Charles M. Friel MD
Surgeon
Lee St Charlottesville VA, 22908About
Named to Best Doctors in America list, 2014. Dr. Friel is originally from Boston, Massachusetts. He attended Bowdoin College before going to Harvard University for his medical training. He did his general ...
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- 2001
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Anastomotic leak and the loop ileostomy: friend or foe?
- A cruel twist: post-operative cecal volvulus.
- The ileal pouch anal anastomosis: to divert or not to divert? The case for diversion.
- Local excision of T1 rectal cancer: where are we now?
- To operate or not to operate? Should functional outcomes after sigmoid colectomy
- Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD) in predicting postoperative mortality of patients undergoing colorectal surgery.
- A method for estimating the risk of surgical site infection in patients with abdominal colorectal procedures.
- Constipation and pelvic outlet obstruction.
- Colonic crohn disease.
- Can we define surgical site infection accurately in colorectal surgery?
- Solutions to intraoperative wound classification miscoding in a subset of American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program patients.
- Defining Surgical Site Infection in Colorectal Surgery: An Objective Analysis Using Serial Photographic Documentation.
- Ileal J-Pouch Volvulus Following Total Proctocolectomy for Ulcerative Colitis.
- The Progression of Cholelithiasis to Gallstone Ileus: Do Large Gallstones Warrant Surgery?
- Declining Operative Experience for Junior-Level Residents: Is This an Unintended Consequence of Minimally Invasive Surgery?
Treatments
- Abdominal Surgery
Fellowships
- Nutrition Support, New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston, MA USA 1997
- Colon and Rectal Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN USA 2001
- Colon/Rectal Surgery, University of Minnesota
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