Santiago Avila, MD
RESIDENT
Medicine
School of Medicine

Awards

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• Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, 2023
• Medical Research Scholars Program (MRSP), National Institutes of Health, 2022-2023
• Gold Humanism Honor Society, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, 2022

Education & Training

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• Internal Medicine Residency Program University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) 06/2027
• MD Medicine The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine 06/2024
• B.A. Biological Sciences Rice University 05/2018

Publications (12)

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Uterine Cervical NeoplasmsNeoplasmsBrachytherapyCholangiocarcinomaOncologistsDatasets as TopicPatient Education as TopicStudent Run ClinicCultural CompetencyTranslatingGenital Neoplasms, FemaleNeoadjuvant TherapyRectal NeoplasmsAdenocarcinomaMargins of Excision

• Oncologists Must Consider Participant Data When Using Large-Scale Cancer Data Sets.
  JCO clinical cancer informatics 2024 Avila S, Roberson ML, Rajagopal PS
• The Chicagoland Free Clinics Consortium: A Model for Student-Run Free Clinic Collaboration.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2024 Keegan G, Allen A, Millhollin J, Avila S, Xiao T, Woodruff JN, Lee WW
• Spanish Adaptation and Evaluation of Clinical Discussion Guides: Communicating the External Beam Radiotherapy Experience (CEBRE) en Español.
  International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2023 Avila S, Franco I, Bregio C, Haydon A, Macayan JPM, Rooney MK, Ichikawa T, Golden DW, Ortega P
• The Association Between USMLE Step 2 Clinical Knowledge Scores and Residency Performance: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2023 Shirkhodaie C, Avila S, Seidel H, Gibbons RD, Arora VM, Farnan JM
• Communicating the Gynecologic Brachytherapy Experience (CoGBE): Clinician perceived benefits of a graphic narrative discussion guide.
  Brachytherapy 2023 Avila S, Ruiz MJ, Petereit D, Arya R, Callender B, Hasan Y, Kim J, Lee N, McCall A, Son C, Stack K, Asif S, Besecker T, Juneja A, Li Z, Naik P, Ranka T, Saxena P, Siegfried B, Ichikawa T, Golden DW

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• Language Profile of the US Physician Workforce: a Descriptive Study from a National Physician Survey.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2022 Ortega P, Felida N, Avila S, Conrad S, Dill M
• Patient-Reported Quality of Communication Skills in the Clinical Workplace for Clinicians Learning Medical Spanish.
  Cureus 2022 Ortega P, Avila S, Park YS
• Radiation-Associated Lymphopenia and Outcomes of Patients with Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treated with Radiotherapy.
  Journal of hepatocellular carcinoma 2021 De B, Ng SP, Liu AY, Avila S, Tao R, Holliday EB, Brownlee Z, Kaseb A, Lee S, Raghav K, Vauthey JN, Minsky BD, Herman JM, Das P, Smith GL, Taniguchi CM, Krishnan S, Crane CH, Grassberger C, Hong TS, …
• Impact of Fiducial Marker Placement Before Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy on Clinical Outcomes in Patients With Pancreatic Cancer.
  Advances in radiation oncology 2020 Moningi S, Abi Jaoude J, Kouzy R, Lin D, Nguyen ND, Garcia Garcia CJ, Phan JL, Avila S, Smani D, Cazacu IM, Singh BS, Smith GL, Holliday EB, Koay EJ, Das P, Bhutani MS, Herman JM, Minsky BD, Koong AC,…
• Pathologic Response and Postoperative Complications After Short-course Radiation Therapy and Chemotherapy for Patients With Rectal Adenocarcinoma.
  Clinical colorectal cancer 2020 Avila S, Chang GJ, Dasari NA, Smani DA, Das P, Herman JM, Koay E, Koong A, Krishnan S, Minsky BD, Smith GL, Taniguchi C, Taggart MW, Kaur H, Holliday EB
• Radiation dose escalation for locally advanced unresectable intrahepatic and extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.
  Chinese clinical oncology 2019 Avila S, Smani DA, Koay EJ
• Computed Tomography-Based Biomarker Outcomes in a Prospective Trial of Preoperative FOLFIRINOX and Chemoradiation for Borderline Resectable Pancreatic Cancer.
  JCO precision oncology 2019 Koay EJ, Katz MHG, Wang H, Wang X, Prakash L, Javle M, Shroff R, Fogelman D, Avila S, Zaid M, Elganainy D, Lee Y, Crane CH, Krishnan S, Das P, Fleming JB, Lee JE, Tamm EP, Bhosale P, Lee JH, Weston B,…