PACTT Lab
Patient Aligned Care Throughout Treatment Lab

Publications

Manuscripts

2026

  1. Jeon J, Higgins M, Durden J, Adams M, Vemuru S, Matlock D, Leslie S, Lee C, Tevis S. Attitudes and perspectives on shared decision making among breast surgical oncologists. Ann Surg Onc 2026 accepted for publication.
  2. Le D, Murphy T, Aryanpour Z, Mathes D, Matlock D, Tevis S, Kaoutzanis C, Egan K. Improving shared-decision making in plastic surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis of patient-facing decision aids. Ann Breast Surg 2026 accepted for publication.
  3. Higgins MG, Helmkamp L, Zimmaro LA, Leslie SE, Adams M, Vemuru S, Huynh VD, Baurle E, Bozzuto L, Rojas KE, Coons HL, Arkema A, Tevis S. Preliminary evaluation of the acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility of an online sexual health educational video series for breast cancer patients. Support Care Cancer. 2026 Jan 26;34(2):130. doi: 10.1007/s00520-026-10381-y. PMID: 41586882.
  4. Yoshida C, Higgins MG, Adams M, Vemuru S, Parris H, Huynh V, Goode J, DeWitt A, Arkema A, Becker N, Davis N, Helmkamp L, Leslie SE, Durden J, Tevis SE. Patient-Reported Outcomes and Attitudes in Patients at High-Risk for Breast Cancer. Am J Surg. April 2026. PMID pending.

2025

  1. Khomiak A, Billings J, Huynh V, Leonard L, Abud V, Jones T, Roriguez Franco S, Ziogas I, Christian N, Del Chiaro M, Cumbler E, Tevis S. Long-term sustainability of QI interventions: Outcomes in opioid prescribing for postoperative care. JQPS 2025 epub.
  2. Annest Canty G, Helmkamp L, Leslie S, Vemuru S, Adams M, Higgins MG, Davis RA, Scherer LD, Baurle E, Matlock D, Lee C, Tevis S. Evaluation of visual displays to share quality of life changes with breast cancer patients. Surg 2025 epub.
  3. Gehring M, Kalia N, Wolfe B, Helmkap L, Cohen J, Winocour J, Christian N, Tevis S, Murphy C, dvWidner J, Ahrendt G, Mathes D, Kaoutzanis C. Comparing discharge timing in patients undergoing immediate implant-based breast reconstruction: A randomized controlled trial. Plast Reconstr Surg 2025 epub.
  4. Adams M, Durden J, Leslie S, Vemuru S, Higgins M, Matlock D, Baimas-George, Daly R, Lee C, Colborn K, Fisher CM, Christian N, Kaoutzanis C, Egan K, Tevis SE. Developing a patient-centered educational video series on sexual health for women with breast cancer. SCC 2025;33:724.
  5. Chen DY, Ludwigson A, Higgins MG, Leslie SE, Durden J, Lin CT, Miles RC, Taft N, Wolverton D, McLemore L, Baurle E, Tevis SE. MedEd: An innovative approach to enhance patient comprehension and interpretation of a sample mammography report. Am J Surg. 2025 Sep 30;250:116643. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2025.116643. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41086567.
  6. Canty GA, Helmkamp L, Leslie SE, Vemuru S, Adams M, Higgins MG, Davis RA, Scherer LD, Baurle E, Matlock D, Lee C, Tevis S. Evaluation of Visual Displays to Share Expected Quality of Life Changes with Breast Cancer Patients. Surgery. 2025 Oct 2;188:109770. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2025.109770. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41043297.
  7. Jiang JG, Agarwal T, Higgins MG, Roy MK, Adams M, Leslie SE, Baurle E, Rojas KE, Tevis SE. Identifying resource needs of patients with breast cancer by examining alignment of Reddit post content with BREAST-Q domains. Am J Surg. 2025 Sep;247:116486. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2025 
  8. Bheemireddy S, Leslie SE, Durden JA, Burnet G, Aryanpour Z, Fong A, Higgins MG, Greenseid S, McLemore L, Li G, Miles R, Taft N, & Tevis S (2025). The Use of ChatGPT-4.0 to Simplify Breast Pathology Reports: A Study on Readability and Accuracy. Annals of Surgical Oncology. Accepted June 26 2025. https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-025-17860-2
  9. Foy B, Ludwigson A, Mott N, Vemuru S, Wolverton D, Yi J, Sams S, Jaiswal K, Lin CT, Miles R, Taft N, Baurle E, Cumbler E, Tevis S. Helping patients navigate the immediate releases of medical records: MedEd, a novel patient engagement technology. Am J Surg 2025;239:115977.
  10. O’Brien E, Ludwigson A, Vemuru S, Higgins M, Hampanda K, Wolverton D, Sams S, Taft N, Miles R, Lin CT, Cumbler E, Tevis S. Interpretation of immediate released health information: informing patient medical education in breast oncology. Am J Surg 2025;239:115853.
  11. A, Quinn C, Lee A, Leonard L, Vemuru S, Huynh V, Ahrendt G, Kaoutzanis C, Fisher C, Romandetti K, Gleisner A, Chapman B, Meguid C, Schulick R, Del Chiaro M, Tevis S Exploration of patient retention in seeking a second opinion; a retrospective cohort study. JSR 2025;306:588-603.
  12. Roy M, Higgins M, Adams M, Tevis S. Improving value-concordant shared decision making through the use of patient decision aids in breast cancer: A narrative review. Ann Breast Surg 2025 accepted for publication.
  13. Higgins M, Vemuru S, Helmkamp L, Adams M, Colborn K, Parris H, Huynh V, Christian N, Ahrendt G, Lee C, Kim S, Matlock D, Cumbler E, Tevis S. Access to results of patient reported outcome surveys did not improve longitudinal patient reported outcomes in breast cancer patients in a randomized controlled trial. Am J Surg  2025;239:116054.
  14. Greenseid S, Li G, Mihulka O, Vazquez A, Verosky A, Rodriguez Franco S, Bheemireddy S, Higgins M, Leslie SE, Tevis SE, Rojas K (2025). A retrospective multi-institutional assessment of breast radiology and pathology report readability and a novel patient tool (MedEd) utilizing American literacy standards. J Cancer Surviv. 2025 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11764-025-01842-0
  15. Greenseid S, Curran M, Mihulka O, Gunderson A, Wolde T, Tevis S. Should we offer prophylactic mastectomy in women at high risk for breast cancer without pathogenic gene mutation? Curr Breast Cancer Rep 2025;17:18.
  16. Leslie SE, Durden JA, Tevis SE. Embrace with caution: The limitations of generative artificial intelligence in responding to patient health care queries. Cancer. Jan 2025. doi: 10.1002/cncr.35651. PMID: 39560369. 

