Satish Nagula, MD
       Assistant Professor of Medicine
       Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
       Stony Brook University
       Health Sciences Center T17-Room 060
       Stony Brook, NY 11794-8173

       Phone: 631-444-2119
       Fax: 631-444-8886
       E-mail: Satish.Nagula@stonybrook.edu

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Gastroenterology & Nutrition Service

• Investigating the role of EUS-FNA and cyst fluid CEA on the diagnosis and management of cystic neoplasms of the pancreas.
• Evaluating the incidence of reactivation hepatitis B with chemotherapy, and developing a screening algorithm for HepB for all new chemotherapy patients
• Studying long term effects on quality of life and symptom control in patients receiving colonic stents for malignant large bowel obstruction
• Examining role of repeat colonoscopic polypectomy for patients referred for surgical management of large colonic polyps
• Evaluating long term efficacy of endoscopic therapies for Barrett’s esophagus with high-grade dysplasia and early-stage esophageal cancer
• Evaluating the use of covered polyester esophageal stents for the management of thoracic anastomotic leaks after esophagectomy

2006-2009

Yale School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Section on Digestive Diseases

• Developed a correlation between specific histologic parameters from cirrhotic liver biopsies with hepatic venous pressure gradients, identifying different histologic severities of cirrhosis.

2002-2003

Yale School of Medicine, Section on Cardiovascular Medicine

• Evaluated the efficacy of chest pain centers and nuclear imaging in the acute evaluation of chest pain. 

2000-2001

Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology

• Studied the public’s perceived disincentives for live kidney donation. 

1998

NIH, National Institute of Mental Health, Section on Histopharmacology

NIH, National Institute of Mental Health, Section on Geriatric Psychiatry

• Conducted biochemical research on calretinin.  Examined chymotrypsin expression in rat organs.
• Investigated b-amyloid toxicity and the effects of b-amyloid on platelet aggregation and cytoskeleton

1996, 1997

1994, 1995

• Nagula S, Ishill N, Nash C, Markowitz AJ, Schattner MA, Weiser MR, Temple L, Zauber AG, Thaler HT, Gerdes H.  Quality of Life and Symptom Control after Stent Placement or Surgical Palliation of Malignant Colorectal Obstruction. [in submission]

• Nagula S, Jarnagin WR, O’Reilly EM, Schattner MA.  Non-Obstructive Carcinomatosis as a Risk Factor for Capsule-Induced Small Bowel Obstruction During Video Capsule Endoscopy. [in submission] 2008.

• Nagula S, Jain D, Groszmann RJ, Garcia-Tsao G. Histological-hemodynamic correlation in cirrhosis - A histological classification of the severity of cirrhosis.  Journal of Hepatology 2006; 44(1): 111-7.

• Boulware LE, Ratner LE, Sosa JA, Tu AH, Nagula S, Simpkins CE, Durant RW, Powe NR. The General Public’s Concern about Clinical Risk in Live Kidney Donation.  American Journal of Transplantation 2002; 2: 186-193

• Abbott BG, Abdel-Aziz I, Nagula S, Monico EP, Schriver JA, Wackers FJ. Selective Use Of Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography Myocardial Perfusion Imaging In A Chest Pain Center.  American Journal of Cardiology. 2001 Jun 15;87(12):1351-5

• Wolozin B, Maheshwari S, Jones C, Dukoff R, Wallace W, Racchi M, Nagula S, Shulman NR, Sunderland T, Bush A.  Beta-Amyloid Augments Platelet Aggregation: Reduced Activity Of Familial Angiopathy-Associated Mutants. Molecular Psychiatry. 1998 Nov;3(6):500-7

• Wang XC, Strauss KI, Ha QN, Nagula S, Wolpoe ME, Jacobowitz DM.  Chymotrypsin Gene Expression In Rat Peripheral Organs.  Cell & Tissue Res. 1998 May;292(2):345-54

• Abstracts

• Nagula S, Kennedy T, Schattner MA, Brennan MF, Gerdes H, Markowitz AJ, Tang L, Allen PJ.  Performance Characteristics of Cyst Fluid CEA Analysis for the Diagnosis of Mucinous Cysts of the Pancreas. [abstract] Gastroenterology 2009: A148

• Nagula S, Weiss A, Weiser MR, Schattner MA.  Endoscopic Management of Large Colorectal Polyps Referred For Surgical Resection.[abstract] Gastrointestina l Endoscopy 2009

• Nagula S, Ludwig E.  Reactivation of Hepatitis B Viral Infection in Association with Chemotherapeutic Agents: 5 Year Experience At A Single Cancer Center. [abstract] Gastroenterology 2009

• Nagula S, Schattner MA,  Bains MS, Gerdes H.  Silicone-Covered Self-Expanding Polyester Stents for the Closure of Thoracic Anastomotic Leaks After Esophagectomy. [Abstract] Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 2008; 67(5) DDW Abstract Issue: AB192

• Nagula S, Ishill N, Markowitz AJ, Schattner MA, Weiser MR, Temple L, Zauber AG, Thaler HT, Gerdes H.  Colonic Stenting for Malignant Large Bowel Obstruction: Long Term Assessment of Symptoms and Quality of Life. [Abstract] Gastroenterology 2008; 134(4) Suppl 1: A164

• Nagula S, Jain D, Groszmann RJ, Garcia-Tsao G.  Histologic-Hemodynamic Correlations In Chronic Liver Disease – Is There A Histologically Mild And Severe Cirrhosis?  [Abstract] Hepatology 2003; 38(4) Suppl. 1: 427A.

• Book Chapters & Reviews

• Nagula S, Schattner MA.  Malignant Gastroparesis: Diagnostics and Therapeutics.  Journal of Supportive Oncology 2007; 5(8): 366-7