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Raphael E. Pollock, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S.

Present Title & Affiliation

Primary Appointment

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, Molecular and Cellular Oncology, The University of Texas Health Sciences Center Houston, Houston, TX
Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Dual/Joint/Adjunct Appointment

Distinguished Member, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston, TX

Office Address

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
1515 Holcombe Boulevard
Unit Number: 444
Houston, TX 77030
Room Number: FCT10.5040
Phone: (713) 792-6928
Fax: (713) 563-4637

Education & Training

Degree-Granting Education

1990 University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX, PHD, Dissertation Title: "Mechanisms of Surgical Stress Impairment of Murine Natural Killer Cell Cytotoxicity"
1977 St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, MD, Medicine
1972 Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, BA, High Honors, History

Postgraduate Training

7/1982-6/1984 Clinical Fellowship, Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, Houston, TX
1/1980-6/1982 Clinical Residency, Surgery, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center, Chicago, IL
7/1977-12/1979 Clinical Residency, Surgery, University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics, Chicago, IL

Board Certifications

1986 American Board of Surgery Certificate
1/1978 National Board of Medical Examiners Certificate

Experience/Service

Academic Appointments

Senator A. M. Aiken, Jr. Distinguished Chair, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 9/1997-present

Selected Publications

Peer-Reviewed Original Research Articles
1. Skibber JM, Swanson DA, Ames FC, Ota DM, Pollock RE. Complications of intestinal anastomosis in patients with right colectomy and ileal conduit: the M. D. Anderson experience. Journal of Pelvic Surgery 2:234-238, 1996.
2. *Corpron CA, Black CT, Raney RB, Pollock RE, Lally KP, Andrassy RJ. Malignant fibrous histiocytoma in children. J Pediatr Surg 31:1080-3, 1996. PMID: 8863238.
3. *Gutman H, Pollock RE, Janjan NA, Johnston DA. Biologic distinctions and therapeutic implications of sarcomatoid metaplasia of epithelial carcinoma of the breast. J Am Coll Surg 180:193-9, 1995. PMID: 7850054.
4. Pollock RE, Curley SA, Lotzova E. Ethics of research training for NIH T32 surgical investigators. J Surg Res 58:247-51, 1995. PMID: 7861780.
5. Rao VH, Bridge JA, Neff JR, Schaefer GB, Buehler BA, Vishwanatha JK, Pollock RE, Nicolson GL, Yamamoto M, Gokaslam ZL, et al. Expression of 72 kDa and 92 kDa type IV collagenases from human giant-cell tumor of bone. Clin Exp Metastasis 13:420-6, 1995. PMID: 7586800.
6. *Hu M, Pollock RE, Nakamura T, Nicolson GL. Human peri-tumoral and lung fibroblasts produce paracrine motility factors for recently established human sarcoma cell strains. Int J Cancer 62:585-92, 1995. PMID: 7665230.
7. Mackay B, Ordonez NG, Salter JE, Jr, Pollock RE. Myofibroblastoma of the axilla. Ultrastruct Pathol 19:265-8, 1995. PMID: 7571083.
8. *Meterissian SH, Reilly JA, Jr, Murphy A, Romsdahl MM, Pollock RE. Soft-tissue sarcomas of the shoulder girdle: factors influencing local recurrence distant metastases, and survival. Ann Surg Oncol 2:530-6, 1995. PMID: 8591084.
9. Rubenstein EB, Fender A, Rolston KV, Elting LS, Prasco P, Palmer J, Road I, Pollock RE, Frisbee-Hume S, Laurence D, et al. Vascular access by physician assistants: evaluation of an implantable peripheral port system in cancer patients. J Clin Oncol 13:1513-9, 1995. PMID: 7751900.
10. El-Naggar A, Barlogie B, McCabe K, Teague K, Ensign LG, Pollock RE. Acridine orange DNA/RNA content analysis of soft tissue tumor: correlates with clinical pathological factor and biological behavior. Int J Cancer Molecular Biology 1:213-222, 1994.
