Michael Eric Tarnoff, MD

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Assistant Professor of Surgery (July, 2001 – Present)
Tufts University School of Medicine
Tufts-New England Medical Center
Department of Surgery, Box 900
750 Washington Street
South Building, 4th Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02111

EDUCATION

Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery Fellowship (July 1, 2000 – June 30, 2001)
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
General Surgery Residency (July 1, 1994- June 30, 2000)
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Camden, New Jersey
Surgical Research Fellowship (July 1, 1996 – June 30, 1997)
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Camden, New Jersey
Doctor of Medicine (May, 1994)
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey
Bachelor of Arts (May, 1990)
Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

Associate Fellow - American College of Surgeons
Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons
American Society for Bariatric Surgeons

LICENSURE

Massachusetts State License (June 2001)
Massachusetts State CDS (August 2001)
DEA (May, 1997)CERTIFICATION
American Board of Surgery
National Board of Medical Examiners
Advanced Cardiac Life Support
Advanced Trauma Life Support
Basic Life Support

NATIONAL PRESENTATIONS

  1. Goodman M, Tarnoff M, Slotman G. The Effect of Advance Directives on the Management of Elderly Critically Ill Patients. Society of Critical Care Medicine - Princeton, New Jersey - September, 1996.
  2. Tarnoff M, Goodman M, Jones F, Moncure M, Ross S. The Value of Chest Radiography After Tracheostomy. Society of Critical Care Medicine - Princeton, New Jersey - September, 1996.
  3. Hewitt C, Strande L, Santos M, Goodman M, Tarnoff M, Zaontz M, Doolin E. Rat Renal Allograft Tolerance is Associated with Local TGF-B and Absence of IL-2r Expression Within Chimeric Immunocytic Foci. Cell Transplant Society 3rd International Congress - Miami, Florida - September, 1996.
  4. Hewitt C, Ramsamooj R, Chin V, Tarnoff M, Goodman M, Doolin E. Use of 3-D Microscopy With Multiple Oblique Illumination in Evaluating Cytopathology Preparations. The 10thInternational Conference on Diagnostic Quantitative Pathology - Sendai, Japan - October, 1996 .
  5. Tarnoff M, Goodman M, Hewitt C, Tatem L, Salartash K, Matthews M, Dalsey R, Born C, DeLong W. Cellular Immune Alterations in the Joints of Composite Tissue Allograft Recipients Associated with Mixed Chimerism, GVHD and Tolerance as Analyzed by a Novel 3-D Microscope. American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery - Boca Raton, Florida - January 13-15, 1997
  6. Tarnoff M, Goodman M, DelRossi A, Hewitt C. Quantitation of Rejection in Cryopreserved Aortic Valve Allograft Explants Using Digital Image Analysis. Experimental Biology - New Orleans, Louisiana - April 6-9, 1997.
  7. Goodman M, Tarnoff M, Hewitt C, Doolin E. Mathematical Analysis of High Definition 3-D Microscopy using Digital Image Analysis. Experimental Biology - New Orleans, Louisiana - April 6-9, 1997.
  8. Ramsamooj R, Levin S, Tarnoff M, Matthews M, Dalsey R, Hewitt C. Site-Specific Immune Suppression by Topical Cyclosporine: Subtle Rejection Determined by Digital Image Analysis. Experimental Biology - New Orleans, Louisiana -April 6-9, 1997.
  9. Goodman M, Tarnoff M, Kain M, Slotman G,. The Effect of Cisplatin Sensitized Radiation on Survival in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer. Society of Head and Neck Surgeons - Cancun, Mexico - April 10-12, 1997.
  10. Tarnoff M, Goodman M, Kain M, Doolin E, Hewitt C. Evaluation of High Definition 3-D Microscopy in Pap Smear Analysis. 88thAnnual American Association of Cancer Research - San Diego, California - April 12-16, 1997.13. Goodman M, Tarnoff M, Strande L, Doolin E, Hewitt C. Local TGF-B and IL-2 Expression Patterns Associated with Chimerism in Tolerant and Rejecting Rat Renal Allograft Tubules. The 16thAnnual American Society of Transplant Physicians - Chicago, Illinois - May 10-12, 1997.
  11. Tarnoff M, Goodman M, Kain M, Doolin E, Hewitt C. Novel Microscope Enhances Imaging in Cytopathology Specimens. The 1997 Annual Retreat on Cancer Research - Princeton, New Jersey - May 30, 1997.
  12. Tarnoff M, Goodman M, Thoman D, Benfield R, Slotman G. The Apache III Scoring System as a Predictor of ICU Length of Stay, Hospital Costs, and Mode of Death. The 7th World Congress of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine - Ottawa, Canada - June 29-July 3, 1997.
