Aksharananda Rambachan, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

He is currently focused on improving pain assessment, management, and outcomes in older adults, especially those made more vulnerable due to their personal characteristics and ability to communicate.

• Pain Assessment Disparities by Race, Ethnicity, and Language in Adult Hospitalized Patients.
  Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses 2023 Rambachan A, Noorulhuda H, Fang MC, Bazinski M, Manuel S, Hubbard C, Prasad P
• A Focused Screening and Clinical Intervention with Streamlined Outpatient Linkage for Hospitalized Patients with Opioid Use Disorder Experiencing Homelessness.
  Substance abuse : research and treatment 2023 Oreper S, Bond A, Bazinski M, Tierney M, Fang M, Sankaran S, Rambachan A
• Racial Differences in Postoperative Opioid Prescribing Practices in Spine Surgical Patients.
  Neurosurgery 2022 Letchuman V, He L, Mummaneni PV, Agarwal N, Campbell LJ, Shabani S, Chan AK, Abrecht CR, Miller C, Sankaran S, Rambachan A, Croci R, Berven SH, Chou D, Holly LT, Guan Z
• Language barriers and postoperative opioid prescription use after total knee arthroplasty.
  Exploratory research in clinical and social pharmacy 2022 Nguyen KH, Rambachan A, Ward DT, Manuel SP
• Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Discharge Opioid Prescribing From a Hospital Medicine Service.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2021 Rambachan A, Fang MC, Prasad P, Iverson N
• Racial Disparities in 7-Day Readmissions from an Adult Hospital Medicine Service.
  Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities 2021 Rambachan A, Abe-Jones Y, Fernandez A, Shahram Y
• Overcoming the Racial Hierarchy: the History and Medical Consequences of "Caucasian".
  Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities 2018 Rambachan A
• Market-Based Health Care in Specialty Surgery: Finding Patient-Centered Shared Value.
  Neurosurgery 2015 Smith TR, Rambachan A, Cote D, Cybulski G, Laws ER
• Contemporary national surgical outcomes in the treatment of ureteropelvic junction obstruction.
  Urology 2015 Oberlin DT, McGuire BB, Pilecki M, Rambachan A, Kim JY, Perry KT, Nadler RB
• Surgical duration and risk of venous thromboembolism.
  JAMA surgery 2015 Kim JY, Khavanin N, Rambachan A, McCarthy RJ, Mlodinow AS, De Oliveria GS, Stock MC, Gust MJ, Mahvi DM
• Open vs Minimally Invasive Partial Nephrectomy: Assessing the Impact of BMI on Postoperative Outcomes in 3685 Cases from National Data.
  Journal of endourology 2014 Sharma V, Aggarwal A, McGuire BB, Rambachan A, Matulewicz RS, Kim JY, Nadler RB
• Increased anaesthesia duration increases venous thromboembolism risk in plastic surgery: A 6-year analysis of over 19,000 cases using the NSQIP dataset.
  Journal of plastic surgery and hand surgery 2014 Mlodinow AS, Khavanin N, Ver Halen JP, Rambachan A, Gutowski KA, Kim JY
• A systematic review of single-stage augmentation-mastopexy.
  Plastic and reconstructive surgery 2014 Khavanin N, Jordan SW, Rambachan A, Kim JYS
• Impact of resident involvement on urological surgery outcomes: an analysis of 40,000 patients from the ACS NSQIP database.
  The Journal of urology 2014 Matulewicz RS, Pilecki M, Rambachan A, Kim JY, Kundu SD
• MP6-11 PREDICTORS OF READMISSION FOLLOWING OUTPATIENT UROLOGICAL SURGERY.
  The Journal of Urology 2014 Aksharananda Rambachan, Richard S. Matulewicz, Matthew Pilecki, John YS. Kim, Shilajit Kundu
• PD26-01 SURGICAL DURATION OF ENDOSCOPIC UROLOGIC PROCEDURES: SIXTY MINUTES AND BEYOND.
  The Journal of Urology 2014 Richard S. Matulewicz, Aksharananda Rambachan, Daniel T. Oberlin, John YS. Kim, Robert B. Nadler
• Risk factors for 30-day perioperative complications after Le Fort colpocleisis.
