Dana A. Telem

About this provider

Dana A. Telem is listed in general surgery in Ann Arbor, MI. Reported medical education includes Jefferson Medical College Of Thomas Jefferson University (2005).

Reported procedures

• Bariatric surgery Source ↗
• Bariatric surgery Source ↗

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Education & training

• JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY · 2005 Source ↗
• the Massachusetts General Hospital Source ↗
• Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Source ↗
• Sidney Kimmell Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University Source ↗
• the Massachusetts General Hospital Source ↗
• Image: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Source ↗
• Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Residency, Surgery, 2005 - 2012 Source ↗
• Image: Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University Source ↗
• Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University Class of 2005 Source ↗
• Image: Massachusetts General Hospital Source ↗
• Massachusetts General Hospital Fellowship, Advanced GI Minimally Invasive Surgery Source ↗

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Reported credentials

• Surgery Source ↗
• Surgery Source ↗
• American Board of Surgery Source ↗

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Reported affiliations

• REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Source ↗
• Michigan Medicine Source ↗

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Selected publications

• Surgeon Perspectives on Disclosure of Artificial Intelligence in the Operating Room: A Qualitative Study. · 2026 Source ↗
• Boosting Implementation Efforts With Behavioral Economics. · 2026 Source ↗
• Progress and persistent gaps in organizational climate in SAGES: a 2017-2023 survey comparison. · 2026 Source ↗
• Association Between Intraoperative Cholangiogram Use and Cholecystectomy Outcomes. · 2026 Source ↗
• Preoperative Risk Factors for Poor Hernia-Related Quality of Life One Year After Hernia Repair. · 2026 Source ↗
• Regulating digital surgery to balance safety and innovation: a SAGES white paper. · 2026 Source ↗
• Durability of Practice Change in Hernia Surgery Following De-implementation of Intensive Implementation Strategies. · 2026 Source ↗
• Changes in Commercial Payments Following Ventral Hernia Billing Reform. · 2026 Source ↗
• White paper: robotic cholecystectomy-new technology but safe principles still apply. · 2026 Source ↗
• Contemporary Outcomes of Cholecystectomy. · 2026 Source ↗
• The Growing Physician Shortage: The Role of Non-US Citizen International Medical Graduates in the Physician Workforce. · 2026 Source ↗
• Developing Patient-Centered Clinical Trials: Implications for Incorporating Patient Perspectives. · 2026 Source ↗
• Management of splanchnic venous thrombosis after splenectomy in hematologic diseases. systematic review, meta-analysis and consensus guidelines. · 2025 Source ↗
• American Surgical Association 2025: Inclusive Excellence in Politically Divided Times. · 2026 Source ↗
• Long-Term Risk of Mesh Infection Requiring Removal After Elective Ventral Hernia Repair. · 2025 Source ↗
• A Qualitative Analysis-Enhancing Faculty Academic Success Through Team-Based Mentorship: 5-Year Insights. · 2026 Source ↗
• Long-Term Recurrence and the Safety of Mesh Use After Emergency Ventral Hernia Repair. · 2025 Source ↗
• Acceptability among patients of a risk graphic designed to facilitate shared decision making prior to elective abdominal wall hernia repair. · 2026 Source ↗
• Do smokers deserve "No"? Management and outcomes of smokers undergoing elective ventral hernia repair. · 2025 Source ↗
• Engaging Peer Mentors for Opportunity, Well-Being, and Equity Realization-A Leadership Intervention for Women in Academic Medicine. · 2025 Source ↗
• Applied Artificial Intelligence: The Next Frontier. · 2026 Source ↗
