Todd Baron

Todd Huntley Baron is an American gastroenterologist who teaches at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.[1] He is well known for his prolific publishing in the field of gastroenterology particularly in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) and other advanced endoscopic procedures.[2] His career has been based upon developing novel interventional endoscopic techniques for the care of patients with gastrointestinal, liver and other medical conditions.[3] He was the first to describe endoscopic drainage of the gallbladder, placement of a colonic stent and endoscopic pancreatic necrosectomy.

Todd H. Baron
Baron teaching at Johns Hopkins Hospital advanced endoscopy course in 2017

Early life

Baron was born in Danbury, Connecticut in 1960, but was raised in South Florida from an early age. At the age of nine he entered competitive kart racing where he won numerous Florida State and Regional racing Championships and eventually won two International Kart Federation Grand National Championships.[4]

Medical career

Baron completed both his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. He completed his internal medicine residency, chief residency and gastroenterology fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He completed additional training at Duke University in ERCP before joining the faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he founded the ERCP program. He was recruited to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota where he became the director of pancreaticobiliary endoscopy.[5] In 2014 he joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina as a professor of medicine and director of advanced therapeutic endoscopy.[6]

Achievements
  • First to describe endoscopic drainage of the gallbladder[7]
  • First to describe placement of an expandable metal stent for the treatment of colonic obstruction[8]
  • First to describe endoscopic pancreatic necrosectomy[9]
  • First to describe drainage of a pelvic abscess through the rectum using a flexible endoscope[10]

Honors and awards
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References
  1. "Todd Baron, MD". med.unc.edu. 2017-08-13. Retrieved 2017-08-13.
  2. "Customer Review ERCP, 2nd Edition". amazon.com. 2017-06-07. Retrieved 2017-08-21.
  3. "Gastrointestinal Endoscopy". med.unc.edu. 2017-08-13. Retrieved 2017-08-13.
  4. "IFK Grand National Results". russthompsonracing.com. Retrieved 2017-08-14.
  5. "Mayo Clinic 'Model' at Center of Health Care Debate". abcnews.go.com. Retrieved 2017-08-20.
  6. "Baron named director of advanced therapeutic endoscopy". med.unc.edu. 2017-08-13. Retrieved 2017-08-13.
  7. "Endoscopic transduodenal drainage of the gallbladder: implications for endoluminal treatment of gallbladder disease". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2017-08-21.
  8. "Expandable metal stents for the treatment of colonic obstruction: techniques and outcomes". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2017-08-21.
  9. "Endoscopic therapy for organized pancreatic necrosis". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2017-08-21.
  10. "Endoscopic transrectal drainage of a diverticular abscess". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2017-08-21.
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