BorisRBlechaczMDPhD

Gastroenterology • Houston, TX

Assistant Professor of Medicine

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Office
MD Anderson Cancer Center
1515 Holcombe Blvd.
Houston, TX 77030
Phone(713) 792-3034
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Education & Training

Mayo School of Graduate Medical EducationFellowship, Gastroenterology, 2007 - 2011
Mayo School of Graduate Medical EducationResidency, Internal Medicine, 2005 - 2007
Mayo School of Graduate Medical EducationPost-Doctoral Fellowship, Molecular Medicine Program, 2002 - 2005
Ruprecht Karl University Faculty of MedicineClass of 1999

Certifications & Licensure

SC State Medical License 2018 - 2021
TX State Medical License 2011 - 2021
MN State Medical License 2007 - 2011
American Board of Internal Medicine Gastroenterology

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Quality of endoscopy reporting at index colonoscopy significantly impacts outcome of subsequent EMR in patients with > 20 mm colon polyps.
Gottumukkala S. Raju, Phillip Lum, William A. Ross, Selvi Thirumurthi, Ethan Miller, Patrick M. Lynch, Jeffrey E. Lee, Manoop S. Bhutani, Mehnaz A. Shafi, Brian Weston...> ;Endoscopy International Open. 2019 Feb 28
Sofosbuvir-Based Therapy in Hepatitis C Virus-infected Cancer Patients: A Prospective Observational Study.
Torres, H. A.,Economides, M. P.,Angelidakis, G.,Hosry, J.,Kyvernitakis, A.,Mahale, P.,Jiang, Y.,Miller, E.,Blechacz, B.,Naing, A.,Samaniego, F.,Kaseb, A.,Raad, I. I.,G...> ;Am. J. Gastroenterol.. 2018 Nov 10
1 citation
Endoscopic and Histologic Features of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Related Colitis.
Wang, Y., Abu-Sbeih, H., Mao, E., Ali, N., Qiao, W., Van Anh Trinh, Zobniw, C., Johnson, D. H., Samdani, R., Lum, P., Shuttlesworth, G., Blechacz, B., Bresalier, R. S....> ;Inflammatory bowel diseases. 2018 May 3
3 citations
A consensus review on malignancy-associated hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in adults.
Naval Daver, Kenneth L. McClain, Carl E. Allen, Sameer A. Parikh, Zaher K. Otrock, Cristhiam M. Rojas-Hernandez, Boris Blechacz, Sa Wang, Milen Minkov, Michael B. Jord...> ;Cancer. 2017 Sep 1
Analysis of the c-KIT Ligand Promoter Using Chromatin Immunoprecipitation.
Zhang, P., Rojas, A., Blechacz, B.> ;Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE. 2017 Jul 18
Adult cancer-related hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis - a challenging diagnosis: a case report.
Hust, M. A., Blechacz, B. R., Bonilla, D. L., Daver, N., Rojas-Hernandez, C. M.> ;Journal of medical case reports. 2017 Jun 28
1 citation
Loss of the transforming growth factor-β effector β2-Spectrin promotes genomic instability.
Chen, J., Shukla, V., Farci, P., Andricovich, J., Jogunoori, W., Kwong, L. N., Katz, L. H., Shetty, K., Rashid, A., Su, X., White, J., Li, L., Wang, A. Y., Blechacz, B...> ;Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.). 2017 Jan 24
1 citation
Transdisciplinary Approach to Managing Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Patients at a Tertiary Care Cancer Center.
Torres, H. A., Roach, L. R., Mahale, P., Economides, M. P., Blechacz, B., Miller, E., Borchardt, R. A., Rashid, A., Oo, T. H., Shukla, B., Farida, M., Ericsson, C. D.,...> ;Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN. 2016 Sep 3
2 citations
A Positive TGF-Î²/c-KIT Feedback Loop Drives Tumor Progression in Advanced Primary Liver Cancer.
Rojas, A., Zhang, P., Wang, Y., Foo, W. C., Muñoz, N. M., Xiao, L., Wang, J., Gores, G. J., Hung, M., Blechacz, B.> ;Neoplasia (New York, N.Y.). 2016 Jun 14
13 citations
Natural language processing as an alternative to manual reporting of colonoscopy quality metrics.
Raju, G. S., Lum, P. J., Slack, R. S., Thirumurthi, S., Lynch, P. M., Miller, E., Weston, B. R., Davila, M. L., Bhutani, M. S., Shafi, M. A., Bresalier, R. S., Dekovic...> ;Gastrointestinal endoscopy. 2015 Apr 26
