Andrew Serghios Barbas | Scholars@Duke

Andrew Serghios Barbas
Assistant Professor of Surgery

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Assistant Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Abdominal Transplant Surgery, Surgery 2016

Contact Information

DUMC Box 3512, Durham, NC 27710
DUMC Box 3512, Durham, NC 27710
andrew.barbas@duke.edu (919) 668-3424

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Abdominal Transplant and HPB Surgery Fellow, Surgery, University of Toronto (Canada) 2014 - 2016
- General Surgery Resident, Surgery, Duke University 2007 - 2014
- M.D., Duke University School of Medicine 2007
- B.S.E., Duke University 2003
Recognition
In the News
- APR 4, 2018 Duke Med School Blog
  
  Five SoM Physician-Scientists Selected to Receive Strong Start Awards
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Book Sections
  - Barbas, AS, and White, RR. "Primary hepatic malignancies." In Contemporary Surgical Management of Liver, Biliary Tract, and Pancreatic Disease, 77-90. January 1, 2013. Full Text
- Journal Articles
  - Eppensteiner, J, Davis, RP, Barbas, AS, Kwun, J, and Lee, J. "Immunothrombotic Activity of Damage-Associated Molecular Patterns and Extracellular Vesicles in Secondary Organ Failure Induced by Trauma and Sterile Insults." Frontiers in immunology 9 (January 2018): 190-. (Review) Full Text
  - Aravinthan, AD, Barbas, AS, Doyle, AC, Tazari, M, Sapisochin, G, Cattral, MS, Ghanekar, A, McGilvray, ID, Selzner, M, Greig, PD, Bhat, M, Selzner, N, Grant, DR, Lilly, LB, and Renner, EL. "Characteristics of liver transplant candidates delisted following recompensation and predictors of such delisting in alcohol-related liver disease: a case-control study." Transplant International 30, no. 11 (November 2017): 1140-1149. Full Text
  - Beinart, D, Finn, SMB, Scheuermann, U, Holzknecht, ZE, Barbas, AS, Parker, W, and Lin, SS. "Murine model of oropharyngeal gastric fluid aspiration-A new assessment method for intrapulmonary liquid distribution using digital pixel calculation." Experimental lung research 43, no. 9-10 (November 2017): 434-438. Full Text
  - Ezekian, B, Mulvihill, MS, Freischlag, K, Yerokun, BA, Davis, RP, Hartwig, MG, Knechtle, SJ, and Barbas, AS. "Elevated HbA1c in donor organs from patients without a diagnosis of diabetes portends worse liver allograft survival." Clinical transplantation 31, no. 9 (September 2017). Full Text
  - Barbas, AS, Dib, MJ, Rege, AS, Vikraman, DS, Sudan, DL, Knechtle, SJ, and Scarborough, JE. "The Volume-outcome Relationship in Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation and Implications for Regionalization." Annals of surgery (July 22, 2017). Full Text
  - Barbas, A, Dib, M, Al-Adra, D, Goldaracena, N, Sapisochin, G, Waddell, T, Keshavjee, S, Selzner, N, Chaparro, C, and Cattral, M. "Combined lung-liver-pancreas transplantation in a recipient with cystic fibrosis." Journal of Cystic Fibrosis (May 2017). Full Text
  - Barbas, AS, Elmi, M, Fischer, S, and Sapisochin, G. "Painful Groin Mass in a Liver Transplant Recipient." American Journal of Transplantation 17, no. 2 (February 2017): 573-575. Full Text
  - Sapisochin, G, Goldaracena, N, Laurence, JM, Dib, M, Barbas, A, Ghanekar, A, Cleary, SP, Lilly, L, Cattral, MS, Marquez, M, Selzner, M, Renner, E, Selzner, N, McGilvray, ID, Greig, PD, and Grant, DR. "The extended Toronto criteria for liver transplantation in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma: A prospective validation study." Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 64, no. 6 (December 2016): 2077-2088. Full Text
