Specialties
Education
- MD, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
- MS, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
- General Surgery Residency, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT
- Complex General Surgical Oncology Fellow, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
- Hepatobiliary Fellow, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Clinical Specialties
Dr. Acher is a Hepatobiliary surgeon and Surgical Oncologist, specializing in minimally invasive and open surgical approaches to treating pancreas, biliary, and liver cancers, colorectal liver metastases, luminal cancers, neuroendocrine tumors and retroperitoneal sarcoma.
Research Interests
Dr. Acher’s research interests include: radiologic histologic correlation in pancreas, liver, and biliary cancers, the use of radiomics to improve staging imaging and surgical planning, the use of radiomics and pathologic-radiologic correlation to assess tumor response to systemic or locoregional therapies, and applying systems engineering approaches to streamline medical processes and systems.
Recent Publications
Driver mutation profiling by next-generation sequencing predicts survival and recurrence after curative-intent resection for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: a genomic cohort study.
Ali MM, Aragon KK, Cher BA, Ahmed KS, Marcinak CT, Acher AW, Kratz J, Murtaza M, Burkard ME, Zafar SN
Clin Transl Oncol 2026 Oct 13;
[PubMed ID: 42870132]Surgical management of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours.
Hallet J, Falconi M, Buerba GA, Clarke C, Maxwell J, Soares H, Stättner S, Nieveen van Dijkum E, Acher AW, Andreasi V, Bartsch D, Bubis L, Cavallucci D, Chan D, Clemente U, Del Chiaro M, Daskalakis K, Dominguez-Rosado I, Dumitra T, Duncan K, Fermi F, Fusai GK, Hackert T, Howe JR, Huivaniuk I, Kaemmerer D, Landoni L, McNamara M, Niessen A, Pascher A, Perren A, Pommier R, Sachdeva S, Sadowski S, Sauvanet A, Singhi A, Sorbye H, Ward E, Wei A, Yen L, Soreide K, Partelli S
Br J Surg 2026 Apr 09; 113(4)
[PubMed ID: 41842405]Risk factors for unplanned intensive care unit admission after liver resection: a cohort study.
Brañes A, Greenberg B, Acher AW, Xu K, Lafreniere-Roula M, Thorpe KE, Karanicolas PJ, HPB CONCEPT Team
HPB (Oxford) 2026 May; 28(5): 731-736
[PubMed ID: 41760470]Predictors of quality-of-life following liver resection for malignancy.
Greenberg B, Acher AW, Habib R, Castelo M, Wang SM, Roke R, Xu G, Thorpe K, Guttman MP, Hallet J, Karanicolas PJ
HPB (Oxford) 2026 Mar; 28(3): 333-341
[PubMed ID: 41565523]Classification of postoperative pancreatic fistula after left pancreatectomy: international multicentre cohort study.
Bonsdorff A, Yu W, Kirkegård J, de Ponthaud C, Kjeseth T, Ghorbani P, Wennerblom J, Williamsson C, Acher AW, Thillai M, Tarvainen T, Uutela A, Sirén J, Kokkola A, Kleive D, Sahakyan M, Hagen RE, Lund A, Fugleberg Nielsen M, Fristedt R, Biörserud C, Bratlie SO, Tingstedt B, Labori KJ, Gaujoux S, Wigmore SJ, Hallet J, Sparrelid E, Sallinen V
BJS Open 2025 Oct 30; 9(6)
[PubMed ID: 41335124]