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Office
2650 Ridge Ave
Dept of Surgery, Evanston Hospital
Evanston, IL 60201Phone+1 847-570-2290- Is this information wrong?
Summary
- I am a fellowship trained breast surgeon and I have been in practice for over 12 years
Education & Training
- John Wayne Cancer InstituteMD, 2001 - 2003
- McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern UniversityResidency, Surgery, 1994 - 2001
- Southern Illinois University School of MedicineClass of 1994
Certifications & Licensure
- CA State Medical License 2001 - Present
- IL State Medical License 1994 - 2026
- American Board of Surgery Surgery
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2011-2013
Clinical Trials
- The MEDITATE-BC Study: Mindfulness-Enhanced Decision Intervention To Aid Treatment Election - Breast Cancer Start of enrollment: 2018 Nov 08
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 1 citationsDeclination of Treatment, Racial and Ethnic Disparity, and Overall Survival in US Patients With Breast Cancer.Jincong Q Freeman, James L Li, Susan G Fisher, Katharine A Yao, Sean P David
JAMA Network Open. 2024-05-01 - 61 citationsContralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy Provides No Survival Benefit in Young Women with Estrogen Receptor-Negative Breast CancerCatherine Pesce, Erik Liederbach, Chi-Hsiung Wang, Brittany Lapin, David J. Winchester
Annals of Surgical Oncology. 2014-08-01 - 26 citationsPeritumoral Expression of Adipokines and Fatty Acids in Breast CancerJennifer L. Gnerlich, Katharine Yao, Philip Fitchev, Robert A. Goldschmidt, Michael C. Bond
Annals of Surgical Oncology. 2013-09-20
Journal Articles
- Facility-Level Analysis of Robot Utilization Across Disciplines in the National Cancer DatabaseAndrew Cohen, Katharine Yao, Sangtae Park, Richard J Fantus, Christopher B Riedinger, Journal of Robotic Surgery
- Patient-Reported Outcomes for Breast CancerJill Dietz, Henry M Kuerer, Katharine A Yao, Annals of Surgical Oncology
- The Changing Paradigms for Breast Cancer Surgery: Performing Fewer and Less-Invasive OperationsDavid R Brenin, E Shelley Hwang, Katharine Yao, David W Ollila, Henry M Kuerer, Annals of Surgical Oncology
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Authored Content
- Contralateral Breast Cancer in Breast Cancer Patients with Germline MutationsDecember 2022
Press Mentions
- New Breast Cancer Standards Emphasize Individualized Patient CareApril 19th, 2023
- Obamacare Helped Women in Some Southern States Get Better Breast Cancer CareFebruary 3rd, 2023
- Medicaid Expansion in Southern States Associated with Earlier and More Comprehensive Breast Cancer TreatmentFebruary 1st, 2023
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Hospital Affiliations
- Evanston HospitalEvanston, Illinois
- Highland Park HospitalHighland Park, Illinois
- Skokie HospitalSkokie, Illinois
- Glenbrook HospitalGlenview, Illinois
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