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Helen Diller Family Compr Cancer Ctr
JULIO GARCIA-AGUILAR, MD, PHD

Professor of Surgery and Chief, Section of Colon and Rectal Surgery, UCSF

CONTACT

(415) 885-3606 (appts)
(415) 885-3886 (fax)

Box 0144, UCSF; San Francisco, CA 94143-0144

additional websites:

UCSF Physician Referral Directory

EDUCATION

Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, M.D., 1979
Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, Ph.D., 1990
Chief Resident, General Surgery, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA, 1991-1992

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1994-1997

Staff Surgeon, Clinica Moncloa, Madrid, Spain

1994-1996

Clinica Moncloa, Madrid, Spain

1996-1998

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Fairview-University Medical Center

1998-2002

Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Fairview-University Medical Center

2002-present

Professor of Surgery, Chief Section of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco

HONORS & AWARDS

2000

Winning Paper, Research Forum, Meeting of the American

2001

Honorary Member, Asociación de Cirujanos de Colon y Recto de Guatemala

2002

Honorary Member, Sociedad Española de Coloproctología

2002

American Traveling Fellow, Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland

2003

Honorary Member, Asociación de Cirujanos de Colon y Recto de Chile

2004

Resident Teaching Award, UCSF Medical Center

Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, Boston, MA

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

(since 2000)

Mellgren A, Sirivongs P, Madoff RD, Rothenberger DA, Garcia-Aguilar J. Is excision adequate therapy for early rectal cancer? Dis Colon Rectum. 2000;43:1064-1074

Judge BA, Garcia-Aguilar J, Landis GH. Modification of the gluteal perforator-based flap for reconstruction of the posterior vagina. Dis Colon Rectum 2000.43:1020-1022.

Qiu HM, Sirivongs P, Rothenberger J, Rothenberger DA, Garcia-Aguilar J. Molecular prognostic factors in rectal cancer treated by radiation therapy and radical surgery. Dis Colon Rectum 2000;43:451-459.

Belmonte C, Garcia-Aguilar J. Estadificación preoperatoria en cancer de recto. Cirujano General 2000;22:159-163

Garcia-Aguilar J, Davey CS, Le CL, Lowry A, Rothenberger DA. Patient satisfaction after surgical treatment of fistula-in-ano. A medical outcome study. Dis Colon Rectum 2000, 43: 1206-1212.

Yiu R, Wong SK, Cromwell J, Madoff RD, Rothenberger DA, Garcia-Aguilar J. Pelvic wall involvement denotes a poor prognosis in T4 rectal cancer. Dis Colon Rectum 2001. 44 (11): 1676-81

Garcia-Aguilar J, Cromwell JW, Marra C, Lee SK, Madoff RD, Rothenberger DA. Treatment of locally recurrent rectal cancer. Dis Colon Rectum 2001. 44:1743-1748

Garcia-Aguilar J, Pollack J, Lee SK, Hernandez de Anda E, Mellgren A, Wong, WD Finne CO, Rothenberger DA, Madoff RD. Accuracy of endorectal ultrasonography in Preoperative Staging of Rectal Tumors. Dis Colon Rectum 2002.45: 9-

Friel CM, Cromwell JW, Marra C, Madoff RD, Rothenberger DA, Garcia-Aguilar J. Salvage Radical Surgery Following Failed Transanal Excision for Early Rectal Cancer. Dis Colon Rectum 2002. 45(7): 875-9.

Garcia-Aguilar J, Hernandez de Anda E, Sirivongs P, Lee SH, Madoff RD, Rothenberger DA. A pathologic complete response to preoperative chemoradiation is associated with lower recurrence and improved survival in rectal cancer patients treated by mesorectal excision. Dis Colon Rectum 2003 - Mar; 46(3):298-304

Fitzharris GP, Garcia-Aguilar J, Parker SC, Bullard KM, Madoff RD, Goldberg SM, Lowry A. Quality of life after subtotal colectomy for slow-transit. Constipation: both quality and quantity count. Dis Colon Rectum, 2003 Apr;46 (4): 433-40

Zhang X, Cromwell J, Kunjummen D, Yee D, Garcia-Aguilar J. The alpha2 and alpha3 integrins are required for morphologic differentiation of an intestinal epithelial cell line. Surgery 2003; April; (4) 133:429-37.

Dykes SL, Qui H, Rothenberger DA, Garcia-Aguilar J. The pathogenesis of synchronous colorectal cancer: Evidence of a preferred molecular pathway within individuals. Cancer 2003; 98:48-54.

Komuta K, Batts K, Jessurun J, Snover D, Garcia-Aguilar J, Rothenberger D, Madoff R. Interobserver variability in the pathological assessment of malignant colorectal polyps. Br J Surg. 2004 Nov;91:1479-84.

Hernandez de Anda E, Lee S, Finne CO, Rothenberger DA, Madoff R, Garcia-Aguilar J. Endorectal ultrasound in the follow-up of rectal cancer patients treated by local excision or radical surgery. Dis Colon Rectum 2004; 47:818-824.

Velayos F, Lee S, Qiu H, Dykes S, Yiu R, Terdiman J, Garcia-Aguilar J. The mechanisms of microsatellite instability are different in syncrhronous and metachronous colorectal cancer. J Gastrointest Surg 2004. In press.

Garcia-Aguilar J, Hernandez de Anda E, Rothenberger DA, Finne CO, Madoff R. Endorectal ultrasound in the management of patients with malignant rectal polyps. Dis Colon Rectum 2004. In press.

Lee SH, Hernandez de Anda E, Finne C, Madoff R, Garcia-Aguilar J. The Effect of Circumferential Tumor Location in Clinical Outcomes of Rectal Cancer Patients Treated with Total Mesorectal Excision. Submitted for publication, British Journal of Surgery 2004.

Mesa H, Johari V, Garcia-Aguilar J, Pambuccian S. Protracted Campylobacter-associated toxic megacolon in an AIDS-patient. Submitted for publication, Dis Colon Rectum. 2004

2/14/05

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