<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news-events/downstate-update/digest/issue-04/sharath-amputation-research.html" dsn="blogs"><featured/><categories/><pubDate>08/06/2026 03:33:58 PM</pubDate><title>Dr. Sherene Sharath’s Research Brings Amputation Risks Closer to Home</title><sub-title/><description>Research led by Downstate’s Sherene E. Sharath, Ph.D., MPH, Associate Professor of Surgery and Director of Clinical and Health Services Research, is helping healthcare providers better understand why patients with advanced vascular disease continue to lose limbs and how earlier action may help prevent limb loss.</description><author>Office of Communications &amp; Marketing</author><image><img xmlns:ouc="http://omniupdate.com/XSL/Variables" src="https://www.downstate.edu/faculty/surgery/_images/sharath.png" alt="Sherene Sharath, PhD, MPH"/></image><loc>/var/staging/oucampus/suny-downstate/downstate/news-events/downstate-update/digest/issue-04/sharath-amputation-research.xml</loc><tags><tag>Research</tag><tag>Surgery</tag></tags><categories/></item>