• Diastasis plication during robotic transabdominal preperitoneal repair (rTAPP): a case series of outcomes at a tertiary care center. · 2025 Source ↗
• Gender and Career Milestones of Mid-Career to Senior Medical Faculty Who Held Career Development Awards. · 2025 Source ↗
• Recurrent emergent hernia repairs: who is at risk? · 2025 Source ↗
• "I Just Wish Someone would Take me Very Seriously": Impact of Delayed Ventral Hernia Repair on Patient Well-being. · 2026 Source ↗
• Impact of surgical approach on complications by sex following ventral and incisional hernia repair. · 2025 Source ↗
• Operative decision making for repair of emergent primary and recurrent ventral hernia. · 2025 Source ↗
• Medicare Coding Changes and Reported Hernia Size. · 2025 Source ↗
• Use of Biologic and Biosynthetic Mesh for Ventral Hernia Repair in Current Practice. · 2025 Source ↗
• Impact of preoperative frailty status on decision regret following elective hernia repair. · 2025 Source ↗
• Long-Term Outcomes of Component Separation for Abdominal Wall Hernia Repair. · 2025 Source ↗
• Understanding patient experiences to improve care for females groin hernia. · 2025 Source ↗
• Comparisons of 30-day outcomes after ventral hernia repair by body mass index and surgical approach: a retrospective cohort study. · 2025 Source ↗
• Heterogeneity in the surgical approach to recurrent abdominal wall hernias: an opportunity for quality improvement. · 2024 Source ↗
• Long-term patient reported outcomes after robotic, laparoscopic, and open ventral hernia repair. · 2025 Source ↗
• Concerns About Recurrence Rate for Ventral Hernia Repair. · 2024 Source ↗
• Gastric Bypass vs Diet-The Need for Contemporary Comparisons. · 2024 Source ↗
• Variation in surgical approach and postoperative complication among older adults undergoing ventral hernia repair. · 2024 Source ↗
• Implementation science in humanitarian assistance: applying a novel approach for humanitarian care optimization. · 2024 Source ↗
• Opportunities and Applications of Educational Technologies in Surgical Education and Assessment. · 2025 Source ↗
• Robotics for Emergency General Surgery-Selecting the Right Tool. · 2024 Source ↗
• Is Preoperative Optimization Right for Every Hernia Patient?: It's Time to Optimize the Optimization Process. · 2024 Source ↗
• Variation in approach for midsize (4-6cm) ventral hernias across a statewide quality improvement collaborative. · 2024 Source ↗
• Variability in surgical approaches to hernias in patients with ascites. · 2024 Source ↗
• Use of statewide financial incentives to improve documentation of hernia and mesh characteristics in ventral hernia repair. · 2024 Source ↗
• Outcomes of Emergency Parastomal Hernia Repair in Older Adults: A Retrospective Analysis. · 2024 Source ↗
• Mesh overlap for ventral hernia repair in current practice. · 2023 Source ↗
• Life after "no": barriers to behavior change for persons declined hernia repair due to high-risk features. · 2023 Source ↗
• Workplace Harassment, Cyber Incivility, and Climate in Academic Medicine. · 2023 Source ↗
• Telehealth Policy Change for Surgical Updates: A Win-Win-Win. · 2023 Source ↗
• Comparison of safety and healthcare utilization following sleeve gastrectomy or gastric bypass among medicare beneficiaries using sex as a biologic variable. · 2023 Source ↗
• A qualitative analysis describing attrition from bariatric surgery to identify strategies for improving retention in patients who desire treatment. · 2023 Source ↗
• Contemporary Outcomes of Elective Parastomal Hernia Repair in Older Adults. · 2023 Source ↗
• Surgeon behaviors related to engaging patients in smoking cessation at the time of elective surgery. · 2023 Source ↗
• Correction: Volume-outcome relationships for Roux-en-Y gastric bypass patients in the sleeve gastrectomy era. · 2023 Source ↗
