Kristofor Olson, MD, PhD

Publications

NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery, STARSurg Collaborative. A prognostic model for use before elective surgery to estimate the risk of postoperative pulmonary complications (GSU-Pulmonary Score): a development and validation study in three international cohorts. Lancet Digital Health. 6:e507-e519 (2024).

Labadie, K.P., Olson, K.A., Sun, S.H., Ituarte, P.H.G., Hanna, M., Zerhouni, Y., Lai, L.L., Sentovich, S.M., Kaiser, A.M., Melstrom, K.A. Outcomes of rectal cancer patients who refuse surgery after incomplete clinical response to neoadjuvant therapy. Journal of Surgical Oncology, 129:1131-1138 (2024).

National Institute for Health and Care Research Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery. Reducing the environmental impact of surgery on a global scale: systematic review and co-prioritization with healthcare workers in 132 countries. British Journal of Surgery, 110:804-817 (2023).

Bradford, J., Cardenas, T., Lara, S., Olson, K.A., Teixeira, P.G., Aydelotte, J.D., Trust, M.D., DuBose, J., Ali, S., Brown, C.V.R. The More You Have, The More You Lose: Muscle Mass Changes in Severely Injured Trauma Patients. Injury, 54:1102-1105 (2023).

Olson, K.A., Chung, C.Y., Aksamit, N.O., Hill, C.E., Brown, C.V.R., Teixeira, P.G. Rule of Four: An Anatoming and Value-Based Approach to Stent-Graft Inventory for Blunt Thoracic Aortic Injury. European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery. 49:2173-2176 (2023).

COVIDSurg Collaborative. Is perioperative COVID-19 Really Associated with Worse Surgical Outcomes? A Nationwide COVIDSurg Propensity-Matched Analysis. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. 94:513-524 (2023).

Roward, S.G., Trust, M.D., Olson, K.A., Hill, C.E., Bokenkamp, M., Coopwood, B., Teixeira, P.G., Aydelotte, J., Cardenas, T., Brown, L., Ramos, E., Ngoue, M., Ali, S., Ng, C., Brown, C.V.R. If at First You Don’t Succeed: Consideration of Repeat Extubation Attempts in Trauma Patients. Journal of Surgical Research. 283:778-82 (2023).

Hill, C.E., Olson, K.A., Sharma, S.K., Kelley, B.P. Combined Targeted Muscle Reinnervation (TMR)/Regenerative Peripheral Nerve Interface (RPNI) for Painful Neuroma after Upper Extremity Transhumeral Amputation: A Case Report. In review.

COVIDSurg Collaborative. Outcomes and Their State-level Variation in Patients Undergoing Surgery with Perioperative SARS-CoV-2 Infection in the USA. Annals of Surgery, 275:247-251 (2022).

NIHR Global Health Unit on Global Surgery, COVIDSurg Collaborative. Elective surgery system strengthening development, measurement, and validation oof the surgical preparedness index across 1632 hospitals in 119 countries. The Lancet, 400:16017-1617 (2022).

McKay, S.C.. COVIDSurg Collaborative. Outcomes of patients undergoing elective liver and pancreas cancer surgery during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: an international, multicentre, prospective cohort study. HPB, 24:1668-1678 (2022).

COVIDSurg Collaborative. Outcomes of gynecologic cancer surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic: an international, multicenter, prospective CovidSurg-Gynecologic Oncology Cancer study. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 227:735.e1-25 (2022).

COVIDSurg Collaborative. The impact of surgical delay on resectability of colorectal cancer: An international prospective cohort study. Colorectal Disease, 24:708-726 (2022).

COVIDSurg Collaborative. Projecting COVID-19 disruption to elective surgery. The Lancet, 399:233-34 (2022).

STARSurg Collaboorative and COVIDSurg Collaborative. Death following pulmonary complications of surgery before and during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. British Journal of Surgery, 12:1448-1464 (2021).

COVIDSurg Collaborative. SARS-CoV-2 infection and venous thromboembolism after surgery: an international prospective cohort study. Anaesthesia. 77:28-39 (2022)

COVIDSurg Collaborative. Resilience of elective cancer surgery systems during COVID-19 lockdowns: an international, multicentre, prospective cohort study. The Lancet, 398:S11 (2021).

COVIDSurg Collaborative. Effect of COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns on planned cancer surgery for 15 tumour types in 61 countries: an international, prospective, cohort study. The Lancet Oncology. 22:1507-1517 (2021).

COVIDSurg Collaborative. Effects of pre-operative isolation on postoperative pulmonary complications after elective surgery: an international prospective cohort study. Anaesthesia. 76:1454-64 (2021).

COVIDSurg Collaborative. Machine learning risk prediction of mortality for patients undergoing surgery with perioperative SARS-CoV-2: the COVIDSurg mortality score. British Journal of Surgery. In press. (2021)

COVIDSurg Collaborative, GlobalSurg Collaborative. SARS-CoV-2 vaccination modelling for safe surgery to save lives: data from an international prospective cohort study. British Journal of Surgery. 108:1056-63 (2021).

COVIDSurg Collaborative, GlobalSurg Collaborative. Timing of surgery following SARS-CoV-2 infection: an international prospective cohort study. Anaesthesia. 76:748-58 (2021).

