Dr. Yolonda Lorig Colson MD PHD
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
75 Francis St Boston MA, 02115Rating
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About
Dr. Colson is an attending cardiothoracic surgeon within the Division of Thoracic Surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Director of the Womens Lung Cancer Program, and an Associate Professor in Sur ...
Education and Training
Florida International University, Miami, FL 1989
Board Certification
Thoracic SurgeryAmerican Board of Thoracic SurgeryABTS- 2002
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- 1999
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Positive and negative selection of alphabetaTCR+ T cells in thymectomized adult radiation bone marrow chimeras.
- Characterization of a newly discovered T-cell receptor beta-chain heterodimer expressed on a CD8+ bone marrow subpopulation that promotes allogeneic stem cell engraftment.
- Absence of clinical GVHD and the in vivo induction of regulatory T cells after transplantation of facilitating cells.
- Mixed xenogeneic chimerism induces donor-specific humoral and cellular immune tolerance for cardiac xenografts.
- Aneurysm of an aberrant systemic artery to the lung.
- Bouveret meets Boerhaave.
- Treatment of cavitary pulmonary zygomycosis with surgical resection and posaconazole.
- Reconstitution of allogeneic hemopoietic stem cells: the essential role of FcR gamma and the TCR beta-chain-FCp33 complex.
- Increased lymphocyte adherence to human arterial endothelial cell monolayers in the context of allorecognition.
- Facilitating cells: novel promoters of stem cell alloengraftment and donor-specific transplantation tolerance in the absence of GVHD.
- Induction of FoxP3+CD4+25+ regulatory T cells following hemopoietic stem cell transplantation: role of bone marrow-derived facilitating cells.
- Graft produced interleukin-6 functions as a danger signal and promotes rejection after transplantation.
- Leveraging primary care in the fight against lung cancer.
- Extending indications for radiofrequency ablation of lung tumors through an intraoperative approach.
- Envisioning simulation in the future of thoracic surgical education.
Awards
- Above and Beyond Award, Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, US 2009
- Edward M. Kennedy Award for Healthcare Innovation, Center for Integra 2008
- First Michelle Kessler Leadership Award in Womens Health, Brigham and 2006
- Maxwell Resident Career-Research Award 1998-1999
- Special Fellow, Leukemia Society of America 1997-2000
- Research Fellowship, American College of Surgeons 1994-1996
- American College of Surgeons Resident Research
- Fellowship, 1994-96
- Alton Ochsner Research Scholarship, Amer. Assoc.
- Thoracic Surgery, 2002-4
- George H.A. Clowes JR. MD, FACS, Memorial Research
- Career Development Award. American College
- Surgeons 2006-2011.
- 1st Michelle Kessler Leadership Award in Women's
- Health, Brigham & Women's Hospital 2006
- Edward M. Kennedy Award for Healthcare Innovation, Center for Integra
Treatments
- Lung Cancer
Fellowships
- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Cardiothoracic Surgery 2001
- University of Pittsburgh, Cellular Therapeutics - Research
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