  13. Ramsamooj R, Goodman M, Tarnoff M, Doolin E, Hewitt C. Evaluation of Thyroid Fine Needle Aspirate (FNA) Using High Resolution 3-D Microscopy with Multiple Oblique Illumination. XVI European Congress on Pathology - Maastricht, The Netherlands - September 3-7, 1997
  14. Tarnoff M, Goodman M, Doolin E, DelRossi A, Hewitt C. Mathematical Comparison of Multiple Oblique and Axial Illumination in Bright Field Microscopy Using Digital Image Analysis. 13thAnnual Meeting of the Academy of Surgical Research - San Antonio, Texas - September 4-6, 1997.
  15. Hewitt C, Goodman M, Tarnoff M, Ramsamooj R, Doolin E. Microscopy Utilizing Multiple Oblique Illumination for Cytopathology. 36th Annual Scientific Meeting for the British Society for Clinical Cytology - Nottingham, England - September 7-10, 1997.
  16. Goldstein M, Benfield R, Goodman M, Tarnoff M. The Utility of Post-Jejunostomy Jejunogram. Society of Critical Care Medicine - Regional Meeting - Eatontown, New Jersey - September 5, 1997.
  17. Goodman M, Tarnoff M, Hewitt C, Strande L, Tatem L, Kain M, DelRossi A, Doolin E. The Relationship Between In-Situ Chimerism, Local TGF-B and IL-2 Expression in Rat Renal Allograft Tolerance. 83rd Surgical Forum - American College of Surgeons Annual Meeting - Chicago, Illinois - October 14-18, 1997 .
  18. Antinori C, Tarnoff M, Goodman M, Abbate M, Lotano V, Mortman K, Santaspirit J, Kuhchler J, DiPaola D, Heim J, Villanueva D. Ten Year Experience with Mersilene Reinforced Sternal Wound Closure. 31st Scientific Assembly of the Annual Meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians - New Orleans, Louisiana - October 26-30, 1997.
  19. Tarnoff M, Goodman M, Kroon D, Mortman K, DeLeon M, Cody W. Early Experience with Total Extra-Peritoneal Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair. 6th Annual Meeting of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons - Orlando, Florida -December 3-6, 1997.
  20. Thoman D, Tarnoff M, Goodman M, Ross S. Analysis of Routine Blood Culturing of Injured Critically Ill Patients. Annual Meeting of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma - Sanibel, Florida - January 4-6, 1998.
  21. Tarnoff M, Goodman M, DelRossi A, Hewitt C. Digital Image Analysis of Major Histocompatability Complex II Expression in Human Cryopreserved Tissues. Experimental Biology - San Francisco, California - April 18-22, 1998.
  22. Chrzanowski F, Geldizler B, Goodman M, Tarnoff M, Martucci M, Doolin E, Hewitt C. Relationship of Specimen Thickness to Image Detail in Breast Fine Needle Aspirate Specimens using Multiple Oblique Illumination and High Definition 3-D Microscopy. Experimental Biology - San Francisco, California - April 18-22, 1998.
  23. Goodman M, Tarnoff M, Li Y, Soll D, Hewitt C, DelRossi A. The Effect of Surface Modification on Thrombogenicity of Mechanical Aortic Valves. Scanning 98 - Baltimore, Maryland - May 9-12, 1998.
  24. Tarnoff M, Shikora S, Libby E. Endoscopic Injection of Fibrin Glue: An Adjunct to Non-Operative Management of Post-Gastric Bypass Anastamtoic Leak and Gastrogastric Fistula. Society of Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons – New York, New York – March 14-17, 2002.
  25. Tarnoff M, Rosen M, Brody F. Planned Totally Extraperitoneal Laparoscopic Spigelian Hernia Repair. Society of Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons – New York, New York – March 14-17, 2002.
  26. Brody F, Tarnoff M, Rosen M, et. al. Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Utilizing Local Anesthesia and a Laryngeal Mask Airway. Society of Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons – New York, New York – March 14-17, 2002.
  27. Arnold W, Tarnoff M, Shikora, SA. Comparing seam burst pressure: Buttressed versus Non-Buttressed Linear Cutting Staple Devices in a Porcine Model of Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass. American Society for Bariatric Surgery, 19th Annual Meeting - Las Vegas, Nevada - June 2002.
  28. Tarnoff M, Trigilio C, Shikora SA. Bypassing the Bypass: A Novel Technique for Dealing with an Obstructed Enteroenterostomy after Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass. American Society for Bariatric Surgery, 19th Annual Meeting - Las Vegas, Nevada - June 2002.
  29. Shikora S, Tarnoff M. Reinforcing gastric staple lines with Peri-Strips Dry may prevent gastric leak after laparoscopic roux-en-y gastric bypass. 7th World Congress of the International Federation for the Surgry of Obesity – San Pauol, Brazil – August 27-31, 2002.
  30. Live Case Broadcast – Laparoscopic Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass - 88th Clinical Congress American College of Surgeons – San Francisco, CA - October 6-10, 2002

