
Mika Narad Sinanan
Surgeon
University Of Washington Medical Ctr 1959 Ne Pacific St Seattle WA, 98195About
Dr. Sinanan is a UW professor of surgery, specializing in gastrointestinal oncology and surgery, inflammatory bowel disease, reoperative surgery, and diseases of the colon and rectum. A leader in minimally ...
Education and Training
Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1980
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 1980
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Provider Details

Mika Narad Sinanan Other's Expert Contributions
Do I need surgery for hemorrhoids?
This sounds like a thrombosed hemorrhoid – if it came up quickly and is painful. It will get smaller over time, over a couple of weeks. If it is chronic and causes pain, bleeding, or hygiene issues, then you should consider treatment. Mika N. Sinanan, MD, PhD READ MORE
Should I have small lump on leg removed?
If it is painful, tender, or enlarging, then it should be evaluated soon. If not tender, painful, or enlarging, then not urgent, but should still be evaluated at some point, not necessarily including removal. Mika N. Sinanan, MD, PhD READ MORE
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Force controlled and teleoperated endoscopic grasper for minimally invasive surgery--experimental performance evaluation.
- Computed tomography-guided neurolytic celiac plexus block with alcohol
- Markov modeling of minimally invasive surgery based on tool/tissue interaction
- Laparoscopic assisted percutaneous drainage of infected pancreatic necrosis.
- A technique for laparoscopic-assisted percutaneous drainage of infected pancreatic necrosis and pancreatic abscess.
- Combined use of high-frequency jet ventilation and abdominal lift for laparoscopic cholecystectomy in a patient with glottic impairment.
- Robotic surgery: identifying the learning curve through objective measurement of skill.
- Acute cholangitis.
- In-vivo and in-situ compressive properties of porcine abdominal soft tissues.
- Quantifying surgeon grasping mechanics in laparoscopy using the Blue DRAGON system.
- Optimization of a vector quantization codebook for objective evaluation of surgical skill.
- Benign cartilaginous tumor (chondroma) of the liver.
- Hybrid analysis of a spherical mechanism for a minimally invasive surgical (MIS) robot--design concepts for multiple optimizations.
- Generalized approach for modeling minimally invasive surgery as a stochastic process using a discrete Markov model.
- Optimization of a spherical mechanism for a minimally invasive surgical robot: theoretical and experimental approaches.
Awards
- Seattle Super Doctors 2011
Treatments
- Crohn's Disease
- Pain
- Hernia
Mika Narad Sinanan's Practice location
Practice At University Of Washington Medical Ctr 1959 Ne Pacific St
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