Professor of Surgery, Mayo Medical School
Colon & Rectal Surgery
Dr. Robert R. Cima, MD
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Robert R. Cima practices Colon & Rectal Surgery. He went to medical school at Stanford University School of Medicine. Stanford University School of Medicine is a one of the best medicals schools. Stanford University School of Medicine is ranked 2/25 in Research/PrimaryCare. He received 2 awards: "Regional Top Doctor" and "Fellow (FACS)". Robert Cima is a published physician as well. He has 97 publications published. The latest was: A NSQIP Review of Major Morbidity and Mortality of Synchronous Liver Resection for Colorectal Metastasis Stratified by Extent of Liver Resection and Type of Colorectal... Robert Cima accepts Medicare payments and is listed with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- In response to: Preston JF, Diggs BS, Dolan JP, Gilbert EW, Schein M, Hunter JG. Biliary dyskinesia: a surgical Disease rarely found outside the United States. Am J Su...
- A NSQIP Review of Major Morbidity and Mortality of Synchronous Liver Resection for ColoRectal Metastasis Stratified by Extent of Liver Resection and Type of ColoRectal...
- Anesthesia Care Transitions and Risk of Postoperative Complications.
- National trends of 3- versus 2-stage restorative proctocolectomy for chronic Ulcerative colitis.
- What can the national quality forum tell us about performance measurement in anesthesiology?
- Association of hospital participation in a surgical outcomes monitoring program with inpatient complications and mortality.
- Proximal Intestinal Diversion is Associated with Increased Morbidity in Patients Undergoing Elective Colectomy for Diverticular Disease: An ACS-NSQIP Study.
- Surgical Site Infections (SSIs) After Stoma Reversal (SR): Risk Factors, Implications, and Protective Strategies.
- Improving conventional recovery with enhanced recovery in minimally invasive surgery for Rectal cancer.
- Patient survival after surgical treatment of Rectal cancer: Impact of surgeon and hospital characteristics.
- Outcomes after implementation of a multimodal standard care pathway for laparoscopic coloRectal surgery.
- Quality assurance in colon and Rectal cancer surgery.
- Risk of Neoplastic Change in Ileal Pouches in Familial Adenomatous Polyposis.
- Assessment of prophylactic antibiotic use in patients with surgical site infections.
- Distance bias and surgical outcomes.
- ColoRectal surgery surgical site infection reduction program: a national surgical quality improvement program--driven multidisciplinary single-institution experience.
- Role of the surgeon in quality and safety in the operating room environment.
- Drivers of cost after surgical and medical therapy for chronic Ulcerative colitis: a nested case-cohort study in olmsted county, Minnesota.
- Uncomplicated diverticulitis, more complicated than we thought.
- Long-term Quality of Life and Sexual and Urinary Function After Abdominoperineal Resection for Distal Rectal Cancer.
- Technical Proficiency in Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Colon and Rectal Surgery: Determining How Many Cases Are Required to Achieve Mastery.
- Loop ileostomy reversal after colon and Rectal surgery: a single institutional 5-year experience in 944 patients.
- Utility and Short-term Outcomes of Hand-assisted Laparoscopic ColoRectal Surgery: A Single-Institution Experience in 1103 Patients.
- How best to measure surgical quality? comparison of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Patient Safety Indicators (AHRQ-PSI) and the American College of Sur...
- Using a framework for spread of best practices to implement successful venous thromboembolism prophylaxis throughout a large hospital system.
- Management and Outcomes of Primary Coloduodenal Fistulas.
- Bleeding and Thromboembolic Outcomes for Patients on Oral Anticoagulation Undergoing Elective Colon and Rectal Abdominal Operations.
- Primary intestinal lymphoma in patients with inflammatory bowel Disease: A descriptive series from the prebiologic therapy era.
- Assessment of Colon Cancer Literacy in screening colonoscopy patients: a validation study.
- Surgical approach and oncologic outcomes following multidisciplinary management of retroRectal sarcomas.
- A novel technique for the repair of urostomal hernias using human acellular dermal matrix.
- Using a data-matrix-coded sponge counting system across a surgical practice: impact after 18 months.
- Estimating the Unknown Parameters of the Natural History of Metachronous ColoRectal Cancer Using Discrete-Event Simulation.
- Perioperative anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy does not increase the rate of early postoperative complications in Crohn's Disease.
- Minimally invasive colectomy for Crohn's Colitis: a single institution experience.
- A fast-track recovery protocol improves outcomes in elective laparoscopic colectomy for diverticulitis.
- Wrong-site craniotomy.
- Effectiveness of a multimedia-based educational intervention for improving colon Cancer literacy in screening colonoscopy patients.
- Hand-assisted laparoscopic colon and Rectal cancer surgery: feasibility, short-term, and oncological outcomes.
- Laparoscopic surgery for recurrent ileocolic Crohn's Disease.
- Surgical case listing accuracy: failure Analysis at a high-volume academic medical center.
- QUALITY OF LIFE AFTER RECTAL EXCISION AND COLOAnal ANASTOMOSIS FOR DISTAL RECTAL CANCERS: SPHINCTER PRESERVATION VERSUS QUALITY OF LIFE.
- Failure of institutionally derived predictive models of conversion in laparoscopic coloRectal surgery to predict conversion outcomes in an independent data set of 998 ...
- Endoscopic transgastric drainage of a postoperative intra-abdominal Abscess after colon surgery.
- Recurrence and impact of postoperative prophylaxis in laparoscopically treated primary ileocolic Crohn Disease.
- Long-term direct costs before and after proctocolectomy for Ulcerative colitis: a population-based study in Olmsted County, Minnesota.
