George P Noon, M.D.

Professor of Surgery

Email

gnoon@bcm.edu

Positions

Professor of Surgery: Division of Transplant & Assist Devices
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, US

Meyer-DeBakey Chair in Investigative Surgery: Surgery
Baylor College of Medicine

Addresses

Fondren-Brown Building (Office): Room: FBRN-A979
Houston, TX, 77030
United States

Education

Advanced Training from Baylor College Of Medicine Affiliate Hospitals: 01/1965 - Houston, TX, United States

Advanced Training from Baylor College Of Medicine Affiliate Hospitals: 01/1966 - Houston, TX, United States

Advanced Training from Jefferson Davis Hospital: 01/1961 - Houston, TX, United States

M.D. from Baylor College Of Medicine: 01/1960 - Houston, TX, United States

B.S. from University Of Arizona: 01/1956 - Tucson, AZ, United States

Certifications

Board Certified: American Board of Surgery

Board Certified: American Board of Thoracic Surgery

Board Certified: American Board of General Vascular Surgery

Honors & Awards

Ben and Margaret Love Foundation Bobby Alford Award for Academic Clinical Professionalism: 2014

2010 Houston Distinguished Surgeon Award: Houston Surgical Society

2009 George P. Noon Leading Hearts Award: The Methodist Hospital

2009 Dr. Barney Clark Award: American Society for Artificial Internal Organs

2009 Michael E. DeBakey, M.D. Humanitarian Award: Open Door Mission Foundation

2002 “Torch of Hope” Award: The American Cancer League

Space Technology Hall of Fame: NASA and the United States Space Foundation

Professional Interests

Organ transplantation
Cardiac assist devices

Professional Statement

Dr. George P. Noon has focused his surgical career in organ transplantation and cardiac assist devices. In 1968, Dr. Noon, Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, and their surgical team performed their first heart and later lung transplant. The program was discontinued because worldwide results were discouraging. When the immunosuppressant cyclosporine became available in 1986, Drs. Noon and DeBakey restarted the transplant program.

It was crucial for the surgical team to provide mechanical ventricular assistance for patients with heart failure. Dr. Noon became the primary surgeon for the insertion of ventricular assist devices. In 1988, Drs. Noon and DeBakey met with engineers from NASA to develop a miniature axial flow blood pump. Ten years later, Dr. Noon participated in the care of President Boris Yeltsin, who needed a coronary bypass operation. In the same year, the first MicroMed DeBakey-Noon human implants were performed in Berlin, Germany. In 1999, Dr. Noon was inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame.

Dr. Noon is a member of multiple societies, has been invited as a guest lecturer and surgeon throughout the world, and has authored more than 350 publications. He is internationally known and respected for his pioneering research and clinical expertise in transplantation and assist devices.