Dr. Margaret A. Tempero MD
Oncologist | Medical Oncology
1600 Divisadero St San Francisco CA, 94115Rating
5/5
About
Courtney D. Stephenson, DO, FACOG, is a well-versed Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist who diagnoses and treats patients at Charlotte Fetal Care Center (CFCC) located within Carolinas Medical Center at Atrium Health in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dr. Stephenson founded CFCCC in 2010, the first center in the Southeast to offer fetoscopic surgery for treatment of fetal anomalies. Dr. Stephenson has performed the first fetoscopic surgery for treatment of fetal anomalies and first selective fetoscopic laser ablation procedure to treat Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS) in the region. In 2012, Dr. Stephenson was the first doctor in the world to perform a microwave ablation procedure of a twin reversed arterial perfusion sequence pregnancy (TRAP), a rare condition in which one twin is usually healthy and the other has a serious health issue. Dr. Stephenson and her team can reverse outcomes for babies who would otherwise not survive life after birth. She has an impressive professional journey that spans thirteen years and has expanse expertise in all facets of maternal fetal medicine with emphasis on fetoscopic surgery.
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- AGA technical review on the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. American Gastroenterological Association.
- A white paper: the product of a pancreas cancer think tank.
- Combination therapy for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: an opportunity for pharmaceutical care in a specialty practice.
- Current and future strategies for combined-modality therapy in pancreatic cancer.
- Potentiation of radioimmunotherapy with response-selective peptide agonist of human C5a.
- Purification and analysis of glycoproteins bearing blood group-A determinants from hamster pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas.
- Quantitation of metastatic tumor burden from human colon tumor xenografts using radiolabelled monoclonal antibody 17-A fragments.
- Cancer and leukemia group B (CALGB) 89805: phase II chemoradiation trial using gemcitabine in patients with locoregional adenocarcinoma of the pancreas.
- Clinical oncology 2004: the president's report.
- Serum CA19-9 response as a surrogate for clinical outcome in patients receiving fixed-dose rate gemcitabine for advanced pancreatic cancer.
- Systemic therapy for pancreatic cancer.
- Treatment of metastatic pancreatic cancer.
- Phase II study of fixed dose rate gemcitabine with cisplatin for metastatic adenocarcinoma of the pancreas.
- A phase II study of fixed-dose rate gemcitabine plus low-dose cisplatin followed by consolidative chemoradiation for locally advanced pancreatic cancer.
- Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibody (Mab) in pancreatic adenocarcinoma.
Awards
- San Francisco Super Doctors 2012
Fellowships
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer, Hematology 1981
- University of Nebraska Medical Center, Oncology 1983
- University of Nebraska / College of Medicine 1983
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