• Comparative Outcomes of Groin Hernia Repair by Sex Among Medicare Beneficiaries. · 2023 Source ↗
• Out-of-pocket Costs for Commercially-insured Patients in the Years Following Bariatric Surgery: Sleeve Gastrectomy Versus Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass. · 2023 Source ↗
• Postacute Care Utilization and Episode of Care Payments Following Common Elective Operations. · 2023 Source ↗
• Health Care Use and Adverse Events After Sleeve Gastrectomy and Gastric Bypass Among Adolescents With Severe Obesity Insured by Medicaid. · 2022 Source ↗
• The impact of frailty on ventral hernia repair outcomes in a statewide database. · 2023 Source ↗
• Application of Component Separation and Short-Term Outcomes in Ventral Hernia Repairs. · 2023 Source ↗
• Five year trends in surgical technique and outcomes of groin hernia repair in the United States. · 2023 Source ↗
• Ventral hernia repair and mesh use in females of childbearing age. · 2023 Source ↗
• SAGES safe cholecystectomy modules improve practicing surgeons' judgment: results of a randomized, controlled trial. · 2023 Source ↗
• Comparative Safety of Sleeve Gastrectomy and Gastric Bypass up to 5 Years After Surgery in Patients With Medicaid. · 2023 Source ↗
• Incidence and trends of decision regret following elective hernia repair. · 2022 Source ↗
• Hospital-level variation in mesh use for ventral and incisional hernia repair. · 2023 Source ↗
• Variation of ventral and incisional hernia repairs in kidney transplant recipients. · 2023 Source ↗
• Variation in approach for small (< 2 cm) ventral hernias across a statewide quality improvement collaborative. · 2022 Source ↗
• Sex disparities in the treatment and outcomes of ventral and incisional hernia repair. · 2023 Source ↗
• Association of Insurance Coverage With Adoption of Sleeve Gastrectomy vs Gastric Bypass for Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery. · 2022 Source ↗
• Trends in Surgical Technique and Outcomes of Ventral Hernia Repair in The United States. · 2023 Source ↗
• Births After Bariatric Surgery in the United States: Incidence, Obstetric Outcomes, and Reinterventions. · 2023 Source ↗
• Surgeon Variation in the Application of Robotic Technique for Abdominal Hernia Repair: A Mixed-Methods Study. · 2022 Source ↗
• Variation in pre-operative insurance requirements for bariatric surgery. · 2022 Source ↗
• Shared Decision-making-It's Not for Everyone. · 2022 Source ↗
• Long-term comparative effectiveness of gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy on use of antireflux medication: a difference-in-differences analysis. · 2022 Source ↗
• Reoperation for Recurrence Up to 10 Years After Hernia Repair. · 2022 Source ↗
• Prevalence and Prescribers of Preoperative Opioid Prescriptions in the US, 2008-2019. · 2022 Source ↗
• Prioritizing Health Equity in Patient-reported Outcome Measurement to Improve Surgical Care. · 2022 Source ↗
• Comparative Safety of Sleeve Gastrectomy and Gastric Bypass: An Instrumental Variables Approach. · 2022 Source ↗
• Medication Use for Obesity-Related Comorbidities After Sleeve Gastrectomy or Gastric Bypass. · 2022 Source ↗
• Comparative Safety of Sleeve Gastrectomy and Gastric Bypass Up to 5 Years After Surgery in Patients With Severe Obesity. · 2021 Source ↗
• Comparative effectiveness of sleeve gastrectomy vs Roux-en-Y gastric bypass in patients giving birth after bariatric surgery: reinterventions and obstetric outcomes. · 2022 Source ↗
• Adopt or Abandon? Surgeon-Specific Trends in Robotic Bariatric Surgery Utilization Between 2010 and 2019. · 2022 Source ↗
• Response to Comment on "New Persistent Opioid Use After Inguinal Hernia Repair". · 2021 Source ↗
• Response to Comment on "Safe Cholecystectomy Multi-society Practice Guideline and State of the Art Consensus Conference on Prevention of Bile Duct Injury (BDI) During Cholecystectomy". · 2021 Source ↗
