BILL CHIU, MD

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SURGERY

General Profile

Specialty:

Pediatric Surgery

Appointments:

Attending Surgeon at University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System

Clinical Interests:

Neonatal Surgery, Pediatric Minimally Invasive Surgery, Pediatric Surgical Oncology

Languages Spoken:

English

Education

Medical Education:

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

Residency:

Resident in General Surgery Department at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

Second Residency:

Chief Surgical Resident, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Il, 2007-2008

Fellowship:

Pediatric Surgery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Certifications:

American Board of Surgery, Certificate of Spec Comp in Pediatric Surgery

Publications, Awards, & Memberships

Society Memberships:

American Pediatric Surgical Association; Surg Sec, American Academic Pediatrics; Warren H. Cole Society

Publications:

B. Chiu, A. C. Chiou, J. R. Leventhal, F. P. Stuart, and W. H. Pearce. “Transplanting a kidney with a renal artery aneurysm: case report and literature review.” Vascular Surgery, 35(4), 321-324, 2001.

B. Chiu, and T. C. Hain. “Periodic alternating nystagmus provoked by an attack of Ménière’s Disease.” Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology, 22(2), 107-109, 2002.

B. Chiu, C. Ciaccio, and M. A. West. “Intestinal obstruction from furniture cushion foam bezoar.” Surgery, 138(5), 956-958, 2005.

B. Chiu, H. Melin-Aldana, and R. A. Superina. “Management of an epidermoid cyst of the intra-hepatic ducts.” Journal of Pediatric Surgery 40(12), e31-33, 2005.

B. Chiu and R. A. Superina. “Encephalopathy caused by a splenorenal shunt can be reversed by performing a mesenteric to left portal vein bypass.” Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 41(6): 1177-1179, 2006.

S. Morrison, P. Ngo, and B. Chiu. “Perforated peptic ulcer in the pediatric population: a case report and literature review.” Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports 1: 416-419, 2013.

J. Harris, B. Blackwood, S. Pillai, and B. Chiu. “Mesenteric Vein Thrombosis following Laparoscopic Appendectomy.” Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, in press.

B. Chiu, B. Mirkin, Y. Qiu, and M. B. Madonna. “Alterations in Erk1 activation following incubation of wild-type, doxorubicin-resistant, and nerve growth factor-transfected neuroblastoma cell lines with nerve growth factor and epidermal growth factor.” Proceedings of American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 46, 2005.

B. Chiu, H. Melin-Aldana, S. Pillai, F. Chu, and R. Superina. “Factor-VII transcription correlates with hepatocyte proliferation and hepatocyte growth factor expression in a rodent extra-hepatic portal vein obstruction model.” Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 203(3) Supplement, Surgical Forum Abstracts, 2006 Clinical Congress: S50, 2006.

B. Chiu, M. G. Blum, and A. L. D. H. Parra. “Video-thoracoscopic pericardial window for treatment of pericardial effusion: An alternative to subxiphoid approach.” CHEST, 132(4): 659S-659S, 2007.

B. Chiu, M. Pilichowska, S. Bhadani, and A. Charest. “The development of orthotopic injection xenograft mouse model of neuroblastoma provides evidence for the presence of tumor initiating cells.” Journal of Surgical Research, 179(2):196, 2013.

B. Chiu, J. Coburn, F. P. Seib, A. Charest, and D. L. Kaplan. “Surgical resection combined with application of doxorubicin-loaded sustained release silk film as a treatment strategy in an orthotopic xenograft neuroblastoma mouse mode.” Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 217(3S) S77, 2013.