George Van Buren, II

George Van Buren, II, M.D., FACS

Professor of Surgery

(832) 957-6500

Positions

Professor of Surgery: Division of Surgical Oncology
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Faculty Senator: ��Ƶ of Medicine

Medical Director: Surgery
Surgical Oncology
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Houston, Texas, United States

Member: Surgery
Surgical Oncology
Elkins Pancreas Center
Houston, Texas, United States

Addresses

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center (Clinic): O’Quinn Medical Tower at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center’s McNair Campus
1919 Old Spanish Trail
Houston, TX, 77054
United States
Phone: (832) 957-6500

Education

Clinical Fellowship at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center: 06/2012 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States; Surgical Oncology Fellowship, Pancreatic Surgery Fellowship

MD from The University of Texas Health Science Center: 06/2003 - Houston, Texas, United States

Fellowship at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center: 06/2007 - Houston, Texas, United States; Surgical Oncology, NIH T32 Research Fellowship

Residency at The University of Texas Health Science Center: 06/2010 - Houston, Texas, United States; General Surgery Residency

BA from The University of Texas At Austin: 05/1999 - Austin, Texas, United States; Biology

Graduate Certificate at Rice University, Jones Graduate School of Business: Houston; ��Ƶ Management

Certifications

Board Certified: American Board of Surgery

Certificate in Complex Surgical Oncology: Society of Surgical Oncology

Medical License: #M5961; Texas Medical Board

Fellow of the American College of Surgeons: (10/26/2014); American College of Surgeons

Honors & Awards

Norton Rose Fulbright Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching & Evaluation: ��Ƶ of Medicine

Early Career Faculty Award for Excellence in Patient Care: ��Ƶ of Medicine

Barry Stephen Smith Memorial Pancreatic Cancer Research Award: Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center

Star Faculty Award for Excellence in Patient Care: ��Ƶ of Medicine (05/2020)

Chief Resident Faculty Teaching Award: 2017, 2019; ��Ƶ of Medicine

Houstonia Magazine, Top Doctors: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020; Houstonia Magazine

Texas Monthly, Texas Rising Stars: 2017, 2017, 2018; Texas Monthly Magazine

Faculty Full Tenure: 2018; ��Ƶ of Medicine

Alpha Omega Alpha: 2004; The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Texas Monthly, Top Doctor: 2020; Texas Monthly Magazine

Gene Guinn MD Outstanding Teaching Faculty Award: 2020; ��Ƶ of Medicine

2020 Top Doctor: General Surgery: Houstonia Magazine

Professional Interests

Pancreas cancer surgery
Pancreaticoduodenectomy (Whipple Procedure)
Surgical oncology
Stomach cancer
Colon cancer
Sentinel Lymph node biopsy
Distal Pancreatectomy
HIPEC
Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma
Minimally invasive surgery
Laparoscopic colectomy, gastrectomy and adrenalectomy
Pancreas Cancer
Gastric Adenocarcinoma
Neuroendocrine Tumors
Gastrointestinal Cancer
Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (GIST)
Gastrectomy

Professional Statement

George Van Buren, II, M.D. is an associate professor of surgery in the Division of Surgical Oncology of the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at ��Ƶ of Medicine. Dr. Van Buren is a board-certified surgeon specializing surgical oncology and pancreatic disorders.

A native Houstonian, Dr. Van Buren earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Texas at Austin and his medical degree at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. He completed his general surgery residency at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. During that time period, he spent two years at MD Anderson Cancer Center as an NIH T32 research fellow studying pancreatic cancer and neuroendocrine tumors. He completed his surgical oncology fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in the Translational Pancreas Research Track.

During Dr. Van Buren’s research and clinical fellowships, he was able to expand upon his interest in gastrointestinal surgical oncology and pancreatic disorders. Specifically, his training had a heavy emphasis on pancreatic and gastric malignancies with exposure to wide breadth of cases, including specialized procedures such as robotic pancreatic surgery.

Dr. Van Buren is active in both patient care and research. He has spent over 15 years in training and in practice focusing on care for patients with pancreatic and gastrointestinal malignancies. He is involved in both basic science and clinical research and believes heavily in the surgeon’s role as a leader of the translational research team. His goals are to provide high quality clinical care while offering his patients access to innovative clinical and therapeutic trials. He is a member of the Elkins Pancreas Center and Dan L. Duncan NCI Cancer Center at ��Ƶ of Medicine.

Currently at the Elkins Pancreas Center we are enrolling patients in neoadjuvant, adjuvant, and metastatic clinical trials for pancreatic cancer. In addition, we do have ongoing surgical clinical trials to determine how to optimize acute surgical outcomes.

Websites

Elkins Pancreas Center

In the News:

VIDEOS

Videos

Selected Publications

Van Buren G, Yang AD, Dallas NA, Gray MJ, Lim SJ, Xia L, Fan F, Somcio R, Wu Y, Hicklin DJ, Ellis LM. " " J. Clin. Oncol.. 2008 Apr 10; 26 (11) : 1836-42.
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Dallas NA, Xia L, Fan F, Gray MJ, Gaur P, van Buren G, Samuel S, Kim MP, Lim SJ, Ellis LM. " " Cancer Res.. 2009 Mar 1; 69 (5) : 1951-7.
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Dallas NA, Fan F, Gray MJ, Van Buren G, Lim SJ, Xia L, Ellis LM. " " Cancer Metastasis Rev.. 2007 Dec ; 26 (41337) : 433-41.
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Fan F, Gray MJ, Dallas NA, Yang AD, Van Buren G, Camp ER, Ellis LM. " " Mol. Cancer Ther.. 2008 Sep ; 7 (9) : 3064-70.
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Van Buren G, Fisher WE. " " Ann Surg. 2013 26;
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Ross A, Mohammed S, Vanburen G, Silberfein EJ, Artinyan A, Hodges SE, Fisher WE.. " " Surgery. 2013 Sep ;
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Yang AD, Fan F, Camp ER, van Buren G, Liu W, Somcio R, Gray MJ, Cheng H, Hoff PM, Ellis LM. " " Clin. Cancer Res.. 2006 Jul 15; 12 (14) : 4147-53.
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Dallas NA, Gray MJ, Xia L, Fan F, van Buren G, Gaur P, Samuel S, Lim SJ, Arumugam T, Ramachandran V, Wang H, Ellis LM. " " Clin. Cancer Res.. 2008 Dec 15; 14 (24) : 8052-60.
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Van Buren G 2nd, Ramanathan RK, Krasinskas AM, Smith RP, Abood GJ, Bahary N, Lembersky BC, Shuai Y, Potter DM, Bartlett DL, Zureikat AH, Zeh HJ, James Moser A. " " Ann Surg Oncol. 2013 20;
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Mohammed S, Van Buren II G, Fisher WE.. " " World J Gastroenterol. 2014 Jul 28;
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Van Buren G, Teichgraeber DC, Ghorbani RP, Souchon EA. " " World J. Gastroenterol.. 2007 Oct 28; 13 (40) : 5391-3.
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Mohammed S, Evans C, Vanburen G, Hodges SE, Silberfein E, Artinyan A, Mo Q, Issazadeh M, McElhany AL, Fisher WE.. " " HPB. 2013 Aug 29;
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Gray MJ, Van Buren G, Dallas NA, Xia L, Wang X, Yang AD, Somcio RJ, Lin YG, Lim S, Fan F, Mangala LS, Arumugam T, Logsdon CD, Lopez-Berestein G, Sood AK, Ellis LM. " " J. Natl. Cancer Inst.. 2008 Jan 16; 100 (2) : 109-20.
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Gray MJ, Dallas NA, Van Buren G, Xia L, Yang AD, Somcio RJ, Gaur P, Mangala LS, Vivas-Mejia PE, Fan F, Sanguino AM, Gallick GE, Lopez-Berestein G, Sood AK, Ellis LM. " " Oncogene. 2008 Dec 4; 27 (57) : 7192-200.
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Van Buren G, Camp ER, Yang AD, Gray MJ, Fan F, Somcio R, Ellis LM. " " Expert Opin. Ther. Targets. 2006 Oct ; 10 (5) : 689-701.
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Van Buren G, Rashid A, Yang AD, Abdalla EK, Gray MJ, Liu W, Somcio R, Fan F, Camp ER, Yao JC, Ellis LM. " " Clin. Cancer Res.. 2007 Aug 15; 13 (16) : 4704-12.
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Van Buren G, Gray MJ, Dallas NA, Xia L, Lim SJ, Fan F, Mazar AP, Ellis LM. " " Cancer. 2009 Jul 15; 115 (14) : 3360-8.
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Van Buren G 2nd, et al. " " 2017 ;
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Shah KP, Baugh KA, Brubaker LS, Van Buren G 2nd, Villafane-Ferriol N, McElhany AL, Mohamed S, Silberfein EJ, Hsu C, Massarweh NN, Tran Cao HS, Mendez-Reyes JE, Fisher WE. " " 2019 ;
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Gilliland TM, Villafane-Ferriol N, Shah KP, Shah RM, Tran Cao HS, Massarweh NN, Silberfein EJ, Choi EA, Hsu C, McElhany AL, Barakat O, Fisher W, Van Buren G. " " 2017 ;
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Khawja S, Mohammed S, Silberfein E, Musher B, Fisher WE, Van Buren G 2nd. " " 2015 ;
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Baugh KA, Villafane N, Farinas C, Dhingra S, Silberfein EJ, Massarweh NN, Cao HT, Fisher WE, Van Buren G 2nd. " " 2018 ;
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Projects

Microbiome in Pancreatic Disease: ��Ƶ of Medicine; Elkins Pancreas Center
Mitigation Strategies for Post Operative Pancreatic Fistulas (POPF): ��Ƶ of Medicine

Memberships

Texas Medical Association

American College of Surgeons: Fellow

Association for Academic Surgery

Harris County Medical Society

Society for Surgical Oncology

American Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association

The Pancreas Club

Funding

U01: Consortium to Study Chronic Pancreatitis, Diabetes and Pancreatic Cancer (CSCPDPC). Altered Microbiome in Pancreatitis, Diabetes and Pancreatic Cancer #1U01DK108326-01: (06/01/2015 - 06/01/2020); Grant funding from National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

R21 Pilot and Feasibility Clinical Research Studies in Digestive Diseases and Nutrition Building a Pancreas Surgery Consortium via Randomized Controlled Trial of Drain Placement: (06/01/2015 - 06/01/2017); Grant funding from NIH

Pancreatic Cancer Immunotherapy Co-clinical Trial using Pre-clinical Mouse Model: (06/01/2017 - 06/01/2019); Grant funding from Roderick D. MacDonald Research Fund at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center

Curing Pancreatic Cancer with NK Cell Immunotherapy: (06/01/2018 - 06/01/2019); Grant funding from Barry Stephen Smith Memorial Pancreatic Cancer Research Award

R33 Advanced Development of the MasSpec Pen for Cancer Diagnosis and Surgical Margin Evaluation: (06/01/2019 - 06/01/2024); Grant funding from NCI

Skills

Pancreatic Surgery

Surgical Oncology

Gastric Cancer

Pancreatic Diseases

Languages

Spanish

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