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

  1. Finger S, Green L, Tarnoff M, Mortman K, Anderson A. Nimodopine Enhances New Learning After Hippocampal Damage. Exp Neurol 1990; 109: 279-285.
  2. Hewitt C, Tarnoff M, Goodman M, Ramsamooj R, Chin V, Doolin E. Use of 3-D Microscopy with Multiple Oblique Illumination in Evaluating Cytopathology Preparations. Analytical and Quantitative Cytology and Histology 1999; 21(2):139-42.
  3. Hewitt C, Strande L, Santos M, Goodman M, Tarnoff M, Zaontz M, Doolin E. Rat Renal Allograft Tolerance is Associated with Local TGF-B and Absence of IL-2r Expression within Chimeric Immunocytic Foci. Transplant Proceedings 1997; Vol. 29(4): 2183-2184.
  4. Goodman M, Tarnoff M, Strande L, Tatem L, Kain M, Doolin E, DelRossi A, Hewitt C. The Relationship Between InSitu Chimerism, Local TGF-B, and IL-2r Expression in Rat Renal Allograft Tolerance. Surgical Forum 1997; 48: 508-509.
  5. Goodman M, Tarnoff M, Slotman G. The Effect of Cisplatin Sensitized Radiation on Survival in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer. Am J Surg 1997; 174:527-531.
  6. Tarnoff M, Goodman M, Cataldo T, Atabek U, Alexander J, Koniges F, Costabile J, Pello M. Successful Treatment of Fissure-in-Ano Using Topical Nitroglycerin. J Clin Gastroent 1997; Vol. 25(1):399-400.
  7. Goodman M, Tarnoff M, Slotman G. The Effect of Advance Directives on the Management of Elderly Critically Ill Patients. Crit Care Med 1998;Vol. 26(4):701-704.8. Tarnoff M, Goodman M, Jones F, Moncure M, Ross S. The Value of Routine Post-Tracheostomy Chest Radiography. Chest 1998;Vol. 113(6): 1647-9.
  8. Tarnoff M, Atabek U, Goodman M, Camishon R, Alexander J, Pello M. Comparison of Laparoscopic and Open Appendectomy. J Soc Laparoendosc Surg 1998;2:153-158.
  9. Chrzanowski FA Jr, Goodman M, Tarnoff M, Hewitt, C. The Effect of Surface Modification of Mechanical Aortic Valves on Thrombogenicity. Scanning 1998;20(3):189-90.
  10. Puc MM, Tran H, Goldstein M, Tarnoff, M, Slotman, G. Efficacy of Jejunogram after Jejunostomy Insertion. Am Surg. 1999;65(11):1097-100.
  11. Puc MM, Antinori CH, Tarnoff, M, Villanueva DT. Ten-Year Experience with Mersilene
  12. Reinforced Sternal Wound Closure. Ann Thor Surg. 2000;70(1): 97-9.
  13. Brody F, Rosen M, Tarnoff M, et al. Laparoscopic Lateral L4-L4 Disc Exposure. Surg Endosc Apr 2002, 16(4) p650-3 .
  14. Tarnoff M, Rosen M, Brody F. Planned Laparoscopic Totally Extraperitoneal Spigleian Hernia Repair. Surg Endosc Feb 2002, 16(2) p359.
  15. Rosen M, Brody F, Walsh RM, et al. Outcome of Laparoscopic Splenectomy Based on Hematologic Indication. Surg Endosc. Feb 2002, 16(2) p272-9.
  16. Rosen MJ, Malm JA, Tarnoff M, et al. Cost Effectiveness of Ambulatory Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy. Surg Laparosc Endosc Percutan Tech. Jun 2001, 11(3) p182-4.
  17. Tran HS, Moncure M, Tarnoff M, et al. Predictors of Operative Outcome in Patients with HIV and AIDS. Am J Surg. Sep 2000, 180(3) p228-33.
  18. Duperier T, Rajeeva R, Brody FJ, Tarnoff M. Laparoscopic Resection of a Hepatic Cystadenoma. Surg Rounds. June 2002, 286-290.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Tarnoff M, Shikora S. Complications in Obesity Surgery in Sugerman H. Surgery for Morbid Obesity (in press)

Tarnoff M, Shikora S. Surgery in Thaler D., Hope R., Longmore J., Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, NY, NY, 2002.

Tarnoff M. Pancreatitis in Ponsky J. The Cleveland Clinic Guide to Surgical Patient Management. Mosby Publishing, St Louis, MO, 2002.

Tarnoff M. Acute Pancreatitis in Unbound Surgery (in press)

 

 

 

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