GilbertRUpchurchMD

Vascular Surgery • Gainesville, FL

Woodward Professor and Chairman University of Florida

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Office
1600 SW Archer Rd
Gainesville, FL 32610
Phone(352) 265-0535
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Summary

Dr. Gilbert Upchurch is a vascular surgeon in Gainesville, FL. He received his medical degree from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and has been in practice 26 years. He is experienced in peripheral vascular disease, carotid disease, aortic surgery, endovascular surgery, and aortic disease.

Education & Training

Cleveland Clinic FoundationFellowship, Vascular Surgery, 2006 - 2006
Brigham and Women's HospitalFellowship, Vascular Surgery, 1998 - 1999
Brigham and Women's HospitalResidency, General Surgery, 1991 - 1998
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of MedicineClass of 1991

Certifications & Licensure

FL State Medical License 2017 - 2022
WV State Medical License 2012 - 2021
VA State Medical License 2010 - 2022
OH State Medical License 2006 - 2006
MI State Medical License 1999 - 2015
MA State Medical License 1992 - 2021
American Board of Surgery Surgery
American Board of Surgery Vascular Surgery

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2013
CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Inpatient - Core EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2012
Fellow (FACS) American College of Surgeons

Clinical Trials

Valiant Evo US Clinical Trial Start of enrollment: 2016 Mar 01Ali Azizzadeh, MD
A Phase II Clinical Trail to Assess the Safety and Effects of ZD4054 (Zibotentan) on Exercise Induced Calf Muscle Perfusion in Patients With Intermittent Claudication (Rutherford II or III). Start of enrollment: 2013 Jun 01Upchurch, G.R.,Kramer, C.M.,Sharma, A.M.,Annex, B.H.
Open Versus Endovascular Repair of Popliteal Artery Aneurysm Trial Start of enrollment: 2013 Feb 01Dietzek, A.,Fajardo, A.,Stanley, A.,Darling, C.,Bertges, D.,Rzucidlo, E.M.,Upchurch, G.,Eid, I.,Indes, J.,Saliby, J.,Eldrup-Jorgensen, J.,Tan, K.,Kabbani, L.,Schermerhorn, M.,Conrad, M.,Hirko, M.,Iafrati,...
Zenith® Dissection Clinical Trial Start of enrollment: 2012 Aug 01Beck, A.,Khoynezhad, A.,Griggs, A.,Schanzer, A.,Starnes, B.,Hughes, C.,Caputo, F.,Upchurch, G.,Patel, H.,Bismuth, J.,Panneton, J.,Slaiby, J.,Lombardi, J.,Illig, K.,Sanchez, L.,Schermerhorn, M.,Farber, M.,...

