Katherine Schuver Garman

Associate Professor of Medicine

My research focuses on injury, repair, and cancer development in the gastrointestinal tract. My laboratory performs translational research with the goal of improving health of the gastrointestinal tract. Our work is based in observations from human clinical research. We use databases of esophageal and colon disease to learn more about clinical risk factors for disease. We also use pathology samples of tumors to study the gastrointestinal tract in different states: healthy, inflamed or damaged, and with cancer.

Appointments and Affiliations

  • Associate Professor of Medicine
  • Affiliate of the Duke Regeneration Center
  • Member of Duke Molecular Physiology Institute
  • Member of the Duke Cancer Institute

Education

  • M.D. Duke University, 2002
  • Duke University, 2005
  • Duke University, 2006
  • Duke University, School of Medicine, 2007
  • Duke University, 2009

In the News

Representative Publications

  • Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network. “Comprehensive molecular characterization of gastric adenocarcinoma.” Nature 513, no. 7517 (September 11, 2014): 202–9. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13480.
  • Karaca, Gamze, Marzena Swiderska-Syn, Guanhua Xie, Wing-Kin Syn, Leandi Krüger, Mariana Verdelho Machado, Katherine Garman, et al. “TWEAK/Fn14 signaling is required for liver regeneration after partial hepatectomy in mice.” PLoS One 9, no. 1 (2014): e83987. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0083987.
  • Garman, Katherine S., Kouros Owzar, Elizabeth R. Hauser, Kristen Westfall, Blair R. Anderson, Rhonda F. Souza, Anna Mae Diehl, Dawn Provenzale, and Nicholas J. Shaheen. “MicroRNA expression differentiates squamous epithelium from Barrett's esophagus and esophageal cancer.” Dig Dis Sci 58, no. 11 (November 2013): 3178–88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10620-013-2806-7.
  • Fang, Yu, Xiaoxin Chen, Manisha Bajpai, Amit Verma, Kiron M. Das, Rhonda F. Souza, Katherine S. Garman, et al. “Cellular origins and molecular mechanisms of Barrett's esophagus and esophageal adenocarcinoma.” Ann N Y Acad Sci 1300 (October 2013): 187–99. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.12249.
  • Peery, Anne F., Toshitaka Hoppo, Katherine S. Garman, Evan S. Dellon, Norma Daugherty, Susan Bream, Alejandro F. Sanz, et al. “Feasibility, safety, acceptability, and yield of office-based, screening transnasal esophagoscopy (with video).” Gastrointest Endosc 75, no. 5 (May 2012): 945-953.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gie.2012.01.021.
  • Garman, Katherine S., and Nicholas J. Shaheen. “Ablative therapies for Barrett's esophagus.” Curr Gastroenterol Rep 13, no. 3 (June 2011): 226–39. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11894-011-0182-z.
  • Garman, K. S., and D. Provenzale. “Colorectal cancer screening,” August 31, 2010, 212–18.
  • Tempelhof, Michael W., Katherine S. Garman, Matthew K. Langman, and Martha B. Adams. “Leveraging time and learning style, iPod vs. realtime attendance at a series of medicine residents conferences: a randomised controlled trial.” Inform Prim Care 17, no. 2 (2009): 87–94. https://doi.org/10.14236/jhi.v17i2.720.