George P Noon, M.D.
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George P Noon, M.D.
Professor of Surgery
Positions
- Professor of Surgery
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Division of Transplant & Assist Devices
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US
- Meyer-DeBakey Chair in Investigative Surgery
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Surgery
Baylor College of Medicine
Addresses
- Fondren-Brown Building (Office)
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Room: FBRN-A979
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Education
- Advanced Training from Baylor College Of Medicine Affiliate Hospitals
- 01/1965 - Houston, TX United States
- Advanced Training from Baylor College Of Medicine Affiliate Hospitals
- 01/1966 - Houston, TX United States
- Advanced Training from Jefferson Davis Hospital
- 01/1961 - Houston, TX United States
- M.D. from Baylor College Of Medicine
- 01/1960 - Houston, TX United States
- B.S. from University Of Arizona
- 01/1956 - Tucson, AZ United States
Certifications
- Board Certified
- American Board of Surgery
- Board Certified
- American Board of Thoracic Surgery
- Board Certified
- American Board of General Vascular Surgery
Honors & Awards
- Ben and Margaret Love Foundation Bobby Alford Award for Academic Clinical Professionalism
- 2014
- 2010 Houston Distinguished Surgeon Award
- Houston Surgical Society
- 2009 George P. Noon Leading Hearts Award
- The Methodist Hospital
- 2009 Dr. Barney Clark Award
- American Society for Artificial Internal Organs
- 2009 Michael E. DeBakey, M.D. Humanitarian Award
- Open Door Mission Foundation
- 2002 “Torch of Hope” Award
- The American Cancer League
- Space Technology Hall of Fame
- NASA and the United States Space Foundation
Professional Interests
- Organ transplantation
- Cardiac assist devices
Professional Statement
Dr. George P. Noon has focused his surgical career in organ transplantation and cardiac assist devices. In 1968, Dr. Noon, Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, and their surgical team performed their first heart and later lung transplant. The program was discontinued because worldwide results were discouraging. When the immunosuppressant cyclosporine became available in 1986, Drs. Noon and DeBakey restarted the transplant program. It was crucial for the surgical team to provide mechanical ventricular assistance for patients with heart failure. Dr. Noon became the primary surgeon for the insertion of ventricular assist devices. In 1988, Drs. Noon and DeBakey met with engineers from NASA to develop a miniature axial flow blood pump. Ten years later, Dr. Noon participated in the care of President Boris Yeltsin, who needed a coronary bypass operation. In the same year, the first MicroMed DeBakey-Noon human implants were performed in Berlin, Germany. In 1999, Dr. Noon was inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame. Dr. Noon is a member of multiple societies, has been invited as a guest lecturer and surgeon throughout the world, and has authored more than 350 publications. He is internationally known and respected for his pioneering research and clinical expertise in transplantation and assist devices.Websites
VIICTR Research Database
New York Times
Selected Publications
- Orime Y, Takatani S, Shiono M, Sasaki T, Minato N, Ohara Y, Swenson CA, Noon GP, Nosé Y, DeBakey ME "Versatile one-piece total artificial heart for bridge to transplantation or permanent heart replacement.." Artif Organs. 1992 Dec;16(6):607-13. Pubmed PMID: 1482331
- Noon GP, Morley D, Irwin S, Abdelsayed S, Benkowski R, Lynch BE "Turbine blood pumps.." Adv Card Surg. 2001;13:169-91. Pubmed PMID: 11209655
- DeBakey ME, Noon GP, Teitel ER "The rotary blood pump: lessons learned and future directions.." Artif Organs. 2004 Oct;28(10):865-8. Pubmed PMID: 15384990
- Ghodsizad A, Loebe M, Piechaczek C, Bordel V, Ungerer MN, Gregoric I, Bruckner B, Noon GP, Karck M, Ruhparwar A "Surgical therapy of end-stage heart failure: Understanding cell-mediated mechanisms interacting with myocardial damage.." Int J Artif Organs. 2011 Jul;34(7):529-45. Pubmed PMID: 21786252
- Lefrak EA, Noon GP "Surgical technique for creation of an arteriovenous fistula using a looped bovine graft.." Ann. Surg.. 1975 Dec;182(6):782-5. Pubmed PMID: 1190883
- Potapov EV, Loebe M, Nasseri BA, Sinawski H, Koster A, Kuppe H, Noon GP, DeBakey ME, Hetzer R "Pulsatile flow in patients with a novel nonpulsatile implantable ventricular assist device.." Circulation. 2000 Nov 7;102(19):III183-7. Pubmed PMID: 11082384
- Morales DL, Dibardino DJ, McKenzie ED, Heinle JS, Chang AC, Loebe M, Noon GP, DeBakey ME, Fraser CD "Lessons learned from the first application of the DeBakey VAD Child: an intracorporeal ventricular assist device for children.." J. Heart Lung Transplant.. 2005 Mar;24(3):331-7. Pubmed PMID: 15737761
- Verani MS, Sekela ME, Mahmarian JJ, Cocanougher B, DeBakey ME, Noon GP "Left ventricular function in patients with centrifugal left ventricular assist device.." ASAIO Trans.;35(3):544-7. Pubmed PMID: 2597529
- Joyce DL, Southard RE, Torre-Amione G, Noon GP, Land GA, Loebe M "Impact of left ventricular assist device (LVAD)-mediated humoral sensitization on post-transplant outcomes.." J. Heart Lung Transplant.. 2005 Dec;24(12):2054-9. Pubmed PMID: 16364849
- Sasaki T, Takatani S, Shiono M, Sakuma I, Glueck J, Noon GP, Nosé Y, DeBakey ME "Development of totally implantable electromechanical artificial heart systems: Baylor ventricular assist system.." Artif Organs. 1992 Aug;16(4):407-13. Pubmed PMID: 10078283
Memberships
- American College of Surgeons
- Fellow
- American College of Cardiology
- Fellow
- American College of Chest Physicians
- Vice Pres. 1971 - 1972
- Michael E. DeBakey International Surgical Society
- President, 2001
- American Medical Association
- Association for Academic Surgery
- Harris County Medical Society
- Houston Academy of Medicine
- Houston Heart Association
- Houston Surgical Society
- The American Association for Vascular Surgery
- Society of Thoracic Surgeons
- Southwestern Surgical Congress
- Texas Medical Association
- Texas Transplantation Society
- American Society for Artificial Organs
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