Audrey C Pendleton, MD
About Audrey C Pendleton, MD:
Dr. Pendleton received her undergraduate education at Smith College, where she was inducted into the Sigma Xi Scientific Honors Society, and graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in Neuroscience. Between college and medical school, she worked at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, performing research in human immunology. She attended medical school at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. After graduating medical school, she completed a residency in Internal Medicine at New York University Medical Center and Bellevue Hospital Center. While at NYU, she earned her Certificate in Translational and Clinical Research. She then trained in general surgery at Montefiore Medical Center at The Albert Einstein School of Medicine where she won the Teacher of the Year Award. Dr. Pendleton completed two fellowships, one in Trauma Surgery and Critical Care at Virginia Commonwealth University and then finished her training by doing a Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois where she also served as the Chief Fellow and received extensive training in minimally invasive thoracic surgery. She returned to New York and joined the faculty at Columbia University Medical Center where she is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Thoracic Surgery. She has numerous publications and has presented at national and international conferences. She is board certified in Internal Medicine, General Surgery, Surgical Critical Care and Trauma, and Cardiothoracic Surgery. Her interests and areas of expertise include robotic thoracic surgery, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, and surgical education.
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Honors:
2018: AAST Resident and In Training Fellow Scholarship Award
2015: Teacher of the Year, Montefiore Medical Center and Einstein School of Medicine, Department of Surgery
2015: Looking to the Future Scholar, Society for Thoracic Surgeons Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA
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Locations
Primary Locations:
CUIMC/Herbert Irving Pavilion
161 Fort Washington Avenue
Floor 3
New York, NY 10032
- For new and current patient appointments, call:
- 212-305-3408
Insurances:
Please contact the doctor's office directly to verify that your particular insurance is accepted.
Publications:
Pendleton, A.C. Commentary: The Role of PET Scan Uptake in Determining Prognosis in Early-Stage Lung Cancer. Ann Surg Oncol (2022)
"Bronchocutaneous Fistulae After Open Heart Surgery: A Hybrid Approach to Managing a Rare Complication" Poster Presentation at the American Association for Thoracic Surgery 102nd Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, May 2022
Pendleton AC, Stenson K, Tabachnick D, Seder CW. "Laparoscopic Transhiatal Esophagectomy with an En Bloc Posterior Tracheal Wall Resection," Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 2022
"Laparoscopic Transhiatal Esophagectomy with an En Bloc Posterior Tracheal Wall Resection on ECMO" Video Presentation at the 29th Meeting of European Society of Thoracic Surgeons, June 2021
Pendleton AC, F errada P, (2021 ). "Post-Injury Management" in Mulholland and Greenfield's Surgery: Scientific Principles and Practice, 'J'h Edition. Wolters Kluwer (in publication)
Pendleton AC, Melvin WS, (2021). "Ablative Therapies in Barrett's Esophagus" in Diego Camacho (Ed) et al, Benign Esophageal Disease: Modern Surgical Approaches and Techniques (pp 225-231). Springer International Pulbishing
Pendleton AC, Leichtle SW. "Cardiac Tamponade from Blunt Trauma," The American Surgeon, August 2020, https://doi.org/10.1177/0003134820942170
Leichtle SW, Pendleton AC et al. "Triage of Patients with Rib Fractures: Patient Age and Number Don't Tell the Whole Story," The American Surgeon, 2020: vol 86(9): 1194-1199
"Triage of Patients with Rib Fractures" Podium Presentation at Southeast Surgical Society Congress Annual Meeting, New Orleans, February 2020
"Cardiac Tamponade from Blunt Trauma Requiring Stemotomy" Oral Presentation at Southeast Surgical Society Congress Annual Meeting, New Orleans, February 2020
"The Opiate Epidemic: An American Tragedy," Department of Surgery Grand Rounds, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, 2019
Pendleton AC, Peek G, Hintz S, (2018). "Pediatric Cardiac Surgery: Relevance to Fetal and Neonatal Brain Injury" In DK Stevenson (Ed.), Fetal and Neonatal Brain Injury, 5th Edition (pp. 583-595). Cambridge University Press
"Can Operative Trauma Simulation Erase Gender Differences in Self-Confidence?" Oral Presentation at American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress, San Diego CA, October 2017.
"Antibiotic Irrigation as an Alternative to Surgery for Post-Operative Empyema" Poster Presentation at Eastern Cardiothoracic Surgical Society Annual Meeting, Clearwater Beach, FL, October 2017
"Transverse Rectus Abdominis Flap in Pneumonectomy for Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis" Podium Presentation at Eastern Cardiothoracic Surgical Society Annual Meeting, St Pete Beach FL, October 2016
"Sex-based Differences in Morbidity and Mortality Associated with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Resections." Poster Presentation, IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer, Sydney Australia, October 2013
"Acute Eosinophilic Pneumonia Caused by Intramuscular Injections of Progesterone," Poster Presentation at American College of Chest Physicians Annual Meeting, October 2011
"Outcomes in Chronically Ventilated Patients," Women in Medicine Research Day at Stony Brook University Medical Center, April 2010
Hu J, Sealfon SC, Pendleton AC and Wetmur JG. "Chromosome-specific and Noisy lFNBl Transcription in Individual Virus-infected Human Primary Dendritic Cells." Nucleic Acids Research. 2007; 35(15): 5232-41
"Population Analysis of Innate Genes: mRNA Allelic Imbalance in Human Dendritic Cells Following NDV Infection," National Immunology Conference at Mt Sinai School of Medicine, June 2005