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Society for Vascular Surgery clinical practice guidelines of thoracic endovascular aortic repair for descending thoracic aortic aneurysms
Gilbert R. Upchurch, Guillermo A. Escobar, Ali Azizzadeh, Adam W. Beck, Mark F. Conrad, Jon S. Matsumura, Mohammad Hassan Murad, R. Jason Perry, Michael J. Singh, Ravi...> ;Journal of Vascular Surgery. 2021 Jan 1
Transcriptomic responses from improved murine sepsis models can better mimic human surgical sepsis
Philip A. Efron, Dijoia B. Darden, Zhongkai Wang, Dina C. Nacionales, Maria-Cecilia Lopez, Russell B. Hawkins, Michael C. Cox, Jaimar Rincon, Ricardo Ungaro, Marvin L....> ;The FASEB Journal. 2020 Nov 2
Mysteries, Epistemological Modesty, and Artificial Intelligence in Surgery.
Loftus, T. J., Upchurch, G. R., Delitto, D., Rashidi, P., Bihorac, A.> ;Frontiers in artificial intelligence. 2020 Oct 30
The Changing Face of Academic Surgery: Overrepresentation of Women among Surgeon-Scientists with R01 Funding.
Elizabeth D. Krebs, Adishesh K. Narahari, Ian O. Cook-Armstrong, Anirudha S. Chandrabhatla, J. Hunter Mehaffey, Gilbert R. Upchurch, Shayna L. Showalter> ;Journal of The American College of Surgeons. 2020 Oct 1
MicroRNA-206 antagomiR‒enriched extracellular vesicles attenuate lung ischemia‒reperfusion injury through CXCL1 regulation in alveolar epithelial cells.
Jun Cai, Ricardo C. Gehrau, Zhenxiao Tu, Victoria Leroy, Gang Su, Junyi Shang, V. Mas, A. Emtiazjoo, A. Pelaez, Carl Atkinson, Tiago Machuca, Gilbert R. Upchurch, Ashi...> ;Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 2020 Sep 28
Complicated acute Type B aortic dissection: update on management and results.
Eric Y Pruitt, Salvatore T. Scali, Dean J. Arnaoutakis, Martin R. Back, George J. Arnaoutakis, Tomas D. Martin, Thomas M. Beaver, Thomas S. Huber, Gilbert R. Upchurch> ;Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery. 2020 Sep 23
Remodeling, Reintervention, and Survival After Endovascular Repair of Chronic Type B Dissection.
Dean J. Arnaoutakis, Tabassum A. Khan, Salvatore T. Scali, Dan Neal, Kristina A. Giles, Michol A. Cooper, Thomas M. Beaver, Thomas S. Huber, Gilbert R. Upchurch, Georg...> ;The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 2020 Sep 20
Performance Improvement With Implementation of a Surgical Skills Curriculum.
Tyler J. Loftus, Amanda C. Filiberto, Gilbert R. Upchurch, David J. Hall, Juan C. Mira, Janice Taylor, Christiana Shaw, Sanda A. Tan, George A. Sarosi> ;Journal of Surgical Education. 2020 Sep 1
Intelligent, Autonomous Machines in Surgery
Tyler J. Loftus, Amanda C. Filiberto, Jeremy Balch, Alexander L. Ayzengart, Patrick J. Tighe, Parisa Rashidi, Azra Bihorac, Gilbert R. Upchurch> ;Journal of Surgical Research. 2020 Sep 1
Safety and efficacy of a hybrid approach for repair of complicated aberrant subclavian arteries
Sarah E. Gray, Salvatore T. Scali, Robert J. Feezor, Thomas M. Beaver, Martin R. Back, Gilbert R. Upchurch, Thomas S. Huber, Javairiah Fatima> ;Journal of Vascular Surgery. 2020 Jul 19
Pasteurella Multiocida infection resulting in a descending thoracic aorta mycotic pseudoaneurysm.
Jeng, E. I., Acosta, G., Martin, T. D., Upchurch, G. R.> ;Journal of cardiac surgery. 2020 Jul 12
Reactive Artificial Intelligence Using Big Data in the Era of Precision Medicine-Reply.
Tyler J. Loftus, Gilbert R. Upchurch, Azra Bihorac> ;JAMA Surgery. 2020 Jul 1
Performance advantages for grit and optimism.
Tyler J. Loftus, Amanda C. Filiberto, Martin D. Rosenthal, George J. Arnaoutakis, George A. Sarosi, Justin B. Dimick, Gilbert R. Upchurch> ;American Journal of Surgery. 2020 Jul 1
Decision analysis and reinforcement learning in surgical decision-making.
Tyler J. Loftus, Amanda C. Filiberto, Yanjun Li, Jeremy Balch, Allyson C. Cook, Patrick J. Tighe, Philip A. Efron, Gilbert R. Upchurch, Parisa Rashidi, Xiaolin Li, Azr...> ;Surgery. 2020 Jun 13
Pharmacologic inhibition of transient receptor channel vanilloid 4 attenuates abdominal aortic aneurysm formation.
Shannon, A. H., Elder, C. T., Lu, G., Su, G., Mast, A., Salmon, M. D., Montgomery, W. G., Spinosa, M. D., Upchurch, G. R., Sharma, A. K.> ;FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. 2020 Jun 9
Added Value of Intraoperative Data for Predicting Postoperative Complications: The MySurgeryRisk PostOp Extension.