  The Journal of urology 2014 Catanzarite T, Rambachan A, Mueller MG, Pilecki MA, Kim JY, Kenton K
• Predictors of readmission after inpatient plastic surgery.
  Archives of plastic surgery 2014 Jain U, Salgado C, Mioton L, Rambachan A, Kim JY
• Abstract 41: increased anesthesia duration increases venous thromboembolism risk in plastic surgery: a six-year analysis of over 19,000 cases.
  Plastic and reconstructive surgery 2014 Mlodinow AS, Khavanin N, Ver Halen JP, Rambachan A, Gutowski KA, Kim JY
• Impact of Operative Time on Perioperative Morbidity in Abdominal Myomectomy.
  Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology 2014 T. Catanzarite, S. Saha, A. Rambachan, J.Y. Kim, M. Milad
• Risk Factors for Perioperative Complications after Le Fort Colpocleisis.
  Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology 2014 T. Catanzarite, A. Rambachan, M. Mueller, M. Pilecki, J.Y. Kim, K. Kenton
• Predictors of readmission following outpatient urological surgery.
  The Journal of urology 2014 Rambachan A, Matulewicz RS, Pilecki M, Kim JY, Kundu SD
• Predictors of readmission after outpatient plastic surgery.
  Plastic and reconstructive surgery 2014 Mioton LM, Buck DW, Rambachan A, Ver Halen J, Dumanian GA, Kim JYS
• The impact of surgical duration on plastic surgery outcomes.
  European Journal of Plastic Surgery 2013 Aksharananda Rambachan, Lauren M. Mioton, Sujata Saha, Neil Fine, John Y. S. Kim
• Increased Operative Time Is Associated with Higher Complication Rates in Plastic Surgery Patients.
  Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery 2013 Aksharananda Rambachan, Lauren M. Mioton, Sujata Saha, Neil Fine, Gregory Dumanian, John Y.S. Kim
• Predictors of Readmission after Outpatient Plastic Surgery.
  Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery 2013 Lauren M. Mioton, Donald W. Buck, Aksharananda Rambachan, Jon Ver Halen, Gregory A. Dumanian, John Y.S. Kim
• Supply of neuraminidase inhibitors related to reduced influenza A (H1N1) mortality during the 2009-2010 H1N1 pandemic: summary of an ecological study.
  Influenza and other respiratory viruses 2013 Miller PE, Rambachan A, Hubbard RJ, Li J, Meyer AE, Stephens P, Mounts AW, Rolfes MA, Penn CR
• Reasons for readmission after carotid endarterectomy.
  World neurosurgery 2013 Rambachan A, Smith TR, Saha S, Eskandari MK, Bendok BR, Kim JY
• Anemia is not a predictor of free flap failure: a review of NSQIP data.
  Microsurgery 2013 Mlodinow AS, Ver Halen JP, Rambachan A, Gaido J, Kim JY
• Supply of neuraminidase inhibitors related to reduced influenza A (H1N1) mortality during the 2009-2010 H1N1 pandemic: an ecological study.
  PloS one 2012 Miller PE, Rambachan A, Hubbard RJ, Li J, Meyer AE, Stephens P, Mounts AW, Rolfes MA, Penn CR
• Robot-assisted laparoscopic ipsilateral ureteroureterostomy for ectopic ureters in children: description of technique.
  Journal of endourology 2012 Leavitt DA, Rambachan A, Haberman K, DeMarco R, Shukla AR
• Intractable hemorrhagic cystitis after hematopoietic stem cell tranplantation--is there a role for early urinary diversion in children?
  The Journal of urology 2012 Lukasewycz SJ, Smith AR, Rambachan A, MacMillan ML, Lewis JM, Shukla AR
• V542 ROBOT-ASSISTED LAPAROSCOPIC URETEROURETEROSTOMY FOR ECTOPIC, DUPLICATED URETER: CASE SERIES AND DESCRIPTION OF TECHNIQUE.
  The Journal of Urology 2012 Ken Haberman, David Leavitt, Aksharananda Rambachan, Romano DeMarco, Aseem Shukla