- University of Pittsburgh, PhD, 2024
- Carnegie Mellon University, BS, 2017
Education & Training
Foldi J, Carleton N, Anderson SJ, Rastogi P, Lee A, Balic M, Geyer CE Jr, Oesterreich S, Wolmark N. Long-term outcomes by lobular vs ductal histology in 4 National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project adjuvant breast cancer trials. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2025 Jan 1;117(1):163-168. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djae188. PubMed PMID: 39128018; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11717417.
Zou J, Li Z, Carleton N, Oesterreich S, Lee AV, Tseng GC. Mutual information for detecting multi-class biomarkers when integrating multiple bulk or single-cell transcriptomic studies. Bioinformatics. 2024 Nov 28;40(12). doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btae696. PubMed PMID: 39563471; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11629966.
Carleton N, Radomski TR, Li D, Zou J, Harris J, Hamm M, Wang Z, Saadawi G, Fischer GS, Arnold J, Cowher MS, Lupinacci K, Sabih Q, Steiman J, Johnson RR, Soran A, Diego EJ, Oesterreich S, Tseng G, Lee AV, McAuliffe PF. Electronic Health Record-Based Nudge Intervention and Axillary Surgery in Older Women With Breast Cancer: A Nonrandomized Controlled Trial. JAMA Surg. 2024 Oct 1;159(10):1117-1125. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2024.2407. PubMed PMID: 39018053; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11255976.
Carleton N, Saadawi G, McAuliffe PF, Soran A, Oesterreich S, Lee AV, Diego EJ. Use of Natural Language Understanding to Facilitate Surgical De-Escalation of Axillary Staging in Patients With Breast Cancer. JCO Clin Cancer Inform. 2024 May;8:e2300177. doi: 10.1200/CCI.23.00177. PubMed PMID: 38776506; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11180980.
Carleton N, Abidi H, Puthanmadhom-Narayanan S, Marroquin OC, Oesterreich S, Diego EJ, Brufsky AM, Lee AV, McAuliffe PF. Omission of surgery, primary endocrine therapy adherence, and effect of comorbidity in older women with estrogen receptor positive breast cancer. J Geriatr Oncol. 2024 Apr;15(3):101679. doi: 10.1016/j.jgo.2023.101679. Epub 2023 Dec 21. PubMed PMID: 38135542; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10994773.
Carleton N, Foldi J. Case report: abemaciclib-induced syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone (SIADH) without underlying kidney injury in a patient with early-stage estrogen receptor (ER)+ breast cancer. Front Med (Lausanne). 2023;10:1338566. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2023.1338566. eCollection 2023. PubMed PMID: 38293306; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10824918.
Oesterreich S, Lee AV, Carleton N. Response to Maltoni, Puccetti, Poli, et al. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2023 Apr 11;115(4):479-481. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djad022. PubMed PMID: 36762844; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10086617.
Onkar SS, Carleton NM, Lucas PC, Bruno TC, Lee AV, Vignali DAA, Oesterreich S. The Great Immune Escape: Understanding the Divergent Immune Response in Breast Cancer Subtypes. Cancer Discov. 2023 Jan 9;13(1):23-40. doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-22-0475. Review. PubMed PMID: 36620880; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9833841.
Carleton N, McAuliffe PF. Are the chronological age cutoffs used in clinical oncology guidelines biologically meaningful?. Nat Rev Clin Oncol. 2022 Dec;19(12):745-746. doi: 10.1038/s41571-022-00684-4. PubMed PMID: 36042383; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9675711.
Oesterreich S, Nasrazadani A, Zou J, Carleton N, Onger T, Wright MD, Li Y, Demanelis K, Ramaswamy B, Tseng G, Lee AV, Williams N, Kruse M. Clinicopathological Features and Outcomes Comparing Patients With Invasive Ductal and Lobular Breast Cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2022 Nov 14;114(11):1511-1522. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djac157. PubMed PMID: 36239760; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9664185.
Carleton N, Oesterreich S, Marroquin OC, Diego EJ, Tseng GC, Lee AV, McAuliffe PF. Is the Choosing Wisely Recommendation for Omission of Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy Applicable for Invasive Lobular Carcinoma?. Ann Surg Oncol. 2022 Sep;29(9):5379-5382. doi: 10.1245/s10434-022-12003-3. Epub 2022 Jun 13. PubMed PMID: 35697956; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10257800.
Ghosh-Choudhary S, Carleton N, Flynn JL, Kliment CR. Strategies for Achieving Gender Equity and Work-Life Integration in Physician-Scientist Training. Acad Med. 2022 Apr 1;97(4):492-496. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000004246. PubMed PMID: 34292189; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8770678.
Syed A, Seoud T, Carleton NM, Thakkar S, Kiran RP, Shen B. Association Between Portal Vein Thrombosis and Pouchitis in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis. Dig Dis Sci. 2022 Apr;67(4):1303-1310. doi: 10.1007/s10620-021-06969-5. Epub 2021 May 4. PubMed PMID: 33948758.
Ghosh-Choudhary S, Carleton N, Nouraie SM, Kliment CR, Steinman RA. Predoctoral MD-PhD grants as indicators of future NIH funding success. JCI Insight. 2022 Mar 22;7(6). doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.155688. PubMed PMID: 35315356; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8986062.
Lee JL, Ekambaram P, Carleton NM, Hu D, Klei LR, Cai Z, Myers MI, Hubel NE, Covic L, Agnihotri S, Krappmann D, Bornancin F, Lee AV, Oesterreich S, McAllister-Lucas LM, Lucas PC. MALT1 Is a Targetable Driver of Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition in Claudin-Low, Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. Mol Cancer Res. 2022 Mar 1;20(3):373-386. doi: 10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-21-0208. PubMed PMID: 34753803; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8898271.
Carleton N, Nasrazadani A, Gade K, Beriwal S, Barry PN, Brufsky AM, Bhargava R, Berg WA, Zuley ML, van Londen GJ, Marroquin OC, Thull DL, Mai PL, Diego EJ, Lotze MT, Oesterreich S, McAuliffe PF, Lee AV. Personalising therapy for early-stage oestrogen receptor-positive breast cancer in older women. Lancet Healthy Longev. 2022 Jan;3(1):e54-e66. doi: 10.1016/s2666-7568(21)00280-4. Epub 2022 Jan 5. Review. PubMed PMID: 35047868; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8765742.
Thakkar S, Pancholi A, Carleton N. Natural orifice specimen extraction for colorectal cancer removal: the best of both worlds. Gastrointest Endosc. 2021 Sep;94(3):651-652. doi: 10.1016/j.gie.2021.05.028. Epub 2021 Jul 16. PubMed PMID: 34275606.
Kochhar GS, Carleton NM, Thakkar S. Response. Gastrointest Endosc. 2021 Sep;94(3):663. doi: 10.1016/j.gie.2021.05.010. PubMed PMID: 34412830.
Kochhar GS, Carleton NM, Thakkar S. Assessing perspectives on artificial intelligence applications to gastroenterology. Gastrointest Endosc. 2021 Apr;93(4):971-975.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.gie.2020.10.029. Epub 2020 Nov 2. PubMed PMID: 33144237.
Carleton N, Zou J, Fang Y, Koscumb SE, Shah OS, Chen F, Beriwal S, Diego EJ, Brufsky AM, Oesterreich S, Shapiro SD, Ferris R, Emens LA, Tseng G, Marroquin OC, Lee AV, McAuliffe PF. Outcomes After Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy and Radiotherapy in Older Women With Early-Stage, Estrogen Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Apr 1;4(4):e216322. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.6322. PubMed PMID: 33856473; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8050744.
