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Dan German Blazer III, MD

Chief, Section of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery
Associate Professor of Surgery
Division: 
Surgical Oncology
Section: 
Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery
Program: 
Complex General Surgical Oncology Fellowship
Duke Surgical Technique and Review (STAR) Course
General Surgery Residency Program
Hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) Fellowship
Office: 485 Seeley G.Mudd Bldg., Searle Center, Durham, NC 27710
Campus Mail: DUMC Box 3247 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710

Education and Training

  • M.D., Duke University, 1999

In the News

Selected Grants

Publications

Ong, C. T., D. P. Nussbaum, Z. Sun, D. Blazer, and M. Worni. “Lymph Node Yield Between Open and Laparoscopic Portal Lymphadenectomy.” In Annals of Surgical Oncology, 23:S112–13. SPRINGER, 2016.

Scholars@Duke

Nussbaum, D. P., C. N. Rushing, W. O. Lane, D. M. Cardona, D. G. Kirsch, B. L. Peterson, and D. Blazer. “Radiation Therapy is Associated with Improved Survival for Retroperitoneal Sarcoma: A Contemporary Analysis of 9,068 Patients.” In Annals of Surgical Oncology, 23:S38–39. SPRINGER, 2016.

Scholars@Duke

Whitley, Melodi Javid, Diana M. Cardona, Alexander L. Lazarides, Ivan Spasojevic, Jorge M. Ferrer, Joan Cahill, Chang-Lung Lee, et al. “A mouse-human phase 1 co-clinical trial of a protease-activated fluorescent probe for imaging cancer.” Sci Transl Med 8, no. 320 (January 6, 2016): 320ra4. https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.aad0293.

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Sun, Zhifei, Mithun M. Shenoi, Daniel P. Nussbaum, Jeffrey E. Keenan, Brian C. Gulack, Douglas S. Tyler, Paul J. Speicher, and Dan G. Blazer. “Feeding jejunostomy tube placement during resection of gastric cancers.” J Surg Res 200, no. 1 (January 2016): 189–94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2015.07.014.

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Adam, Mohamed Abdelgadir, Kingshuk Choudhury, Paolo Goffredo, Shelby D. Reed, Dan Blazer, Sanziana A. Roman, and Julie A. Sosa. “Minimally Invasive Distal Pancreatectomy for Cancer: Short-Term Oncologic Outcomes in 1,733 Patients.” World J Surg 39, no. 10 (October 2015): 2564–72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-015-3138-x.

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Leung, Kenneth, Zhifei Sun, Daniel P. Nussbaum, Mohamed Adam, Mathias Worni, and Dan G. Blazer. “Minimally Invasive Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer: A National Perspective on Oncologic Outcomes and Overall Survival.” In Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 221:S142–43. Elsevier BV, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2015.07.340.

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Lane, Whitney O., Christina K. Cramer, Daniel P. Nussbaum, Paul J. Speicher, Brian C. Gulack, Brian G. Czito, David G. Kirsch, Douglas S. Tyler, and Dan G. Blazer. “Analysis of perioperative radiation therapy in the surgical treatment of primary and recurrent retroperitoneal sarcoma.” J Surg Oncol 112, no. 4 (September 2015): 352–58. https://doi.org/10.1002/jso.23996.

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Hou, Chun-Han, Alexander L. Lazarides, Paul J. Speicher, Daniel P. Nussbaum, Daniel G. Blazer, David G. Kirsch, Brian E. Brigman, and William C. Eward. “The use of radiation therapy in localized high-grade soft tissue sarcoma and potential impact on survival.” Ann Surg Oncol 22, no. 9 (September 2015): 2831–38. https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-015-4639-4.

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Whitley, Melodi J., Diana M. Cardona, Dan G. Blazer, Shelley Hwang, Rachel A. Greenup, Paul J. Mosca, Joan Cahill, et al. “Abstract SY36-03: Intraoperative molecular imaging with protease-activated fluorescent imaging agents.” In Molecular and Cellular Biology. American Association for Cancer Research, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1158/1538-7445.am2015-sy36-03.

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Adam, Mohamed Abdelgadir, Kingshuk Choudhury, Michaela A. Dinan, Shelby D. Reed, Randall P. Scheri, Dan G. Blazer, Sanziana A. Roman, and Julie A. Sosa. “Minimally Invasive Versus Open Pancreaticoduodenectomy for Cancer: Practice Patterns and Short-term Outcomes Among 7061 Patients.” Ann Surg 262, no. 2 (August 2015): 372–77. https://doi.org/10.1097/SLA.0000000000001055.

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