  - Barbas, AS, and Knechtle, SJ. "Expanding the Donor Pool With Normothermic Ex Vivo Liver Perfusion: The Future Is Now." American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 16, no. 11 (November 2016): 3075-3076. Full Text
  - Goldaracena, N, Echeverri, J, Spetzler, VN, Kaths, JM, Barbas, AS, Louis, KS, Adeyi, OA, Grant, DR, Selzner, N, and Selzner, M. "Anti-inflammatory signaling during ex vivo liver perfusion improves the preservation of pig liver grafts before transplantation." Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 22, no. 11 (November 2016): 1573-1583. Full Text
  - Barbas, AS, Li, Y, Zair, M, Van, JA, Famure, O, Dib, MJ, Laurence, JM, Kim, SJ, and Ghanekar, A. "CT volumetry is superior to nuclear renography for prediction of residual kidney function in living donors." Clinical transplantation 30, no. 9 (September 2016): 1028-1035. Full Text
  - Barbas, AS, Goldaracena, N, Dib, MJ, and Selzner, M. "Ex-vivo liver perfusion for organ preservation: Recent advances in the field." Transplantation reviews (Orlando, Fla.) 30, no. 3 (July 2016): 154-160. (Review) Full Text
  - Goldaracena, N, Barbas, AS, and Selzner, M. "Normothermic and subnormothermic ex-vivo liver perfusion in liver transplantation." Current opinion in organ transplantation 21, no. 3 (June 2016): 315-321. (Review) Full Text
  - Laurence, JM, Barbas, AS, Sapisochin, G, Marquez, MA, Bazerbachi, F, Selzner, M, Norgate, A, McGilvray, ID, Schiff, J, Ross, H, and Cattral, MS. "The significance of pre-operative coronary interventions on outcome after pancreas transplantation." Clinical transplantation 30, no. 3 (March 2016): 233-240. Full Text
  - Kokosis, G, Barbas, AS, Li, G, Tran, TH, Perez, A, Pappas, TN, and Burbridge, RA. "Review of complications associated with endoscopic pancreatic cyst-gastrostomy: a single-institution experience." Surgical laparoscopy, endoscopy & percutaneous techniques 25, no. 3 (June 2015): 245-249. Full Text
  - Li, NY, Tong, L, Barbas, AS, Bhattacharya, SD, Wai, PY, and Kuo, PC. "Renal response following perioperative ketorolac analgesia in living kidney donation." Transplantation 99, no. 3 (March 2015): e22-e23. (Letter) Full Text
  - Lane, WO, Zanotti, G, Barbas, AS, and Rice, HE. "Congenitally absent small bowel mesentery and internal herniation: a rare presentation of bowel obstruction in the adult." The American surgeon 81, no. 2 (February 2015): E48-E49.
  - Barbas, AS, Speicher, PJ, and Clary, BM. "Hepatic and pancreatic resection in patients with end-stage renal disease: a propensity analysis." HPB : The Official Journal of the International Hepato Pancreato Biliary Association 16, no. 11 (November 2014): 1016-1022. Full Text
  - Barbas, AS, Speicher, PJ, and Clary, BM. "Hepatic and pancreatic resection in patients with end-stage renal disease: A propensity analysis." HPB 16, no. 11 (November 1, 2014): 1016-1022. Full Text
  - Speicher, PJ, Barbas, AS, and Mureebe, L. "Open versus endovascular repair of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms." Annals of vascular surgery 28, no. 5 (July 2014): 1249-1257. Full Text
  - Lidsky, ME, Speicher, PJ, Turley, RS, Barbas, AS, and Clary, BM. "Does the presence of coronary artery disease impact perioperative outcomes following partial hepatectomy?." Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract 18, no. 4 (April 2014): 709-718. Full Text