• Outcomes of a Presurgical Optimization Program for Elective Hernia Repairs Among High-risk Patients. · 2021 Source ↗
• Volume-outcome relationships for Roux-en-Y gastric bypass patients in the sleeve gastrectomy era. · 2022 Source ↗
• Perioperative Risks of Sleeve Gastrectomy Versus Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Among Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease: A Review of the MBSAQIP Database. · 2021 Source ↗
• Paraesophageal Hernia: Current Management. · 2021 Source ↗
• Out-of-Pocket Spending on Common Operations Among the Commercially Insured. · 2022 Source ↗
• American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery: Preoperative Care Pathway for Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass. · 2021 Source ↗
• Implementation of a synoptic operative note for abdominal wall hernia repair: a statewide pilot evaluating completeness and communication of intraoperative details. · 2022 Source ↗
• Venous thromboembolism: risk factors in the sleeve gastrectomy era. · 2021 Source ↗
• The Role of Commercial Health Insurance Characteristics in Bariatric Surgery Utilization. · 2021 Source ↗
• Leveraging a statewide quality collaborative to understand population-level hernia care. · 2021 Source ↗
• Development and Implementation of Preoperative Optimization for High-Risk Patients With Abdominal Wall Hernia. · 2021 Source ↗
• Provider Care Team Segregation and Operative Mortality Following Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting. · 2021 Source ↗
• The Impact of Surgeon Adherence to Preoperative Optimization of Hernia Repairs. · 2021 Source ↗
• Decision support tools: Best practice or failed experiment? · 2021 Source ↗
• Women Surgeons' Perspectives on System-level Strategies to Address Interpersonal Workplace Conflict. · 2021 Source ↗
• Hospital and surgeon variation in 30-day complication rates after ventral hernia repair. · 2021 Source ↗
• Exploration of Factors Associated With Surgeon Deviation From Practice Guidelines for Management of Inguinal Hernias. · 2020 Source ↗
• Gastric Balloons for Weight Loss in 2020. · 2020 Source ↗
• New Persistent Opioid Use After Inguinal Hernia Repair. · 2022 Source ↗
• Bariatric Surgery in Medicare Patients: Examining Safety and Healthcare Utilization in the Disabled and Elderly. · 2022 Source ↗
• Convergent Mixed Methods Exploration of Telehealth in Bariatric Surgery: Maximizing Provider Resources and Access. · 2021 Source ↗
• Benefits and Risks of Bariatric Surgery in Adults: A Review. · 2020 Source ↗
• Women Surgeons' Experiences of Interprofessional Workplace Conflict. · 2020 Source ↗
• A Practical Decontamination Framework for COVID-19 Front-line Workers Returning Home. · 2020 Source ↗
• Exploration of Surgeon Motivations in Management of Abdominal Wall Hernias: A Qualitative Study. · 2020 Source ↗
• Improving obesity treatment through telemedicine: increasing access to bariatric surgery. · 2021 Source ↗
• Surgeon Attitudes and Beliefs Toward Abdominal Wall Hernia Repair in Female Patients of Childbearing Age. · 2020 Source ↗
• Safe cholecystectomy multi-society practice guideline and state-of-the-art consensus conference on prevention of bile duct injury during cholecystectomy. · 2020 Source ↗
• Perioperative risks of bariatric surgery among patients with and without history of solid organ transplant. · 2020 Source ↗
• Safe Cholecystectomy Multi-society Practice Guideline and State of the Art Consensus Conference on Prevention of Bile Duct Injury During Cholecystectomy. · 2020 Source ↗
• SAGES primer for taking care of yourself during and after the COVID-19 crisis. · 2020 Source ↗
• Recognizing Heuristics and Bias in Clinical Decision-making. · 2020 Source ↗
• Current Practices in Hernia Screening-Evidence Based or Profit Driven? · 2020 Source ↗
• Time to end the secrecy: Publish salaries to narrow the gender-based wage gap in surgery. · 2020 Source ↗
