Daniel C. Buckles, M.D.

Professional Background

Dr. Daniel Buckles is a Professor of Medicine at The University of Kansas Medical Center.

Dr. Buckles received his medical degree from The University of Kansas Medical Center and then completed an Internal Medicine Residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He then completed a Gastroenterology and Hepatology fellowship at The University of Kansas Medical Center.

Dr. Buckles practices General Gastroenterology and Endoscopy. He has special interests in GERD and Barrett's esophagus and GI cancer prevention. He spends much of his professional time performing diagnostic and therapeutic general GI endoscopic procedures, as well as seeing patients in clinic and in the hospital.

Dr. Buckles is heavily involved in medical education and currently serves as the Gastroenterology Fellowship Program Director. He also performs several administrative functions for the GI Division.

Dr. Buckles is a Fellow of the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and a member of The American College of Gastroenterology.

• BS, Biology , Texas Christian University , Fort Worth , TX
• MD, Medicine , Univ. of Kansas-Medical Ctr., Kansas City, KS
• Residency, Internal Medicine , Mayo Clinic , Rochester , MN
• Clinical Fellowship, Gastroenterology, Kansas University Medical Center , Kansas City, KS

• Gastroenterology , American Board of Internal Medicine
• Medical License, Kansas Department of Health

• American College of Gastroenterology, Member, 2002 - Present
• American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Member, 2002 - Present

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Research

Overview

Dr. Buckles has research interests in the field of GI cancer prevention. He has collaborated and published research involving Barrett's esophagus, colon and gastric cancer screening and prevention and advanced imaging techniques used in GI endoscopy.

• Reddymasu SC, Oropeza-Vail M, Pakseresht K, Moloney B, Esfandyari T, Grisolano S, Buckles D, Olyaee M. 2012. Are endoscopic ultrasonography imaging characteristics reliable for the diagnosis of small upper gastrointestinal subepithelial lesions?. Journal of clinical gastroenterology, 46 (1), 42-5
• Gupta N, Nayak R, Grisolano SW, Buckles DC, Tadros PN. 2010. Defining patients at high risk for gastrointestinal hemorrhage after drug-eluting stent placement: a cost utility analysis.. Journal of interventional cardiology, 23 (2), 179-87
• Buckles DC, Sarosiek I, McMillin C, McCallum RW. 2004. Delayed gastric emptying in gastroesophageal reflux disease: reassessment with new methods and symptomatic correlations.. The American journal of the medical sciences, 327 (1), 1-4
• Brown J, Alsop B, Gupta N, Buckles DC, Olyaee MS, Vennalaganti P, Kanakadandi VN, Saligram S, Sharma P. 2016. Effectiveness of focal vs. balloon radiofrequency ablation devices in the treatment of Barrett's esophagus.. United European gastroenterology journal, 4 (2), 236-41
• Wani S, Abdulkarim AB, Buckles D. 2008. Gastric variceal hemorrhage secondary to torsion of wandering spleen.. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association, 6 (12), A24
• Rastogi A, Rao DS, Gupta N, Grisolano SW, Buckles DC, Sidorenko E, Bonino J, Matsuda T, Dekker E, Kaltenbach T, Singh R, Wani S, Sharma P, Olyaee MS, Bansal A, East JE. 2014. Impact of a computer-based teaching module on characterization of diminutive colon polyps by using narrow-band imaging by non-experts in academic and community practice: a video-based study.. Gastrointestinal endoscopy, 79 (3), 390-8
• Greiner KA, Daley CM, Epp A, James A, Yeh HW, Geana M, Born W, Engelman KK, Shellhorn J, Hester CM, LeMaster J, Buckles DC, Ellerbeck EF. 2014. Implementation intentions and colorectal screening: a randomized trial in safety-net clinics.. American journal of preventive medicine, 47 (6), 703-14
• Buckles DC, Lindor KD, Larusso NF, Petrovic LM, Gores GJ. 2002. In primary sclerosing cholangitis, gallbladder polyps are frequently malignant.. The American journal of gastroenterology, 97 (5), 1138-42
• Harrigan J, Davis C, Chauhan M, Hejazi R, Buckles Daniel C, Saeed A, Kennedy K, Madan R, Bansal A. 2020. Preoperative screening of colorectal cancers is as accurate as postoperative screening for detection of Lynch Syndrome . Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Sept 18 (10) , 2020 , 2372-2374
• Bridges KM, Diaz FJ, Wang Z, Ahmed I, Sullivan DK, Umar S, Buckles DC, Greiner KA, Hester CM. 2018. Relating Stool Microbial Metabolite Levels, Inflammatory Markers and Dietary Behaviors to Screening Colonoscopy Findings in a Racially/Ethnically Diverse Patient Population.. Genes, 9 (3)