Baran Sumer, M.D. Titles and Appointments Professor Endowed Title T.C. Lupton Family Professorship in Patient Care, in Honor of Dr. John Dowling McConnell and Dr. David Andrew Pistenmaa School Medical School Department Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery Graduate Programs Biomedical Engineering You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Biography Download Curriculum Vitae Baran D. Sumer, M.D., is Professor and Chief of the Division of Head and Neck Oncology in UT Southwestern Medical Center's Department of Otolaryngology, where he has served on the faculty since 2007. A specialist in head and neck cancer surgery and reconstruction, Dr. Sumer is also Director of the Head and Neck Oncology Disease Oriented Team at the Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center and holds the T.C. Lupton Family Professorship in Patient Care. Dr. Sumer earned his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University. He then completed an internship in general surgery, a residency in otolaryngology, and a fellowship in head and neck oncologic surgery with a focus on transoral laser surgery and microvascular reconstruction at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. Dr. Sumer is on the clinical staff at the North Texas VA Medical Center, the Children’s Medical Center of Dallas, UT Southwestern Medical Center, and Parkland Health & Hospital System, all in Dallas, Texas. He has participated in a wide variety of research studies devoted to advancing diagnostic and therapeutic techniques and technologies for head and neck cancer such as fluorescent imaging, biosensing, photodynamic therapy, multimodal therapies, and oral cancer surgical reconstruction techniques. He serves as a reviewer for multiple peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Biomedical Engineering, Head and Neck, Laryngoscope, Experimental Biology and Medicine, International Journal of Otolaryngology, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and is an editor for the Annals of Surgical Oncology. Among numerous recognitions, honors, and awards, Dr. Sumer has been recognized as among the best otolaryngology physicians in North Texas by D Magazine, is the recipient of a Texas Instruments Corporate Award for Research, the Triological Society Francis Lederer Award, the FUSION Grant for Nanotechnology Research, and the SEBM Best Paper Award in the Alan MacDiarmid Interdisciplinary Research Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine. He serves as principal investigator on several research projects funded by R01 awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and grants from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), and biotechnology companies such as OncoNano Medicine. He is also co-PI on the UT Southwestern Immuno-Oncology Translational Network (IOTN) i3 Center as part of the Cancer Moonshot from the National Cancer Institute. https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/labs/sumer/ Education Medical School Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (2001) Internship Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine (2002), General Surgery Residency Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine (2006), Otolaryngology Fellowship Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine (2007), Head & Neck Oncologic Surgery Research Interest AI Enhanced Surgery Cancer Imaging Cancer Immunology Cancer Metabolism Image Guided Surgery Molecular Imaging Optical Imaging Precision Surgery Publications Relationship Between Elective Neck Irradiation and Severe Lymphopenia in Patients Treated With Head and Neck Chemoradiotherapy Mickel TA, Moon DH, Avkshtol V, Pham NL, Shah JL, Hughes RS, Sumer BD, Sher DJ Clinical Oncology 2025 Aug 44 Margin Status and Recurrence in Surgically Treated Patients With HPV+ Oropharyngeal Cancer Ausburn M, Pyne JM, Day AT, Hajnas N, Moon D, Myers LL, Sher DJ, Truelson JM, Tillman B, Sumer B Laryngoscope 2025 Aug 135 2777-2782 A Multi-Threshold Micelle Improves Tumor Accumulation and STING Immunotherapy Bennett ZT, Krishnamurthy A, Ye S, Basava VS, Feng Q, Huang G, Sumer BD, Gao J Journal of the American Chemical Society 2025 Jun 147 19547-19558 Nodal Yield From