• Impact of fragmentation on rehospitalization after bariatric surgery. · 2021 Source ↗
• Impact of Statewide Essential Health Benefits on Utilization of Bariatric Surgery. · 2020 Source ↗
• Incidence and Efficacy of Stent Placement in Leak Management After Bariatric Surgery: An MBSAQIP Analysis. · 2020 Source ↗
• What comes up must go down: endoscopic repair of a prolapsed Roux limb after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. · 2020 Source ↗
• Is it worth it? Determining the health benefits of sleeve gastrectomy in patients with a body mass index <35 kg/m². · 2020 Source ↗
• Risks of Bariatric Surgery Among Patients With End-stage Renal Disease. · 2019 Source ↗
• Costs Associated With Modifiable Risk Factors in Ventral and Incisional Hernia Repair. · 2019 Source ↗
• Assessment of Surgical Specialty Societies' Choosing Wisely Recommendations. · 2019 Source ↗
• Surgeon variation in severity of reflux symptoms after sleeve gastrectomy. · 2020 Source ↗
• Trends in emergency department utilization following common operations in New York State, 2005-2014. · 2020 Source ↗
• Defining Barriers and Facilitators to Advancement for Women in Academic Surgery. · 2019 Source ↗
• Comment on: Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy as day-case surgery: a review of the literature. · 2019 Source ↗
• Sexual Function After Bariatric Surgery: A New Level of Comorbidity Improvement. · 2019 Source ↗
• Editorial (Spring) Board? Gender Composition in High-impact General Surgery Journals Over 20 Years. · 2019 Source ↗
• Mechanisms of age and race differences in receiving minimally invasive inguinal hernia repair. · 2019 Source ↗
• Bariatric surgery for prospective living kidney donors with obesity? · 2019 Source ↗
• Management of Groin Hernias in Adults-2018. · 2018 Source ↗
• Practical Guide to Surgical Data Sets: Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Program (MBSAQIP). · 2018 Source ↗
• Surgeon utilization of minimally invasive techniques for inguinal hernia repair: a population-based study. · 2019 Source ↗
• Updated panel report: best practices for the surgical treatment of obesity. · 2018 Source ↗
• SAGES climate survey: results and strategic planning for our future. · 2018 Source ↗
• Dissecting Surgeon Behavior: Leveraging the Theoretical Domains Framework to Facilitate Evidence-based Surgical Practice. · 2018 Source ↗
• Long-term Outcomes Following Bariatric Surgery. · 2018 Source ↗
• Impact of incisional hernia development following abdominal operations on total healthcare cost. · 2018 Source ↗
• Comment on: medium to long-term outcomes of bariatric surgery in older adults with super obesity. · 2018 Source ↗
• Physiologic and psychological gender differences in bariatric surgery. · 2018 Source ↗
• Bile duct injury and morbidity following cholecystectomy: a need for improvement. · 2018 Source ↗
• SAGES quality initiative: an introduction. · 2017 Source ↗
• SAGES technology and value assessment committee (TAVAC) safety and effectiveness analysis: LINX^® reflux management system. · 2017 Source ↗
• Gastrostomy in the era of minimally invasive head and neck cancer surgery. · 2018 Source ↗
• Patient Acuity and Operative Technique Associated with Post-Colectomy Mortality Across New York State: an Analysis of 160,792 Patients over 20 years. · 2017 Source ↗
• Evaluation of crowd-sourced assessment of the critical view of safety in laparoscopic cholecystectomy. · 2017 Source ↗
• Management of ventral hernia during bariatric surgery: a plea for quality data for quality improvement. · 2017 Source ↗
• American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery: care pathway for laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy. · 2017 Source ↗
• Nineteen-year trends in incidence and indications for laparoscopic cholecystectomy: the NY State experience. · 2017 Source ↗

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