Farah Karipineni, MD, MPH, FACS
Associate Professor
Surgery - Fresno
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• FACS Endocrine Surgery Johns Hopkins School of Medicine 2017
• General Surgery Residency Surgery Albert Einstein Medical Center 2016
• Medical Degree Medicine University of California, Irvine 2011
• Master's Degree Public Health University of Southern California 2007
• Post Baccalaureate Pre-Medical Certificate Mills College 2006
• Bachelor of Arts University of California, Berkeley 2004

Interests

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• Robotic Surgery
• Scarless Thyroidectomy
• Parathyroid Disorders
• Health Disparaties
• Thyroid Cancer
• Narrative Medicine
• Social Justice
• Adrenal Nodules
• Pre-Medical and Resident Mentorship

Videos

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• MedWatch Today: Endocrine Surgeon Explains Graves' Disease (youtube.com)

Publications (15)

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LaparoscopyHernia, VentralHerniorrhaphyParathyroid GlandsTechnetium Tc 99m SestamibiEnd Stage Liver DiseaseCold TemperatureKidney TransplantationDelayed Graft FunctionMedical ErrorsSurgical MeshWarm IschemiaThyroid NoduleParathyroid DiseasesFasciotomy

• TIRADS Interobserver Variability Among Indeterminate Thyroid Nodules: A Single-Institution Study.
  Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine 2018 Sahli ZT, Sharma AK, Canner JK, Karipineni F, Ali O, Kawamoto S, Hang JF, Mathur A, Ali SZ, Zeiger MA, Sheth S
• The association between the ultrasonography TIRADS classification system and surgical pathology among indeterminate thyroid nodules.
  Surgery 2018 Sahli ZT, Karipineni F, Hang JF, Canner JK, Mathur A, Prescott JD, Sheth S, Ali SZ, Zeiger MA
• Are preoperative sestamibi scans useful for identifying ectopic parathyroid glands in patients with expected multigland parathyroid disease?
  Surgery 2017 Karipineni F, Sahli Z, Somervell H, Mathur A, Prescott JD, Tufano RP, Zeiger MA
• A garden of parathyroid adenomas.
  BMJ case reports 2017 Sahli ZT, Karipineni F, Zeiger MA
• Association Between Delayed Graft Function and Incisional Hernia after Renal Transplant.
  Experimental and clinical transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation 2016 Durinka JB, Parsikia A, Karipineni F, Campos S, Khanmoradi K, Zaki R, Joshi AR, Ortiz J

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• Laparoscopic-assisted Ventral Hernia Repair: Primary Fascial Repair with Polyester Mesh versus Polyester Mesh Alone.
  The American surgeon 2016 Karipineni F, Joshi P, Parsikia A, Dhir T, Joshi AR
• Survival outcomes in liver transplant recipients with Model for End-stage Liver Disease scores of 40 or higher: a decade-long experience.
  HPB : the official journal of the International Hepato Pancreato Biliary Association 2015 Panchal HJ, Durinka JB, Patterson J, Karipineni F, Ashburn S, Siskind E, Ortiz J
• Dialysis within 24 hours of transplant does not improve graft function.
  Experimental and clinical transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation 2015 Shaikh MF, Karipineni F, Parsikia A, Chang PN, Khanmoradi K, Campos S, Zaki R, Ortiz J
• Regarding outcomes in ethnic minority renal transplant recipients receiving everolimus versus mycophenolate: comparative risk assessment results from a pooled analysis.
  Transplantation 2014 Parsikia A, Karipineni F, Ortiz J
• Elimination of warm ischemia using the Ice Bag Technique does not decrease delayed graft function.
  International journal of surgery (London, England) 2014 Karipineni F, Campos S, Parsikia A, Durinka JB, Chang PN, Khanmoradi K, Zaki R, Ortiz J
• MELD predicts mortality in conservatively managed pneumatosis intestinalis in cirrhotics.
  International journal of surgery (London, England) 2013 Pang J, Karipineni F, Parsikia A, Campos S, Horrow MM, Ortiz J
• The "July effect" does not have clinical relevance in liver transplantation.
  Journal of surgical education 2013 Karipineni F, Panchal H, Khanmoradi K, Parsikhia A, Ortiz J
• Seasonal variations in outcomes after kidney transplantation: UNOS review of 336,330 transplants.
  Journal of surgical education 2013 Pang JH, Karipineni F, Panchal H, Campos S, Ortiz J
• Impact of donor obesity and donation after cardiac death on outcomes after kidney transplantation.
  Clinical transplantation 2012 Ortiz J, Gregg A, Wen X, Karipineni F, Kayler LK
• Increasing utilization of laparoscopic gastric banding in the adolescent: data from academic medical centers, 2002-2009.
  The American surgeon 2011 Nguyen NT, Karipineni F, Masoomi H, Laugenour K, Reavis K, Hohmann S, Varela E