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Location

Texas Medical Center
Specialty Care

Specialty
General Surgery, Pediatric Surgery
Phone: 832-822-2778
Fax: 832-825-3141
Email

savasude@texaschildrens.org

Address

Texas Children's Hospital
6701 Fannin St., 8th Floor
Houston, TX 77030

Sanjeev A. Vasudevan, MD

Attending Surgeon, Pediatric Surgery Service
Co-Director, Liver Tumor Program
Associate Professor, Surgery and Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine

Education

School Education Degree Year
Baylor College of Medicine Fellowship Pediatric Surgery 2011
Baylor College of Medicine Residency General Surgery 2009
Emory University School of Medicine Medical School Doctor of Medicine 2001

About

Dr. Vasudevan is a pediatric surgeon who specializes in pediatric surgical oncology. In addition to performing general neonatal and pediatric surgery, he is a member of the Surgical Oncology Program at Texas Children's Hospital and is actively involved with taking care of patients with hepatoblastoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, embryonal sarcoma of the liver, benign tumors of the liver (mesenchymal hamartoma, hemangiomas, FNH, cysts), neuroblastoma, renal tumors (Wilms tumor, clear cell sarcoma, renal cell carcinoma), sarcomas (rhabdomyosarcoma, nonrhabdo-soft tissue sarcoma, malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors, synovial cell sarcoma), and rare gastrointestinal (colon, rectal, pancreatic, bile duct cancers) and thoracic (pleuropulmonary-blastoma, sarcomas of the lung, endobronchial carcinoid, germ cell tumors, thymus) cancers. Dr. Vasudevan specializes in complex hepatobiliary surgery, in particular, extreme liver resections for cancer (trisegmentectomy, multifocal disease, etc.), complex “high-risk” neuroblastoma resections of the chest and abdomen, and complex chest wall, thoracic/abdominal, and extremity sarcoma resections.

Dr. Vasudevan has organized the first ever Surgical Oncology Program at Texas Children’s Hospital which brings together the brightest and most gifted surgical oncologists in all subspecialities of surgery with the one common goal of giving children with cancer the BEST multi-disciplinary surgical oncologic care possible. Dr. Vasudevan is the surgical lead of the Liver Tumor Program at Texas Children's Hospital and is actively involved in the liver cancer committee of the Children’s Oncology Group (COG). He was instrumental in helping to organize and write the newest international pediatric liver tumor trial (PHITT trial, AHEP1531) due to open in the spring of 2018. Dr. Vasudevan serves as the surgical vice-chair for the PHITT trial.

Dr. Vasudevan’s clinical program in Surgical Oncology has motivated his research effort. He serves as the director of the Pediatric Surgical Oncology Laboratory which focuses on “personalized medicine” techniques to find novel therapies to treat “high-risk” hepatoblastoma and neuroblastoma (see Research Statement for details).

Dr. Vasudevan is certified by the American Board of Surgery in General Surgery and in Pediatric Surgery.

Board Certifications
American Board of Pediatrics
American Board of Surgery - General Surgery
American Board of Surgery - Pediatric Surgery

Organizations

Organization Name Role
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Associate Member
American College of Surgeons Resident and Associate Society Member
Phi Beta Kappa Member

Research Statement

Dr. Vasudevan is the director of the Pediatric Surgical Oncology Laboratory that focuses on finding targeted therapies for pediatric solid tumors, in particular, hepatoblastoma, hepatocellular carcinoma and neuroblastoma. Dr. Vasudevan’s lab is currently focusing on the mechanisms behind vascular invasion and metastasis in heptoblastoma and has received grant funding from the Macy Easom Cancer Research Foundation for this work.

He is actively involved with collecting patient tumor tissues for cell line and patient-derived xenograft development in order to develop a pipeline for “personalized medicine”. The primary goal of the Pediatric Surgical Oncology Laboratory is to validate multiple targets in order to find novel and less toxic, therapeutic agents to improve outcomes for children with solid tumors. Dr. Vasudevan’s lab also focuses on developing new intraoperative imaging techniques to make surgical oncology procedures safer and more effective.

Awards & Honors

Norton Rose Fulbright Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching & Evaluation, Baylor College of Medicine
2020 Top Doctor: Pediatric Surgery, Houstonia Magazine

Language

English

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