Syed NabeelZafarMDMPH

PubMed

• Correction: The Top Ten Annals of Surgical Oncology Original Articles on Twitter/X: 2020-2023.
  Anish J Jain, Kurt Schultz, Micah J Brainerd, Gilbert Z Murimwa, Andrew M Fleming
  Annals of Surgical Oncology. 2024-12-01
• The Top Ten Annals of Surgical Oncology Original Articles on Twitter/X: 2020-2023.
  Anish J Jain, Kurt Schultz, Micah J Brainerd, Gilbert Z Murimwa, Andrew M Fleming
  Annals of Surgical Oncology. 2024-12-01
• Corrigendum to "Cancer research funding in South Asia" [J. Cancer Policy 41 (2024) 100489].
  Sehar Salim Virani, Kaleem Sohail Ahmed, Taylor Jaraczewski, Syed Nabeel Zafar
  Journal of Cancer Policy. 2024-11-22

Journal Articles

• The Association Between Medicare Eligibility and Gains in Access to Rehabilitative Care: A National Regression Discontinuity Assessment of Patients Aged 64 versus 65 Y...  
  Zogg CK, Scott JW, Seshadri AJ, Metcalfe D, Tsai TC, Rose JA, Jr., Davis, WA, Olufajo OA, Zafar SN, Salim A, Haider AH, Ann Surg, 1/1/2017
• "Experience of damage control trauma laparotomy in a limited resource healthcare setting: A retrospective Cohort Study"  
  Kisat M, Zafar SN, Hashmi ZG, Pardhan A, Mir T, Shah A, Haider AH, Zafar H, Int J Surg, 1/13/2016
• How Does A Concurrent Diagnosis Of Cancer Influence Outcomes In Emergency General Surgery Patients?  
  Shah AA, Zafar SN, Ashfaq A, Chapital AB, Johnson DJ, Stucky CC, Pockaj B, Gray RJ, Williams M, Cornwell EE, Wilson LL, Wasif N, Am J Surg, 1/1/2016
• Survival Outcomes After Prolonged ICU Length of Stay Among Trauma Patients: The Evidence for Never Giving Up  
  Kisat MT, Latif A, Zogg CK, Haut ER, Zafar SN, Hashmi ZG, Oyetunji TA, Cornwell EE, 3rd, Zafar H, Haider AH, Surgery, 1/1/2016
• Never Giving Up: Outcomes and Presentation of Emergency General Surgery in Geriatric Octogenarian and Nonagenarian Patients  
  Shah AA, Zafar SN, Kodadek LM, Zogg CK, Iqbal A, Greene WR, Cornwell III EE, Havens J, Nitzschke S, Salim A, Haider AH, Am J Surg, 1/1/2016
• Revision of Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass for Weight Regain: a Systematic Review of Techniques and Outcomes  
  Tran DD, Nwokeabia ID, Purnell S, Zafar SN, Ortega G, Hughes K, Fullum TM, Obes Surg, 1/1/2016
• Race and Socioeconomic Disparities in National Stoma Reversal Rates  
  Zafar SN, Changoor NR, Williams K, Diaz Acosta R, Greene WR, Fullum TM, Haider AH, Cornwell III EE, Tran DD, Am J Surg, 1/1/2016
• Eye-related Emergency Room Visits: Can we Decrease Emergency Room Burden?  
  Channa R, Zafar SN, Carner JK, Schneider E, Friedman DS, JAMA Ophthalmol, 1/1/2016
• The Sleepy Surgeon: Does Night Time Surgery for Trauma Affect Mortality Outcome  
  Zafar SN, Libuit L, Hasmi ZG, Hughes K, Greene WR, Cornwell EE 3rd, Haider AH, Fullum TM, Tran DD, Am J Surg, 1/19/2015
• Morbidity or Mortality? Variations in Trauma Centers in the Rescue of Older Injured Patients  
  Zafar SN, Shah AA, Zogg CK, Hashmi ZG, Greene WR, Haut ER, Cornwell III EE, Haider AH, Injury, 1/17/2015
• Laparoscopic Surgery for Trauma: The Realm of Therapeutic Management  
  Zafar SN, Onwugbufor MT, Hughes K, Greene WR, Cornwell EE 3rd, Fullum TM, Tran DD, Am J Surg, 1/14/2015
• Angiographic Embolization for Major Trauma in a Low-Middle Income Healthcare Setting - A Retrospective Review  
