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Office
747 N Rutledge St
Springfield, IL 62702Phone+1 217-545-8000Fax+1 717-531-0646
Education & Training
- Barnes-Jewish Hospital2007 - 2008
- Washington University/B-JH/SLCH ConsortiumFellowship, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, 2006 - 2007
- Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital2002 - 2006
- Santa Barbara Cottage HospitalResidency, Surgery, 2001 - 2006
- Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital2001 - 2002
- Baylor College of MedicineClass of 2001
- Southern Methodist UniversityB.S, Biology, 1997
Certifications & Licensure
- CA State Medical License 2002 - Present
- IL State Medical License 2021 - 2026
- AZ State Medical License 2017 - 2021
- PA State Medical License 2008 - 2018
- OH State Medical License 1983 - 2016
- American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery Colon & Rectal Surgery
- American Board of Surgery Surgery
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Department of Surgery Teacher of the Year Award Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara, California, 2006
- American College of Surgeons Committee Trauma Paper Competition Won 3rd Place “B-Type Natriuretic Peptide Levels May Be Elevated in the Critically-Ill Trauma or Postoperative Patient Without Congestive Heart Failure” San Diego, California, 2005
- Graduated Summa Cum Laude Phi Beta Kappa Southern Methodist University, 1997
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Clinical Trials
- Cimzia Versus Mesalamine for Crohn's Recurrence Start of enrollment: 2013 Feb 01
- EGESTA - Emergent GI Therapy for Severe, Complicated CDI Using Fecal Microbiota Transplant Start of enrollment: 2016 Sep 15
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 64 citationsAntibody-drug conjugates bearing pyrrolobenzodiazepine or tubulysin payloads are immunomodulatory and synergize with multiple immunotherapiesJonathan Rios-Doria, Jay Harper, Raymond Rothstein, Leslie Wetzel, Jon Chesebrough
Cancer Research. 2017-05-15 - 27 citationsIntegrated Meta-omics Reveals a Fungus-Associated Bacteriome and Distinct Functional Pathways in Clostridioides difficile InfectionDavid B. Stewart, Justin P. Wright, Maria Fowler, Christopher J. McLimans, Vasily Tokarev
Msphere. 2019-08-28 - 204 citationsDehydration Is the Most Common Indication for Readmission After Diverting Ileostomy CreationEvangelos Messaris, Rishabh Sehgal, Susan Deiling, Walter A. Koltun, David B. Stewart
Diseases of the Colon and Rectum. 2012-02-01
Journal Articles
- Genetic Risk Profiling and Gene Signature Modeling to Predict Risk of Complications After IPAA.Sehgal R, Berg A, Polinski JI, Hegarty JP, Lin Z, McKenna KJ, Stewart DB, Poritz LS, Koltun WA, Dis Colon Rectum;55:239-48
- Marital Status and Colon Cancer Outcomes in US SEER Registry Data: Does Marriage Affect Cancer Survival by Gender and Stage?Wang L, Wilson SE, Stewart DB, and Hollenbeak CS, Cancer Epidemiol;35(5):417-22
- Clostridium Difficile Colitis: Factors Associated with Outcome and Assessment of Mortality at a National Level.DB and Hollenbeak CS: Clostridium Difficile Colitis: Factors Associated with Outcome and Assessment of Mortality at a National Level., J Gastrointest Surg, 15(9):1548-1555
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Abstracts/Posters
- Impact of Diabetes Mellitus on Surgical Site Infections After Colorectal Resections.Sehgal R, Figueroa R, Berg A, McKenna KJ, Stewart DB, Koltun WA, and Poritz LS Podium Presentation – Rish Sehgal, MB BCh, American College of Surgeons, Chicago, Illinois
- Proton Pump Inhibitor Therapy and Malnourishment are Better Predictors of Recurrent C. Difficile Colitis Than Choice of Antibiotics.Rotramel A, Messaris E, Poritz L, McKenna K, Koltun WA, Stewart DB, American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, San Antonio, TX
- Predicting Recurrence of C. difficile Colitis Using Bacterial Virulence Factors: Binary Toxin is the Key.Stewart DB, Berg A, Hegart JP, Digestive Disease Week, San Diego, CA
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Lectures
- Rectal Cancer.General Surgery Residency Core Education Program Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsy
- Fecal Incontinence.Colorectal Surgery Didactic Conference Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania
- HNPCC.Colorectal Surgery Didactic Conference Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania
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Press Mentions
- Single-Site Laparoscopic Surgery to Treat Colon CancerMarch 11th, 2015
Grant Support
- Microbial Community Structure and Meta-transcriptomics in C. difficile InfectionResearch Foundation of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons2017–2018
- EGESTA – Emergent GI Therapy for Severe, Complicated CDI using Fecal Microbiota TransplantOpenBiome2016–2018
- What are the Comparative Effects of Metronidazole, Vancomycin and Fidaxomicin on Host Associated Gut Microbial CommunitiesMerck Research Laboratories2016–2018
- Dequalinium Analogues are Effective Transporters of Antisense Morpholinos in C. difficilePenn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute2015–2016
- Use of Certolizumab Following Ileocolectomy Lowers Endoscopic and Histological Recurrence Rates for Crohn’s Disease at One Year Compared to MesalamineUCB/Pharma2012–2016
- Morpholinos are an Effective Therapy for C. Difficile Infection and are an Alternative to Conventional AntibioticsBarsumian Trust Grant2015
- Calcium Phosphosilicate Nanoparticles: Imaging and Drug Delivery for GI and Prostate TumorsPSU Pathway to Partnerships (P3) Stage One2015
- Development of Anti-sense Morpholinos Targetting C. difficileBarsumian Trust Grant2014–2015
- A Phase 3B Randomized Double-Blind Placebo Controlled Parallel Treatment Group Multi-Center Efficacy & Safety Study of Topical Diltiazem Hydrochloride 2% Cream in Subjects with Anal FissureVentrus Biosciences, Inc.2013–2015
- Cellular Mechanisms of Anal Cancer Using HPV Infected Organotypic CulturesEberly Medical Research Endowment Innovation Fund Support2013–2014
- Multicenter, Prospective, Observational Study of GORE BIO-A Fistula Plug for Use in Anal Fistula RepairW. L. Gore & Associates, Inc2011–2014
- C. difficile Colitis: Predicting Severity to Save LivesBarsumian Trust Grant2011–2012
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