Neck Dissection Predicts the Anti-Tumor Immune Response in Head and Neck Cancers Chen S, Pyne JM, Liu Y, Abraham Y, Wen Z, Palsgrove D, Xiao G, Truelson J, Myers L, Tillman B, Day A, Gordin E, Stankova L, Xie Y, Sher D, Bishop J, Gao J, Sumer BD Head and Neck 2025 Apr 47 1199-1208 Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy for T1 to T2 Glottic Larynx Cancer: Mature Results From the Phase 2 GLoTtic Larynx-SABR Trial Sher DJ, Avkshtol V, Moon D, Vo D, Mau T, Childs L, Lin MH, Dubas J, Ahn C, Sumer BD International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics 2025 Jan 121 137-144 Fluorescence-Guided Surgery for Assessing Margins in Head and Neck Cancer A Review Gowrishankar S, Van Keulen S, Mattingly A, Tanaka H, Topf M, Mannion K, Langerman A, Rohde S, Sinard R, Choe J, Sumer B, Varvares M, Rosenthal EL JAMA Surgery 2025 HYHOPE: A Phase 1 Study of Deintensified Hypofractionated Radiation Therapy for Human Papillomavirus-Associated Oropharynx Cancer Moon DH, Avkshtol V, Hughes RS, Ahn C, Sumer BD, Day AT, Tillman BN, Myers LL, Truelson JM, Sher DJ International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics 2025 Stepwise Ultra-pH-Sensitive Micelles Overcome a pKa Barrier for Systemic Lymph Node Delivery Bennett ZT, Huang G, Dellinger MT, Sumer BD, Gao J ACS Nano 2024 Jul 18 16632-16647 Severely polarized extracellular acidity around tumour cells Feng Q, Bennett Z, Grichuk A, Pantoja R, Huang T, Faubert B, Huang G, Chen M, DeBerardinis RJ, Sumer BD, Gao J Nature Biomedical Engineering 2024 Jun 8 787-799 Comparison of da Vinci Single Port vs Si Systems for Transoral Robotic-Assisted Surgery A Review With Technical Insights Oberhelman N, Bruening J, Jackson RS, Van Abel KM, Sumer B, Holsinger FC, Chan JY, Gross ND, Clayburgh DR, Andersen PE, Li RJ JAMA Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery 2024 Feb 150 165-171 Results 1-10 of 127 1 2 3 4 5 Next Last Books Featured Books Clinical Applications of Heme Biosynthetic Pathway: Photodynamic Therapy with Protoporphyrin IX. In Heme Biology: The Secret Life of Heme in Regulating Diverse Biological Processes Ding H, Sumer BD, Gao J (2011). Theranostic Polymeric Micelles for Cancer Imaging and Therapy,. In Multifunctional Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery Applications Huang G, Khemtong C, Bey EA, Boothman DA, Sumer BD, Gao J. (257-276 (2012).). Svenson S, Prod?homme R.K. Springer Science & Business Media, Inc Vestibular Physiology Goebel JA, Sumer BD (2006). New York, Theme Publishers Oral Cavity Cancer. In Decision-Making in Plastic Surgery Sumer BD, Myers LL (2010). Quality Medical Publishing Neck Dissection and Parotidectomy for Melanoma Brian Gastman, Rebecca Knackstedt, Ryan P. Goepfert, Baran Sumer, Ashok Shaha, Michael E. Kupferman Pages 689-704. In Cutaneous Melanoma Brian Gastman, Rebecca Knackstedt, Ryan P. Goepfert, Baran Sumer, Ashok Shaha, Michael E. Kupferman (2020). Springer https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-030-05070-2 Honors & Awards American Academy of OtolaryngologyNeel Distinguished Research Lecturer (2019) D-Magazine Best Doctors (2015) Winner Lloyd Storrs Resident Award (Mentor)Teaching (2015) Alan MacDiarmid Interdisciplinary Research- Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (2014) Triological Society Francis LedererFUSION Grant for Nanotechnology Research (2011) American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck SurgeryResearch Award (2008) Texas Instruments Corporate AwardResearch Grant (2008) University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Clinical SciencesResearch Grant (2008) Professional Associations/Affiliations American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery American Association for Cancer Research American Board of Otolaryngology (ABO) (2007) American College of Surgeons American Head and Neck Society (2007) American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) (2011) Dallas County Medical Society (DCMS) (2007) Fellow Triological Society (2018) Harold C. Simmons NCI Designated Cancer Center (2007) National Institutes of Health (NIH) (2020) Texas Association of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (TAO) (2007) Texas Medical Association