Cluntun, A.A., Badolla, R., Lettlova, S., Parnell, K.M., Shankar, T.S., Diakos, N.A., Olson, K.A., Taleb, I., Berg, J.A., Cunningham, C.N., Bott, A.J., Krokidi, T., Fogarty, S., Skedros, S., Swiatek, W.I., Van Ry, T., Cox, J.E., Luo, B., Merx, S., Navankasattusas, S., McKellar, S.H., Rutter, J. Drakos, S.G., Tatum, S.M., Yu, X., Ducker, G.S., Holland, W.L. The Pyruvate-Lactate Axis Modulates Cardiac Hypertrophy and Heart Failure. Cell Metabolism, 33:629-48 (2021).

Olson, K.A., Fleming, R.Y.D., Fox, A.W., Grimes, A.E., Mohiuddin, S.S., Robertson, H.T., Moxham, J., Wolf, J.S. The Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Elements that Most Greatly Impact Length of Stay and Readmission. The American Surgeon, 87:473-79 (2021).

COVIDSurg Collaborative. Outcomes from elective colorectal cancer surgery during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Colorectal Disease. 23:732-749 (2021).

COVIDSurg Collaborative. Preoperative nasopharyngeal swab testing and postoperative pulmonary complications in patients undergoing elective surgery during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. British Journal of Surgery, 108:88-96 (2021).

COVIDSurg Collaborative. Elective cancer surgery in COVID-19 free surgical pathways during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: An international, multi-centre, comparative cohort study. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 39:66-78 (2021).

COVIDSurg Collaborative. Delaying surgery for patients with a previous SARS-CoV-2 infection. British Journal of Surgery, 107:e601-602 (2020).

Olson, K.A.*, Haselden, L.E.*, Zaunbrecher, R.D., Weinfeld, A., Brown, L.H., Bradley, J.A., Cardenas, T.C.P, Trust, M., Coopwood, T.B., Teixeira, P.G., Brown, C.V.R., Aydelotte, J.D. Penetrating Injuries from “Less-Lethal” Bean Bag Munitions. New England Journal of Medicine, 383:1081-1083 (2020). *Co-first author

Simoes, J., Bhangu, A., COVIDSurg Collaborative. Should we be re-starting elective surgery? Anaesthesia 75: 1596-1604 (2020).

Hill, C., Olson, K.A., Roward, S., Yan, D., Cardenas, T., Teixeira, P., Coopwood, B., Trust, M., Aydelotte, J., Ali, S., Brown, C. Fix It While You Can…Mortality After Umbilical Hernia Repair in Cirrhotic Patients. The American Journal of Surgery. 220:1402-1404 (2020).

Bensard, C.L., Wisidigama, D.R., Olson, K.A., Berg, J.A., Krah, N.M., Schell, J.C., Nowinski, S.M., Fogarty, S., Bott, A.J., Wei, P., Dove, K.K., Tanner, J.M., Panic, V., Cluntun, A., Lettlova, S., Earl, C.S., Namnath, D.F., Vázquez-Arreguín, K., Villanueva, C.J., Tantin, D., Murtaugh, L.C., Evason, K.J., Ducker, G.S., Thummel, C.S., Rutter, J. Regulation of Tumor Initiation by the Mitochondrial Pyruvate Carrier. Cell Metabolism, 31:284-300 (2020).

Garlick, J.W.*, Olson, K.A*, Downs-Kelly, E., Bucher, B.T., Matsen, C.B. (*Co-first author) Secretory Breast Carcinoma in an 8-year-old girl: A case report and literature review. The Breast Journal, 24:1055-1061 (2018). *Co-first author

Zhu, C.*, Olson, K.A.*, Roth, M., Geller, D., Gorlick, R., Laack, N., Randall, L.R. (*Co-first author) Provider views on the management of Ewing Sarcoma of the spine and pelvis. Journal of Surgical Oncology 117:417-424 (2018). *Co-first author

Schell, J.C., Wisidigama, D.R., Bensard, C., Zhao, H., Wei, P., Tanner, J., Flores, A., Mohlman, J., Sorenson, L., Earl, C., Olson, K.A., Miao, R., Waller, T.C., Delker, D., Kanth, P., Jiang, L., De Berardinis, R.J., Bronner, M., Li, D.Y., Cox, J., Christofk, H., Lowry, B., Thummel, C.S., Rutter, J. Control of intestinal stem cell proliferation by mitochondrial pyruvate metabolism. Nature Cell Biology 19:1027-1036 (2017).

Sandoval, I.T., Delacruz, R.G.C., Miller, B.N., Hill, S., Olson, K.A., Satterfield, C., van Remmen, H., Rutter, J., Jones, D.A. A metabolic switch controls intestinal differentiation downstream of Adenomatous Polyposis Coli (APC). eLife. 6:1-18 (2017).

Olson, K.A., Schell, J.C., Rutter, J. Pyruvate and Metabolic Flexibility: Illuminating a Path Toward Selective Cancer Therapies. Trends in Biochemical Sciences 41:219-230 (2016).

Schell, J.C.*, Olson, K.A.*, Jiang, L., Hawkins, A.J., Van Vranken, J.G., Xie, J., Earl, E.G., De Berardinis, R.J., Rutter, J. A role for the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier as a repressor of the Warburg Effect and colon cancer cell growth. Molecular Cell. 56:400-413 (2014).