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Byers Shaw, MD, General Surgery, Omaha, NE

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General Surgery • Omaha, NE

Hepatobiliary Surgery, Pancreas, Transplantation

Professor, Surgery, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine

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Summary

  • Dr. Byers Shaw was a general surgeon in Omaha, NE. He received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and was in practice for 30 years. He specialized in hepatobiliary surgery, pancreas, and transplantation and is experienced in transplant surgery. He has more than 300 publications. Shaw stopped all clinical activities in 2013. In 2015, his memoir, Last Night in the OR was published by the Plume imprint of Penguin Random House. https://bit.ly/35CqCke. He teaches medical students and writes in Omaha.

    • Last Night in the OR by Bud Shaw | PenguinRandomHouse.com

    For readers of Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, Paul A. Ruggieri's Confessions of a Surgeon, and Atul Gawande's Better, a pioneering surgeon shares memories from a lif

Education & Training

  • UPMC Medical Education
    UPMC Medical EducationResidency, Abdominal Transplant Surgery, 1981 - 1983
  • University of Utah Health
    University of Utah HealthResidency, Surgery, 1976 - 1981
  • Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
    Case Western Reserve University School of MedicineClass of 1976
  • Kenyon College
    Kenyon CollegeAB, Chemistry, Magna cum Laude, 1968 - 1972
  • Kenyon College
    Kenyon CollegeAB, Chemistry, 1968 - 1972

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

  • Honorary Doctorate Kenyon College, 2022
  • Special Mention, The Pushcart Prize 2013
  • Honorary Fellow International College of Surgeons, 2011
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Journal Articles

  • Isolated Liver Transplantation in Infants with Short bowel Syndrome and Endstage Liver Disease  
    Botha Jean, Grant Wendy, Iverson Angie, Torres Clarivet, Debra Sudan, Shaw Jr. Byers, Langnas Alan, Liver Transplantation, 1/1/2005
  • Donor immune reconstitution after liver-small bowel transplantation for multiple intestinal atresia with immunodeficiency  
    Gilroy RK, Coccia PF, Talmadge JE, Hatcher LI, Pirrucello SJ, Shaw, BW, Rubocki RJ, Sudan, DL, Langnas AN, Horslen SP, Blood, 1/2/2003
  • Acute Budd-Chiari Syndrome During Pregnancy: Surgical treatment and orthotopic liver transplantation with successful completion of the pregnancy  
    Grant WJ, McCashland TM, Botha JF, Shaw BW, Sudan DL, Mejia A, Iyer K, Langnas AN, Liver Transplantation, 1/1/2003
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Books/Book Chapters

  • Schiff's Diseases of the Liver 
    Chapter: Surgical Options for the Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma 
    Botha JF, Grant WJ, Shaw BWLippincott Williams & WilkinsEdition 9th,2003
  • Schiff's Textbook 
    Chapter: Surgical Options for the Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma 
    Botha JF, Grant WJ, Shaw BW JrEditors: Schiff, Sorrell, and Maddrey.Lippincott-Raven Publishers, PhiladelphiaEdition 9th,2002
  • Schiff's Diseases of the Liver 
    Chapter: Surgical Therapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma 
    Page 1305 - 1317Langnas AN, Shaw BW JrEditors: ER Schiff, MF Sorrell, and WC Maddrey.Lippincott-Raven Publishers, PhiladelphiaEdition 8th,1999
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Abstracts/Posters

  • Living Donor and Cadaveric Liver Transplantation for Unresectable Hepatoblastoma.
    Mejia A, Grant W, Botha J, Mercer D, Fox I, Iyer, K, Horslen SP, Torres C, Shaw B, Langnas A, Sudan D, 3rd Annual Winter Symposium 2003-ASTS, 1/1/2003
  • Results of Combined Liver-Kidney and Kidney-After-Liver Transplantation.
    Mejia A, Iyer K, Mercer D, Buckman S, Stevens RB, Sudan D, Shaw B, Langnas A, American Transplant Congress, 1/1/2003
  • Quality of Life in Pediatric Kidney and Liver Transplant Recipients: Comparison of Pediatric Recipient and Parent Responses to the Child Health Questionnaire.
    Sudan D, Horslen S, Torres C, Iyer K, Grant W, Botha K, Fox I, Shaw B, Langnas A, American Transplant Congress, 1/1/2003
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Lectures

  • From Liver Transplants to Creative Writing with Bud Shaw. 
    Steamboat Springs, CO - 1/9/2017
  • Bud Shaw, Last Night in the OR: A Transplant Surgeon's Odyssey. 
    Sundance Resort, Sundance, UT - 1/19/2016
  • Writing About It: How Can a Surgeon Quit. 
    Iowa City, IA - 1/7/2016
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Other

  • Real Surgeons Can't Cry: How Writing Healed a Doctor." 
    Shaw, Bud, Electric Lit, Inc.
    http://electricliterature.com/real-surgeons-cant-cry-how-writing-healed-a-doctor/&gt
    1/15/2015
  • A Doctor At His Daughter's Hospital Bed. 
    Shaw, Bud, New York Times
    1/6/2015
  • Last Night in the OR: A Transplant Surgeon's Odyssey. 
    Shaw, Bud, Plume
    New York - 1/1/2015
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Professional Memberships

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