Anai N. Kothari, MD, MS
Assistant Professor
Locations
- Froedtert Hospital
- Clinical Cancer Center - Froedtert Hospital
Specialties
- Surgical Oncology
Languages
- English, Gujarati
Clinical Cancer Center - Froedtert Hospital
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Education
- MD - Doctor of Medicine
- MS -Master of Science
Biography
Anai N. Kothari, MD, MS, is an assistant professor in the Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery and a member of the Collaborative for Healthcare Delivery Science at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He grew up in Manitowoc, WI and received his BS and MD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Kothari completed his General Surgery training at Loyola University Medical Center where he also earned a Masters degree in Epidemiology. This was followed by a fellowship in Complex General Surgical Oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Dr. Kothari's clinical expertise is the surgical treatment of upper gastrointestinal cancer and advanced cancers of the GI tract. He is a member of several national societies including the Society of Surgical Oncology, American College of Surgeons, and Society of Asian Academic Surgeons. He is an active researcher with a focus on using advanced analytics to improve cancer care.
Research Interests
Publications
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Artificial Intelligence for the Treatment and Management of Colorectal Liver Metastases
(Weyman KM, Kothari AN.) Clinics in Colon and Rectal Surgery. 1 May 2026;39(3):235-241 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105026263263 05/01/2026
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Artificial Intelligence for the Treatment and Management of Colorectal Liver Metastases.
(Weyman KM, Kothari AN.) Clin Colon Rectal Surg. 2026 May;39(3):235-241 PMID: 41948161 PMCID: PMC13053105 04/08/2026
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(Thalji SZ, Aldakkak M, Ramamurthi A, Jaraczewski TJ, Belbahri M, SenthilKumar G, Shaik T, Merrill JR, Banerjee A, Taylor BW, Kamgar M, George B, Erickson B, Hall WA, Lytle NK, Seo YD, Christians KK, Clarke CN, Evans DB, Tsai S, Kothari AN.) JAMA Surg. 2026 May 01;161(5):508-516 PMID: 41848749 PMCID: PMC13000744 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105034154038 03/18/2026
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Suitability of Large Language Models and Predicting Case Duration-Reply.
(Kothari AN.) JAMA Surg. 2026 Mar 01;161(3):308 PMID: 41499103 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105027339993 01/07/2026
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(Verhagen CT, Westerman G, Heaviland H, Lynch E, Brandenburg O, Adams-Patton J, Schwind R, Seo YD, Clarke CN, George B, Kothari AN.) Surgery. 2026 Mar;191:109915 PMID: 41318261 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105026193777 11/30/2025
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ChatClinic in Pharmacy Education: AI-Simulated Renal Cases for Enhanced Clinical Learning.
(Wolfrath N, Verhagen NB, Bhatt SN, Elftmann E, Tomlin C, Nimmer K, Boutris A, Pape Z, Kavanaugh R, Kothari AN, LaTourette B.) WMJ. 2026;125(1):75-78 PMID: 41980137 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105035820830 04/14/2026
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(Pritts TA, Rothermel L, Verhagen C, Kothari A, Wehrle C, Baker M.) Surgery United States. 1 March 2026;191 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105026474638 03/01/2026
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(Brown SA, Fang MZ, Sparapani R, Zhou Y, Osinski K, Taylor B, Yu D, Blessing J, Shah R, Collier P, BagheriMohamadiPour M, Zhang J, Kothari A, Echefu G, Rickards J, Otto C, Sanchez Z, Olson J, Arruda-Olson A, Cheng YC, Cheng F, Cardio‐Oncology Artificial Intelligence Informatics and Precision Equity, and Patient Similarity Algorithms in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Toxicity Research Team Investigators.) J Am Heart Assoc. 2025 Dec 16;14(24):e030363 PMID: 41378455 PMCID: PMC12826905 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105025249869 12/11/2025
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SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint blockade.
(Grippin AJ, Marconi C, Copling S, Li N, Braun C, Woody C, Young E, Gupta P, Wang M, Wu A, Jeong SD, Soni D, Weidert F, Xie C, Goldenberg E, Kim A, Zhao C, DeVries A, Castillo P, Lohray R, Rooney MK, Schrank BR, Wang Y, Ma Y, Chang E, Kouzy R, Dyson K, Jafarnia J, Nariman N, Gladish G, New J, Argueta A, Amaya D, Thomas N, Doty A, Chen J, Copling N, Alatrash G, Simon J, Davies AB, Dennis W, Liang R, Lewis J, Wei X, Rinsurongkawong W, Vaporciyan AA, Johns A, D3CODE Team, Lee J, Lee JH, Sun R, Sharma P, Tran H, Zhang J, Gibbons DL, Wargo J, Kim BYS, Heymach JV, Mendez-Gomez HR, Jiang W, Sayour EJ, Lin SH.) Nature. 2025 Nov;647(8089):488-497 PMID: 41125896 PMCID: PMC12611756 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105021659544 10/23/2025
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Applying Large Language Models for Surgical Case Length Prediction.
(Ramamurthi A, Neupane B, Deshpande P, Hanson R, Vegesna S, Cray D, Crotty BH, Somai M, Brown KR, Pawar SS, Taylor B, Kothari AN.) JAMA Surg. 2025 Aug 01;160(8):894-902 PMID: 40632526 PMCID: PMC12242817 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105013527436 07/09/2025
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Equity through efficiency: Automating patient to trial matching using AI and OncoLLM.
(Lynch EE, Heaviland H, Westerman G, Verhagen CT, Brandenburg O, Patton JA, Singh H, Schwind RM, Kothari A.) JCO Oncology Practice. 19 November 2025;21:144-144 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105023875341 11/19/2025
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Enterprise-level AI screening for oncology trials: Improving patient identification with OncoLLM.
(Westerman G, Verhagen CT, Heaviland H, Lynch E, Brandenburg O, Patton JA, Schwind RM, George B, Kothari A.) Journal of Clinical Oncology. June 2025;43(16):e13706-e13706 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105036966860 06/01/2025