Highlighted Publications

Kidney Cancer

  • Leppert JT, Mittakanti HR, Thomas I, Lamberts RW, Sonn GA, Chung BI, Skinner EC, Wagner TH, Chertow GM, Brooks JD. Contemporary Use of Partial Nephrectomy: Are Older Patients with Impaired Kidney Function Being Left Behind? Urology. 2017.
  • Leppert JT, Hanley J, Wagner TH, Chung BI, Srinivas S, Chertow GM, Brooks JD, Saigal CS, and The Urologic Diseases in America Project. Utilization of Renal Mass Biopsy in Patients with Renal Cell Carcinoma. Urology. 2014.
  • Conti SL, Thomas I, Hagedorn JC, Chung BI, Chertow GM, Wagner TH, Brooks JD, Srinivas S, Leppert JT. Utilization of Cytoreductive Nephrectomy and Patient Survival in the Targeted Therapy Era. International Journal of Cancer. 2014.

Prostate cancer and population studies in the VA

  • Mittakanti HR, Thomas I, Shelton JB, Makarov DV, Skolarus TA, Cooperberg MR, Chung BI, Sonn GA, Brooks JD, Leppert JT. Accuracy of Prostate Specific Antigen Values in Prostate Cancer Registries. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2016.
  • Barbosa PV, Thomas I, Srinivas S, Buyyounouski MK, Chung BI, Chertow GM, Asch SM, Wagner TH, Brooks JD, Leppert JT. Overall Survival in Patients With Localized Prostate Cancer In The Veterans Health Administration: Is PIVOT Generalizable? European Urology. 2016.

Urinary stone disease

  • Weinberg AE, Patel CJ, Chertow GM, Leppert JT. Diabetic Severity and Risk of Kidney Stone Disease. European Urology. 2014.
  • Lamberts RW, Conti SL, Leppert JT, Elliott CS. Defining the Rate of Negative Ureteroscopy in the General Population Treated for Upper Tract Urinary Stone Disease. Journal of Endourology. 2017.

Epidemiology methods

  • Leppert J, Patel CJ. Beyond the Genome. Nature. 2016.
  • Patel CJ, Rehkopf DH, Leppert JT, Bortz WM, Cullen MR, Chertow GM, Ioannidis JP. System Evaluation of Environmental and Behavioral Factors Associated with All-cause Mortality in the United States National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. International Journal of Epidemiology. 2013.