Adjunct Professor of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas Texas; Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houst
General Surgery
Dr. Charles M. Balch, MD
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Charles Balch works in the field of General Surgery. He attended University of Alabama Medical Center. University of Alabama Medical Center is ranked 37/17 in Research/PrimaryCare. He received 19 awards: "Honorary member", "Lifetime Achievement Award", "Highest Alumni Award", "Honorary PhD Doctorate", "Clinical Research Award", "Surgery Graduation Address", "Honorary Fellow", "Fellow (FASCO)", "Special Recognition Award", "Statesman Award", "Heritage Award", "William Rudder Traveling Fellow", "Surgical Oncology Award", "Award for Scientific Excellence", "Elected Member", "Eleanor Roosevelt Fellowship", "American Cancer Society Professorship", "Fellow (FACS)" and "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare". Charles Balch is also published. He has 70 publications published. The lastest publication: "Excision Margins of Melanoma Make a Difference: New Data Support an Old Paradigm.' He accepts Medicare payments and is registered with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- Excision Margins of Melanoma Make a Difference: New Data Support an Old Paradigm.
- The training and certification of surgical oncologists globally.
- Durable benefit and the potential for long-term survival with immunotherapy in advanced melanoma.
- Annals of Surgical Oncology: The First 20 Years.
- In Memoriam: Donald L. Morton, MD (1934-2014): An Icon in Surgical Oncology : Past President, Society of Surgical Oncology (1992-1993) and Associate Editor, Annals of ...
- Clinical value of the sentinel-node biopsy in primary cutaneous melanoma.
- Age as a Predictor of Sentinel Node Metastasis among Patients with Localized Melanoma: An Inverse Correlation of Melanoma Mortality and Incidence of Sentinel Node Meta...
- Balancing benefits and risks of melanoma treatment: what do we tell our patients?
- Age as a prognostic factor in patients with localized melanoma and regional metastases.
- Sentinel lymph node biopsy for melanoma: American Society of Clinical Oncology and Society of Surgical Oncology joint clinical practice guideline.
- Prevalence of alcohol use disorders among American surgeons.
- Comanaging an organ transplantation and melanoma.
- Substance abuse among surgeons: the perils of losing your credentials.
- Distress and career satisfaction among 14 surgical specialties, comparing academic and private practice settings.
- Personal Consequences of Malpractice Lawsuits on American Surgeons.
- Donald L. Morton, MD … a living legend in surgical oncology.
- Update on the melanoma staging system: The importance of sentinel node staging and primary tumor mitotic rate.
- Melanoma in the Older Patient: Measuring Frailty as an Index of Survival.
- Combating stress and burnout in surgical practice: a review.
- A new American Joint Committee on Cancer staging system for cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma: Creation and rationale for inclusion of tumor (T) characteristics.
- Mayo clinic consensus recommendations for the depth of excision in primary cutaneous melanoma.
- Dynamic tension between success in a surgical career and personal wellness: how can we succeed in a stressful environment and a "culture of bravado"?
- Prognostic Significance of Mitotic Rate in Localized Primary Cutaneous Melanoma: An Analysis of Patients in the Multi-Institutional American Joint Committee on Cancer ...
- Burnout among surgeons: whether specialty makes a difference.
- Relationship between work-home conflicts and burnout among American surgeons: a comparison by sex.
- Reexamining our routines of handing surgical tissue in the operating room.
- Special report: suicidal ideation among American surgeons.
- Surgeon distress as calibrated by hours worked and nights on call.
- Physicians married or partnered to physicians: a comparative study in the American College of Surgeons.
- Implications of the 2009 American Joint Committee on Cancer Melanoma Staging and Classification on dermatologists and their patients.
- Burnout and medical errors among American surgeons.
- Multivariate analysis of prognostic factors among 2,313 patients with stage III melanoma: comparison of nodal micrometastases versus macrometastases.
- Final version of 2009 AJCC melanoma staging and classification.
- Predicting the risk of axillary nodal metastases and their use in selecting breast surgery options.
- National assessment of melanoma care using formally developed quality indicators.
- Mastectomies on the rise for breast cancer: "the tide is changing".
- Burnout and career satisfaction among American surgeons.
- Sentinel node biopsy and standard of care for melanoma.
- Microscopic satellites around a primary melanoma: another piece of the puzzle in melanoma staging.
- Health care system and socioeconomic factors associated with variance in use of sentinel lymph node biopsy for melanoma in the United States.
- Stress and burnout among surgeons: understanding and managing the syndrome and avoiding the adverse consequences.
- ACS Practice Patterns Survey, Part III: Use of surgical instruments and devices among surgical specialties.
- Nipple-sparing mastectomy: critical assessment of 51 procedures and implications for selection criteria.
- ACS Practice Patterns Survey, part II: prescribing habits among surgical specialties.
- Road map for maintaining career satisfaction and balance in surgical oncology.
- Complete lymph node dissection for sentinel node-positive melanoma: assessment of practice patterns in the United States.
- Contemporary surgeons bring technical and cognitive skills to patient care: a patterns of care survey.
- The superficial margin of the skin-sparing mastectomy for breast carcinoma: factors predicting involvement and efficacy of additional margin sampling.
- Sorting through the heterogeneity of recurrent melanoma.
- Predicting outcomes in metastatic melanoma.
- Stress and burnout among surgical oncologists: a call for personal wellness and a supportive workplace environment.
- Prescribing patterns of surgical oncologists: are we surgeons, oncologists, or both? Results of a society of surgical oncology survey.
- Can completion lymph node dissection be avoided for a positive sentinel node in melanoma?
- Lymph node biopsy results for desmoplastic malignant melanoma.
- Melanoma in children and teenagers: an analysis of patients from the National Cancer Data Base.
- Method of biopsy and incidence of positive margins in primary melanoma.
- An integrated tree-based classification approach to prognostic grouping with application to localized melanoma patients.
- Arnoldus Goudsmit, MD, PhD: chemotherapist, visionary, founder of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 1909-2005.
- Randomized clinical trials in surgery: why do we need them?
- Screening for cutaneous melanoma.
- Pediatric melanoma.
- Nomograms and staging in melanoma: new tools for better predicting outcomes.
- Melanoma in children: heightened awareness of an uncommon but often curable malignancy.
- An evidence-based staging system for cutaneous melanoma.
- Annals of surgical oncology impact factor/rating has dramatically increased.
- New TNM melanoma staging system: linking biology and natural history to clinical outcomes.
- Scientific data from clinical trials: investigators' responsibilities and rights.
- Consensus statement on scientific data from clinical trials and investigators' responsibilities and rights.
- Scientific data from clinical trials: investigators responsibilities and rights.
Schools
Columbia University College of Physicians And Surgeons
Duke University Med Center
University Ala
Scripps Clin Rsch Fdn
Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Honorary member
- Lifetime Achievement Award
- Highest Alumni Award
- Honorary PhD Doctorate
- Clinical Research Award
- Surgery Graduation Address
- Honorary Fellow
- Fellow (FASCO)
- Special Recognition Award
- Statesman Award
- Heritage Award
- William Rudder Traveling Fellow
- Surgical Oncology Award
- Award for Scientific Excellence
- Elected Member
- Eleanor Roosevelt Fellowship
- American Cancer Society Professorship
- Fellow (FACS)
- Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare
Education
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University of Alabama Medical Center -
Duke University Hospital -
Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1376586867 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | BALCH | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | CHARLES | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 283037245 | |
| NPPES Provider State | NC | |
| Specialty Description | Optometry | |
| Total Claim Count | 63.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1376586867 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | BALCH |
| First Name Of The Provider | CHARLES |
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