Kristopher Attwood
Papers
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Total Citations
306
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About
Kristopher Attwood is a biostatistician and research methodologist whose work spans surgical oncology, urologic surgery, and emerging applications of machine learning in clinical and surgical contexts. Based at a National Comprehensive Cancer Network-designated institution, Attwood has made significant contributions to understanding outcomes in minimally invasive surgery across multiple cancer types, including kidney, prostate, rectal, pancreatic, and lung cancers. His comparative analyses of minimally invasive versus open surgical approaches — examining nephrectomy for locally advanced renal-cell carcinoma (47 citations) and national disparities in minimally invasive rectal and pancreatic tumor surgery — have helped clarify the oncologic and equity-related implications of evolving surgical techniques. His development and validation of a 24-month incontinence nomogram following robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (36 citations) exemplifies his strength in translating large prospective datasets into clinically actionable predictive tools. More recently, Attwood has ventured into artificial intelligence applications, contributing to gradient-boosting models for surgical skill classification (21 citations) and functional brain network analyses for cognitive workload assessment (19 citations). His breadth of collaboration across surgical specialties and his rigorous statistical methodology make him a distinctive and impactful figure in applied clinical research.
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- 2National disparities in minimally invasive surgery for rectal cancer44 citations · 2015
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- 8National disparities in minimally invasive surgery for pancreatic tumors18 citations · 2016
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