Dr. Thomas Robinson

General Surgery

Chief of Surgery at the Denver Veterans Administration Medical Center, Founder and Medical Director of the Center for Surgical Innovation (CSI)

United States of America

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Biography

Dr. Thomas N. Robinson, M.D., is the Medical Director of the University of Colorado’s Center for Surgical Innovation. Dr. Robinson received his B.S. from Stanford University and his M.D. from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed his general surgery training at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and subsequently completed a minimally invasive surgery fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Robinson joined the faculty at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in 2003 and began leading the multi-disciplinary surgical training center initiative on the University of Colorado’s Health Sciences campus in the Fall of 2003.

Publications

Selected publications from PubMed

Postoperative outcomes in living donor liver transplant vs. deceased donor liver transplant in patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis: a UNOS database analysis.

Steigmeier MP, Robinson TJ, Vargas PA, Abou Koura A, Pelletier SJ, Oberholzer J, Goldaracena N

Hepatobiliary Surg Nutr. 2026 Feb 1;15(1):4 doi: 10.21037/hbsn-24-319.

Intraoperative botulinum toxin injection in sleeve gastrectomy, a pilot randomized controlled trial.

Pradhan G, Robinson TD, Northrup C, Ata A, Singh TP, Zaman JA

Surg Endosc. 2025 Nov;39(11):7598-7604 doi: 10.1007/s00464-025-12066-9.

Correction: CREB1-BCL2 drives mitochondrial resilience in RAS GAP-dependent breast cancer chemoresistance.

Man KF, Darweesh O, Hong J, Thompson A, O'Connor C, Bonaldo C, Melkonyan MN, Sun M, Patel R, Ellisen LW, Robinson T, Song D, Koh SB

Oncogene. 2025 May;44(16):1133 doi: 10.1038/s41388-025-03369-1.

CREB1-BCL2 drives mitochondrial resilience in RAS GAP-dependent breast cancer chemoresistance.

Man KF, Darweesh O, Hong J, Thompson A, O'Connor C, Bonaldo C, Melkonyan MN, Sun M, Patel R, Ellisen LW, Robinson T, Song D, Koh SB

Oncogene. 2025 May;44(16):1093-1105 doi: 10.1038/s41388-025-03284-5.

Residents and Fellows Forum: Impact on general surgery clinic after telehealth conversion at a Veteran Affairs medical center.

Abbitt D, Cotton J, Choy K, Jones TS, Wikiel KJ, Robinson TN, Jones EL

Surgery. 2024 May;175(5):1458-1459 doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2023.11.017.

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1h 6min

Energy in the operating room from A to Z

Program: 1. Introduction. Dr. Hongwei Yao (China). 2. 5 things you should know about the types of energy used in the OR (basics). Dr. William Sanchez-Maldonado (Colombia). 3. What are energy devices really for? Technical options. Dr. Rebecca C. Grossman (UK). 4. The importance of knowing the energy sources in surgery (safety and accident prevention). Dr. Thomas Robinson (USA). 5. Panel discussion. All faculty moderated by Dr. Hongwei Yao (China). Faculty: Dr. Rebecca C. Grossman (UK), MRC Clinical Research Training Fellow, OCDEM, Oxford University. Dr. Thomas Robinson (USA), Chief of Surgery at the Denver Veterans Administration Medical Center, Founder and Medical Director of the Center for Surgical Innovation (CSI). Dr. William Sanchez-Maldonado (Colombia), President Colombian Society of Surgery, Governor of the Colombian Chapter of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Hongwei Yao (China), Professor and Chair of Department of General Surgery, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, General Secretary of Chinese Society of Colorectal Surgery (CNSCRS).

Published

Jan 2021

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