  - Reddi, DM, Barbas, AS, Castleberry, AW, Rege, AS, Vikraman, DS, Brennan, TV, Ravindra, KV, Collins, BH, Sudan, DL, Lagoo, AS, and Martin, AE. "Liver transplantation in an adolescent with acute liver failure from acute lymphoblastic leukemia." Pediatric transplantation 18, no. 2 (March 2014): E57-E63. Full Text
  - Reddi, DM, Barbas, AS, Castleberry, AW, Rege, AS, Vikraman, DS, Brennan, TV, Ravindra, KV, Collins, BH, Sudan, DL, Lagoo, AS, and Martin, AE. "Liver transplantation in an adolescent with acute liver failure from acute lymphoblastic leukemia." Pediatric Transplantation 18, no. 2 (March 1, 2014). Full Text
  - Barbas, AS, Haney, JC, Henry, BV, Heflin, MT, and Lagoo, SA. "Development and implementation of a formalized geriatric surgery curriculum for general surgery residents." Gerontology & geriatrics education 35, no. 4 (January 2014): 380-394. Full Text
  - Barbas, AS, Haney, JC, Henry, BV, Heflin, MT, and Lagoo, SA. "Development and Implementation of a Formalized Geriatric Surgery Curriculum for General Surgery Residents." Gerontology and Geriatrics Education 35, no. 4 (January 1, 2014): 380-394. Full Text
  - Lidsky, ME, Speicher, PJ, Turley, RS, Barbas, AS, and Clary, BM. "Does the Presence of Coronary Artery Disease Impact Perioperative Outcomes Following Partial Hepatectomy?." Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery 18, no. 4 (January 1, 2014): 709-718. Full Text
  - Speicher, PJ, Barbas, AS, and Mureebe, L. "Open versus endovascular repair of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms." Annals of Vascular Surgery 28, no. 5 (January 1, 2014): 1249-1257. Full Text
  - Barbas, AS, Turley, RS, Mallipeddi, MK, Lidsky, ME, Reddy, SK, White, RR, and Clary, BM. "Examining reoperation and readmission after hepatic surgery." J Am Coll Surg 216, no. 5 (May 2013): 915-923. Full Text Link to Item
  - Castleberry, AW, Turley, RS, Hanna, JM, Hopkins, TJ, Barbas, AS, Worni, M, Mantyh, CR, and Migaly, J. "A 10-year longitudinal analysis of surgical management for acute ischemic colitis." Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract 17, no. 4 (April 2013): 784-792. Full Text
  - Barbas, AS, Rege, AS, Castleberry, AW, Gommer, J, Ellis, MJ, Brennan, TV, Collins, BH, Martin, AE, Ravindra, KV, Vikraman, DS, and Sudan, DL. "Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome independently associated with tacrolimus and sirolimus after multivisceral transplantation." American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 13, no. 3 (March 2013): 808-810. Full Text
  - Tracy, ET, Englum, BR, Barbas, AS, Foley, C, Rice, HE, and Shapiro, ML. "Pediatric injury patterns by year of age." Journal of Pediatric Surgery 48, no. 6 (2013): 1384-1388. Full Text
  - Turley, RS, Barbas, AS, Lidsky, ME, Mantyh, CR, Migaly, J, and Scarborough, JE. "Laparoscopic versus open Hartmann procedure for the emergency treatment of diverticulitis: a propensity-matched analysis." Diseases of the colon and rectum 56, no. 1 (January 2013): 72-82. Full Text
  - Barbas, AS, Turley, RS, Mantyh, CR, and Migaly, J. "Effect of surgeon specialization on long-term survival following colon cancer resection at an NCI-designated cancer center." Journal of surgical oncology 106, no. 3 (September 2012): 219-223. Full Text
  - Li, GZ, Turley, RS, Lidsky, ME, Barbas, AS, Reddy, SK, and Clary, BM. "Impact of simultaneous diaphragm resection during hepatectomy for treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer." J Gastrointest Surg 16, no. 8 (August 2012): 1508-1515. Full Text Link to Item