Chen F, Ding K, Priedigkeit N, Elangovan A, Levine KM, Carleton N, Savariau L, Atkinson JM, Oesterreich S, Lee AV. Single-Cell Transcriptomic Heterogeneity in Invasive Ductal and Lobular Breast Cancer Cells. Cancer Res. 2021 Jan 15;81(2):268-281. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-20-0696. Epub 2020 Nov 4. PubMed PMID: 33148662; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7856056.
Syed AR, Carleton NM, Horne Z, Dhawan A, Bedi G, Kochhar G, Morrissey S, Williams H, Atkinson D, Schiffman S, Monga D, Lupetin A, Kirichenko A, Mitre M, Dhawan M, Kulkarni A, Thakkar S. Survival Trends for Resectable Pancreatic Cancer Using a Multidisciplinary Conference: the Impact of Post-operative Chemotherapy. J Gastrointest Cancer. 2020 Sep;51(3):836-843. doi: 10.1007/s12029-019-00303-z. PubMed PMID: 31605289.
Seoud T, Syed A, Carleton N, Rossi C, Kenner B, Quershi H, Anand M, Thakkar P, Thakkar S. Depression Before and After a Diagnosis of Pancreatic Cancer: Results From a National, Population-Based Study. Pancreas. 2020 Sep;49(8):1117-1122. doi: 10.1097/MPA.0000000000001635. PubMed PMID: 32833946; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7450395.
Carleton NM, Thakkar S. How to Approach and Interpret Studies on AI in Gastroenterology. Gastroenterology. 2020 Aug;159(2):428-432.e1. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2020.04.001. Epub 2020 Apr 6. PubMed PMID: 32272112.
Kochhar GS, Mohy-Ud-Din N, Grover A, Carleton N, Kulkarni A, Farah K, Dhawan M, Thakkar S. EUS-directed transgastric endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography versus laparoscopic-assisted ERCP versus deep enteroscopy-assisted ERCP for patients with RYGB. Endosc Int Open. 2020 Jul;8(7):E877-E882. doi: 10.1055/a-1164-6282. Epub 2020 Jun 16. PubMed PMID: 32617392; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7297604.
Carleton NM, Zhu G, Miller MC, Davis C, Kulkarni P, Veltri RW. Characterization of RNA-Binding Motif 3 (RBM3) Protein Levels and Nuclear Architecture Changes in Aggressive and Recurrent Prostate Cancer. Cancer Rep (Hoboken). 2020 Jun;3(3):e1237. doi: 10.1002/cnr2.1237. Epub 2020 Jan 29. PubMed PMID: 32587951; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7316183.
Thakkar S, Carleton NM, Rao B, Syed A. Use of Artificial Intelligence-Based Analytics From Live Colonoscopies to Optimize the Quality of the Colonoscopy Examination in Real Time: Proof of Concept. Gastroenterology. 2020 Apr;158(5):1219-1221.e2. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2019.12.035. Epub 2020 Jan 13. PubMed PMID: 31945357; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7103545.
Gorbounov M, Carleton NM, Asch-Kendrick RJ, Xian L, Rooper L, Chia L, Cimino-Mathews A, Cope L, Meeker A, Stearns V, Veltri RW, Bae YK, Resar LMS. High mobility group A1 (HMGA1) protein and gene expression correlate with ER-negativity and poor outcomes in breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2020 Jan;179(1):25-35. doi: 10.1007/s10549-019-05419-1. Epub 2019 Sep 17. PubMed PMID: 31531802; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9301627.
Syed A, Babich O, Rao B, Singh S, Carleton N, Gulati A, Kulkarni A, Garg M, Farah K, Kochhar G, Morrissey S, Mitre M, Kulkarni A, Dhawan M, Silverman JF, Pharaon M, Thakkar S. Endoscopic ultrasound guided fine-needle aspiration vs core needle biopsy for solid pancreatic lesions: Comparison of diagnostic accuracy and procedural efficiency. Diagn Cytopathol. 2019 Nov;47(11):1138-1144. doi: 10.1002/dc.24277. Epub 2019 Jul 16. PubMed PMID: 31313531.
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