2024

  1. Higgins M, Tevis S, Glasheen J. First do no harm, second measure it. Am J Med 2024;137:799-800.
  2. Jeon J, Adams M, Higgins M, Vemuru S, Ludwigson A, Parris H, Huynh V, Baurle E, Coons H, Rojas K, Matlock D, Lee C, Kim S, Cumbler E, Tevis S. Breast cancer surgery: A qualitative exploration of concerns over time. JSR 2024;300:272-278.
  3. O’Brien EA, Ludwigson A, Higgins MG, Tevis S. Who’s on the healthcare team? Nurse navigators in the era of information transparency. Am J Surg. 2024 Nov 6:116070. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2024.116070. PMID: 39521687. 
  4. Higgins MG, Vemuru S, Helmkamp L, Adams M, Colborn K, Parris H, Huynh V, Christian N, Ahrendt G, Lee C, Kim S, Matlock D, Cumbler E, Tevis S. Access to results of patient reported outcome surveys did not improve longitudinal patient reported outcomes in breast cancer patients in a randomized controlled trial. Am J Surg. 2024 Oct 30;239:116054. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2024.116054. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39500006. 
  5. Ludwigson A, Huynh V, Vemuru S, Romandetti K, Fisher C, Coons HL, Pettigrew J, Hampanda K, Kaoutzanis C, Ahrendt G, Afghahi A, Stewart C, Tevis S. Characterizing informational needs and information seeking behavior of patients with breast cancer. Am J Surg. 2024 Jan;227:100-105. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2023.09.047. Epub 2023 Oct 8. PMID: 37863795; PMCID: PMC11376347.
  6. Vemuru S, Helmkamp L, Adams M, Colborn K, Parris H, Huynh V, Higgins M, Christian N, Ahrendt G, Baurle E, Lee C, Kim S, Matlock D, Cumbler E, Tevis S. Longitudinal Trends in Patient-Reported Outcomes in the First Year After Lumpectomy Versus Mastectomy. Ann Surg Oncol. 2024 Oct;31(11):7597-7606. doi: 10.1245/s10434-024-15795-8. Epub 2024 Jul 18. PMID: 39026138; PMCID: PMC11452268.
  7. O’Brien E., Vemuru, S., Leonard L., Himelhoch, B., Adams, M., Taft, N., Jaiswal, K., Cumbler, E., Sams, S., Wolverton, D., Ahrendt, G., Yi, J., Lin, C., Miles, R., Hampanda. K., & Tevis, S. (2024). Information Transparency with Immediate Release: Oncology Clinician and Patient Perceptions. The American Journal of Surgery, 227, 165-174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjsurg.2023.10.015
  8. Tevis S, Lee C. “It’s high time to measure preoperative patient reported outcomes.” Ann Surg Oncol, June 2024.