  - Turley, RS, Peng, PD, Reddy, SK, Barbas, AS, Geller, DA, Marsh, JW, Tsung, A, Pawlik, TM, and Clary, BM. "Hepatic resection for metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumors in the tyrosine kinase inhibitor era." Cancer 118, no. 14 (July 15, 2012): 3571-3578. Full Text Link to Item
  - Turley, RS, Peterson, K, Barbas, AS, Ceppa, EP, Paulson, EK, Blazer, DG, Clary, BM, Pappas, TN, Tyler, DS, McCann, RL, and White, RR. "Vascular surgery collaboration during pancreaticoduodenectomy with vascular reconstruction." Ann Vasc Surg 26, no. 5 (July 2012): 685-692. Full Text Link to Item
  - Barbas, AS, Turley, RS, Ceppa, EP, Reddy, SK, Blazer, DG, Clary, BM, Pappas, TN, Tyler, DS, White, RR, and Lagoo, SA. "Comparison of outcomes and the use of multimodality therapy in young and elderly people undergoing surgical resection of pancreatic cancer." J Am Geriatr Soc 60, no. 2 (February 2012): 344-350. Full Text Link to Item
  - Jong, MCD, Marques, H, Clary, BM, Bauer, TW, Marsh, JW, Ribero, D, Majno, P, Hatzaras, I, Walters, DM, Barbas, AS, Mega, R, Schulick, RD, Choti, MA, Geller, DA, Barroso, E, Mentha, G, Capussotti, L, and Pawlik, TM. "The impact of portal vein resection on outcomes for hilar cholangiocarcinoma: A multi-institutional analysis of 305 cases." Cancer 118, no. 19 (2012): 4737-4747. Full Text
  - Barbas, A, Turley, R, Mantyh, C, and Migaly, J. "Advanced fellowship training is associated with improved lymph node retrieval in colon cancer resections." The Journal of surgical research 170, no. 1 (September 2011): e41-e46. Full Text
  - Lunsford, KE, Barbas, AS, and Brennan, TV. "Recent advances in immunosuppressive therapy for prevention of renal allograft rejection." Current opinion in organ transplantation 16, no. 4 (August 2011): 390-397. (Review) Full Text
  - Reddy, SK, Barbas, AS, Turley, RS, Gamblin, TC, Geller, DA, Marsh, JW, Tsung, A, Clary, BM, and Lagoo-Deenadayalan, S. "Major liver resection in elderly patients: a multi-institutional analysis." J Am Coll Surg 212, no. 5 (May 2011): 787-795. Full Text Link to Item
  - Lee, Y-H, Su, K-Y, Wyse, A, Barbas, A, Palestrandt, D, Shieh, K, Everett, ML, Devalapalli, A, Orndorff, PE, Bollinger, RR, and Parker, W. "Incorporation of secretory immunoglobulin A into biofilms can decrease their resistance to ciprofloxacin." Microbiol Immunol 55, no. 3 (March 2011): 174-183. Full Text Link to Item
  - Bush, EL, Barbas, AS, Holzknecht, ZE, Byrne, GW, McGregor, CG, Parker, W, Davis, RD, and Lin, SS. "Coagulopathy in α-galactosyl transferase knockout pulmonary xenotransplants." Xenotransplantation 18, no. 1 (January 2011): 6-13. Full Text Link to Item
  - Reddy, SK, Barbas, AS, Turley, RS, Steel, JL, Tsung, A, Marsh, JW, Geller, DA, and Clary, BM. "A standard definition of major hepatectomy: Resection of four or more liver segments." HPB 13, no. 7 (2011): 494-502. Full Text
  - Reddy, SK, Turley, RS, Barbas, AS, Steel, JL, Tsung, A, Marsh, JW, Clary, BM, and Geller, DA. "Post-Operative Pharmacologic Thromboprophylaxis after Major Hepatectomy." Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery 15, no. 9 (2011): 1602-1610. Full Text
  - Barbas, AS, Mi, J, Clary, BM, and White, RR. "Aptamer applications for targeted cancer therapy." Future Oncol 6, no. 7 (July 2010): 1117-1126. (Review) Full Text Link to Item
