"Katie Wood Award" for outstanding anesthesia resident, University of Colorado Department of Anesthesia
(2017)
Outstanding Academic Achievement Award, University of Colorado Department of Anesthesia
(2016)
"The Owens-Swan Award" for outstanding promise in surgery, University of Colorado Department of Surgery
(2013)
Teaching
Assistant Professor
(2019)
School of Medicine,
Anesthesiology
My clinical areas of interests include treatment of back pain, neck pain, radicular pain, neuropathy, spinal cord stimulation, dorsal root ganglion stimulation, minimally invasive pain procedures for neurogenic claudication, peripheral nerve stimulation, complex regional pain syndrome, joint pain, cancer pain, opioid minimization
Merkow J, Varhabhatla N, Manchikanti L, Kaye AD, Urman RD, Yong RJ. Minimally Invasive Lumbar Decompression and Interspinous Process Device for the Management of Symptomatic Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: a Literature Review. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2020 Feb 18;24(4):13. PubMed PMID: 32072362
Boyaji S, Merkow J, Elman RNM, Kaye AD, Yong RJ, Urman RD. The Role of Cannabidiol (CBD) in Chronic Pain Management: An Assessment of Current Evidence. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2020 Jan 24;24(2):4. PubMed PMID: 31980957
Merkow J, Varhabhatla N, Manchikanti L, Kaye AD, Urman RD, Yong RJ. Minimally Invasive Lumbar Decompression and Interspinous Process Device for the Management of Symptomatic Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: a Literature Review. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2020 Feb 18;24(4):13. PubMed PMID: 32072362
Boyaji S, Merkow J, Elman RNM, Kaye AD, Yong RJ, Urman RD. The Role of Cannabidiol (CBD) in Chronic Pain Management: An Assessment of Current Evidence. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2020 Jan 24;24(2):4. PubMed PMID: 31980957
Chapman BC, Merkow J, Paniccia A, Overbey DM, Gipson M, Stiegmann G, Vogel JD. Efficacy of fibrin glue therapy for abscess-associated enteric fistulas. Tech Coloproctol. 2016 Sep;20(9):641-6. PubMed PMID: 27522598
Chapman BC, Gleisner A, Kwak JJ, Hosokawa P, Paniccia A, Merkow JS, Koo PJ, Gajdos C, Pearlman NW, McCarter MD, Kounalakis N. SPECT/CT Improves Detection of Metastatic Sentinel Lymph Nodes in Patients with Head and Neck Melanoma. Ann Surg Oncol. 2016 Aug;23(8):2652-7. PubMed PMID: 26983744
Merkow J, Paniccia A, Jones E, Jones T, Hodges M, Stovall R, Kounalakis N, Gajdos C, Lewis K, Robinson W, Gonzalez R, Pearlman N, McCarter M. Association of sentinel lymph node diameter with melanoma metastasis. Am J Surg. 2016 Aug;212(2):315-20. PubMed PMID: 26827186
Khurana S, Nobel TB, Merkow JS, Walsh M, Egol KA. Total Hip Arthroplasty for Posttraumatic Osteoarthritis of the Hip Fares Worse Than THA for Primary Osteoarthritis. Am J Orthop (Belle Mead NJ). 2015 Jul;44(7):321-5. PubMed PMID: 26161760
Paniccia A, Merkow J, Edil BH, Zhu Y. Immunotherapy for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: an overview of clinical trials. Chin J Cancer Res. 2015 Aug;27(4):376-91. PubMed PMID: 26361407
Merkow J, Paniccia A, Edil BH. Laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy: a descriptive and comparative review. Chin J Cancer Res. 2015 Aug;27(4):368-75. PubMed PMID: 26361406
Jones EL, Jones TS, Paniccia A, Merkow JS, Wells DM, Pearlman NW, McCarter MD. Smaller pelvic volume is associated with postoperative infection after pelvic salvage surgery for recurrent malignancy. Am J Surg. 2014 Dec;208(6):1016-22; discussion 1021-2. PubMed PMID: 25316510
Merkow RP, Bilimoria KY, Chow WB, Merkow JS, Weyant MJ, Ko CY, Bentrem DJ. Variation in lymph node examination after esophagectomy for cancer in the United States. Arch Surg. 2012 Jun;147(6):505-11. PubMed PMID: 22351873
Willie BM, Yang X, Kelly NH, Merkow J, Gagne S, Ware R, Wright TM, Bostrom MP. Osseointegration into a novel titanium foam implant in the distal femur of a rabbit. J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater. 2010 Feb;92(2):479-88. PubMed PMID: 20024964