Assistant Attending, Thoracic Surgery Service; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Thoracic Surgery

James M. Isbell is an expert in the field of Thoracic Surgery. He went to medical school at University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. He received awards:"Fellow (FACS)", "Center of Excellence Award, University of Virginia Extracorporeal Life Support Program", "Administrative Chief Resident, General Surgery", "Ruth S. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (T32)", "Ho Din Award", "Hudson-Penn Award for Excellence in Surgery", "President, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society" and "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification". James Isbell is a published doctor as well. He has 24 publications published. The latest was: Preoperative Renal Function Predicts Hospital Costs and Length of Stay in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting. He is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.

Publications

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• Preoperative Renal Function Predicts Hospital Costs and Length of Stay in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting.
• Bundled Payments in Cardiac Surgery: Is Risk Adjustment Sufficient to Make It Feasible?
• Impact of hemodynamic monitoring on clinical outcomes.
• AKI Associated with Cardiac Surgery.
• Predictors of early recurrence for node-negative t1 to t2b non-small cell lung cancer.
• Early removal of urinary catheter after surgery requiring thoracic epidural: a prospective trial.
• Multicenter Evaluation of High-Risk Mitral Valve Operations: Implications for Novel Transcatheter Valve Therapies.
• Mitral valve repair rates correlate with surgeon and institutional experience.
• Planned Cardiac Reexploration in the Intensive Care Unit Is a Safe Procedure.
• Understanding Mortality as a Quality Indicator After Esophagectomy.
• Readmission after lung cancer resection is associated with a 6-fold increase in 90-day postoperative mortality.
• Surgical Care Improvement Project measure for postoperative glucose control should not be used as a measure of quality after cardiac surgery.
• Postoperative mortality is an inadequate quality indicator for lung cancer resection.
• Marginal pulmonary function should not preclude lobectomy in selected patients with non-small cell lung cancer.
• Leiomyoma Presenting as a Massive Calcified Circumferential Esophageal Mass.
• Induction Chemoradiotherapy and Surgery for Esophageal Cancer: Survival Benefit With Downstaging.
• Role of the foregut in the early improvement in glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery.
• Existing general population models inaccurately predict lung cancer risk in patients referred for surgical evaluation.
• The importance of caloric restriction in the early improvements in insulin sensitivity after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery.
• Roux-en-Y gastric bypass reverses renal glomerular but not tubular abnormalities in excessively obese diabetics.
• Blunt posterior tracheal laceration and esophageal injury in a child.
• Optimizing outcomes in damage control resuscitation: identifying blood product ratios associated with improved survival.
• Damage control hematology: the impact of a trauma exsanguination protocol on survival and blood product utilization.

Schools

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• U Of Tx Southwestern Med Sch At Dallas

• Vanderbilt University

• University Of Virginia Medical Center

• University of Texas Austin Campus

Procedures Preformed

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• Bronchoscopy
• Decortication and Pleurectomy
• Diaphragmatic-Paraesophageal Hiatal Hernia Repair with Robotic Assistance
• Esophagectomy (Esophagogastrostomy, Esophagojejunostomy)
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Doctors Specialties

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• Cardiac Surgery
• Critical Care Medicine
• Critical Care Surgery
• General Surgery
• Thoracic Surgery

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Fellow (FACS)
• Center of Excellence Award, University of Virginia Extracorporeal Life Support Program
• Administrative Chief Resident, General Surgery
• Ruth S. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (T32)
• Ho Din Award
• Hudson-Penn Award for Excellence in Surgery
• President, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
• CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification

Education

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• University of Virginia
• Vanderbilt University
• University of Texas Southwestern Medical School

Hospital

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• University of Virginia Medical Center

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Medicare Facts

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National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1679620553
Last Name Of The Provider	ISBELL
First Name Of The Provider	JAMES
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