  - Barbas, AS, Sweeney, TE, Collins, BH, Kuo, PC, Tuttle-Newhall, JE, Sudan, DL, and Marroquin, CE. "Kidney-pancreas transplantation in the setting of donor ethylene glycol poisoning." Dialysis & Transplantation 39, no. 5 (May 2010): 216-217. Full Text
  - Barbas, AS, Lesher, AP, Thomas, AD, Wyse, A, Devalapalli, AP, Lee, Y-H, Tan, H-E, Orndorff, PE, Bollinger, RR, and Parker, W. "Altering and assessing persistence of genetically modified E. coli MG1655 in the large bowel." Exp Biol Med (Maywood) 234, no. 10 (October 2009): 1174-1185. Full Text Link to Item
  - Reddy, SK, Barbas, AS, and Clary, BM. "Synchronous colorectal liver metastases: is it time to reconsider traditional paradigms of management?." Ann Surg Oncol 16, no. 9 (September 2009): 2395-2410. (Review) Full Text Link to Item
  - Reddy, SK, Zorzi, D, Lum, YW, Barbas, AS, Pawlik, TM, Ribero, D, Abdalla, EK, Choti, MA, Kemp, C, Vauthey, J-N, Morse, MA, White, RR, and Clary, BM. "Timing of multimodality therapy for resectable synchronous colorectal liver metastases: a retrospective multi-institutional analysis." Ann Surg Oncol 16, no. 7 (July 2009): 1809-1819. Full Text Link to Item
  - Barbas, AS, and White, RR. "The development and testing of aptamers for cancer." Current opinion in investigational drugs (London, England : 2000) 10, no. 6 (June 2009): 572-578. (Review)
  - Reddy, SK, Broadwater, G, Niedzwiecki, D, Barbas, AS, Hurwitz, HI, Bendell, JC, Morse, MA, and Clary, BM. "Multiagent chemotherapy for isolated colorectal liver metastases: a single-centered retrospective study." J Gastrointest Surg 13, no. 1 (January 2009): 74-84. Full Text Link to Item
  - Reddy, SK, Barbas, AS, Gan, TJ, Hill, SE, Roche, AM, and Clary, BM. "Hepatic parenchymal transection with vascular staplers: a comparative analysis with the crush-clamp technique." Am J Surg 196, no. 5 (November 2008): 760-767. Full Text Link to Item
  - Barbas, AS, Downing, TE, Balsara, KR, Tan, HE, Rubinstein, GJ, Holzknecht, ZE, Collins, BH, Parker, W, Davis, RD, and Lin, SS. "Chronic aspiration shifts the immune response from Th1 to Th2 in a murine model of asthma." Eur J Clin Invest 38, no. 8 (August 2008): 596-602. Full Text Link to Item
  - Randal Bollinger, R, Barbas, AS, Bush, EL, Lin, SS, and Parker, W. "Biofilms in the large bowel suggest an apparent function of the human vermiform appendix." J Theor Biol 249, no. 4 (December 21, 2007): 826-831. (Review) Full Text Link to Item
  - Reddy, SK, Pawlik, TM, Zorzi, D, Gleisner, AL, Ribero, D, Assumpcao, L, Barbas, AS, Abdalla, EK, Choti, MA, Vauthey, J-N, Ludwig, KA, Mantyh, CR, Morse, MA, and Clary, BM. "Simultaneous resections of colorectal cancer and synchronous liver metastases: a multi-institutional analysis." Ann Surg Oncol 14, no. 12 (December 2007): 3481-3491. Full Text Link to Item
  - Reddy, SK, Barbas, AS, Marroquin, CE, Morse, MA, Kuo, PC, and Clary, BM. "Resection of noncolorectal nonneuroendocrine liver metastases: a comparative analysis." J Am Coll Surg 204, no. 3 (March 2007): 372-382. Full Text Link to Item
  - Kokosis, G, Barbas, A, Ong, C, Levinson, H, Erdmann, D, and Mantyh, CR. "Flap repair of complex pilonidal sinus: a single institution experience (Published online)." European Journal of Plastic Surgery . Full Text
- Other Articles
  - Bollinger, RR, Barbas, AS, Bush, EL, Lin, SS, and Parker, W. "Biofilms in the normal human large bowel: fact rather than fiction." Gut 56, no. 10 (October 2007): 1481-1482. (Letter) Link to Item

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