- Splenic salvage after intraoperative splenic injury during colectomy.
- Impact of a multimedia e-learning module on colon Cancer literacy: a community-based pilot study.
- Perceived impact of the 80-hour workweek: five years later.
- Minimally invasive total proctocolectomy with Brooke ileostomy for Ulcerative colitis.
- Surgical treatment of complex enterocutaneous Fistulas in IBD patients using human acellular dermal matrix.
- Postoperative morbidity with diversion after low anterior resection in the era of neoadjuvant therapy: a single institution experience.
- Ano1 is a selective marker of interstitial cells of Cajal in the human and mouse gastroIntestinal tract.
- Prevention of retained surgical sponges: a decision-Analytic model predicting relative cost-effectiveness.
- Developing a research agenda for the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons: results of a delphi approach.
- Neurogenic Tumors of the pelvis: clinicopathologic features and surgical outcomes using a multidisciplinary team.
- A multidisciplinary team approach to retained foreign objects.
- Outcomes in patients with ulcerative colitis undergoing partial or complete reconstructive surgery for failing ileal pouch-Anal anastomosis.
- Minimally invasive subtotal colectomy and ileal pouch-Anal anastomosis for fulminant ulcerative colitis: a reasonable approach?
- The use of human acellular dermal matrix for parastomal hernia repair in patients with inflammatory bowel Disease: a novel technique to repair fascial defects.
- Survival in stage III colon Cancer is independent of the total number of lymph nodes retrieved.
- Young-onset coloRectal cancer in patients with no known genetic predisposition: can we increase early recognition and improve outcome?
- Incidence and characteristics of potential and actual retained foreign object events in surgical patients.
- Approaching process improvement from a human factors perspective: seeking leverage from a systems approach.
- Experience with 969 minimal access colectomies: the role of hand-assisted laparoscopy in expanding minimally invasive surgery for complex colectomies.
- Laparoscopic ileal pouch-Anal anastomosis in patients with chronic ulcerative colitis and primary sclerosing cholangitis: a case-matched study.
- Sexual function, body image, and quality of life after laparoscopic and open ileal pouch-Anal anastomosis.
- Impact of pelvic radiotherapy on morbidity and durability of sphincter preservation after coloAnal anastomosis for rectal cancers.
- Impact of pre- and postoperative multimodality therapy on Rectal cancer.
- Quality of life after Rectal resection and multimodality therapy.
- Reoperative Crohn's surgery: tricks of the trade.
- Internet use by patients in an inflammatory bowel Disease specialty clinic.
- Impact of ileal-pouch Anal anastomosis on fertility.
- Effect of infliximab on short-term complications in patients undergoing operation for chronic Ulcerative colitis.
- Using negative pressure wound therapy following surgery for complex pilonidal Disease: a case series.
- Minimally invasive coloRectal resection outcomes: short-term comparison with open procedures.
- Re: JSLS. 2006;10:169-175. The influence of prior abdominal operations on conversion and complication in laparoscopic coloRectal surgery.
- Is race a real issue in colectomy for Ulcerative colitis?
- Report of the 2006 Australia and New Zealand travelling fellow.
- Long-term functional and quality of life outcomes after coloAnal anastomosis for distal rectal cancer.
- Safety, feasibility, and short-term outcomes of laparoscopic ileal-pouch-Anal anastomosis: a single institutional case-matched experience.
- Intracellular Ca(2+) and Zn(2+) signals during monochloramine-induced oxidative stress in isolated rat colon crypts.
- Laparoscopic-assisted vs. open ileal pouch-Anal anastomosis: functional outcome in a case-matched series.
- Ileal pouch-Anal anastomosis: does age at the time of surgery affect outcome?
- Medical and surgical management of chronic Ulcerative colitis.
- Rectal complications after prostate brachytherapy.
- Surgical Indications and Procedures in Ulcerative Colitis.
- Luminal regulation of Na(+)/H(+) exchanger gene expression in rat ileal mucosa.
- Surgical Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
- Treatment and prevention of pouchitis after ileal pouch-Anal anastomosis for chronic ulcerative colitis.
- Use of lean and six sigma methodology to improve operating room efficiency in a high-volume tertiary-care academic medical center.
- Colojejunal Fistula Resulting from a D-PEJ Feeding Tube.
- Timing and indications for colectomy in chronic Ulcerative colitis: Surgical consideration.
- Does infliximab increase complications after surgery for inflammatory bowel Disease?
- Safety, feasibility, and short-term outcomes of laparoscopically assisted primary ileocolic resection for Crohn''s Disease.
- Hand-assisted versus laparoscopic-assisted coloRectal surgery: Practice patterns and clinical outcomes in a minimally-invasive coloRectal practice.
Schools
Stanford University School Of Medicine
Procedures Preformed
- Appendectomy, Open
- Colectomy
- Colonoscopy, Proctosigmoidoscopy, and Sigmoidoscopy
- Destruction of Anal Tumor
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Conditions Treated
- Anal and Rectal Cancer
- Anal Fissure
- Anal Fistula
- AnoRectal Abscess
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Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Regional Top Doctor
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education -
Brigham and Women's Hospital -
Stanford University School of Medicine
Hospital
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Mayo Clinic - Rochester, Minnesota
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1154393999 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | CIMA | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | ROBERT | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 559050001 | |
| NPPES Provider State | MN | |
| Specialty Description | Colorectal Surgery (formerly proctology) | |
| Total Claim Count | 21.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1154393999 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | CIMA |
| First Name Of The Provider | ROBERT |
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