RobertESchoenMD

Gastroenterology • Pittsburgh, PA

Professor, Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

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Office
200 Lothrop Street
Digestive Disorders Center, 3rd Floor
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone+1 412-647-8666
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Education & Training

University of PittsburghMPH, Epidemiology, 1991 - 1994
Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Moses and Weiler Campuses)Fellowship, Gastroenterology, 1989 - 1991
Jacobi Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of MedicineResidency, Internal Medicine, 1984 - 1987
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and SurgeonsClass of 1984

Certifications & Licensure

PA State Medical License 1991 - 2024
American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine Gastroenterology

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2011
Top MD Consumers Checkbook

Clinical Trials

Esophageal Cancer Risk Registry Start of enrollment: 1999 Jun 01
Recruiting
Study of the MUC1 Peptide-Poly-ICLC Adjuvant Vaccine in Individuals With Advanced Colorectal Adenoma Start of enrollment: 2008 Oct 01
Completed
Phase 2
Vaccine Therapy in Treating Patients With Newly Diagnosed Advanced Colon Polyps Start of enrollment: 2014 Jun 23
Active, not recruiting
Phase 2
Erlotinib Hydrochloride in Reducing Duodenal Polyp Burden in Patients With Familial Adenomatous Polyposis at Risk of Developing Colon Cancer Start of enrollment: 2017 Oct 27
Completed
Phase 2
Use of ctDNA for Monitoring of Stage III Colorectal Cancer Start of enrollment: 2016 Sep 01
Active, not recruiting
Five or Ten Year Colonoscopy for 1-2 Non-Advanced Adenomatous Polyps Start of enrollment: 2021 Oct 06
Recruiting
Not Applicable
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

