Carter Lebares, MD
Associate Professor
Surgery
School of Medicine

Her expertise includes treatments for reflux disease, obesity, early esophageal or gastric cancer, esophageal motility disorders, hernias, gallbladder disease and some kinds of biliary disease.

Lebares' research interests include resilience and mindfulness in surgery, mindfulness and nutrition in metabolic syndrome and obesity, the neuroendocrine and cognitive effects of stress on learning and performance, and endoscopic surgery for diseases of the esophagus and stomach.

Lebares received her medical degree from the University of Minnesota and completed a surgical residency there. She also completed a surgical residency at UCSF. She completed a fellowship in minimally invasive surgery and surgical endoscopy at the IRCAD Institute of the University of Strasbourg in France.

Lebares is a member of the American College of Surgeons. She received the University of Minnesota Foundation's Metropolitan – Mount Sinai Award for future excellence in 2008, the University of Minnesota's Gaviser-Hays Award for compassion in surgery in 2013 and the surgical resident teaching award from the UCSF Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators in 2013.

• Investigating Workplace Support and the Importance of Psychological Safety in General Surgery Residency Training.
  Journal of surgical education 2024 Ojute F, Gonzales PA, Berler M, Puente N, Johnston B, Singh D, Edwards A, Lin J, Lebares C, General Surgery Research Collaborative on Resident Wellbeing
• Looking Across the Drape: A Novel Quality Improvement Approach to Understanding Surgeon and Anesthesiologist Burnout.
  Annals of surgery 2024 Sinskey JL, Schwartz R, Boscardin CK, Chang JM, Kumar SB, Lebares CC
• Mindfulness Based Interventions for Surgeons: A Scoping Review.
  Annals of surgery 2024 Coopersmith AS, Shroff YV, Wen GA, Berler MH, Gonzales PA, Ojute FM, Lebares CC
• Investigating influential factors and mechanisms of surgical resident well-being using social network analysis.
  American journal of surgery 2023 Coopersmith AS, Berler MH, Johnston B, Knutilla L, Edwards AL, Lebares CC, General Surgery Research Collaborative on Resident Wellbeing
• Enhanced Stress Resilience Training for UK Surgical Trainees; Effect and Evolution Evaluated.
  Journal of surgical education 2023 Luton OW, James OP, Mellor K, Eley C, Hopkins L, Robinson DBT, Barlow E, Lebares CC, Lewis WG, Egan RJ, Welsh Surgical Research Initiative (WSRI) Collaborative
• Flourishing and the Prioritization of Workplace Elements in General Surgery Residents.
  The Journal of surgical research 2023 Nguyen ET, Berler MH, Gonzales PA, Greenberg AL, Lebares CC, General Surgery Research Collaborative on Resident Wellbeing
• Invited Commentary: A Tale of 2 Perspectives: The Evolving Culture of Surgery.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2023 Lebares CC
• Operationalizing the Culture of Burnout and Well-Being: Multicenter Study of Value Congruence and Flourishing in General Surgery Residency.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2023 Cevallos JR, Gonzales PA, Berler MH, Greenberg AL, Lebares CC, General Surgery Research Collaborative on Resident Well-being
• MP25-10 IMPLEMENTING A NOVEL STRESS RESILIENCE TRAINING CURRICULUM AMONG UROLOGY TRAINEES: PROOF OF CONCEPT IN CURRICULUM DESIGN.
  Investigative Urology 2023 Angeline Johny, David Wittkower, William Whitworth, Carter Lebares, Jennifer Taylor
• Effectiveness of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention in Endoscopy among Gastroenterology Fellows: A Pilot Study.
  Techniques and Innovations in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 2022 Nayantara Orekondy, Kathryn Welp, Caitlin Fai, Carter Lebares, Christina Pastan, Sushrut Jangi
• S612 Effectiveness of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention in Endoscopy Among Gastroenterology Fellows: A Pilot Study.
  The American Journal of Gastroenterology 2022 Nayantara S. Orekondy, Caitlin Fai, Kathryn Welp, Christina Pastan, Carter Lebares, Sushrut Jangi
• Making the Financial Case for Surgical Resident Well-being: A Scoping Review.
  Annals of surgery 2022 Greenberg AL, Doherty DV, Cevallos JR, Tahir P, Lebares CC
• The General Surgery Residency Experience: A Multicenter Study of Differences in Wellbeing by Race/Ethnicity.
  Annals of surgery open : perspectives of surgical history, education, and clinical approaches 2022 Greenberg AL, Cevallos JR, Ojute FM, Davis DL, Greene WR, Lebares CC
• Non-operative management of pneumoperitoneum following cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
  Journal of surgical case reports 2022 Johnson CL, Gomes C, Cheng J, Lebares CC
• Well-Being Intervention in General Surgery: Multicenter Study of Program Director and Resident Perspectives.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2022 Greenberg AL, Tenzing N, Ghadimi TR, Tilahun MN, