Virginia R. Litle, M.D.

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Dr. Virginia Litle joins University of Rochester Medical Center as an Associate Professor of Surgery. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Vermont, with honors, and her medical degree from the Brown-Dartmouth Program in Medicine in Providence, Rhode Island.

From 1990 to 1997, Dr. Litle completed residency in general surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. She continued her training and completed fellowships in both Surgical Oncology and in Thoracic Minimally Invasive at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. In 2003, Dr. Litle became a visiting Thoracic Surgery Fellow during the months of October and November at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. She then went on to complete a residency in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Pittsburg Medical Center in 2004.

Dr. Litle has received the Piedmont Society Award for Basic Science Research at the ASCRS 100th Anniversary and Tripartite Meeting in May 1999. In addition in 2003, she won a Methods in Clinical Cancer Research award at the ASCO/AACR Workshop in Vail,

Colorado.

Dr. Litle belongs to several professional memberships including Women in Thoracic Surgery where she is the website editor, the Society of Surgical Oncology, the Scoiety of Thoracic Surgeons, and the General Thoracic Surgery Club. Her interests include researching esophageal and lung cancers.

Current Appointments

• Associate Professor - Department of Surgery (SMD)

Education
MD Medicine	The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University	1990
BS Biology	University of Vermont	1985

Fellowship Awards
Visiting Thoracic Surgery Fellow Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center	2003 - 2003
Cardiothoracic Surgical Resident University of Pittsburgh Medical Center	2002 - 2004
Thoracic Minimally Invasive University of Pittsburgh Medical Center	2001 - 2002
Surgical Oncology University of Pittsburgh Medical Center	1991 - 2001

Recent Journal Articles
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Feber A, Xi L, Luketich JD, Pennathur A, Landreneau RJ, Wu M, Swanson SJ, Godfrey TE, Litle VR. "MicroRNA Expression Profiles of Esophageal Cancer". JTCVS 135 (2008): 255-60.
Xi L., Feber A., Gupta V. K., Wu M., Landreaneau R. J., Litle V. R., Luketich J., and Godfrey T. E. "Identification of cancer-related genes that are alternatively spliced at high frequency in lung adenocarcinoma". Nucleic Acids Research 36 (2008): 6535-47.
Greenstein AJ; Litle VR; Swanson SJ; Divino CM; Packer S; McGinn TG; Wisnivesky JP. "Racial disparities in esophageal cancer treatment and outcomes." Annals of surgical oncology. 2008; 15(3):881-8. Epub 2007 Nov 07.
Xi L; Coello MC; Litle VR; Raja S; Gooding WE; Yousem SA; El-Hefnawy T; Landreneau RJ; Luketich JD; Godfrey TE. "A combination of molecular markers accurately detects lymph node metastasis in non-small cell lung cancer patients." Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. 2006; 12(8):2484-91.
Xi L; Luketich JD; Raja S; Gooding WE; Litle VR; Coello MC; Finkelstein SD; Chestney ML; Landreneau RJ; Hughes SJ; Godfrey TE. "Molecular staging of lymph nodes from patients with esophageal adenocarcinoma." Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. 2005; 11(3):1099-109.