11. Janjan NA, Pollock RE, Rebeiro E. Cancer education in Vietnam: a need for foreign input. J Cancer Educ 9:82-85, 1994.
12. Janjan NA, Yasko AW, Reece GP, Miller MJ, Murray JA, Ross MI, Romsdahl MM, Oswald MJ, Ochran TG, Pollock RE. Comparison of charges related to radiotherapy for soft-tissue sarcomas treated by preoperative external-beam irradiation versus interstitial implantation. Ann Surg Oncol 1:415-22, 1994. PMID: 7850543.
13. Caraway NP, Staerkel GA, Fanning CV, Varma DG, Pollock RE. Diagnosing intramuscular myxoma by fine-needle aspiration: a multidisciplinary approach. Diagn Cytopathol 11:255-61, 1994. PMID: 7867468.
14. Reece GP, Schusterman MA, Pollock RE, Kroll SS, Miller MJ, Baldwin BJ, Romsdahl MM, Janjan NA. Immediate versus delayed free-tissue transfer salvage of the lower extremity in soft tissue sarcoma patients. Ann Surg Oncol 1:11-7, 1994. PMID: 7834422.
15. *Tanabe KK, Pollock RE, Ellis LM, Murphy A, Sherman N, Romsdahl MM. Influence of surgical margins on outcome in patients with preoperatively irradiated extremity soft tissue sarcomas. Cancer 73:1652-9, 1994. PMID: 8156492.
16. Reece GP, Kroll SS, Miller MJ, Baldwin BJ, Pollock RE, Romsdahl MM, Ross MI, Janjan NA, Schusterman MA. Lower extremity salvage in cancer patients using free tissue transfer. Riv Chir Plas 25:441-446, 1994.
17. *Beitsch P, Lotzová E, Hortobagyi G, Pollock R. Natural immunity in breast cancer patients during neoadjuvant chemotherapy and surgery. Surg Onc 3:211-219, 1994.
18. Sherman N, Vavilalla M, Pollock R, Romsdahl M, Jaffe N. Radiation therapy for alveolar soft-part sarcoma. Med Pediatr Oncol 22:380-383, 1994.
19. Janjan NA, Pollock R, Rebeiro E. Reflections on radiotherapy in Vietnam: political lessons still to be learned. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 28:773-775, 1994.
20. Kroll SS, Tavollali M, Castello-Sendra J, Pollock RE. Risk of dissemination of cancer to flap donor sites during immediate reconstructive surgery. Ann Plast Surg 33:573-5, 1994. PMID: 7880044.
21. *Gutman H, Pollock RE, Ross MI, Benjamin RS, Johnston DA, Janjan NA, Romsdahl MM. Sarcoma of the breast: implications for extent of therapy. The M. D. Anderson experience. Surgery 116:505-9, 1994. PMID: 8079181.
22. Mavligit GM, Pollock RE, Evans HL, Wallace S. Durable hepatic tumor regression after arterial chemoembolization-infusion in patients with islet cell carcinoma of the pancreas metastatic to the liver. Cancer 72:375-80, 1993. PMID: 8391377.
23. *Gutman H, Risin D, Pollock RE, Pellis NR. Effect of surgery on peripheral blood lymphocyte locomotion through type I collagen. Cancer 71:2833-7, 1993. PMID: 8467461.
24. *Thomas SM, Fitzgerald JB, Pollock RE, Evans DB. Isolated splenic metastases from colon carcinoma. Eur J Surg Oncol 19:485-90, 1993. PMID: 8405487.
25. *Pezzi CM, Rawlings MS, Jr, Esgro JJ, Pollock RE, Romsdahl MM. Prognostic factors in 227 patients with malignant fibrous histiocytoma. Cancer 69:2098-103, 1992. PMID: 1311983.
26. *NG E-H, Pollock RE, Munsell MF, Atkinson EN, Romsdahl MM. Prognostic factors influencing survival in gastrointestinal leiomyosarcomas. Implications for surgical management and staging. Ann Surg 215:68-77, 1992. PMID: 1731651.
27. *NG E-H, Pollock RE, Romsdahl MM. Prognostic implications of patterns of failure for gastrointestinal leiomyosarcomas. Cancer 69:1334-41, 1992. PMID: 1540870.
28. Pollock RE, Lotzova E, Stanford SD. Surgical stress impairs natural killer cell programming of tumor for lysis in patients with sarcomas and other solid tumors. Cancer 70:2192-202, 1992. PMID: 1394051.
29. *McCready D, Broadwater R, Ross M, Pollock R, Ota D, Balch C. A case-control comparison of durability and cost between implanted reservoir and percutaneous catheters in cancer patients. J Surg Res 51:377-381, 1991.
