Dr. Alexander Rosemurgy II, MD

Expert Publications

• One hundred consecutive advanced breast biopsy instrumentation procedures: complications, costs, and outcome.
• Matrix metalloproteinase inhibition suppresses MMP-2 activity and activation of PANC-1 cells in vitro.
• Financial status does not predict weight loss after bariatric surgery.
• Adhesion molecules: clinical implications.
• Addition of matrix metalloproteinase inhibition to conventional cytotoxic therapy reduces tumor implantation and prolongs survival in a murine model of human pancreatic cancer.
• Laparoscopic revision of failed antireflux operations.
• Matrix metalloproteinase inhibition improves survival in an orthotopic model of human pancreatic cancer.
• Clinical predictors of sleep apnea in patients undergoing bariatric surgery.
• Management of medically refractory ascites.
• Location, not staging, of cholangiocarcinoma determines the role for adjuvant chemoradiation therapy.
• In vitro and in vivo matrix metalloproteinase production by pancreatic cancer cells and by distant organs.
• Videoscopic heller myotomy as first-line therapy for severe achalasia.
• MMP-2 and TIMP-1 are derived from, not in response to, pancreatic cancer.
• TIMP-1 overexpression in pancreatic cancer attenuates tumor growth, decreases implantation and metastasis, and inhibits angiogenesis.
• The "learning curve" in videoscopic Heller myotomy.

Clinical Trials

• A Study to Assess PV-10 Chemoablation of Cancer of the Liver

Media Releases

Get to know General Surgeon Dr. Alexander Rosemurgy II, who serves patients in Tampa, Florida.

Dr. Rosemurgy II is an advanced foregut & HPB surgeon at AdventHealth Digestive Health Institute Tampa. He specializes in minimally invasive and robotic surgery to treat conditions of the esophagus, stomach, small bowel, pancreas, gallbladder and liver. 

Among his other positions, he is Co-Director of the Advanced GI and HPB Surgery Fellowship at the Digestive Health Institute, which trains new surgeons to master minimally invasive complex surgery. He also serves as a Professor of Surgery at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine.

A 1979 graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School, Dr. Rosemurgy II went on to perform his residency in surgery at the University of Chicago from 1979 until 1984.

With extensive experience in a number of surgical procedures, he is board-certified in general surgery by the American Board of Surgery (ABS). The ABS is an independent, non-profit organization located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded for the purpose of certifying surgeons who have met a defined standard of education, training, and knowledge.

Having been a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons since 1982, Dr. Rosemurgy II is also an active member of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons and the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma.

Throughout his extensive line of work, he has published more than 300 articles in clinical and scientific journals. 

General surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, appendix and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland. A general surgeon performs a wide range of abdominal surgeries for many forms of intestinal and abdominal wall neoplasms, gallbladder disease, gastric and pancreatic disease. They follow the patient through critical care and surgical recovery all the way to outpatient care.

Consistently recognized as one of the Best Doctors in America and one of the Most Compassionate Doctors in America, Dr. Rosemurgy II has gained a national reputation particularly for treating pancreatic cancer patients. 

Among his various accolades include Patients’ Choice Award (2014, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008), Compassionate Doctor Recognition (2011, 2010), and Top 10 Doctor – City (2014).

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