Raghav Chandra, MD
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Surgery
School of Medicine

Awards

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• Alpha Omega Alpha, Rush Medical College, 2017
• Gold Humanism Honor Society, Rush Medical College, 2017

Education & Training

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• General Surgery Residency University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center 06/2025
• M.D. Medical School Rush Medical College 04/2018
• B.A. (Magna Cum Laude) Political Science Carleton College 06/2014

Publications (39)

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Cardiac Surgical ProceduresCompartment SyndromesShort Bowel SyndromeEsophageal AchalasiaEsophageal NeoplasmsCirculating Tumor DNAStomach NeoplasmsCoronary Artery DiseaseHerniorrhaphyConservative TreatmentIntra-Abdominal HypertensionHernia, VentralCoronary Artery BypassCatheter AblationRadial Artery

• Macrovascular tumor infiltration and circulating tumor cell cluster dynamics in patients with cancer approaching the end of life.
  Nature medicine 2025 Newcomer K, Bifolco A, Reeves S, Pontecorvi G, Asawa S, Sznurkowska MK, Nüesch M, Ozimski LL, Bolm L, Sieren MM, Müller L, Chi Z, Gasper W, Wachsmann MB, Moore W, Zheng X, Fokkema A, Ring A, Nguyen-…
• The Parkland Trauma Handbook
  Thoracic Trauma 2025 Jasmina Ehab, Raghav Chandra
• The Parkland Trauma Handbook
  Esophageal Trauma 2025 Raghav Chandra, Melissa Thornton
• Multifocal bowel perforation from angioinvasive aspergillosis after bilateral lung transplantation: a case report and review of the literature.
  AME case reports 2025 Kerlee K, Ehab J, Watson J, Weill P, Chandra R, Keshavamurthy S, Mehta A, Shoultz TH
• The Current State of Tumor Microenvironment-Specific Therapies for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.
  Cancers 2025 Chandra R, Ehab J, Hauptmann E, Gunturu NS, Karalis JD, Kent DO, Heid CA, Reznik SI, Sarkaria IS, Huang H, Brekken RA, Minna JD