  Shah AA, Rehman A, Haider AH, Sayani R, Sayyed RH, Ali K, Zafar SN, Rehman ZU, Zafar H, Int J Surg, 1/10/2015
• Emergency general surgery in a low-middle income health care setting: Determinants of outcomes  
  Shah AA, Latif A, Zogg CK, Zafar SN, Riviello R, Halim MS, Rehman Z, Haider AH, Zafar H, Surgery, 1/7/2015
• Racial Disparities in the utilization of laparoscopic cholecystectomy still exist!  
  Zafar SN, Libuit L, Stephanie SP, Atwater R, Obirieze A, Tran DD, Hughes K, Greene WR, Am Surg, 1/1/2015
• Impact Of A Predefined Hospital Mass Casualty Response Plan In A Limited Resource Setting With No Pre-Hospital Care System  
  Shah AA, Rehman A, Sayyed RH, Haider AH, Bawa A, Zafar SN, Rehman Z, Ali K, Zafar H, Injury, 1/1/2015
• Outcomes after Emergency General Surgery at Teaching Versus Non-Teaching Hospitals  
  Zafar SN, Shah AA, Hashmi ZG, Efron DT, Haut ER, Schneider EB, Schwartz D, Velopulos CG, Cornwell EE, Haider AH, J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 1/1/2015
• Trauma care does not discriminate: The association of race and health insurance with mortality following traumatic injury  
  Zafar SN, J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 1/1/2015
• Outcomes of trauma care at centers treating a higher proportion of older patients: the case for geriatric trauma centers  
  Zafar SN, Obirieze A, Schneider EB, Hashmi ZG, Scott VK, Greene WR, Efron DT, MacKenzie EJ, Cornwell EE, Haider AH, J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 1/1/2015
• Raical/ethnic disparities in emergency general surgery: explained by hospital-level characteristics?  
  Hall EC, Hashmi ZG, Zafar SN, Cornwell III EE, Haider AH, Am J Surg, 1/1/2015
• National Estimates of Predictors of Outcomes for Emergency General Surgery  
  Shah AA, Haider AH, Zogg CK, Schwartz DA, Haut ER, Zafar SN, Schneider EB, Velopulos CG, Shafi S, Zafar H, and Efron DT, J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 1/1/2015
• Geriatric Emergency General Surgery: Survival and outcomes in a low-middle income country  
  Shah AA, Haider AH, Zogg CK, Riviello R, Zafar SN, Latif A, Diaz AR, Rehman ZU, Zafar H, Surgery, 1/1/2015
• Abdominal Gunshot Wounds - A Comparative Assessment of Severity Measures  
  Shah AA, Rehman A, Shah SJ, Haider AH, Zogg CK, Zafar SN, Hadi YB, Rehman ZU, Zafar H, J Surg Res, 1/1/2015
• Analgesic Access for Acute Abdominal Pain in the Emergency Department Among Racial/Ethnic Minority Patients: A Nationwide Examination  
  Shah AA, Zogg CK, Zafar SN, Schneider EB, Cooper LA, Chapital AB, Peterson SM, Havens JM, Thorpe RJ, Roter DL, Castillo RC, Salim A, Haider AH, Med Care, 1/1/2015
• The Optimal Time for 'Early' Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy for Acute Cholecystitis  
  Zafar SN, Obirize A, Adesibikan B, Cornwell III EE, Fullum TM, Tran DD, JAMA Surg, 1/17/2014
• Benchmarking trauma centers on mortality alone does not reflect quality of care: implications for pay-for-performance  
  Hashmi ZG, Schneider EB, Castillo R, Haut ER, Zafar SN, Cornwell EE 3rd, Mackenzie EJ, Latif A, Haider AH, J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 1/1/2014
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Books/Book Chapters

