Current Research Interests: Ms. Ben-Porat has collaborated with Jaya Satagopan in describing how to analyze competing risks in survival analysis and have put together a review paper on this topic for the clinical audience. Selected Bibliography: 1. Peter J Allen, MD, Alexander Stojadinovic, MD, Leah Ben-Porat, MS, Mithat Gonen, PhD, David Kooby, MD, Leslie Blumgart, MD, Philip Paty, MD, and Yuman Fong, MD. The management of variant arterial anatomy during hepatic arterial infusion pump placement. Annals of Surgical Oncology. 2002 Nov-Dec;9(9):875-80.2. William R. Jarnagin, MD; FACS; Mithat Gonen, PhD; Ronald P. DeMatteo, MD; Leah Ben-Porat, MS; Jessica Bodniewicz, BS; Yuman Fong, MD; Miranda Youssef, BA; Leslie H. Blumgart, MD, Improvement in Perioperative Outcome after Hepatic Resection: Analysis of 1803 Consecutive Cases. Annals of Surgery 2002; 236 (4) 397-407. 3. Gary A. Ulaner, Hsuan-Ying Huang, Jesse Otero, Leah Ben-Porat, Jaya M. Satagopan, Zhiquan Zhao, Richard Gorlick, Paul Meyers, John H. Healey, Andrew G. Huvos, Andrew R. Hoffman, and Marc Ladanyi. Absence of a telomere maintenance mechanism as a favorable prognostic factor in patients with osteosarcoma. Cancer Research 2003 Apr 15;63(8):1759-63. 4. Kooby DA, Stockman J, Ben-Porat L, Gonen M, Jarnagin WR, Dematteo RP, Tuorto S, Wuest D, Blumgart LH, Fong Y. Influence of transfusions on perioperative and long-term outcome in patients following hepatic resection for colorectal metastases. Annals of Surgery. 2003 Jun;237(6):860-70. 5. Kutler DI, Wreesmann VB, Goberdhan A, Ben-Porat L, Satagopan J, Ngai I, Huvos AG, Giampietro P, Levran O, Pujara K, Diotti R, Carlson D, Huryn LA, Auerbach AD, Singh B. Human papillomavirus DNA and p53 polymorphisms in squamous cell carcinomas from Fanconi anemia patients. JNCI 2003;95:1718-1721. |