Positions
- Professor and Chief, Endocrine Surgery
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Division of Surgical Oncology
Section of Endocrine Surgery
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- Medical Director, Ambulatory Surgery Therapeutics (CfAST)
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Department of Surgery
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- Member
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Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
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Addresses
- Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center (Clinic)
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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.
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 ºÚÁÏÉçÇø 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.
Videos
Selected Publications
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O'Neill CJ, Chang LY, Suliburk JW, Sidhu SB, Delbridge LW, Sywak MS. " " ANZ J Surg. ; 81 (41463) : 515-8.
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Suliburk J, Helmer K, Moore F, Mercer D. " " Eur Surg Res. 2008 ; 40 (2) : 184-9.
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Chang LY, O'Neill C, Suliburk J, Sidhu S, Delbridge L, Sywak M. " " ANZ J Surg. ; 81 (41463) : 510-4.
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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.
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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
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