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• Advances in Endocarditis - A 2025 Update
  Advances and Ongoing Challenges in the Management of Tricuspid Valve Infective Endocarditis 2025 Erin Hoover, Edward Hauptmann, Paige DeBlieux, Lakisha Haran, Raghav Chandra, Suresh Keshavamurthy
• The Ligament of Marshall: Far From Vestigial!
  Annals of thoracic surgery short reports 2024 Chandra R, Ehab J, Nagaraj M, Keshavamurthy S
• Jumonji histone demethylases are therapeutic targets in small cell lung cancer.
  Oncogene 2024 Nguyen A, Nuñez CG, Tran TA, Girard L, Peyton M, Catalan R, Guerena C, Avila K, Drapkin BJ, Chandra R, Minna JD, Martinez ED
• Treating Atrial Fibrillation is No Maze: A Reminder to Heart Teams for Concomitant Surgical Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation With Cardiac Surgery.
  The American journal of cardiology 2024 Chandra R, Guo J, Sohn J, Jessen ME, Heid CA
• The Conduit Conundrum: A Commentary on "Outcomes of Radial Artery Versus Saphenous Vein as a Second Conduit After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting".
  The American journal of cardiology 2024 Chandra R, Heid CA
• Circumferential tracheal replacement with silicone stent supported, cryopreserved aortic homograft.
  Journal of surgical case reports 2024 Hauptmann E, Dhar S, Harirah O, Chandra R, Reznik S, Waters J
• IASLC 50-Year History: Advances in Thoracic Oncology Treatment and Research - Legacy of Impact, Future of Promise
  Biology 2024 Raghav Chandra, Michele Carbone, John V. Heymach, Tetsuya Mitsudomi, Rolf A. Stahel, John D. Minna
• Safety-Net Hospital Status Is Associated With Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Outcomes at an Urban Academic Medical Center.
  The Journal of surgical research 2023 Chandra R, Meier J, Marshall N, Chuckaree I, Harirah O, Khoury MK, Ring WS, Peltz M, Wait MA, Jessen ME, Hackmann AE, Heid CA
• To radiate or not to radiate: that is the question?-a commentary on "Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy versus neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by minimally invasive esophagectomy for locally advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: a prospective multicenter randomized clinical trial".
  Chinese clinical oncology 2023 Chandra R, Reznik SI
• How I Teach It: The Ross Procedure Using Explanted Hearts During Orthotopic Heart Transplantation.
  CJC open 2023 Chandra R, Heid CA, Chuckaree I, Marshall N, Wait MA, Peltz M, Murala JS
• Essentials of Pulmonary Lobectomy
  Chapter 4: Principles of Pulmonary Lobectomy 2023 Raghav Chandra, Alberto De Hoyos
• Virtual Mentoring: A Novel Approach to Facilitate Medical Student Applications to General Surgery Residency.
  Journal of surgical education 2023 Scrushy M, Thornton M, Stevens A, Chandra R, Carrasco A, Philip K, Gupta VS, Khoury M, Babb J, Sharma R, Abdelfattah KR, Zeh H, Dumas RP
• "Mega" Cisterna Chyli: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.
  Cureus 2023 Chandra R, Murphy T, Jordan KG, Waters JK, Reznik SI
• Homelessness and Race are Mortality Predictors in US Veterans Undergoing CABG.
  Seminars in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2022 Chandra R, Meier J, Khoury MK, Weisberg A, Nguyen YT, Peltz M, Jessen ME, Heid CA
• Vacutainers and Primers Over X-Rays and Gamma Rays: The Role of Circulating Tumor DNA in Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Staging and Surveillance: Invited Commentary on "Potential Clinical Utility of a Targeted Circulating Tumor DNA Assay in Esophageal Adenocarcinoma".
  Annals of surgery 2022 Chandra R, Reznik SI
• Tumor Cells Modulate Macrophage Phenotype in a Novel In Vitro Co-Culture Model of the NSCLC Tumor Microenvironment.
  Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer 2022 Park JV, Chandra R, Cai L, Ganguly D, Li H, Toombs JE, Girard L, Brekken RA, Minna JD
• Mesothelial cell-derived antigen-presenting cancer-associated fibroblasts induce expansion of regulatory T cells in pancreatic cancer.
  Cancer cell 2022 Huang H, Wang Z, Zhang Y, Pradhan RN, Ganguly D, Chandra R, Murimwa G, Wright S, Gu X, Maddipati R, Müller S, Turley SJ, Brekken RA
• Gemella morbillorum mitral valve endocarditis in a patient with a history of mitral valve annuloplasty.
  BMJ case reports 2022 Liu CR, Heid CA, Chandra R, Hauptmann E, Brickner ME, Hwang M, Wait MA
• Schlossberg's Clinical Infectious Disease
  45. Biliary Infection: Cholecystitis, Cholangitis 2022 Raghav Chandra, Robert Rege
• The Colorectal Cancer Tumor Microenvironment and Its Impact on Liver and Lung Metastasis.
  Cancers 2021 Chandra R, Karalis JD, Liu C, Murimwa GZ, Voth Park J, Heid CA, Reznik SI, Huang E, Minna JD, Brekken RA
• Cardiac transplantation in adults with congenital heart disease: A single center case series.
  Clinical transplantation 2021 Heid CA, Chandra R, Liu C, Pruszynski J, Khoury MK, Vela R, Zeng X, Maaraoui K, Kalsbeek A, Ring WS, Amin A, Murala J, Peltz M
• When All Else Fails: A Rare Case of Postoperative Toxic Shock Syndrome Arising from Surgical Site Infection after Decompressive Neurectomy Successfully Treated with Angiotensin-2.
  Case reports in critical care 2021 Chandra R, Gold S, Kohler C, Valladares J, Hennessy SA, Bhat SG
• The changing face of gastric cancer: epidemiologic trends and advances in novel therapies.
  Cancer gene therapy 2020 Chandra R, Balachandar N, Wang S, Reznik S, Zeh H, Porembka M
• Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts: Versatile Players in the Tumor Microenvironment.
  Cancers 2020 Ganguly D, Chandra R, Karalis J, Teke M, Aguilera T, Maddipati R, Wachsmann MB, Ghersi D, Siravegna G, Zeh HJ, Brekken R, Ting DT, Ligorio M
• Peritonitis from perforated sigmoid mass as the first manifestation of metastatic squamous cell lung cancer: a case report and review of literature.
  Journal of surgical case reports 2020 Chandra R, Dogeas E, Nevarez N, Augustine M, Huerta S
• Small Cell Lung Cancer Invading the Left Atrium With Subsequent Malignant Embolic Stroke: A Case Report and Review of Literature.
  Cardiology research 2019 Chandra R, Abugroun A, Goldberg A, Cooney E, Mehrotra S, Volgman A
• Successful non-operative management of intraabdominal hypertension and abdominal compartment syndrome after complex ventral hernia repair: a case series.
  American journal of surgery 2018 Chandra R, Jacobson RA, Poirier J, Millikan K, Robinson E, Siparsky N
• Palatal tremor as a manifestation of posterior circulation haemorrhagic stroke.
  BMJ case reports 2018 Alnaimat S, Chandra R, Gupta S, Mba B
• Current treatment paradigms in pediatric short bowel syndrome.
  Clinical journal of gastroenterology 2017 Chandra R, Kesavan A
• Progressive Dysphagia in an Adolescent Female.
  Clinical pediatrics 2017 Chandra R, Kesavan A
• Strategy for prevention of cancers of the esophagus.
  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2014 Akiyama J, Alexandre L, Baruah A, Buttar N, Chandra R, Clark AB, Hart AR, Hawk E, Kandioler D, Kappel S, Krishnadath SK, Sharma A, Singh I, Straub D, Triadafilopoulos G, Umar A, Wolf B
• Translational research on Barrett's esophagus.
  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2014 Baruah A, Buttar N, Chandra R, Chen X, Clemons NJ, Compare D, El-Rifai W, Gu J, Houchen CW, Koh SY, Li W, Nardone G, Phillips WA, Sharma A, Singh I, Upton MP, Vega KJ, Wu X
• Emergency Department hyperglycemia as a predictor of early mortality and worse functional outcome after intracerebral hemorrhage.
  Neurocritical care 2010 Stead LG, Jain A, Bellolio MF, Odufuye A, Gilmore RM, Rabinstein A, Chandra R, Dhillon R, Manivannan V, Serrano LA, Yerragondu N, Palamari B, Jain M, Decker WW
• Effect of anticoagulant and antiplatelet therapy in patients with spontaneous intra-cerebral hemorrhage: Does medication use predict worse outcome?
  Clinical neurology and neurosurgery 2009 Stead LG, Jain A, Bellolio MF, Odufuye AO, Dhillon RK, Manivannan V, Gilmore RM, Rabinstein AA, Chandra R, Serrano LA, Yerragondu N, Palamari B, Decker WW