2023

  1. D’Angelo, A.-L. D., Tevis, S. E., & D’Angelo, J. D. (2024). Roses, thorns, and buds: Coping with failure in surgery. American Journal of Surgery, 227, 247–248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjsurg.2023.08.027
  2. Mott, N. M., Huynh, V., Vemuru, S., Parris, H. J., Colborn, K., Ahrendt, G., Christian, N., Kim, S., Matlock, D. D., Cumbler, E., & Tevis, S. E. A. (2024). Barriers and facilitators to measuring patient reported outcomes in an academic breast cancer clinic: An application of the RE-AIM framework. American Journal of Surgery, 228, 180–184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjsurg.2023.09.022
  3. Neilson, T., Huynh, V., Macdonald, A., Romandetti, K., Ahrendt, G., Hampanda, K., Kim, S. P., & Tevis, S. E. (2023). Financial Toxicity of Breast Cancer Care: The Patient Perspective Through Surveys and Interviews. Journal of Surgical Research, 281, 122–129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2022.08.021
  4. Yang, J. H., Huynh, V., Leonard, L. D., Kovar, A., Bronsert, M., Ludwigson, A., Wolverton, D., Hampanda, K., Christian, N., Kim, S. P., Ahrendt, G., Mathes, D. W., & Tevis, S. E. (2023). Are Diagnostic Delays Associated with Distress in Breast Cancer Patients? Breast Care (Basel, Switzerland), 18(4), 240–248. https://doi.org/10.1159/000529586
  5. D’Angelo, A.-L. D., Kapur, N., Kelley, S. R., Rivera, M., Busch, R. A., Tevis, S. E., Hoedema, R. E., & D’Angelo, J. D. (2023). The good, the bad, and the ugly: Operative staff perspectives of surgeon coping with intraoperative errors. Surgery, 174(2), 222–228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surg.2023.04.019
  6. Vemuru, S. R., Bronsert, M., Vossler, K., Huynh, V. D., Beaty, L., Ahrendt, G., Arruda, J., Kaoutzanis, C., Rojas, K. E., Bozzuto, L., Kim, S., & Tevis, S. E. (2023). Postoperative Outcomes After Staged Versus Coordinated Breast Surgery and Bilateral Salpingo-Oophorectomy. Annals of Surgical Oncology, 30(9), 5667–5680. https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-023-13630-0
  7. Vemuru, S., Huang, J., Colborn, K., Yoon, Y., Huynh, V., Leonard, L., Ahrendt, G., Christian, N., Afghahi, A., McLemore, L., Sams, S., & Tevis, S. (2023). Clinical implications of receptor conversions in breast cancer patients who have undergone neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 200(2), 247–256. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-023-06978-0
  8. Leonard, L. D., Driscoll, B., Vemuru, S., Kovar, A., Billings, J., Kim, S., Lin, C.-T., Tevis, S., & Cumbler, E. (2023). Surgeon-Perceived Requirements for a Platform to Integrate Patient-Reported Outcome Measures into Clinical Practice. ACI Open, 07(02), e41–e48. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0043-1771238

Book Chapters and Invited Reviews

2026

  1. Tevis S, “Narrowing the gap: addressing sexual and gender minority-specific concerns throughout the breast cancer continuum.” Am J Surg, April 2026.

2024

  1. Tevis S, Lee C. “It’s high time to measure preoperative patient reported outcomes.” Ann Surg Oncol, June 2024.

2023

  1. Vemuru S, Tevis S. “Operative management in stage IV breast cancer.” Surgical Clinics of North American, February 2023.
  2. Vemuru S, Tevis S. “In which patient should we coordinate breast surgery and bilateral salpingo-oophrectomy?” Ann Surg Oncol, May 2023.