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Athanasios Tsalatsanis, PhD A-8742-2009

Athanasios Tsalatsanis, PhD

Research Associate, Center for Evidence Based Medicine and Health

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Industrial and Management Systems

Contact Info 12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd
MDC 27
Tampa FL 33612

Academic Email: atsalats@usf.edu

Academic Phone:8133962605

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Education

  • PhD, Industrial Engineering, University of South Florida, 2008

Memberships

  • Member (Healthcare Information Management Systems Society, 2016 - Present)
  • Member (American Medical Informatics Association, 2011 - Present)
  • Member (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2010 - Present)
  • Member (Institute of Industrial Engineers, 2005 - Present)
  • Registered Professional Mechanical Engineer (Technical Chamber of Greece, 2001 - Present)

Recent Publications

  • Tsalatsanis A, Hozo I, Djulbegovic B. Research synthesis of information theory measures of uncertainty: Meta-analysis of entropy and mutual information of diagnostic tests. Journal of evaluation in clinical practice. 27(2) : 246-255, 2021.
  • Cheon B, Kumar A, Tsalatsanis A, Cowart K, Magness RR, Tipparaju SM, Carris NW. Impact of Metformin on Statin Persistence: a Post Hoc Analysis of a Large Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of general internal medicine. , 2020.
  • Deol PS, Sipko J, Kumar A, Tsalatsanis A, Moodie CC, Garrett JR, Fontaine JP, Toloza EM. Effect of insurance type on perioperative outcomes after robotic-assisted pulmonary lobectomy for lung cancer. Surgery. 166(2) : 211-217, 2019.
  • Bassil G, Chang M, Pauza A, Diaz Vera J, Tsalatsanis A, Lindsey BG, Noujaim SF. Pulmonary Vein Ganglia Are Remodeled in the Diabetic Heart. Journal of the American Heart Association. 7(23) : e008919, 2018.
  • Carris NW, Tsalatsanis A, Tipparaju SM, Cheng F, Magness RR, Kumar A. Metformin''s impact on statin-associated muscle symptoms: An analysis of ACCORD study data and research materials from the NHLBI Biologic Specimen and Data Repository Information Coordinating Center. Diabetes, obesity & metabolism. 20(8) : 1994-1999, 2018.
  • Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Sheets K, Kumar A, Murthy HS, Nishihori T, Tsalatsanis A, Mina A, Mathews J, Ayala E, Chavez J, Perez LE, Betts BC, Anasetti C, Pidala J. Hypoalbuminaemia segregates different prognostic subgroups within the refined standard risk acute graft-versus-host disease score. British journal of haematology. 180(6) : 854-862, 2018.
  • Hozo I, Tsalatsanis A, Djulbegovic B. Expected utility versus expected regret theory versions of decision curve analysis do generate different results when treatment effects are taken into account. Journal of evaluation in clinical practice. 24(1) : 65-71, 2018.
  • Murthy HS, Sheets K, Kumar A, Nishihori T, Mina A, Chavez JC, Ayala E, Field T, Mathews J, Locke F, Perez L, Betts BC, Khimani F, Miladinovic B, Tsalatsanis A, Ochoa-Bayona JL, Alsina M, Fernandez H, Pidala J, Anasetti C, Kharfan-Dabaja MA. Hypoalbuminemia at Day +90 Is Associated with Inferior Nonrelapse Mortality and Overall Survival in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Recipients: A Confirmatory Study. Biology of blood and marrow transplantation : journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation. 24(2) : 400-405, 2018.
  • Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Komrokji RS, Zhang Q, Kumar A, Tsalatsanis A, Perkins J, Nishihori T, Field T, Al Ali N, Mishra A, Sallman D, Salem KZ, Zhang L, Moscinski L, Fernandez HF, Lancet J, List A, Anasetti C, Padron E. TP53 and IDH2 Somatic Mutations Are Associated With Inferior Overall Survival After Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Myelodysplastic Syndrome. Clinical lymphoma, myeloma & leukemia. 17(11) : 753-758, 2017.
  • Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Parody R, Perkins J, Lopez-Godino O, Lopez-Corral L, Vazquez L, Caballero D, Falantes J, Shapiro J, Ortí G, Barba P, Valcárcel D, Esquirol A, Martino R, Piñana JL, Solano C, Tsalatsanis A, Pidala J, Anasetti C, Perez-Simón JA. Tacrolimus plus sirolimus with or without ATG as GVHD prophylaxis in HLA-mismatched unrelated donor allogeneic stem cell transplantation. Bone marrow transplantation. 52(3) : 438-444, 2017.
  • Djulbegovic B, Tsalatsanis A, Hozo I. Determining optimal threshold for statins prescribing: individualization of statins treatment for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease. Journal of evaluation in clinical practice. 23(2) : 241-250, 2017.
  • Tsalatsanis A, Hozo I, Djulbegovic B. Acceptable regret model in the end-of-life setting: Patients require high level of certainty before forgoing management recommendations. European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990). 75: 159-166, 2017.
  • Hozo I, Djulbegovic B, Luan S, Tsalatsanis A, Gigerenzer G. Towards theory integration: Threshold model as a link between signal detection theory, fast-and-frugal trees and evidence accumulation theory. Journal of evaluation in clinical practice. 23(1) : 49-65, 2017.
  • Hozo I, Tsalatsanis A, Djulbegovic B. Monte Carlo decision curve analysis using aggregate data. European journal of clinical investigation. 47(2) : 176-183, 2017.
  • Djulbegovic B, Tsalatsanis A, Mhaskar R, Hozo I, Miladinovic B, Tuch H. Eliciting regret improves decision making at the end of life. European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990). 68: 27-37, 2016.
  • Martinez DA, Tsalatsanis A, Yalcin A, Zayas-Castro JL, Djulbegovic B. Activating clinical trials: a process improvement approach. Trials. 17(1) : 106, 2016.
  • Gil-Herrera E, Aden-Buie G, Yalcin A, Tsalatsanis A, Barnes LE, Djulbegovic B. Rough set theory based prognostic classification models for hospice referral. BMC medical informatics and decision making. 15: 98, 2015.
  • Cucchetti A, Djulbegovic B, Tsalatsanis A, Vitale A, Hozo I, Piscaglia F, Cescon M, Ercolani G, Tuci F, Cillo U, Pinna AD. When to perform hepatic resection for intermediate-stage hepatocellular carcinoma. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.). 61(3) : 905-14, 2015.
  • Tsalatsanis A, Hozo I, Kumar A, Djulbegovic B. Dual Processing Model for Medical Decision-Making: An Extension to Diagnostic Testing. PloS one. 10(8) : e0134800, 2015.
  • Tsalatsanis, A., Djulbegovic, B., Hozo I. EMPIRICAL EVALUATION OF THE ACCEPTABLE REGRET MODEL OF MEDICAL DECISION- MAKING (meeting abstract, October 18 - 22, 2014) The 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making. : 1B-5, 2014.
  • Djulbegovic B, Beckstead J, Tsalatsanis A, Mhaskar R, Flynn A, Fabelo O, Tuch H, Kumar A, Pathak E, Hozo I, Jacobsen P. ANTICIPATORY REGRET OF COMMISSION BUT NOT OMISSION LEADS TO LOW POSTDECISIONAL REGRET IN TERMINALLY ILL PATIENTS (15th Biennial European Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making: ESMDM Meeting Abstracts) Med Decis Making. 34(7) : E2, 2014.
  • Zhang Y, Tikkinen KAO, Agoritsas T, Ayeni OR, Alexander P, Imam M, Yoo D, Tsalatsanis A, Djulbegovic B, Thabane L, Schünemann H, Guyatt GH. Patients'' values and preferences of the expected efficacy of hip arthroscopy for osteoarthritis: a protocol for a multinational structured interview-based study combined with a randomised survey on the optimal amount of information to elicit preferences. BMJ open. 4(10) : e005536, 2014.
  • Djulbegovic B, Beckstead JW, Elqayam S, Reljic T, Hozo I, Kumar A, Cannon-Bowers J, Taylor S, Tsalatsanis A, Turner B, Paidas C. Evaluation of Physicians'' Cognitive Styles. Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making. 34(5) : 627-37, 2014.
  • Djulbegovic B, Elqayam S, Reljic T, Hozo I, Miladinovic B, Tsalatsanis A, Kumar A, Beckstead J, Taylor S, Cannon-Bowers J. How do physicians decide to treat: an empirical evaluation of the threshold model. BMC medical informatics and decision making. 14: 47, 2014.
  • Hernandez JM, Tsalatsanis A, Humphries LA, Miladinovic B, Djulbegovic B, Velanovich V. Defining optimum treatment of patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma using regret-based decision curve analysis. Annals of surgery. 259(6) : 1208-14, 2014.
  • Mahony H, Tsalatsanis A, Kumar A, Djulbegovic B. Evolution of treatment regimens in multiple myeloma: a social network analysis. PloS one. 9(8) : e104555, 2014.
  • Gil-Herrera E, Tsalatsanis A, Kumar A, Mhaskar R, Miladinovic B, Yalcin A, Djulbegovic B. Identifying homogenous subgroups for individual patient meta-analysis based on Rough Set Theory. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference. 2014: 3434-7, 2014.
  • Keshishian, Jonathan, Ambuj Kumar, Athanasios Tsalatsanis, Mokenge Malafa, and Shivakumar Vignesh. Validation of a 5-Point Scoring System for Prediction of Malignancy in IPMN (meeting abstract) AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY. 108: S63-S64, 2013.
  • Mahony, H., Tsalatsanis, A., Mhaskar, R., Kumar, A., Djulbegovic, B. Social Network Analysis (SNA) of Salvage Therapies in Multiple Myeloma (MM) (meeting abstract) 54th ASH Annual Meeting and Expo. : abstract 4239, 2012.
  • Tsalatsanis, A., Yalcin A., Valavanis, K.P. Dynamic task allocation in cooperative robot teams Robotica. 30(5) : 721-730, 2012.
  • Djulbegovic B, Hozo I, Beckstead J, Tsalatsanis A, Pauker SG. Dual processing model of medical decision-making. BMC medical informatics and decision making. 12: 94, 2012.
  • Gil-Herrera E, Yalcin A, Tsalatsanis A, Barnes LE, Djulbegovic B. Towards a classification model to identify hospice candidates in terminally ill patients. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference. 2012: 1278-81, 2012.
  • Tsalatsanis A, Barnes LE, Hozo I, Djulbegovic B. Extensions to regret-based decision curve analysis: an application to hospice referral for terminal patients. BMC medical informatics and decision making. 11: 77, 2011.
  • Tsalatsanis A, Barnes L, Hozo I, Skvoretz J, Djulbegovic B. A social network analysis of treatment discoveries in cancer. PloS one. 6(3) : e18060, 2011.
  • Gil-Herrera E, Yalcin A, Tsalatsanis A, Barnes LE, Djulbegovic B. Rough Set Theory based prognostication of life expectancy for terminally ill patients. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference. 2011: 6438-41, 2011.
  • Tsalatsanis A, Gil-Herrera E, Yalcin A, Djulbegovic B, Barnes L. Designing patient-centric applications for chronic disease management. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference. 2011: 3146-9, 2011.
  • Tsalatsanis A, Hozo I, Vickers A, Djulbegovic B. A regret theory approach to decision curve analysis: a novel method for eliciting decision makers'' preferences and decision-making. BMC medical informatics and decision making. 10: 51, 2010.
  • Kaur R, Charan J, Reljic T, Singh S, Bhardwaj P, Tsalatsanis A, Kumar A. Relationship between clinical trials and disease burden of India: A cross-sectional study. Journal of pharmacy & bioallied sciences. 12(3) : 269-276
  • Jermihov A, Tsalatsanis A, Kulkarni S, Velez FO, Moodie CC, Garrett JR, Fontaine JP, Toloza EM. Effect of Lowest Postoperative Pre-albumin on Outcomes after Robotic-Assisted Pulmonary Lobectomy. JSLS : Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons. 25(3)

Positions Held

  • Research Associate (Center for Evidence Based Medicine and Health, University of South Florida 2009 - 2010)
  • Postdoctoral Fellow (Department of Industrial and Management Systems, University of South Florida 2008 - 2009)