David Stewart, MD, FACS, FASCRS
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Section Chief of Colorectal Surgery
Professor, Surgery
Biography
I am a colorectal surgeon who trained at Washington University School of Medicine and who takes care of all forms of benign and malignant colorectal disease. I have a particular focus on the surgical care of inflammatory bowel disease and rectal cancer, and I am experienced with single-incision laparoscopic surgery.
Cancer Focus
I have a particular interest in the care of rectal cancer, and I serve as the director of our rectal cancer program. My goal is to provide the highest quality care for patients with colorectal cancer, and to make every safe effort to avoid a stoma.
Selected Publications
Stewart, D. B., J. R. Wright, M. Fowler, C. J. McLimans, V. Tokarev, I. Amaniera, O. Baker, H-T. Wong, J. Brabec, R. Drucker, et al., "Integrated Meta-omics Reveals a Fungus-Associated Bacteriome and Distinct Functional Pathways in Clostridioides difficile Infection.", mSphere, vol. 4, issue 4, 2019 08 28. PMCID: PMC6714892 PMID: 31462412
Stewart, D. B., W. B. Gaertner, S. C. Glasgow, D. O. Herzig, D. Feingold, and S. R. Steele, "The American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons Clinical Practice Guidelines for Anal Squamous Cell Cancers (Revised 2018).", Dis Colon Rectum, vol. 61, issue 7, pp. 755-774, 2018 Jul. PMID: 29878949
Kulaylat, A. S., E. L. Buonomo, K. W. Scully, C. S. Hollenbeak, H. Cook, W. A. Petri, and D. B. Stewart, "Development and Validation of a Prediction Model for Mortality and Adverse Outcomes Among Patients With Peripheral Eosinopenia on Admission for Clostridium difficile Infection.", JAMA Surg, vol. 153, issue 12, pp. 1127-1133, 2018 12 01. PMCID: PMC6414272 PMID: 30208386
Lamendella, R., J. R. Wright, J. Hackman, C. McLimans, D. R. Toole, W. Bernard Rubio, R. Drucker, H. Tong Wong, K. Sabey, J. P. Hegarty, et al., "Antibiotic Treatments for Infection Are Associated with Distinct Bacterial and Fungal Community Structures.", mSphere, vol. 3, issue 1, 2018 Jan-Feb. PMCID: PMC5760750 PMID: 29359185
Sharma, A. K., J. Krzeminski, V. Weissig, J. P. Hegarty, and D. B. Stewart, "Cationic amphiphilic bolaamphiphile-based delivery of antisense oligonucleotides provides a potentially microbiome sparing treatment for C. difficile.", J Antibiot (Tokyo), vol. 71, issue 8, pp. 713-721, 2018 08. PMCID: PMC6063762 PMID: 29674636