Wisconsin Department of Surgery members engage in remarkable research that yields many impactful publications every month. We’re highlighting several of these publications monthly to showcase the diversity of research in the department; see selections from November 2025 below. The complete list of publications by month with links to full articles is available on our Recent Publications page.
November 2025
Best Case/Worst Case communication tool for trauma intensive care units.
Fritz ML, Hernandez AH, Zelenski AB, Nitkowski J, Sobol C, Kwekkeboom K, Bradley T, Tsang J, Bushaw K, Dudek A, Stalter L, Schwarze ML.
JAMA Surg. 2025 Nov 1;160(11):1250-1259. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2025.3782.
PMID: 40991261; PMCID: PMC12461598.
CDK7 is a novel therapeutic target in fibrolamellar carcinoma.
Nukaya M, Carney PR, Cafferty C, Zahed K, Yun I, Al-Adra DP, Kazim NA, Farghli AR, Chan M, Stram A, Kratz JD, Berres ME, Yen A, Gujral TS, Sethupathy P, Bradfield CA, Ronnekleiv-Kelly SM.
iScience. 2025 Nov 4;28(12):113925. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.113925.
PMID: 41321622; PMCID: PMC12663737.
Evaluation of anal cancer screening practices among a national cohort of veterans with HIV.
Hewitt AJ, Freeman MJ, Hayden DM, Carchman EH, Schweizer ML, Sanger CB.
Dis Colon Rectum. 2025 Nov 1;68(11):1276-1284. doi: 10.1097/DCR.0000000000003928. Epub 2025 Jun 8.
PMID: 40767349.
Identifying barriers and motivators to increase surgical clinical trial participation for older veterans.
Cher BAY, Lunardi N, Thornton M, Hitzeman A, Baker J, Macdonald C, Skinner CS, Brown CJ, Mai D, Marten EL, Makris K, Heredia MLM, Berger M, Cullum CM, Lee SC, Pham TH, Balentine CJ.
J Am Geriatr Soc. 2026 Jan;74(1):161-168. doi: 10.1111/jgs.70218. Epub 2025 Nov 26.
PMID: 41294297.
Pre-clinical development of a wireless neural interface system for osseointegrated prosthetic control in sheep.
Sears L, Deshmukh A, Mereddy R, Go V, Nemke B, Lu Y, Zeng W, Suminski AJ, Markel M, Bachus KN, Morizio J, Poore SO, Dingle AM.
Front Neurosci. 2025 Nov 6;19:1681136. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2025.1681136.
PMID: 41278185; PMCID: PMC12631181.