Bryan Michael Burt MD, FACS

Dr. Bryan Michael Burt received his medical degree from Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York. While training under mesothelioma pioneer Dr. David Sugarbaker, he completed residencies in general surgery and thoracic surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

As director of general thoracic surgery research at Baylor College of Medicine, Burt focuses on developing innovative mesothelioma surgical treatments that result in a shorter recovery time. He is board certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery.

Burt offers two primary surgeries for pleural mesothelioma: extra pleural pneumonectomy and pleurotomy and decortication. EPP, a technique Sugarbaker developed, is an aggressive mesothelioma surgery that removes an entire lung and several other chest structures affected by cancer.