1 citations
Comparative Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Colorectal Cancer Screening With Blood-Based Biomarkers (Liquid Biopsy) vs Fecal Tests or Colonoscopy.
Ajitha Mannalithara, Yingjie Weng, Manisha Desai, Uri Ladabaum, Robert E Schoen, Jason A Dominitz, David Lieberman> ;Gastroenterology. 2024 Mar 21
Effectiveness of Colonoscopy Screening vs Sigmoidoscopy Screening in Colorectal Cancer.
Frederik E Juul, Amanda J Cross, Robert E Schoen, Carlo Senore, Paul F Pinsky, Eric A Miller, Nereo Segnan, Kate Wooldrage, Paulina Wieszczy-Szczepanik, Paola Armaroli...> ;JAMA Network Open. 2024 Feb 5
NordICC's 10-Year Interim Results Are Unexpected and Inconsistent With Modeling Predictions.
Uri Ladabaum, Robert E Schoen, Reinier Meester> ;Gastroenterology. 2024 Mar 1
Enrollee characteristics and receipt of colorectal cancer testing in Pennsylvania after adoption of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion.
Kirsten Y Eom, Scott D Rothenberger, Marian P Jarlenski, Robert E Schoen, Evan S Cole, Lindsay M Sabik> ;Cancer Medicine. 2023 Jul 1
5 citations
Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of MUC1 Peptide Vaccine for Prevention of Recurrent Colorectal Adenoma.
Robert E Schoen, Lisa A Boardman, Marcia Cruz-Correa, Ajay Bansal, David Kastenberg, Chin Hur, Lynda Dzubinski, Sharon F Kaufman, Luz M Rodriguez, Ellen Richmond, Asad...> ;Clinical Cancer Research. 2023 May 1
7 citations
Prognostic role of detailed colorectal location and tumor molecular features: analyses of 13,101 colorectal cancer patients including 2994 early-onset cases.
Tomotaka Ugai, Naohiko Akimoto, Koichiro Haruki, Tabitha A Harrison, Yin Cao, Conghui Qu, Andrew T Chan, Peter T Campbell, Sonja I Berndt, Daniel D Buchanan, Amanda J ...> ;Journal of Gastroenterology. 2023 Mar 1
3 citations
Clinical and Genomic Characterization of Interval Colorectal Cancer in 3 Prospective Cohorts.
Yang, K., Cao, Y., Gurjao, C., Liu, Y., Guo, C., Lo, C., Zong, X., Drew, D., Geraghty, C., Prezioso, E., Moore, M., Williams, C., Riley, T., Saul, M., Ogino, S., Giann...> ;Gastroenterology. 2022 Dec 1
11 citations
15-Year Benefits of Sigmoidoscopy Screening on Colorectal Cancer Incidence and Mortality : A Pooled Analysis of Randomized Trials.
Frederik E Juul, Amanda J Cross, Robert E Schoen, Carlo Senore, Paul Pinsky, Eric Miller, Nereo Segnan, Kate Wooldrage, Paulina Wieszczy-Szczepanik, Paola Armaroli, Kj...> ;Annals of Internal Medicine. 2022 Nov 1
1 citations
Dietary Nonstarch Polysaccharide Intake and Risk of Colorectal Cancer: Findings from the Singapore Chinese Health Study.
Yi-Chuan Yu, Pedram Paragomi, Aizhen Jin, Renwei Wang, Robert E Schoen, Woon-Puay Koh, Jian-Min Yuan, Hung N Luu> ;Cancer Research Communications. 2022 Oct 1
Counting Advanced Precancerous Lesions as True Positives When Determining Colorectal Cancer Screening Test Specificity.
Uri Ladabaum, Timothy R Church, Ziding Feng, David F Ransohoff, Robert E Schoen> ;Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 2022 Jul 11
12 citations
Identifying colorectal cancer caused by biallelic MUTYH pathogenic variants using tumor mutational signatures.
Peter Georgeson, Tabitha A Harrison, Bernard J Pope, Syed H Zaidi, Conghui Qu, Robert S Steinfelder, Yi Lin, Jihoon E Joo, Khalid Mahmood, Mark Clendenning, Romy Walke...> ;Nature Communications. 2022 Jun 6
3 citations
Large-scale Integrated Analysis of Genetics and Metabolomic Data Reveals Potential Links Between Lipids and Colorectal Cancer Risk.
Xiang Shu, Zhishan Chen, Jirong Long, Xingyi Guo, Yaohua Yang, Conghui Qu, Yoon-Ok Ahn, Qiuyin Cai, Graham Casey, Stephen B Gruber, Jeroen R Huyghe, Sun Ha Jee, Mark A...> ;Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. 2022 Jun 1
33 citations
Composite dietary antioxidant index and the risk of colorectal cancer: Findings from the Singapore Chinese Health Study.
Yi-Chuan Yu, Pedram Paragomi, Renwei Wang, Aizhen Jin, Robert E Schoen, Li-Ting Sheng, An Pan, Woon-Puay Koh, Jian-Min Yuan, Hung N Luu> ;International Journal of Cancer. 2022 May 15
4 citations
Beyond GWAS of Colorectal Cancer: Evidence of Interaction with Alcohol Consumption and Putative Causal Variant for the 10q24.2 Region.
