Vivek Prachand

About this provider

Vivek Prachand is listed in general surgery in Chicago, IL. Reported medical education includes Northwestern University Feinberg Medical School (1994).

Education & training

• NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY FEINBERG MEDICAL SCHOOL · 1994 Source ↗

Source-reported information; confirm current details directly.

Reported credentials

• Surgery Source ↗

Source-reported information; confirm current details directly.

Reported affiliations

• UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Source ↗
• THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER Source ↗

Source-reported information; confirm current details directly.

Selected publications

• A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of a Collaborative-Wide Quality Improvement Project to Improve Postdischarge Venous Thromboembolism Chemoprophylaxis After Abdominopelvic Cancer Surgery. · 2025 Source ↗
• Beyond race: social vulnerability and access to metabolic and bariatric surgery. · 2024 Source ↗
• Development of the Illinois Surgical Quality Improvement Collaborative (ISQIC): Implementing 21 Components to Catalyze Statewide Improvement in Surgical Care. · 2023 Source ↗
• Supervised weight loss requirements disproportionately affect Black patients seeking weight loss surgery. · 2023 Source ↗
• Superior outcomes with double-balloon enteroscopy for small bowel lesion marking followed by intracorporeal as opposed to extracorporeal resection and reconstruction. · 2022 Source ↗
• Pediatric Medically Necessary, Time-Sensitive Scoring Tool Facilitates Dynamic and Flexible Decision-Making and Triage for Procedures: In Reply to González Villarreal and Colleagues. · 2021 Source ↗
• Web-Based Medically Necessary, Time-Sensitive (MeNTS) Procedure Scoring Worksheet: In Reply to Ing and Ing. · 2020 Source ↗
• Pediatric Modification of the Medically Necessary, Time-Sensitive Scoring System for Operating Room Procedure Prioritization During the COVID-19 Pandemic. · 2020 Source ↗
• Multi-institution Evaluation of Adherence to Comprehensive Postoperative VTE Chemoprophylaxis. · 2020 Source ↗
• What Is the Appropriate Use of Laparoscopy over Open Procedures in the Current COVID-19 Climate? · 2020 Source ↗
• Medically Necessary, Time-Sensitive Procedures: Scoring System to Ethically and Efficiently Manage Resource Scarcity and Provider Risk During the COVID-19 Pandemic. · 2020 Source ↗
• Leveraging a Comprehensive Program to Implement a Colorectal Surgical Site Infection Reduction Bundle in a Statewide Quality Improvement Collaborative. · 2019 Source ↗
• Evaluation of the Association of Perioperative UGT1A1 Genotype-Dosed gFOLFIRINOX With Margin-Negative Resection Rates and Pathologic Response Grades Among Patients With Locally Advanced Gastroesophageal Adenocarcinoma: A Phase 2 Clinical Trial. · 2020 Source ↗
• Laparoscopic procedures in patients with cardiac ventricular assist devices. · 2019 Source ↗
• Body contouring after obesity surgery is associated with a weight loss benefit among patients. · 2017 Source ↗
• Smoking and Postoperative Surgical Site Infection: Where There's Smoke, There's Fire. · 2017 Source ↗
• Evaluation of a novel mentor program to improve surgical care for US hospitals. · 2017 Source ↗
• Rates of secondary hyperparathyroidism after bypass operation for super-morbid obesity: An overlooked phenomenon. · 2017 Source ↗
• Peripheral circadian misalignment: contributor to systemic insulin resistance and potential intervention to improve bariatric surgical outcomes. · 2016 Source ↗
• Extended Duration Enoxaparin Decreases the Rate of Venous Thromboembolic Events after Radical Cystectomy Compared to Inpatient Only Subcutaneous Heparin. · 2017 Source ↗
• The IFSO Website (www.ifso.com): the Online Gateway to Obesity and Metabolic Disorders for Bariatric Surgery Professionals and Patients: On behalf of the IFSO Communications Committee. · 2015 Source ↗
• Training in minimally invasive lobectomy: thoracoscopic versus robotic approaches. · 2014 Source ↗
• Processes of care in the multidisciplinary treatment of gastric cancer: results of a RAND/UCLA expert panel. · 2014 Source ↗
• The evolution of minimally invasive bariatric surgery. · 2011 Source ↗
• Duodenal switch provides superior resolution of metabolic comorbidities independent of weight loss in the super-obese (BMI > or = 50 kg/m2) compared with gastric bypass. · 2010 Source ↗
• Gastroesophageal reflux disease and severe obesity: Fundoplication or bariatric surgery? · 2010 Source ↗
• The role of malabsorption in bariatric surgery. · 2009 Source ↗
• Duodenal switch provides superior weight loss in the super-obese (BMI > or =50 kg/m2) compared with gastric bypass. · 2006 Source ↗

Source-reported information; confirm current details directly.

Insurance reported

Reported in source records. Confirm the exact plan, network and procedure with the practice and insurer. Logos identify brands; they do not establish participation.