
Cindy Kin is a colorectal surgeon and Associate Professor of Surgery at Stanford University, and the Director of Well-being for the Stanford Department of Surgery. She completed her general surgery residency at Stanford and her colorectal fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. She is also board-certified in Lifestyle Medicine. Her clinical practice includes management of colorectal malignancies, inflammatory bowel disease, diverticular disease, and benign anorectal conditions. Her research focuses on prehabilitation, perioperative optimization, and improving short- and long-term health for surgical patients through health behavior changes.
Selected publications from PubMed
Improving colorectal cancer screening in patients with comorbidities requires personalised patient education: an invited commentary.
Ko B, Kin C
Evid Based Nurs. 2026 Jun 22;29(3):162 doi: 10.1136/ebnurs-2024-104188.
Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis Practice Patterns, Outcomes, and Risk Stratification After Surgery for IBD: A National Surgical Quality Improvement Program IBD Collaborative Study.
Holubar SD, Eisenstein S, Bordeianou LG, Chapman WC Jr, Crowell KT, Davids JS, Hrabe JE, Justiniano CF, Kapadia MR, Kin CJ, Krane MK, Lee EC, Olortegui KS, Poylin V, Saraidaridis JT, Scow JS, Plietz MC, NSQIP IBD Collaborative
Dis Colon Rectum. 2025 Sep 1;68(9):1062-1073 doi: 10.1097/DCR.0000000000003833.
Evaluating a digital prehabilitation tool in patients with colorectal surgery: protocol for a multisite randomised controlled trial.
Ogomori K, Broering J, Rogine C, Kin C, Chang GJ, Finlayson E
BMJ Open. 2025 Feb 18;15(2):e088001 doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-088001.
Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract State-of-the-Art Session 2022: Frailty in Surgery.
Keller DS, Kimura CMS, Kin CJ, Chu DI, Smith BP, Dhala A, Arrington AK, Clark CJ, Winslow ER, Al-Refaie WB, Khaitan PG
J Gastrointest Surg. 2024 Feb;28(2):158-163 doi: 10.1016/j.gassur.2023.10.004.
Using AI and computer vision to analyze technical proficiency in robotic surgery.
Yang JH, Goodman ED, Dawes AJ, Gahagan JV, Esquivel MM, Liebert CA, Kin C, Yeung S, Gurland BH
Surg Endosc. 2023 Apr;37(4):3010-3017 doi: 10.1007/s00464-022-09781-y.
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