Brendan Visser

Brendan C. Visser, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of General Surgery; Director, Gastrointestinal Cancer Care Program, Stanford Cancer Center; Stanford University School of Medicine

Research Description: Dr. Visser is the Medical Director of the GI Cancer Care Program at the Stanford Cancer Center. He is also the program director for the Stanford Hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) Surgery fellowship program. His research focus includes an interest in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor biology, biomarker discovery for early detection of pancreatic adenocarcinoma, minimally invasive pancreatic and liver surgery, management of hepatobiliary cancers and pancreatic surgery in non-neoplastic settings including pancreatitis and acute injury. Together with his longtime collaborator in the Stanford Health Care (SHC) Benign Pancreas Program, Dr. Walter Park, and other members of SDRC including Drs. Thakor, Meyer and Busque, he is a key member of the team developing an autologous islet transplant program at SHC (SPIRIT).

Selected relevant publications (Stanford DRC Members in BOLD):

  1. Krampitz GW, Dua MM, Jensen CW, Friedland S, Worth PJ, Poultsides GA, Norton JA, Park WG, Visser BC. Isolated pancreatic tail remnants after transgastric necrosectomy can be observed. J Surg Res. 2018 Nov;231:109-115. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2018.05.020. PMID: 30278917. 

  2. Jensen CW, Worhunsky DJ, Triadafilopoulos G, Bingham DB, Visser BC. Ruptured Oncocytic Intraductal Papillary Neoplasm: Think Beyond the Pancreas. Dig Dis Sci. 2019 Jun;64(6):1436-1438. doi: 10.1007/s10620-018-5444-2. PMID: 30607688. 

  3. Erdrich J, Schaberg KB, Khodadoust MS, Zhou L, Shelton AA, Visser BC, Ford JM, Alizadeh AA, Quake SR, Kunz PL, Beausang JF. Surgical and molecular characterization of primary and metastatic disease in a neuroendocrine tumor arising in a tailgut cyst. Cold Spring Harb Mol Case Stud. 2018 Oct 1;4(5):a003004. doi: 10.1101/mcs.a003004. PMID: 30087100; PMCID: PMC6169824. 

  4. Dua MM, Worhunsky DJ, Malhotra L, Park WG, Poultsides GA, Norton JA, Visser BC. Transgastric pancreatic necrosectomy-expedited return to prepancreatitis health. J Surg Res. 2017 Nov;219:11-17. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2017.05.089. PMID: 29078869. 

  5. Tun MT, Toesca DAS, Jeffrey RB, von Eyben R, Pollom EL, Poullos PD, Poultsides GA, Fisher GA Jr, Visser BC, Koong AC, Chang DT. Predicting Pancreatic Cancer Resectability and Outcomes Based on an Objective Quantitative Scoring System. Pancreas. 2019 May/Jun;48(5):622-628. doi: 10.1097/MPA.0000000000001314. PMID: 31091207; PMCID: PMC6553971.