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Email

gnoon@bcm.edu

Positions

Professor of Surgery

Division of Transplant & Assist Devices
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Houston, TX US

Meyer-DeBakey Chair in Investigative Surgery

Surgery
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Addresses

Fondren-Brown Building (Office)

Room: FBRN-A979
Houston, TX 77030
United States

Education

Advanced Training from Baylor College Of Medicine Affiliate Hospitals

01/1965 - Houston, TX United States

Advanced Training from Baylor College Of Medicine Affiliate Hospitals

01/1966 - Houston, TX United States

Advanced Training from Jefferson Davis Hospital

01/1961 - Houston, TX United States

M.D. from Baylor College Of Medicine

01/1960 - Houston, TX United States

B.S. from University Of Arizona

01/1956 - Tucson, AZ United States

Certifications

Board Certified

American Board of Surgery

Board Certified

American Board of Thoracic Surgery

Board Certified

American Board of General Vascular Surgery

Honors & Awards

Ben and Margaret Love Foundation Bobby Alford Award for Academic Clinical Professionalism

2014

2010 Houston Distinguished Surgeon Award

Houston Surgical Society

2009 George P. Noon Leading Hearts Award

The Methodist Hospital

2009 Dr. Barney Clark Award

American Society for Artificial Internal Organs

2009 Michael E. DeBakey, M.D. Humanitarian Award

Open Door Mission Foundation

2002 “Torch of Hope” Award

The American Cancer League

Space Technology Hall of Fame

NASA and the United States Space Foundation

Professional Interests

• Organ transplantation
• Cardiac assist devices

Professional Statement

Dr. George P. Noon has focused his surgical career in organ transplantation and cardiac assist devices. In 1968, Dr. Noon, Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, and their surgical team performed their first heart and later lung transplant. The program was discontinued because worldwide results were discouraging. When the immunosuppressant cyclosporine became available in 1986, Drs. Noon and DeBakey restarted the transplant program. It was crucial for the surgical team to provide mechanical ventricular assistance for patients with heart failure. Dr. Noon became the primary surgeon for the insertion of ventricular assist devices. In 1988, Drs. Noon and DeBakey met with engineers from NASA to develop a miniature axial flow blood pump. Ten years later, Dr. Noon participated in the care of President Boris Yeltsin, who needed a coronary bypass operation. In the same year, the first MicroMed DeBakey-Noon human implants were performed in Berlin, Germany. In 1999, Dr. Noon was inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame. Dr. Noon is a member of multiple societies, has been invited as a guest lecturer and surgeon throughout the world, and has authored more than 350 publications. He is internationally known and respected for his pioneering research and clinical expertise in transplantation and assist devices.

Websites

Selected Publications

• Orime Y, Takatani S, Shiono M, Sasaki T, Minato N, Ohara Y, Swenson CA, Noon GP, Nosé Y, DeBakey ME "." Artif Organs. 1992 Dec;16(6):607-13. Pubmed PMID:
• Noon GP, Morley D, Irwin S, Abdelsayed S, Benkowski R, Lynch BE "." Adv Card Surg. 2001;13:169-91. Pubmed PMID:
• DeBakey ME, Noon GP, Teitel ER "." Artif Organs. 2004 Oct;28(10):865-8. Pubmed PMID:
• Ghodsizad A, Loebe M, Piechaczek C, Bordel V, Ungerer MN, Gregoric I, Bruckner B, Noon GP, Karck M, Ruhparwar A "." Int J Artif Organs. 2011 Jul;34(7):529-45. Pubmed PMID:

Memberships

American College of Surgeons

Fellow

American College of Cardiology

Fellow

American College of Chest Physicians

Vice Pres. 1971 - 1972

Michael E. DeBakey International Surgical Society

President, 2001

American Medical Association

Association for Academic Surgery

Harris County Medical Society

Houston Academy of Medicine

Houston Heart Association

Houston Surgical Society

The American Association for Vascular Surgery

Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Southwestern Surgical Congress

Texas Medical Association

Texas Transplantation Society

American Society for Artificial Organs