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Positions

Professor and Chief, Endocrine Surgery

Division of Surgical Oncology
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Medical Director, Ambulatory Surgery Therapeutics (CfAST)

Department of Surgery
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Member

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
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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
Fax: (713) 610-4597
endocrinesurgery@bcm.edu

Education

NIH T32 Research Fellowship from The University of Texas Medical School at Houston

Houston, Texas United States

Endocrine Surgery Fellowship from Royal North Shore Hospital, University of Sydney

St. Leonards, Sydney Australia

General Surgery Residency from The University of Texas Medical School at Houston

Houston, Texas United States

MD from University of Oklahoma College Of Medicine

06/2001 - Oklahoma City, OK United States

Certifications

Board Certified

American Board of Surgery

Honors & Awards

2020 Top Doctor: General Surgery

Houstonia Magazine

Patient Care Innovation Grant Career Development Award

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (08/2014 - 12/2017)

Chief Resident Award as Most Outstanding Faculty

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Rising Star Award

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Norton Rose Fulbright Educational Grant

Academy of Distinguished Educators

Norton Rose Fulbright Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching and Evaluation

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That's the Way! Award

An award given by Baylor in recognition of exceptional patient service due to feedback from patients.

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National Surgical Forum Research Award in Clinical Outcomes, Patient Safety and Quality

American College of Surgeons

NIH Extramural Research Loan Repayment Program Award

NIH

Outstanding Basic Science Research Award

American College of Surgeons - South Texas Chapter

AΩA National Medical Honor Society

Academy of Master Surgeons

American College of Surgeons

Best Team Player Award

Baylor Faculty Group Practice

Le2023 Leadership and Innovation Award

Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery

Professional Interests

• Endocrine surgery
• Parathyroid surgery
• Thyroid surgery
• Goiter
• Adrenal Surgery
• Thyroid Nodules
• Graves Disease
• Hyperparathyroidism
• Pheochromocytoma
• Papillary, medullary and follicular thyroid cancer
• Paraganglioma
• Hyperaldosteronism
• Cushing’s Syndrome
• Familial endocrine disease

Professional Statement

Dr. James Suliburk is a board-certified surgeon specializing in the treatment of tumors of the thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal gland in Houston and the surrounding area (Bryan-College Station, Austin, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, and Beaumont). As an international expert fellowship-trained high volume endocrine surgeon, he specializes in the care of patients with thyroid nodules, goiter, Graves’ disease, thyroid cancer, hyperparathyroidism, adrenal masses, pheochromocytoma, Cushing’s, and Conn’s diseases. His advanced surgical expertise includes minimally invasive parathyroidectomy and thyroidectomy, traditional thyroidectomy, central, selective, and modified radical neck dissection, laparoscopic adrenalectomy, and traditional laparoscopic adrenalectomy. He cares for patients through the Baylor Thyroid and Parathyroid Center at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center as well as Ben Taub Hospital.

In addition to a busy clinical practice, Dr. Suliburk has also works within a collaborative research program at Ben Taub Hospital and Baylor St. Luke’s CHI Medical Center that offers opportunities in translational science, clinical outcomes, and mobile technology development/innovation. The research comes from the establishment of comprehensive and multidisciplinary treatment. His research program at Ben Taub Hospital and Baylor St. Luke’s CHI Medical Center offers opportunities in translational science, clinical outcomes, and mobile technology development/innovation. The research comes from the establishment of comprehensive and multidisciplinary treatment pathways within the endocrine surgical programs at Ben Taub Hospital and Baylor Clinic. In addition Dr. Suliburk works with other colleagues within ²ÝÁñÉçÇøÈë¿Ú to actively seek and develop state of the art treatments for hemorrhagic shock severely injured trauma patients. Translational research opportunities include development of novel molecular markers and therapeutic targets in endocrine surgical disease (thyroid cancer, hyperthyroidism, hyperparathyroidism, and adrenal tumors), as well as metabolic markers of the endocrine response in severely injured major trauma patients.

Websites

Videos

Selected Publications

• O'Neill CJ, Chang LY, Suliburk JW, Sidhu SB, Delbridge LW, Sywak MS "." ANZ J Surg.;81(41463):515-8. Pubmed PMID:
• Suliburk J, Helmer K, Moore F, Mercer D "." Eur Surg Res. 2008;40(2):184-9. Pubmed PMID:
• Chang LY, O'Neill C, Suliburk J, Sidhu S, Delbridge L, Sywak M "." ANZ J Surg.;81(41463):510-4. Pubmed PMID:
• Tapia NM, Chang A, Norman M, Welsh F, Scott B, Wall MJ, Mattox KL, Suliburk J "." J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2013 Feb;74(2):378-86. Pubmed PMID:

Memberships

American College of Surgeons

Fellow

American Thyroid Association

American Association of Endocrine Surgeons

Houston Surgical Society

Association of Academic Surgeons

American Association for the Surgery of Trauma

Surgical Infection Society

ACS Academy of Master Surgeon Educators