Kristina M Jordahl, Anna Shcherbina, Andre E Kim, Yu-Ru Su, Yi Lin, Jun Wang, Conghui Qu, Demetrius Albanes, Volker Arndt, James W Baurley, Sonja I Berndt, Stephanie A...> ;Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. 2022 May 4
2 citations
Genetic variants associated with circulating C-reactive protein levels and colorectal cancer survival: Sex-specific and lifestyle factors specific associations.
Yuhan Huang, Xinwei Hua, Julia D Labadie, Tabitha A Harrison, James Y Dai, Sara Lindstrom, Yi Lin, Sonja I Berndt, Daniel D Buchanan, Peter T Campbell, Graham Casey, S...> ;International Journal of Cancer. 2022 May 1
16 citations
Prevalence of intratumoral regulatory T cells expressing neuropilin-1 is associated with poorer outcomes in patients with cancer.
Christopher A Chuckran, Anthony R Cillo, Jessica Moskovitz, Abigail Overacre-Delgoffe, Ashwin S Somasundaram, Feng Shan, Grant C Magnon, Sheryl R Kunning, Irina Abecas...> ;Science Translational Medicine. 2021 Dec 8
2 citations
Salicylic Acid and Risk of Colorectal Cancer: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study.
Aayah Nounu, Rebecca C Richmond, Isobel D. Stewart, Praveen Surendran, Nicholas J. Wareham, Adam S. Butterworth, Stephanie J. Weinstein, Demetrius Albanes, John A. Bar...> ;Nutrients. 2021 Nov 21
Colorectal Cancer Screening: Randomized Trials are Essential to Support Recommendations.
Michael Bretthauer, Robert E. Schoen, Amanda J. Cross, Paul F. Pinsky> ;Annals of Internal Medicine. 2021 Nov 9
2 citations
Smoking Behavior and Prognosis After Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis: A Pooled Analysis of 11 Studies.
Elizabeth Alwers, Prudence R. Carr, Barbara L. Banbury, Viola Walter, Jenny Chang-Claude, Lina Jansen, David A. Drew, Edward Giovannucci, Hongmei Nan, Sonja I. Berndt,...> ;JNCI Cancer Spectrum. 2021 Aug 31
6 citations
Association Between Smoking and Molecular Subtypes of Colorectal Cancer
Xiaoliang Wang, Efrat L. Amitay, Tabitha A. Harrison, Barbara L. Banbury, Sonja I. Berndt, Hermann Brenner, Daniel D. Buchanan, Peter T. Campbell, Yin Cao, Andrew T. C...> ;JNCI Cancer Spectrum. 2021 Jun 14
6 citations
Genetically Predicted Circulating C-Reactive Protein Concentration and Colorectal Cancer Survival: A Mendelian Randomization Consortium Study.
Xinwei Hua, James Y. Dai, Sara Lindström, Tabitha A. Harrison, Yi Lin, Steven R. Alberts, Elizabeth Alwers, Sonja I. Berndt, Hermann Brenner, Daniel D. Buchanan, Peter...> ;Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. 2021 May 10
Fighting Prejudice and Absorbing Refugees From Nazism: The National Committee for the Resettlement of Foreign Physicians, 1939-1945.
Laurel Leff, Robert E. Schoen> ;Annals of Internal Medicine. 2021 May 1
26 citations
Aspirin Modulation of the Colorectal Cancer-Associated Microbe Fusobacterium nucleatum.
Caitlin A. Brennan, Geicho Nakatsu, Carey Ann Gallini Comeau, David A. Drew, Jonathan N. Glickman, Robert E. Schoen, Andrew T. Chan, Wendy S. Garrett> ;Mbio. 2021 Apr 6
2 citations
Meeting Report: Translational Advances in Cancer Prevention Agent Development Meeting.
Mark Steven Miller, Peter J. Allen, Powel H. Brown, Andrew T. Chan, Margie L. Clapper, Roderick H. Dashwood, Shadmehr Demehri, Mary L. Disis, Raymond N. DuBois, Robert...> ;Journal of Cancer Prevention. 2021 Mar 30
2 citations
Response to Li and Hopper.
Minta Thomas, Lori C. Sakoda, Michael Hoffmeister, Elisabeth A. Rosenthal, Jeffrey K. Lee, Fränzel J.B. Van Duijnhoven, Elizabeth A. Platz, Anna H. Wu, Christopher H. ...> ;American Journal of Human Genetics. 2021 Mar 4
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Journal Articles

Mendelian Randomization Analysis of C-reactive Protein on Colorectal Cancer Risk
Robert E Schoen, Shuji Ogino, Li Li, Stephen B Gruber, Andrew T Chan, International Journal of Epidemiology
Association of Colonoscopy Adenoma Findings with Long-Term Colorectal Cancer Incidence
Robert Schoen, MD, JAMA

Press Mentions

After Giving up on Cancer Vaccines, Doctors Start to Find HopeOctober 10th, 2022
Pieces Partners with NRG Oncology to Accelerate Identification of Patients for Clinical Trial on Colorectal Cancer PreventionJune 7th, 2022
High- vs Low-Intensity CRC Surveillance?September 23rd, 2019
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