Hospital Affiliations

East Jefferson General Hospital

Clinical Interests

• Neuroendocrine cancer

Selected Publications

• Ramirez RA, Beyer DT, Oliva I, Voros B, Kokodis I, Thiagarajan R, Ricks MJ, Bren-Mattison Y, Boudreaux JP, Wang Y-Z, and Woltering EA. (2020) Liver Needle Biopsies Are Poor Predictors of Histologic Tumor Grade for Midgut Neuroendocrine Tumors. Clinical Oncology and Research. DOI: 10.31487/j.COR.2020.01.07
• Ramirez RA, Bren-Mattison Y, Thiagarajan R, Boudreaux JP, Marsala AJ, Ryan P, Maluccio MA (2020) Neuroendocrine tumor specialty center in New Orleans (NOLANETS) response to patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Oncologist. DOI: 10.1634/theoncologist.2020-0279. PMID: 32369669.
• Jeha GM, Philip Boudreaux J, Woltering EA, Bren-Mattison Y, Thiagarajan R. Neuroendocrine Tumors of the Ampulla of Vater Treated with Local Resection. Am Surg. 2020 Nov;86(11):1575-1576. Epub 2020 Jul 30. PMID: 32731745. 
• Ramirez RA, Thomas K, Jacob A, Lin K, Bren-Mattison Y, Chauhan A. Adjuvant therapy for lung neuroendocrine neoplasms. World J Clin Oncol. 2021 Aug 24;12(8):664-674. PMID: 34513600; PMCID: PMC8394158. 
• Zhongqiang Li, Zheng Li, Qing Chen, Alexandra Ramos, Jian Zhang, J. Philip Boudreaux, Ramcharan Thiagarajan, Yvette Bren-Mattison, Michael E. Dunham, Andrew J. McWhorter, Xin Li, Ji-Ming Feng, Yanping Li, Shaomian Yao, Jian Xu. (2021) Detection of pancreatic cancer by convolutional-neural-network-assisted spontaneous Raman spectroscopy with critical feature visualization, Neural Networks, Volume 144, Pages 455-464, ISSN 0893-6080
• Li Z, Li Z, Chen Q, Ramos A, Zhang J, Boudreaux JP, Thiagarajan R, Bren-Mattison Y, Dunham ME, McWhorter AJ, Li X, Feng JM, Li Y, Yao S, Xu J. Detection of pancreatic cancer by convolutional-neural-network-assisted spontaneous Raman spectroscopy with critical feature visualization. Neural Network. 2021 Dec;144: 455-464. doi: 10.1016/j.neunet.2021.09.006. Epub 2021 Sep 16. PMID: 34583101.
• Landry J, Bren-Mattison Y, Ramirez R, Boudreaux JP, Woltering EA, Maluccio MA, and Ramcharan T (2020). Management of Appendiceal Neuroendocrine Tumors: Beyond Tumor Size. J of Cancer Immunology. J Cancer Immunol. 2020 volume2, issue 4.
• R.A. Ramirez, K. Thomas, A. Jacob, K. Lin, Y. Bren-Mattison, A. Chauhan. Adjuvant therapy for lung neuroendocrine neoplasms. World J Clin Oncol. 2021; 12(9): 664-674. DOI: 10.5306/wjco. v12.i8.664.
• Li Z, Li Z, Chen Q, Ramos A, Zhang J, Boudreaux JP, Thiagarajan R, Bren-Mattison Y, Dunham ME, McWhorter AJ, Li X, Feng JM, Li Y, Yao S, Xu J. Detection of pancreatic cancer by convolutional-neural-network-assisted spontaneous Raman spectroscopy with critical feature visualization. Neural Network. 2021 Dec; 144:455-464. doi: 10.1016/j.neunet.2021.09.006. Epub 2021 Sep 16. PMID: 34583101.
• Li Z, Li Z, Ramos A, Boudreaux JP, Thiagarajan R, Bren-Mattison Y, Dunham ME, McWhorter AJ, Chen Q, Zhang J, Feng JM, Li Y, Yao S, Xu J. Detection of pancreatic cancer by indocyanine green-assisted fluorescence imaging in the first and second near-infrared windows. Cancer Commun (Lond). 2021 Dec;41(12):1431-1434. doi: 10.1002/cac2.12236. Epub 2021 Nov 17. PMID: 34787963; PMCID: PMC8696222.