• "Shackelford's Surgery of the Alimentary Tract" 
  Chapter: "Pancreatic Trauma" 
  Zafar SN, Shah AA, and Cornwell III EEEditors: Charles J. Yeo.Elsevier, 8th2018
• Geriatric Trauma and Acute Care Surgery 
  Chapter: "Cholecystitis" 
  Page 307 - 311Zafar SN and Cornwell III EEEditors: D. Barraco, RR Ivatury, A Rodriquez.Springer2018
• Acute Care Surgery 
  Chapter: "The Role of Laparoscopy in Acute Care Surgery" 
  Page 341 - 364Fullum TM, Nembhard CE, Williams K, Zafar SN, and Hwabejire JOEditors: L.D. Britt, Andrew B Peitzman, Philip S Barie, Gregory J Jurkovich.LWW2018
• Acute Care Surgery: The Management of Difficult Clinical Scenarios 
  Chapter: "Complex splenectomy." 
  Page 199 - 207Zafar SN and Cornwell III EEEditors: JJ Diaz & DT Efron.Springer2017
• "Geriatric Trauma and Critical Care" 
  Chapter: "Geriatric Trauma and Injury Prevention" 
  Page 221 - 224Zafar SN, Cornwell III EE, and Greene WREditors: Jay A Yelon and Fred A. Luchette.Springer2014
• "Current Surgical Therapy" 
  Chapter: "Small and Large Bowel Injuries" 
  Page 1041 - 1044Zafar SN and Cornwell III EEEditors: Cameron JL & Cameron AM.SaundersEdition 11th,2013
• Decision Support Medicine: Surgery 
  Chapter: "Penetrating abdominal trauma." 
  Zafar SN and Cornwell III EEEditors: K. Lillemoe.
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Abstracts/Posters

• Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy has a Lower Risk of Postoperative Bleeding than Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.
  Zafar SN, SAGES 16th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery, Seattle, WA, 1/11/2018
• Fragmentation of Cancer Care Does Not Lead to Worse Survival Among Commission on Cancer (CoC) Accredited Centers.
  Zafar SN, Society of Surgical Oncology's 71st Annual Cancer Symposium, Chicago, IL, 1/1/2018
• Potentially Preventable Readmissions after Complex Cancer Operations.
  Zafar SN, GI Symposium 2017, San Francisco, CA, 1/1/2017
• Potentially Preventable Readmissions after Complex Cancer Operations.
  Zafar SN, Society of Surgical Oncology's 70th Annual Cancer Symposium, Seattle, WA, 1/1/2017
• Racial Disparities in the Use of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Still Exist.
  Zafar SN, Southeastern Surgical Congress, Annual Meeting, Savannah, GA, 1/21/2014
• Ureteral Injury after Laparoscopic Versus Open Colectomy: An Analysis of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP).
  Zafar SN, All Surgeons Day, American College of Surgeons, Washington, DC, 1/1/2014
• The Optimal Time for 'Early' Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy for Acute Cholecystitis.
  Zafar SN, All Surgeons Day-American College of Surgeons, Washington, DC Chapter, 1/1/2014
• The Sleepy Surgeon: Does Night Time Surgery for Trauma Affect Mortality Outcomes?
  Zafar SN, 23rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Black Academic Surgeons, Jackson, MS, 1/25/2013
• Laparoscopic Surgery for Trauma: The Realm of Therapeutic Management.
  Zafar SN, 23rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Black Academic Surgeons, Jackson, MS, 1/25/2013
• Disparities in Access to Surgical Care in Pakistan.
  Zafar SN, Alliance for Surgery and Anesthesia Presence Meeting, San Diego, CA, 1/9/2011
• Awareness of the risk factors, presenting features and complications of hypertension amongst hypertensives and normotensives.
  Zafar SN, Health Sciences Research Assembly, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, 1/24/2007
• Prevalence and predictors of depression among an elderly population of Pakistan.
  Zafar SN, Health Sciences Research Assembly, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, 1/24/2007
• Perceptions about the cause of schizophrenia and the subsequent help seeking behavior in a Pakistani population - results of a cross-sectional survey.
  Zafar SN, Health Sciences Research Assembly, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, 1/24/2007
• Role of phosphatidylinositide 3-kinase in platelet signaling and regulation of thrombus formation.
  Zafar SN, Health Sciences Research Assembly, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, 1/24/2007
• Health and needs assessment of geriatric patients: results of a survey at a teaching hospital in Karachi.
  Zafar SN, Health Sciences Research Assembly, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, 1/1/2006
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Lectures