30. *Fuchshuber PR, Lotzova E, Pollock RE. Antitumor activity, growth, and phenotype of long-term IL-2 cultures of human NK and T lymphocytes. Lymphokine Cytokine Res 10:51-9, 1991. PMID: 1651770.
31. *Whitworth PW, Pollock RE, Mansfield PF, Couture J, Romsdahl MM. Extremity epithelioid sarcoma. Amputation vs local resection. Arch Surg 126:1485-9, 1991. PMID: 1842177.
32. Pollock RE, Lotzova E, Stanford SD. Mechanism of surgical stress impairment of human perioperative natural killer cell cytotoxicity. Arch Surg 126:338-42, 1991. PMID: 1825598.
33. Roh MS, Wang L, Oyedeji C, LeRoux ME, Curley SA, Pollock RE, Klostergaard J. Human Kupffer cells are cytotoxic against human colon adenocarcinoma. Surgery 108:400-4; discussion 404-5, 1990. PMID: 2382233.
34. Lotzova E, Savary CA, Pollock RE, Fuchshuber P. Immunologic and clinical aspects of natural killer cells in human leukemia. Nat Immun Cell Growth Regul 9:173-81, 1990. PMID: 2370877.
35. Pollock RE, Zimmerman SO, Fuchshuber P, Lotzova E. Lytic units reconsidered: pitfalls in calculation and usage. J Clin Lab Anal 4:274-82, 1990. PMID: 2391582.
36. *Pezzi CM, Pollock RE, Evans HL, Lorigan JG, Pezzi TA, Benjamin RS, Romsdahl MM. Preoperative chemotherapy for soft-tissue sarcomas of the extremities. Ann Surg 211:476-81, 1990. PMID: 2157378.
37. Pollock RE, Lotzova E, Stanford SD. Surgical stress impairment of murine natural killer cell cytotoxicity involves pre- and postbinding events. J Immunol 143:3396-403, 1989. PMID: 2809208.
38. Pollock RE, Balch CM. The NIH clinician-investigator award: how to write a training grant application. J Surg Res 46:1-3, 1989. PMID: 2915532.
39. Kroll SE, Pollock RE, Jessup JM, Ota D. Transpelvic rectus abdominis flap reconstruction of defects following abdominal-perineal resection. Am Surg 55:632-637, 1989.
40. Longmire WP, Pitlich WH, Sabiston DC, Pollock RE. Conjoint council on surgical research 1987 grantsmanship symposium. Bulletin of Am College of Surg 73:14-17, 1988.
41. *Boom M, Pollock RE, Shenk RR, Stanford S. Tumor burden impairment of murine natural killer cell cytotoxicity. Invasion Metastasis 8:118-32, 1988. PMID: 3360592.
42. Pollock RE, Lotzova E, Stanford SD, Romsdahl MM. Effect of surgical stress on murine natural killer cell cytotoxicity. J Immunol 138:171-8, 1987. PMID: 2946775.
43. Itoh K, Platsoucas CD, Tilden AB, Pollock RE, Balch CM. Lysis of fresh solid tumor targets in the presence of Con A is mediated primarily by Leu 7+ peripheral blood T lymphocytes: blocking by the anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody and comparison with recombinant interleukin 2-induced lysis by natural killer cells. Cell Immunol 108:283-96, 1987. PMID: 3113741.
44. Pollock RE, Ames F, Rubio P, Jones J, Reuben J, Wong W, Mavligit G. Protracted severe immune dysregulation induced by cardiopulmonary bypass: a predisposing etiologic factor in blood transfusion-related AIDS? . J Clin Lab Immunol 22:1-5, 1987.
45. Pollock RE, Lotzova E. Surgical-stress-related suppression of natural killer cell activity: a possible role in tumor metastasis. Nat Immun Cell Growth Regul 6:269-78, 1987. PMID: 3329294.
46. Pollock RE, Babcock GF, Romsdahl MM, Nishioka K. Surgical stress-mediated suppression of murine natural killer cell cytotoxicity. Cancer Res 44:3888-91, 1984. PMID: 6744305.
47. Pollock RE. Some psychoanalytic condiserations of bull fighting and bull worship. Isr Ann Psychiatr Relat Discip 12:53-67, 1974. PMID: 4137198.

Abstracts
1. Pollock RE. Recombinant IL-2 inhibits surgical-stress generated NK suppressor cells. Poster Session, American Association for Cancer Research, 5/1987.
2. Babcock G, Romsdahl M, Nishioka K, Pollock RE. Surgical stress mediated suppression of natural killer cell cytotoxicity and metastatic enhancement. Poster Session; American Association for Cancer Research, 5/1984.

Manuals, Teaching Aids, Other Teaching Publications
1. Detection of breast cancer. 1987.
2. Diagnosis of breast cancer. 1987.

Last updated: 10/28/2010