Shounak Datta, Tyler J. Loftus, Matthew M. Ruppert, Chris Giordano, Gilbert R. Upchurch, Parisa Rashidi, Tezcan Ozrazgat-Baslanti, Azra Bihorac> ;Journal of Surgical Research. 2020 Jun 9
Overweight Patients with Chronic Mesenteric Ischemia Undergo more Diagnostic Studies: A Retrospective Analysis.
Cullen, J. M., Hassinger, T. E., Mehaffey, J. H., Shannon, A. H., Tracci, M. C., Kern, J. A., Upchurch, G. R.> ;The American surgeon. 2020 May 12
Impact of hospital volume on patient safety indicators and failure to rescue following open aortic aneurysm repair.
Salvatore T. Scali, Kristina A. Giles, Paul Kubilis, Adam W. Beck, Cristina J. Crippen, Steven J. Hughes, Thomas S. Huber, Gilbert R. Upchurch, David H. Stone> ;Journal of Vascular Surgery. 2020 Apr 1
Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography Imaging Using Formyl Peptide Receptor 1 Ligand Can Diagnose Aortic Aneurysms in a Mouse Model.
Shannon, A. H., Chordia, M. D., Spinosa, M. D., Su, G., Ladd, Z., Pan, D., Upchurch, G. R., Sharma, A. K.> ;The Journal of surgical research. 2020 Mar 17
Female Mice Exhibit Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Protection in an Established Rupture Model.
Anna Z. Fashandi, Michael Spinosa, Morgan Salmon, Gang Su, William G. Montgomery, Alexis Mast, Guanyi Lu, Robert B. Hawkins, J. Michael Cullen, Ashish K. Sharma, Gorav...> ;Journal of Surgical Research. 2020 Mar 1
Opportunities for machine learning to improve surgical ward safety.
Tyler J. Loftus, Patrick J. Tighe, Amanda C. Filiberto, Jeremy Balch, Gilbert R. Upchurch, Parisa Rashidi, Azra Bihorac> ;American Journal of Surgery. 2020 Feb 26
Artificial Intelligence and Surgical Decision-making
Tyler J. Loftus, Patrick J. Tighe, Amanda C. Filiberto, Philip A. Efron, Scott C. Brakenridge, Alicia M. Mohr, Parisa Rashidi, Gilbert R. Upchurch, Azra Bihorac> ;JAMA Surgery. 2020 Feb 1
Adipocytes promote interleukin-18 binding to its receptors during abdominal aortic aneurysm formation in mice.
Liu, C., Ren, J., Wang, Y., Zhang, X., Sukhova, G. K., Liao, M., Santos, M., Luo, S., Yang, D., Xia, M., Inouye, K., Hotamisligil, G. S., Lu, G., Upchurch, G. R., Libb...> ;European heart journal. 2019 Dec 11
Porcine Model of Infrarenal Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm.
Shannon, A. H., Cullen, J. M., Dahl, J. J., Scott, E. J., Tyerman, Z., Spinosa, M. D., Montgomery, W. G., Johnston, W. F., Lu, G., Salmon, M., Ailawadi, G., Upchurch, ...> ;Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE. 2019 Dec 10
Interaction between frailty and sex on mortality after elective abdominal aortic aneurysm repair
Sarah Barbey, Salvatore T. Scali, Paul Kubilis, Adam W. Beck, Philip P. Goodney, Kristina A. Giles, Scott A. Berceli, Thomas S. Huber, Gilbert R. Upchurch, Lusine Yagh...> ;Journal of Vascular Surgery. 2019 Dec 1
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Journal Articles

Fluoroquinolones and Aortic Disease—Is It Time to Broaden the Warning?
Gilbert Upchurch, MD, JAMA Surgery

Authored Content

Reactive Artificial Intelligence Using “Big Data” in the Era of Precision Medicine—ReplyMay 2020
Validation of AAA Patient Reporting of National Administrative and Clinical Outcomes DatabasesSeptember 2018
A Comparison of Outcomes After Lower Extremity Bypass and Repeat Endovascular Intervention Following Failed Previous Endovascular Intervention for Critical Limb IschemiaMarch 2018
Preoperative Dementia Is Associated with Increased Cost and Complications After Vascular SurgeryOctober 2017
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Press Mentions

Thoracic Surgeon Joins FacultyMay 31, 2018 18:22

Grant Support

Gender Differences In Experimental Aortic AneurysmsNational Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute2010–2012
Gender Differences In Experimental Aortic AneurysmsNational Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute2007–2010
Medical Therapy For Non-Operative Candidates With Abdominal Aortic AneurysmsNational Center For Research Resources2004–2007
Mmp-9-Dependent Vessel Wall Remodeling Is No-DependentNational Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute2001–2005
Nitric Oxide Affect On Endothelial Monocyte InteractionNational Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute1994–1995