Baran Sumer, M.D.

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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/

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

• Cancer Imaging
• Cancer Immunology
• Cancer Metabolism
• Image Guided Surgery
• Molecular Imaging
• Optical Imaging
• Precision Surgery

Long-term Patient-Reported Outcomes in a Population-Based Cohort Following Radiotherapy vs Surgery for Oropharyngeal Cancer

Dohopolski MJ, Diao K, Hutcheson KA, Akhave NS, Goepfert RP, He W, Lei XJ, Peterson SK, Shen Y, Sumer BD, Smith BD, Sher DJ JAMA Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery 2023 Aug 149 697-707

Intraoperative molecular imaging: 3rd biennial clinical trials update

Bou-Samra P, Muhammad N, Chang A, Karsalia R, Azari F, Kennedy G, Stummer W, Tanyi J, Martin L, Vahrmeijer A, Smith B, Rosenthal E, Wagner P, Rice D, Lee A, Abdelhafeez A, Malek MM, Kohanbash G, Barry Edwards W, Henderson E, Skjøth-Rasmussen J, Orosco R, Gibbs S, Farnam RW, Shankar L, Sumer B, Kumar AT, Marcu L, Li L, Greuv V, Delikatny EJ, Lee JY, Singhal S Journal of biomedical optics 2023 May 28

Patient-Reported Financial Toxicity in a Population-Based Cohort of Oropharynx Cancer Survivors

Diao K, Lei X, Smith GL, Jagsi R, Peterson SE, Sumer BD, Smith BD, Sher DJ International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics 2023 May 116 142-153

Adherence to the American Cancer Society Head and Neck Cancer Survivorship Care Guideline According to Chart Review: A Nested Retrospective Cohort Pilot Study

Salley JR, Day AT, Balachandra S, Mehr J, Sumer BD, Sher DJ, Mayfield Arnold E, Danphuong Ho E, Lee SC, Eary R Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology 2023 May 132 481-491

HYPORT: Phase 1 Study of 3-Week Hypofractionated Postoperative Radiation Therapy for Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Moon D, Avkshtol V, Vo D, Ahn C, Sumer BD, Day A, Tillman BN, Myers L, Truelson J, Sher DJ International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics 2023

Polarized hyperspectral microscopic imaging for collagen visualization on pathologic slides of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

Zhou X, Mubarak HK, Ma L, Palsgrove D, Sumer BD, Fei B 2023

Lactate increases stemness of CD8 + T cells to augment anti-tumor immunity

Feng Q, Liu Z, Yu X, Huang T, Chen J, Wang J, Wilhelm J, Li S, Song J, Li W, Sun Z, Sumer BD, Li B, Fu YX, Gao J Nature communications 2022 Dec 13

Smoking and other patient factors in HPV-mediated oropharynx cancer: A retrospective cohort study

Schostag K, Lynch PT, Leavitt T, Sumer BD, Yang A, Shah A, Emmet TR, Sher DJ, Day A American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery 2022 Sep 43

Intratumoral administration of STING-activating nanovaccine enhances T cell immunotherapy

Jiang X, Wang J, Zheng X, Liu Z, Zhang X, Li Y, Wilhelm J, Cao J, Huang G, Zhang J, Sumer B, Lea J, Lu Z, Gao J, Luo M Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 2022 May 10

Erratum: Automatic detection of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma on histologic slides using hyperspectral microscopic imaging (J. Biomed. Opt. (2022) 27:4 (046501) DOI: 10.1117/1.JBO.27.4.046501)

Ma L, Little JV, Chen AY, Myers L, Sumer BD, Fei B Journal of biomedical optics 2022 May 27

 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

• American Academy of Otolaryngology
  Neel 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 Lederer
  FUSION Grant for Nanotechnology Research (2011)
• American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
  Research Award (2008)
• Texas Instruments Corporate Award
  Research Grant (2008)
• University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Clinical Sciences
  Research Grant (2008)

• 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