T2N0 distal rectal cancer using neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy and local excision (ACOSOG Z6041): results of an open-label, single-arm, ...
Julio Garcia-Aguilar, Lindsay A. Renfro, Oliver S. Chow, Qian Shi, Xiomara W. Carrero
The Lancet. Oncology. 2015-11-01
412 citations
Effect of adding mFOLFOX6 after neoadjuvant chemoradiation in locally advanced rectal cancer: a multicentre, phase 2 trial
Julio Garcia-Aguilar, Oliver S. Chow, David D. Smith, Jorge E. Marcet, Peter A. Cataldo
The Lancet. Oncology. 2015-08-01
186 citations
A Phase II Trial of Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation and Local Excision for T2N0 Rectal Cancer: Preliminary Results of the ACOSOG Z6041 Trial
Julio Garcia-Aguilar, Qian Shi, Charles R. Thomas, Emily Chan, Peter A. Cataldo
Annals of Surgical Oncology. 2012-02-01