
Douglas B. Evans, MD, FACS
Donald C. Ausman Family Foundation Professor of Surgery; Professor, Surgical Oncology; Chair, Department of Surgery
Locations
- Froedtert Hospital
- Froedtert Menomonee Falls Hospital
- Froedtert West Bend Hospital
- Children's Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- Cancer Center - Froedtert Hospital
Specialties
- Endocrine Surgery
- Surgical Oncology
- Pancreatic Cancer
Languages
- English
Contact Information
Education
- MD - Doctor of Medicine
- FACS - Fellow in the American College of Surgeons
Biography
Douglas B. Evans, MD is the Donald C. Ausman Family Foundation Professor of Surgery and Chair of the Department of Surgery at The Medical College of Wisconsin. Prior to joining the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2009, he was the Hamill Foundation Distinguished Professor of Surgery at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Evans completed a general surgery residency at Dartmouth followed by a surgical oncology fellowship at the University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center. He received his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine and his Bachelor of Science from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. He is board-certified in surgery, and his clinical interests include treatment of pancreatic cancer and tumors of the endocrine system (thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal and gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumors). Dr. Evans holds appointments at Froedtert Hospital, the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center, Children’s Wisconsin and St. Francis Hospital.
Research Interests
Dr. Evans has devoted his professional career to the research and treatment of pancreatic cancer and inherited endocrine syndromes. His interests include translational laboratory research in the biology of pancreatic cancer and in clinical trial development. He has completed a number of investigator-initiated clinical trials, emphasized the importance of treatment sequencing to include a variety of strategies for neoadjuvant therapy and described a number of novel techniques for vascular resection and reconstruction at the time of pancreatectomy. Research support has included a National Cancer Institute Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (NIH P20 SPORE) pancreatic cancer grant. At M. D. Anderson, his endocrine surgery group worked extensively on the genotype-phenotype correlations in multiple endocrine neoplasia syndromes and they were the first to define the role for ultrasound in the preoperative management of patients with thyroid cancer. Dr. Evans has authored or co-authored over 400 journal articles, over 90 book chapters and has edited eight books. He has delivered countless invited and named lectureships nationally and internationally including the American College of Surgeons Traveling Fellowship to Australia and New Zealand in 1999. He served as President of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons in 2010-2011.
Since joining MCW, Dr. Evans has grown the faculty across all clinical divisions in the department, emphasized the importance of innovation and discovery and championed the principles of inclusion and diversity. The MCW surgical residency program has led the way in supporting the careers of young women in general and subspecialty surgery. The MCW Program in Pancreatic Cancer was recently endowed by the LaBahn family and is one of very few endowed Pancreatic Cancer Research Programs in this country.
Publications
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Total Neoadjuvant Therapy for Operable Pancreatic Cancer.
(Kim RY, Christians KK, Aldakkak M, Clarke CN, George B, Kamgar M, Khan AH, Kulkarni N, Hall WA, Erickson BA, Evans DB, Tsai S.) Ann Surg Oncol. 2021 Apr;28(4):2246-2256 PMID: 33000372 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85091728559 10/02/2020
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of universal germline testing for patients with pancreatic cancer.
(Krepline AN, Geurts JL, George B, Kamgar M, Madhavan S, Erickson BA, Hall WA, Griffin MO, Evans DB, Tsai S, Kim RY.) Surgery. 2021 03;169(3):629-635 PMID: 32826069 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85089521842 08/23/2020
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(Mora J, Krepline AN, Aldakkak M, Christians KK, George B, Hall WA, Erickson BA, Kulkarni N, Evans DB, Tsai S.) Am J Surg. 2020 Dec 03 PMID: 33308823 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85097458297 12/15/2020
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Perioperative Management and Outcomes of Hyperthyroid Patients Unable to Tolerate Antithyroid Drugs.
(Hsieh LB, Yen TWF, Dream S, Patel D, Evans DB, Wang TS.) World J Surg. 2020 Nov;44(11):3770-3777 PMID: 32572525 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85086709261 06/24/2020
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(Evans DB.) Ann Surg. 2020 09 01;272(3):487 PMID: 32657915 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85099375677 07/14/2020
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(Barnes CA, Aldakkak M, Christians KK, Clarke CN, Dua K, George B, Ritch PS, Kamgar M, Hall WA, Kulkarni N, Erickson BA, Evans DB, Tsai S.) Surgery. 2020 09;168(3):440-447 PMID: 32641278 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85087345792 07/10/2020
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Commentary: Surgery for locally advanced pancreatic cancer after neoadjuvant therapy.
(Evans DB.) Surgery. 2020 Aug 28 PMID: 32868112 09/02/2020
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(Kim RY, Evans DB, Christians KK.) Hepatobiliary Surg Nutr. 2020 Aug;9(4):497-500 PMID: 32832502 PMCID: PMC7423551 08/25/2020
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(Taskin OC, Clarke CN, Erkan M, Tsai S, Evans DB, Adsay V.) J Gastrointest Oncol. 2020 Jun;11(3):548-558 PMID: 32655934 PMCID: PMC7340800 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85090285071 07/14/2020
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Treatment sequencing for pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors: daring to challenge the status quo.
(Clarke CN, Evans DB.) J Gastrointest Oncol. 2020 Jun;11(3):545-547 PMID: 32655933 PMCID: PMC7340804 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85090280297 07/14/2020
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(Kandimalla R, Shimura T, Mallik S, Sonohara F, Tsai S, Evans DB, Kim SC, Baba H, Kodera Y, Von Hoff D, Chen X, Goel A.) Ann Surg. 2020 May 08 PMID: 32398486 PMCID: PMC7648727 05/14/2020
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(Rowan DJ, Hartley CP, Aldakkak M, Christians KK, Evans DB, Tsai S, Hagen CE.) Annals of Diagnostic Pathology. June 2020;46 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85081260042 06/01/2020