Dr. Steven Eugene Raper MD
Surgeon | Surgical Critical Care
3400 Spruce Street 4 Silverstein Bldg Philadelphia PA, 19104Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Steven Raper is a general surgeon practicing in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Raper specializes in abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas and often thyroid glands. General surgeons are able to deal with almost any surgical or critical care emergency, also involving the skin or soft tissue trauma. Dr. Raper provides quality surgical service for gravely ill or injured patients and is able to respond quickly due to knowledge of various surgical procedures.
Education and Training
Univ of Il Coll of Med, Chicago Il 1980
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Surgical Critical Care
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- 1988
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Cellular immunity delimits adenoviral gene therapy strategies for the treatment
- Repeated administration of adenoviral vectors in lungs of human CD4 transgenic mice treated with a nondepleting CD4 antibody.
- Cell-biological assessment of human glucokinase mutants causing maturity-onset diabetes of the young type 2 (MODY-2) or glucokinase-linked hyperinsulinaemia (GK-HI).
- Gene transfer into the liver of nonhuman primates with E1-deleted recombinant adenoviral vectors: safety of readministration.
- Acute pancreatitis secondary to dehydration: case report and review of the literature.
- Readministration of adenovirus vector in nonhuman primate lungs by blockade of
- Genotype spectrum of ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency: correlation with the clinical and biochemical phenotype.
- Activation of innate immunity in nonhuman primates following intraportal administration of adenoviral vectors.
- Adenoviral vector-mediated insulin gene transfer in the mouse pancreas corrects streptozotocin-induced hyperglycemia.
- Inhibition of DNA synthesis by somatostatin in rat hepatocytes stimulated by hepatocyte growth factor or epidermal growth factor.
- Identification and partial characterization of a somatostatin-14 binding protein on rat liver plasma membranes.
- Ex vivo gene therapy of familial hypercholesterolemia.
- Transplantation of genetically modified autologous hepatocytes into nonhuman primates: feasibility and short-term toxicity.
- Transduction of human islets with pseudotyped lentiviral vectors.
- Synchronous colon and pancreatic cancers in a patient with Peutz-Jeghers syndrome: report of a case and review of the literature.
Awards
- 2012 Philadelphia Super Doctors
- 2007-2012 Recognized by Best Doctors in America2005-2006
Treatments
- Gastrointestinal Surgery, Gastrointestinal Bleeding (hemorrhage), Gastrointestinal Cancer And More
Professional Memberships
- Member Societe Internationale de Chirurgie
- Member American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
- Member American College of Surgeons
- Member American Pancreatic Association
- Member American Society for Cell Biology
- Member American Surgical Association
- Member Association for Academic Surgery
- Member Pancreas Club
- Member Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeon
- Member Society of University Surgeons
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