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Phoenix:

Office Hours: 8 AM - 5 PM
6245 N 16th Street
Phoenix, AZ 85016
Phone: 602-253-4271
Fax: 602-253-4273
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Glendale:

Office Hours: 8 AM - 5 PM
20325 N.51st Ave Ste 102
Glendale, AZ 85308
Phone: 602-253-4271
Fax: 602-253-4273
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Dr. Elizabeth McConnell, MD, FACS, FASCRS

Dr. McConnell's Biography Dr. McConnell completed her residency in General Surgery in 1997. She then obtained a fellowship in Colon and Rectal surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN with a special emphasis in Immunologic Oncology Research. She joined the Medical staff of the Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, where in addition to performing surgery she published research on colon and rectal cancer. Dr. McConnell has continued to hold a position as research faculty at Arizona State University. She opened her private clinical practice in 2005, specializing in diseases of the anus, colon and rectum. Currently she performs surgery at several hospitals in the valley as well as her own outpatient surgery center (Arizona Outpatient Surgery Center) in Phoenix. She also maintains medical offices in Phoenix and Glendale.

In addition to being Board Certified in colon and rectal surgery (FASCRS), Dr. McConnell is Board Certified in General surgery (FACS). Her many honors and awards include being named Arizona “Top Doc” in 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Dr. Elizabeth McConnell owns and directs the Arizona Outpatient Surgery Center (AOS), an ambulatory surgery center (ASC) currently specializing in outpatient colon, anal and rectal surgeries.

The facility has been approved by the Arizona Department of Health Services and Medicare and complies with all State regulations. The staff includes surgeons, anesthesiologists providing Monitored Anesthesia Care (MAC), Registered Nurses Certified First Assistants, medical technicians, and facility administrators.

Dr. McConnell's Curriculum Vitae

Medical School:

University of Utah Medical School 1988-1992

Residency:

General Surgery San Joaquin General Hospital 1992-1997
Research Fellowship Immunology Mayo Clinic 1997-1999
Colon and Rectal Surgery Mayo Clinic 1999-2000

Board Certifications:

American Board of Surgery
American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery

Affiliations:

Fellow American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons
Fellow American College of Surgeons
American Association of Academic Surgeons
Association of Women Surgeons
American Medical Association
Arizona Medical Associations
Society of Alimentary and Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgery
North Central Cancer Treatment Group (Former Member)
Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (Former Member)

Research Experience:

Population-Based Incidence of Complicated Diverticular Disease of the Sigmoid Colon Based on Gender and Age by Elizabeth J. McConnell, M.D., Deron J. Tessier, M.D., and Bruce G. Wolff, M.D. Department of Surgery, Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Arizona, and the Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Abstract 

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to characterize the gender and age differences in patients with clinically symptomatic sigmoid diverticular disease requiring surgery. METHODS: All surgical patients hospitalized with proven diverticular disease requiring sigmoid resection from January 1988 to January 1998 were reviewed.

RESULTS: A total of 934 patients requiring surgical resection for diverticular disease were admitted. There were 443 men and 491 women with an average age of 64. Forty-nine patients presented with massive rectal bleeding (males, 3.6 percent; females, 1.6 percent), 329 with chronic diverticulitis (males, 15.8 percent; females, 19.3 percent), 61 with obstructive symptoms (males, 2.7 percent; females, 3.9 percent), 148 with fistulas (males, 8.0 percent; females, 7.8 percent), 170 with perforation (male, 8.7 percent; female, 9.4 percent), 79 with abscess (males, 4.0 percent; females, 4.5 percent), 59 with stricture (males, 2.2 percent; females, 4.0 percent), and 39 with acute diverticulitis (males, 2.2 percent; females, 1.9 percent). Overall, patients younger than 50 presented more often with chronic or recurrent diverticulitis.

CONCLUSIONS: Female patients present, on average, five years later than male with complications requiring surgery. Overall, men have a higher incidence of bleeding (P = 0.015), whereas women present more often with stricture and obstruction (P = 0.02). Young males present more with fistula (P = 0.03), whereas older males present with bleeding (P = 0.001). Young females present with perforation (P = 0.002), and older females present with chronic diverticulitis (P = 0.04) and stricture (P = 0.04).

August 2002 - present: Co-investigator, Arizona State University, under the direction of Lokesh Joshi, PhD. Development and preclinical testing of cancer bearing transgenic mice with novel immune cancer therapeutics. Specifically the bioengineering and development of macrophage activating factor to stimulate the immune system to recognize cancer.

September 2000 - August 2002: Co-investigator, Mayo Foundation Scottsdale, under the direction of Sandra Gendler, PhD. Development and preclinical testing of cancer bearing transgenic mice with novel immune cancer therapeutics. Specifically the development of dendritic cell/tumor cell fusion vaccines that provide stimulation for the formation of memory cytotoxic T cells.

June1997 - June 1999: Research Fellow, Mayo Foundation, under the direction of H. Nelson, M.D. Development and preclinical testing of novel immune cancer therapeutics. Specifically the development of bispecific antibodies that target tumor cell surface antigens and lymphocyte activation molecules to recruit the cellular arm of the immune system.

June 1991 - May 1992: NIH Student Research Grant, University of Utah Department of Immunology, under the direction of Ann Shigeoka, M.D. The release of the cytokines interferon granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor (GMCSF) upon neutrophil activation.

June 1988 June 1989: Research Assistant, University of Utah Department of Anatomy, under the direction of Henry Yip, PhD. Localization of nerve growth factor receptors in primary cultures of neural crest cells from chick embryo neural tubes.

May 1986 - May 1989: Research Liaison, Howard Hughes Genetics Institute, under the direction of Ray White, PhD, Peter O 'Connell, PhD, Ray Lephard, PhD. Genetic localization studies on familial polyposis, cystic fibrosis, and prophuria cutanea tardiff.

Honors/Awards:

Arizona "Top Doc" 2009

Arizona "Top Doc" 2008

Arizona "Top Doc" 2007

Participant – July 2002 AACR/ASCO Workshop on Methods in Clinical Cancer Research
Vail, Colorado

Best Research Presentation, September 1999
Minnesota Surgical Society Spring Meeting

Best Research Presentation, May 1999
Tripartite Meeting of the American, British and Australian
Societies of Colon and Rectal Surgery

Best Research Presentation, November 1998
Minnesota Surgical Society Spring Meeting

Best Research Presentation, August 1998
Northwest Colon and Rectal Surgical Society

Best Research Presentation, September 1997
Minnesota Surgical Society Spring Meeting

William Brock Research Award, July 1997

Covey Leadership Training

NIH Biomedical Research Support Grant

Dean's Research Advisory Committe

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