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Cheyenne Williams, MD

Cheyenne Williams
Medical School: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate: The College of William and Mary

About Dr. Williams

Cheyenne Williams is a resident in the Division of Urology. She earned her medical degree from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania with dual certificates in Medical Education and Academic Surgery. During medical school, she completed a research fellowship in urologic oncology at the National Cancer Institute of the NIH where she researched novel techniques for imaging prostate cancer. 

Societies

  • American Urological Association
  • American College of Surgeons
  • American College of Physicians
  • Alpha Omega Alpha
  • Gold Humansim Honors Society

Awards / Honors

2022
Alpha Omega Alpha

2022
Spencer Morris Prize Finalist

2022
Helen O Dickens MD Graduation Award

2022
Iris Reyes Graduate Award for Excellence

2022
Glasgow-Rubin Memorial Achievement Award

2020
Gold Humanism Honor Society

2020
Winner, American Medical Association, Student, Resident, and Fellow Impact Challenge

2017
21st Century Scholar, Perelman School of Medicine

Publications

Original Papers

  1. Owens-Walton J, Williams C, Rompré-Brodeur A, Pinto PA, Ball MW. Minority Enrollment in Phase II and III Clinical Trials in Urologic Oncology. J Clin Oncol. 2022 May 10;40(14):1583-1589. doi: 10.1200/JCO.21.01885.
  2. Bernstein A, Talwar R , Williams C, Correra, A., Mahal,B. Naming the problem: publishing trends within urology on race, health disparities and structural racism. Urology. 2021 Oct.  doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2021.07.048
  3. Goodsell K, Mulvey H, Familusi O, Williams C,  Yeguez A, Brooks A. Teaching what matters: integrating student-led surgical disparities education into the surgical clerkship. Surgery. 2021 Nov. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2021.10.010
  4. Williams C*, Ahdoot MA*, Daneshvar MA, Hague C, Wilbur AR, Shih J, Khondakar NR, Gomella PT, Yerram NK,  Mehralivand S, Gurram S, Siddiqui M, Pinsky PF, Parnes HL, Merino MJ, Wood BJ, Turkbey B, Pinto PA. Why does MRI-targeted biopsy miss clinically significant prostate cancers? The Journal of Urology. 2021 Aug 26. doi: 10.1097/JU.0000000000002182
  5. Williams C, Khondakar NR, Daneshvar MA, O’Connor LP, Gomella PT,  Mehralivand S, Yerram NK, Egan J, Gurram S, RompreĢ-Brodeur A, Webster BR, Owens-Walton J, Parnes HL, Merino MJ, Wood BJ, Choyke PL, Turkbey B, Pinto PA. The risk of prostate cancer progression in active surveillance patients with bilateral disease detected by combined MRI-fusion and systematic biopsy. The Journal of Urology. 2021 Jun 28 doi: 10.1097/JU.0000000000001941.
  6. Williams C, Rao A, Ziemba J, Myers J, Patel N. Leveraging text messaging to deliver real-time clinical updates to frontline staff during the Covid-19 pandemic. Applied Clinical Informatics. 2021 Mar;12(02):259-65. doi: 10.1055/s-0041-1726117
  7. Gan Z, Williams C, Familusi O,  El-Fahmawi A, Kabaha R, Lee D, Lee D. Volume of urologic emergencies presenting to the emergency department before and after COVID-19: a single health system retrospective chart review. Canadian Journal of Urology. 2021 Apr;28(2):10614-10619
  8. Williams C, Familusi O, Ziemba J, Lee D, Mittal S, Mucksavage P, Smith A, Kovell RC. Adapting to the educational challenges of a pandemic: development of a novel virtual urology sub-internship during the time of COVID-19. Urology 148 (2021): 70-76. doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2020.08.071
  9. Williams C, Familusi O, Ziemba J, Lee D, Mittal S, Mucksavage P, Smith A, Kovell RC. Author Reply: Adapting to the educational challenges of a pandemic: development of a novel virtual urology sub-internship during the time of COVID-19. Urology 148 (2021): 76. doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2020.08.074
  10. Holmes A, Williams C, Wang S, Barg FK, Takeshita J. Content analysis of psoriasis and eczema direct to consumer advertisements: missed opportunities for patient reach. Cutis. 2020 Sep;106(3):147-150. doi: 10.12788/cutis.0070
  11. Salomon M, Malapati S, O'Dwyer J, Lopez Silva C, Williams C, Barbeau M, Yip D, Punzalan P, Nagle V,  Hinton S, Roggero V, Allison L. Mislocalization of Cancer-associated Thyroid Hormone Receptor Mutants. Nuclear Receptors Research. 2020.
  12. Halleran A, Sehdev M, Rabe B, Huyck R, Williams C, Saha MS. Characterization of tweety gene (ttyh1-3) expression in Xenopus laevis during embryonic development. Gene Expression Patterns. 2015. doi: 10.1016/j.gep.2014.12.002

Abstract

(List only work not yet published)

