Todd William Bauer, MD
Gastrointestinal Surgical Oncology
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Bio & Overview
Todd W. Bauer, M.D. is a professor of surgery in the division of surgical oncology at University of Virginia. He received his undergraduate degree and M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He then completed his General Surgery residency and a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He then completed a fellowship in Surgical Oncology and a post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Dr. Bauer's clinical focus is in pancreatic and hepatobiliary cancers and soft tissue sarcoma. He leads a laboratory research program in pancreatic cancer. The current focus of his laboratory research is on the interaction between tumor cells and stromal fibroblasts and developing novel approaches to targeting the tumor microenvironment. He has established a primary human xenograft model of pancreatic cancer with genetic and molecular characterization of tumors with the aim of deriving a personalized approach to therapy for pancreatic cancer.
Academic Information
- Department
- Surgery
- Academic Role
- Professor
- Division
- Surgical Oncology / Endocrine Surgery
- Research Interests
- Pancreatic cancer, colorectal cancer, liver metastasis, patient-derived xenograft models
- Gender
- Male
- Languages
- English
- Age Groups Seen
- Adults (21-65)
Older Adults (65+)
- Primary Education
- Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
- Residency
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
- Fellowships
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
- Certification
- American Board of Surgery (Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery)
Highlights
Dr. Todd Bauer profile video
I'm Todd Bauer. I'm a surgical oncologist and my specialty is in treating pancreatic cancers and other disorders of the pancreas as well as liver and biliary cancers and a type of tumor called soft tissue sarcoma. I think what you could expect from me, number one, is complete honesty. I think that developing a rapport with a patient and making sure the patient understands how big of a problem or how little of a problem do they have and what realistically are their chances of having a cure and a good outcome and then knowing that I'm going to treat that patient as if they were my own father or my own family member. You want to be at a place where all of the care members are part of a team and everybody's communicating together and as a team going to take care of you and do their absolute best and I think that's what we pride ourselves on here at UVA. To be able to establish a relationship and a trust with that patient that I'm going to absolutely take the best care of them and make decisions that are going to be in my mind what's going to be best for them and get through a surgery, get them healed up and recovered and then continue to see them back over the years and quite honestly celebrate with them every time we get a CAT scan that shows that things are clear and their tumor hasn't come back. So for me, I can say that those relationships with my patients I absolutely cherish.
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