Varun Puri, M.D.

Cardiothoracic Surgery
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Section of Thoracic Surgery
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Board Certification:
Surgery--Certified

Areas of Clinical Interest:
Lung cancer
Esophageal cancer
Gastroesophageal reflux
Minimally invasive lung resection
Lung transplantation

Medical School:
M.B.B.S., All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, 1998.

Postdoctoral Education:
Resident in Surgery, from Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India, 1998-2001.

Senior Resident in Cardiothoracic Surgery at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India, 2001.

Senior Resident in Surgery at Maharaja Agrasen Hospital, New Delhi, India, 2002.

Residency in General Surgery (MD), Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha, NE. 2002-2007.

Traveling Fellowship in Thoracic Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Jan 2009.

Fellowship in Thoracic Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, Mar-Apr 2009.

Fellowship in Cardiothoracic surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo, 2007–2009.

Patients Seen At:
St. Peters Office (Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital)
100 Entrance Way
St. Peters, MO 63376

Center for Advanced Medicine (Barnes-Jewish Hospital)
Jacqueline Maritz Lung Center
4921 Parkview Place, St. Louis, MO 63110

West County Office (Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital
1040 N. Mason Rd
St. Louis, MO 63141

Patient Appointments:
636-916-7123

Hospital Affiliations:
Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital
Barnes-Jewish Hospital
Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital

Awards/Honors:
American Association of Thoracic Surgery traveling fellowship award for 2008-09. Traveled to the thoracic surgery program at the Toronto General Hospital.

National Surgical Jeopardy competition of the American College of Surgeons, 2nd place. Las Vegas, Nev., 2007.


Selected or Recent Publications:
Puri V, Meyers BF. The role of PET (positron emission tomography) in evaluation of the mediastinum. Thoracic Surgery Clinics. 2009;19:7-15.

Puri V, Patterson GA. Adult lung transplantation: technical considerations. Seminars in Cardiothoracic Surgery - Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2008;20:152-164.

Narotam PK, Puri V, Nathoo N, Roberts JM, Taylon C. Management of hypertensive emergencies in acute brain pathology: Evaluation of the treatment effects of intravenous nicardipine on cerebral oxygenation. Journal of Neurosurgery. 2008;109:1065-1074.

V Puri, R Sudan. Bariatric surgery in the presence of intestinal malrotation: Experience with the duodenal switch. Obesity Surgery. 2008;18:615-617.

Pallati PK, Puri V, Mittal SK. Gastric outlet obstruction secondary to Morgagni hernia: a case report. Hernia. 2008;12:209-212.

Puri V, Bertellotti RP, Garg N, Fitzgibbons RJ Jr. Intramesosigmoid hernia: a rare type of congenital internal hernia. Hernia. 2007;11:463-465.

Puri V, Lee RW, Amirlak BA, Fitzgibbons RJ Jr. Bouveret’s syndrome and gall stone ileus. Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techiques. 2007;17:328-330.

Puri V, Martin L, St Peter SD, Holcomb GW III, Ostlie DJ. Pancreatic operations in children: An institutional experience and review of literature. Annals of Pediatric Surgery. 2007:3:22-30.

Puri V, Felix E, Fitzgibbons RJ Jr. Laparoscopic vs. conventional tension free inguinal herniorrhaphy: 2005 Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) annual meeting debate. Surgical Endoscopy. 2006; 20:1809-1816.

Fitzgibbons RJ Jr., Puri V. Laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair. American Surgeon. 2006;72:197-206.

Mittal SK, Puri V.Surgery for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease. GI surgery Annual – Oesophagus. Vol. 12, 2005 supplement, p1.

Awad ZT, Puri V, Leblanc K, et al. Mechanisms of ventral hernia recurrence after mesh repair and a new proposed classification. Journal of American College of Surgeons. 2005;201:132-140.

Puri V, Kakarlapudi GV, Awad ZT, Filipi CJ. Hiatal hernia recurrence. Hernia. 2004;8:311-317.

Sudan R, Puri V, Sudan D. Robotic assisted biliary pancreatic diversion with duodenal switch: A new technique. Surgical Endoscopy. 2007;21:729-733.

Yohannes P, Puri V, Yi B, Khan AK, Sudan R. Laparoscopy-assisted robotic radical cystoprostatectomy with ileal conduit urinary diversion for muscle-invasive bladder cancer: initial two cases. Journal of Endourology. 2003;17:729-732.

Bose SM, Puri V. Benign biliary strictures: A review. Indian Journal of Surgery. 2002 Vol. 64 Issue no 3.

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