  1. Williams, C., Daneshvar, M., Khondakar, N., Owens-Walton, J., OConnor, L. P., Yerram, N., Gomella, P. T., Ahdoot, M.A., Webster, B. R., Choyke, P.T., Turkbey, B., Wood, B.J.,& Pinto, P.A.. (2021, Aug). Utility of MRI and targeted biopsy to diagnose local cancer recurrence after prostatectomy. The Journal of Urology , 206(3), 170.
  2. Williams, C., Daneshvar, M.A., Wu, Y., Owens-Walton, J., Yerram, N., Gomella, P.T., OConor, L.P., Khondakar, N.R., Ahdoot, M.A., Negussie, W., Xu, S., Turkbey, B., Merino, M.J., Boctor, E., Wiskin, J., Wood, B.J., & Pinto, P.A.. (2021, Aug). Prostate Ultrasound Tomography (UT): Correlation with MRI and whole mount histopathology. The Journal of Urology , 206(3), 398.
  3. Williams, C., Posid, T., Scimeca, A., Diab, D., Lee, C.T.. (2021, Aug). The academic front line: evaluating the impact of anti-racism service on Black medical students pursuing urology and surgical specialties. The Journal of Urology , 206(3), 194.
  4. Williams, C., Yerram, N., Daneshvar, M.A., OConnor, L.P., Egan, J., Gomella, P.T., Owens-Walton, J., Khondakar, N.R., Ahdoot, M.A., Turkbey, B., Merino, M.J., Wood, B.J., & Pinto, P.A. (2021, Aug). Prostate lesion growth velocity on consecutive MRIs predicts grade progression. The Journal of Urology , 2026(3), 396.
  5. Khondakar, N., Gurram, S., Ahdoot, M., Yerram, N., Daneshvar, M., Gomella, P.,O'Connor, L.P. Williams, C., Owens-Walton, J., Merino, M. J., Wood, B.J., Turkbey, B.,& Pinto, P. . (2021, Aug). MRI for risk stratification in patients with PSA less than four. The Journal of Urology, 206(3), 126.
  6. O'Connor, L. P., Gomella, P. T., Daneshvar, M. A., Williams, C., Khondakar, N., Owens-Walton, J., Yerram, N., Gurram, S., Ahdoot, M.A., Varble, N., Xu, S., Turkbey, B., Pinto, P.A. & Wood, B. J. . (2021, Aug). Transperineal ultrasound with transperineal needles for MRI-fusion prostate biopsy: demonstration of a novel technique. The Journal of Urology , 206(3), 1167.
  7. Khondakar, N., Ahdoot, M., O'Connor, L., Daneshvar, M., Yerram, N., Williams, C., Owens-Walton, J., Gurram, S., Gomella, P.T., Egan, J., Mehralivand, S., Merino, M.J., Wood, B.J., Turkbey, B., & Pinto, P. . (2021, Aug). Predictors of Gleason grade upgrading on wholemount pathology after MRI-targeted versus systematic biopsy. The Journal of Urology, 206(3), 179-180.
  8. Williams C, Khondakar NR, Daneshvar MA, OConnor LP, Egan J, Yerram N, Owens-Walton J, Rompre-Brodeur A, Merino MJ, Choyke PL, Wood BJ, Turkbey B, Pinto PA. MRI-guided fusion biopsy of the prostate resection bed among post-radical prostatectomy patients with rising PSA. Journal of Clinical Oncology 39, no. 6 suppl (February 20, 2021) 208-208.
  9. Egan J, Williams C, Khondakar NR, Daneshvar MA, OConnor LP, Yerram N, Merino MJ, Choyke PL, Wood BJ, Turkbey B, Pinto PA.  Considerations for active surveillance in select Gleason grade group 2 patients: A preliminary study. Journal of Clinical Oncology 39, no. 6 suppl (February 20, 2021) 207-207.
  10. Williams C, Rao A, Ziemba J, Myers J, Patel N. Leveraging Text Messaging to Deliver Real-Time Clinical Updates to Frontline Staff During the Covid-19 Pandemic. 2020 AMA Accelerating Change in Medical Education Health Systems Science Student, Resident and Fellow Impact Challenge. March, 2020.
  11. Golden T., Williams C, GebreyohannsY, Worthen S, Simmons RA. Altered Immune Populations Following IUGR in the Neonatal Rat. Annual Meeting US Society for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease 2018. Chapel Hill, NC. September, 2018. [Poster Presentation]

Editorials, Reviews, Chapters

  1. Williams C, Daneshvar  MA, Pinto PA. Emerging Role of mpMRI in identifying clinically relevant localized prostate cancer. Current Opinions in Oncology. 2021 May 1;33(3):244-251. doi: 10.1097/CCO.0000000000000717
  2. Williams C, Langston D, Posid T, Diab D, Scimeca A , Lee CT. Voices from the pipeline: experiences of black medical students destined for urology. Urology. 2021 Sep 1. doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2021.07.036
  3. Williams C, Khondakar NR, Pinto PA, Turkbey B. The importance of quality in prostate multiparametric MRI. Semin Roentgenol. 2021 Aug 18. doi: 10.1053/j.ro.2021.08.005
  4. Ahmed H, Ahmad F, Hitchner M, Li E, Williams C. Improving access to medical education for underrepresented and low-income students. Academic Medicine. 2021 Aug. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000004144
  5. Khondakar NR, Owens-Walton J, Daneshvar MA, Williams C, O’Connor LP, Yerram NK, Pinto PA. Emerging role for local therapy in oligometastatic prostate cancer. Clin Adv Haemotol Oncol. 2021 Jul 1;19(7):460-7.
  6. Perez M,*, Williams C,*, Vapiwala N. ‘Holistic Admissions’ in a pandemic era: the effects of COVID-19 on disadvantaged medical school applicants. Academic Medicine. 2021 Jan 1;96(1):e3-e4. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000003613
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