Rachel E. Beard, MD
Chief of Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Surgery
Assistant Professor and Section Chief, Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery
Associate Program Director, General Surgery Residency
Accepting New Patients
Specialties
Board Certification: American Board of Surgery
Education: Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Residency: General Surgery - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA (Administrative Chief Resident)
Fellowship:
Hepatopancreaticobiliary - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Division of Hepatopancreaticobiliary Surgery, Pittsburgh, PA
Surgical Oncology - National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Surgery - Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Memberships in Societies: Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association
- Cohen JT, Charpentier KP, Beard RE. An Update on Iatrogenic Biliary Injuries: Identification, Classification and Management. Surg Clin North Am. 2019; 99(2): 283-299.
- Cortez R, Lynch K, Cioffi W, Harrington D, Beard R. An Assessment of Fine Surgical Knot Tying. J Surg Educ. 2019; 76(3): 808-813.
- Beard RE, Tsung A. Minimally invasive liver resections: a changing landscape and the rise of the robot. Laparosc Surg. 2018; 2:48.
- Cohen JT, Charpentier KP, Beard RE. An Update on Iatrogenic Biliary Injuries: Identification, Classification and Management. Surg Clin North Am. 2019; 99(2): 283-299.
- Cortez R, Lynch K, Cioffi W, Harrington D, Beard R. An Assessment of Fine Surgical Knot Tying. J Surg Educ. 2019; 76(3): 808-813.
- Beard RE, Tsung A. Minimally invasive liver resections: a changing landscape and the rise of the robot. Laparosc Surg. 2018; 2:48.
- Ciambella CC, Beard RE, Miner, TJ. Current role of palliative interventions in advanced pancreatic cancer. World J Gastrointest Surg. 2018; 10(7) 75-83.
- Beard RE, Charpentier KP. Laparoscopic versus open distal pancreatectomy – it’s time to shift our focus and randomize our studies. Laparosc Surg. 2018; 2:13.
- Khan S, Beard RE, Kingham TP, Fong Y, Boerner T, Martinie JB, Vrochides D, Buell JF, Berber E, Kaharamangil, B, Troisi RI, Vanlander A, Molinari M, Tsung A. Long-term Oncologic Outcomes Following Robotic Liver Resection for Primary Hepatobiliary Malignancies: A MultiCenter Study. Ann Surg Oncol. 2018; 25(9): 2652-2660.
- Beard RE, Wang Y, Khan S, Marsh JW, Tsung A, Geller DA. Laparoscopic liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma in early and advanced cirrhosis. HPB. 2018; 20(6): 521-529.
- Beard RE, Tsung A. Minimally Invasive Approaches for Surgical Management of Primary Liver Cancers. Cancer Control. 2017; 24(3): 1-6.
- Beard RE, Ripepi AJ, Lee KW, Marsh JW, Tsung A, Geller DA. The Top Ten Most Treacherous Laparoscopic Choleycstectomies We Have Ever Done. J Gastrointest Surg 2018; 22(2): 363-365.
- Beard RE, Finkelstein SD, Borhani AA, Minervini MI, Marsh JW. A massive hepatic tumor demonstrating hepatocellular, cholangiocarcinoma and neuroendocrine lineages: A case report and review of the literature. Int J Surg Case Rep 2017; 37: 26-32.
- Beard RE, Yee EU, Mortele KJ, Khawaja K. Multicystic biliary hamartoma: A report of a rare entity and a review of the literature. Int J Surg Case Rep 2014; 5: 919-923.
- Beard RE, Zheng Z, Lagisetty KH, Burns WR, Tran E, Hewitt SM, Abate-Daga D, Rosati SH, Fine HA, Ferrone S, Rosenberg SA, Morgan RA. Multiple chimeric antigen receptors successfully target chrondroitin sulfate proteoglycan 4 in several different cancer histologies and cancer stem cells. J Immunother Cancer. 2014; 2:25.
- Rosati SF, Parkhurst MR, Hong Y, Zheng Z, Feldman SA, Rao M, Abate-Daga D, Beard RE, Xu H, Black MA, Robbins PF, Schrump DA, Rosenberg SA, Morgan RA. A Novel Murine T Cell Receptor Targeting NY-ESO-1. J Immunother. 2014; 37: 135-46.
- Beard RE, Abate-Daga D, Rosati SF, Zheng Z, Wunderlich JR, Rosenberg SA, Morgan RA. Gene expression profiling using Nanostring digital RNA counting to identify potential target antigens for melanoma immunotherapy. Clin Cancer Res. 2013; 19: 4941-50.
- Beard RE, Hanto DW, Gautam S, Miksad RA. A comparison of surgical outcomes for noncirrhotic and cirrhotic hepatocellular carcinoma patients in a Western institution. Surgery. 2013; 154: 545-55.