Dr. Liang is a board certified general surgeon and an expert general surgeon. He teaches other general surgeons on how to improve the quality of their patient care, optimize their surgical technique, and integrate cutting edge innovation into their surgical practice. Not only is he the Program Director for the University of Houston/HCA Healthcare Kingwood surgery residency program where he teaches resident surgeons, he also teaches faculty surgeons his approaches at many national surgical conferences. Common procedures that Dr. Liang performs gallbladder surgery, intestinal (small intestine and colon) surgery, appendectomy, solid organ removal, and catheter/tube placements.
Selected publications from PubMed
Randomized Clinical Trial of Ultrasound-Guided Microwave Ablation Combined With Lauromacrogol Ablation of Thyroid Cystic-Solid Nodules.
Jiang Y, Yu R, Wang Z, Cai C, Liang M
J Surg Res. 2026 Aug;324:231-242 doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2026.05.002.
Effect of lymph node dissection numbers after conversion immunochemotherapy on the survival of gastric cancer patients: a multi-center retrospective study.
Liang M, Qian L, Yang Z, Sun Y, Ai S, Song P, Wang Q, Sun F, Wang X, Lu X, Wang M, Miao J, Ding J, Du J, Guan W, Shen X
Front Immunol. 2026;17:1862248 doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2026.1862248.
Primary Cilia as Integrative Hubs of Metabolic Signaling in Type 2 Diabetes: Inter-Organ Evidence From Central, Peripheral, and Pancreatic Islet Tissues.
Liang M, Wen C, Deng L, Li Y, Lv F, Feng Z, Li E, Li J, Zhou J, Liao H, Feng S, Feng Z
J Cell Physiol. 2026 Jul;241(7):e70208 doi: 10.1002/jcp.70208.
Pin1 targets phosphorylated NCOA4 for K29/K48-linked ubiquitination to suppress ferritinophagy and ferroptosis in anaplastic thyroid cancer.
Sun Z, Bai F, Liang M, Hui HX, Xu H, Zhang Z, Liu X, Hu P, Lv W, Ge R, Li J
Cell Death Dis. 2026 Jul 1;17(1) doi: 10.1038/s41419-026-09058-5.
CD44-Targeting Hydroxyapatite Nanoparticles (HAP) Induce Mitochondrial Dysfunction-Driven PANoptosis and Immunogenic Cell Death (ICD) via Ca Overload in Colorectal Cancer.
Xiao Y, Yang Y, Qiu H, Yang J, Liang H, Jiang Z, Tong X, Li Y, Huang Q, Wu J, Lin T, Yu J, Liang M
Adv Sci (Weinh). 2026 Jul;13(42):e75559 doi: 10.1002/advs.75559.
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