26 citations
Cancer review: Cholangiocarcinoma.
Ghouri, Y. A., Mian, I., Blechacz, B.> ;Journal of carcinogenesis. 2015 Mar 20
6 citations
HuR Suppresses Fas Expression and Correlates with Patient Outcome in Liver Cancer.
Zhu, H., Berkova, Z., Mathur, R., Sehgal, L., Khashab, T., Tao, R., Ao, X., Feng, L., Sabichi, A. L., Blechacz, B., Rashid, A., Samaniego, F.> ;Molecular cancer research : MCR. 2015 Feb 14
1 citation
Biopsy for liver cancer: How to balance research needs with evidence-based clinical practice.
Blechacz, B., Mishra, L.> ;Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.). 2015 Feb 14
9 citations
Effect of hepatitis C virus infection in patients with cancer: addressing a neglected population.
Torres, H. A., Mahale, P., Blechacz, B., Miller, E., Kaseb, A., Herlong, H. F., Fowler, N., Jiang, Y., Raad, I. I., Kontoyiannis, D. P.> ;Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN. 2015 Jan 15
98 citations
Genomic and genetic characterization of cholangiocarcinoma identifies therapeutic targets for tyrosine kinase inhibitors.
Andersen, J. B., Spee, B., Blechacz, B. R., Avital, I., Komuta, M., Barbour, A. P., Conner, E. A., Gillen, M. C., Roskams, T., Roberts, L. R., Factor, V. M., Thorgeirs...> ;Gastroenterology. 2011 Dec 20
22 citations
Complementary vascular and matrix regulatory pathways underlie the beneficial mechanism of action of sorafenib in liver fibrosis.
Thabut, D., Routray, C., Lomberk, G., Shergill, U., Glaser, K. J., Huebert, R. C., Patel, L., Masyuk, T. V., Blechacz, B., Vercnocke, A. J., Ritman, E. L., Ehman, R. L...> ;Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.). 2011 May 14
A Smac Mimetic Reduces TNF Related Apoptosis Inducing Ligand (TRAIL)-Induced Invasion and Metastasis of Cholangiocarcinoma Cells
Christian D. Fingas, Boris Blechacz, Rory L. Smoot, Maria Eugenia Guicciardi, Justin L. Mott, Steve F. Bronk, Nathan W. Werneburg, Alphonse E. Sirica, Gregory J. Gores> ;Hepatology. 2010 Aug 1
A Bax-Mediated Mechanism for Obatoclax-Induced Apoptosis of Cholangiocarcinoma Cells
Rory L. Smoot, Boris Blechacz, Nathan W. Werneburg, Steve F. Bronk, Frank A. Sinicrope, Alphonse E. Sirica, Gregory J. Gores> ;Cancer Research. 2010 Mar 1
7 citations
Sorafenib inhibits signal transducer and activator of transcription-3 signaling in cholangiocarcinoma cells by activating the phosphatase shatterproof 2.
Blechacz, B. R., Smoot, R. L., Bronk, S. F., Werneburg, N. W., Sirica, A. E., Gores, G. J.> ;Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.). 2009 Oct 13
276 citations
Association between change in high density lipoprotein cholesterol and cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality: systematic review and meta-regression analysis
Matthias Briel, Ignacio Ferreira-González, John J. You, Paul J. Karanicolas, Elie A. Akl, Ping Wu, Boris Blechacz, Dirk Bassler, Xinge Wei, Asheer Sharman, Irene Whitt...> ;BMJ. 2009 Feb 16
1 citation
Images in clinical medicine. Severe kyphosis.
Blechacz, B., Gajic, O.> ;The New England journal of medicine. 2008 Jun 14
170 citations
Cholangiocarcinoma: advances in pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment.
Blechacz, B., Gores, G. J.> ;Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.). 2008 Jun 7
Cholangiocarcinoma.
Blechacz, B. R., Gores, G. J.> ;Clinics in liver disease. 2008 Feb 5
Infected cell carriers: A new strategy for systemic delivery of oncolytic measles viruses in cancer virotherapy
Ianko D. Iankov, Boris Blechacz, Chunsheng Liu, Jeffrey Schmeckpeper, James E. Tarara, Mark J. Federspiel, Noel M. Caplice, Stephen J. Russell> ;Molecular Therapy. 2007 Jan 1
Engineered measles virus as a novel oncolytic viral therapy system for hepatocellular carcinoma.
Boris Blechacz, Patrick L. Splinter, Suzanne Greiner, Rae Myers, Kah Whye Peng, Mark J. Federspiel, Stephen J. Russell, Nicholas F. LaRusso> ;Hepatology. 2006 Dec 1
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