• Global Cancer Surgery 
  1/1/2019
• Postoperative Bleeding After Laparoscopic Roux en Y Gastric Bypass - Predictors and Consequences. 
  Seattle, WA - 1/11/2018
• Staple Line Reinforcement Reduces Postoperative Bleeding after Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy-An Analysis of the MBSAQIP Dataset. 
  Seattle, WA - 1/11/2018
• Not all Readmissions are Created Equal - Index vs. Non-Index Readmissions After Major Cancer Surgery. 
  Las Vegas, NV - 1/1/2017
• Road Traffic Injuries: Cluster Randomized Countrywide Population Data from 4 Low-Income Countries. 
  Las Vegas, NV - 1/1/2017
• Success beyond medical school. 
  1/1/2016
• Laparoscopic Splenectomy for Trauma. 
  Boston, MA - 1/1/2016
• Minority Race and Lower Socioeconomic Status Adversely Affect Stoma Closure Rates. 
  Chapel Hill, NC - 1/1/2015
• Morbidity or Mortality? Variations in Trauma Centers in the Rescue of Older Injured Patients. 
  San Diego, CA - 1/4/2014
• The Optimal Time for 'Early' Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy for Acute Cholecystitis. 
  Honolulu, HI - 1/3/2014
• Life as resident Seminar. 
  MD, 2013, 2014 - 1/1/2014
• Outcomes after Emergency General Surgery at Teaching Versus Non-Teaching Hospitals. 
  Philadelphia, PA - 1/1/2014
• Emergency General Surgery in Older patients: A National Comparison of Presentation and Outcomes. 
  San Francisco, CA - 1/1/2014
• Cost and Outcomes of Trauma Care at Centers Treating a Higher Proportion of Older Patients: The Case for Geriatric Trauma Centers. 
  San Francisco, CA - 1/18/2013
• Ureteral Injury after Laparoscopic Versus Open Colectomy: An Analysis of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP). 
  Washington, DC - 1/6/2013
• Acute Care Surgery: What Do Patients Look Like? 
  New Orleans, LA - 1/5/2013
• Burden Of Comorbidities In Geriatric Trauma: Should The Elderly Continue To Be Excluded From Risk-Adjusted Trauma Mortality Analyses? 
  New Orleans, LA - 1/5/2013
• Better Outcomes with Higher Volume of Acute Care Surgical Procedures. 
  New Orleans, LA - 1/5/2013
• Morbidity or Mortality?..Variations in Trauma Centers in the Rescue of Older Injured Patients. 
  Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC - 1/1/2013
• An Overview of research. 
  1/1/2013
• Laparoscopic Surgery for Trauma: The Realm of Therapeutic Management. 
  Washington, DC - 1/1/2013
• Costs and Outcomes of Trauma Care at Centers Treating a Higher Proportion of Older Patients. 
  Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC - 1/1/2013
• Gunshot Wound (GSW) Victims Arriving by Private Vehicle Have Better Survival Than Those Transported By Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Or Police. 
  Las Vegas, NV - 1/14/2012
• The Sleepy Surgeon: Does Night Time Surgery for Trauma Affect Mortality Outcomes? 
  Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC - 1/1/2012
• How to present your research effectively. 
  1/1/2012
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Other

• "I am interested in research, but I don't know how..." 
  Zafar SN, The 11 Steps to Conduct Outcomes Research, Association for Academic Surgery Blog
  http://www.aasurg.org/blog/interested-research-dont-know-11-steps-conduct-outcomes-research/
  1/29/2018
• Matched in to Surgery- Now What? 
  Zafar SN, Association for Academic Surgery Blog
  https://www.aasurg.org/blog/matched-surgery-now/
  1/27/2017
• Robotic Surgery: another view. 
  Zafar SN, Letters to the Editor, Dawn Newspaper
  http://www.dawn.com/news/667465/robotic-surgery-another-view
  1/20/2011
• Volunteers make a difference - cover story Flood relief. 
  Zafar SN, AKUNAMA Winter Edition, Vol. 3, Issue 2
  https://www.scribd.com/document/47593505/AKU-Nama-Winter-2010
  1/1/2010
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