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Ronald Truong, MD

Ronald Truong graduated from the University of Colorado School of Medicine in 2022. He has completed 2 years of surgical residency at Danbury Hospital and is currently working to complete his post-doctorate research fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center under Dr. Joshua Weiner. He is currently investigating allograft intestinal transplant immunology and other transplant surgery related studies. His aspirations include becoming a transplant surgeon that provides cutting edge research in his future practice and building strong rapport with his patients.

Representative publications include:

Yee EJ, Thielen ON, Truong R, Gilbert D, Michel K, Couts KL, Robinson WA, McCarter MD. Metastatic Melanoma to the Small Bowel and Colon: A Systematic Review of the Global Experience and Institutional Cohort Analysis Detailing a Rare Clinical Entity. J Surg Oncol. 2024 Oct 28. doi: 10.1002/jso.27958. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39463145. go to article

Truong R, Moore HB, Sauaia A, Kam I, Pshak T, Adams M, Conzen K, Zimmerman MA, Wachs M, Bak T, Pomposelli J, Pomfret E, Nydam TL. Choledochoduodenostomy continues to be a safe alternative for biliary reconstruction in deceased-donor liver transplantation. Am J Surg. 2022 Oct 17. PMID: 36400602. go to article

Rodriguez IE, Yoeli D, Ferrell T, Jiang JG, Truong R, Nydam TL, Adams MA, Cullen JM, Pomfret EA, Moore HB. Fibrinolysis resistance after liver transplant as a predictor of early infection. Am J Surg. 2022 Dec; 224(6):1455-1459. PMID: 36153270. go to article

Ren Y, Huang SH, Macedo AB, Ward AR, Conce Alberto WD, Klevorn T, Leyre L, Copertino DC, Mota TM, Chan D, Truong R, Rohwetter T, Zumbo P, Dündar F, Betel D, Kovacs C, Benko E, Bosque A, Jones RB. Selective BCL-XL Antagonists Eliminate Infected Cells from a Primary Cell Model of HIV Latency but not from Ex Vivo Reservoirs. J Virol. 2021 Jul 12:JVI.02425-20. doi: 10.1128/JVI.02425-20. PMID: 33980597. go to article

Stevenson EM, Ward AR, Truong R, Thomas AS, Huang SH, Dilling TR, Terry S, Bui JK, Mota TM, Danesh A, Lee GQ, Gramatica A, Khadka P, Conce Alberto WD, Gandhi RT, McMahon DK, Lalama CM, Bosch RJ, Macatangay BJ, Cyktor JC, Eron JJ, Mellors JW, Jones RB. HIV-specific T-cell responses reflect substantive in vivo interactions with antigen despite long-term therapy. JCI Insight. 2021 Feb 8;6(3):e142640 doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.142640. PMID: 33400687. go to article

Ren Y, Huang SH, Patel S, Alberto WDC, Magat D, Ahimovic D, Macedo AB, Durga R, Chan D, Zale E, Mota TM, Truong R, Rohwetter T, McCann CD, Kovacs CM, Benko E, Wimpelberg A, Cannon C, Hardy WD, Bosque A, Bollard CM, Jones RB. BCL-2 antagonism sensitizes cytotoxic T cell-resistant HIV reservoirs to elimination ex vivo. J Clin Invest. 2020 May 1;130(5):2542-2559. doi: 10.1172/JCI132374. PMID: 32027622; PMCID: PMC7191002. go to article

Ren Y, Korom M, Ward AR, Truong R, Chan D, Huang SH, Kovacs CM, Benko E, Safrit JT, Lee J, Garbán H, Lynch R, Jones RB. Relationships between Neutralization, Binding, and ADCC of Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies against Reservoir HIV. J Virol. 2020 Dec 22;95(2):e01808-20. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01808-20. PMID: 33115874. go to article

Flerin NC, Bardhi A, Zheng JH, Korom M, Folkvord J, Kovacs C, Benko E, Truong R, Mota T, Connick E, Jones RB, Lynch RM, Goldstein H. Establishment of a Novel Humanized Mouse Model to Investigate In Vivo Activation and Depletion of Patient-Derived HIV Latent Reservoirs. J Virol. 2019 Mar 5;93(6):e02051-18. doi: 10.1128/JVI.02051-18. PMID: 30626677; PMCID: PMC6401459. go to article

Huang SH, Ren Y, Thomas AS, Chan D, Mueller S, Ward AR, Patel S, Bollard CM, Cruz CR, Karandish S, Truong R, Macedo AB, Bosque A, Kovacs C, Benko E, Piechocka-Trocha A, Wong H, Jeng E, Nixon DF, Ho YC, Siliciano RF, Walker BD, Jones RB. Latent HIV reservoirs exhibit inherent resistance to elimination by CD8+ T cells. J Clin Invest. 2018 Feb 1;128(2):876-889. doi: 10.1172/JCI97555. Epub 2018 Jan 22. PMID: 29355843; PMCID: PMC5785246. go to article

Ren Y, Korom M, Truong R, Chan D, Huang SH, Kovacs CC, Benko E, Safrit JT, Lee J, Garbán H, Apps R, Goldstein H, Lynch RM, Jones RB. Susceptibility to Neutralization by Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies Generally Correlates with Infected Cell Binding for a Panel of Clade B HIV Reactivated from Latent Reservoirs. J Virol. 2018 Nov 12;92(23):e00895-18. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00895-18. PMID: 30209173; PMCID: PMC6232479. go to article

Thomas AS, Jones KL, Gandhi RT, McMahon DK, Cyktor JC, Chan D, Huang SH, Truong R, Bosque A, Macedo AB, Kovacs C, Benko E, Eron JJ, Bosch RJ, Lalama CM, Simmens S, Walker BD, Mellors JW, Jones RB. T-cell responses targeting HIV Nef uniquely correlate with infected cell frequencies after long-term antiretroviral therapy. PLoS Pathog. 2017 Sep 20;13(9):e1006629. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006629. PMID: 28931091; PMCID: PMC5624641. go to article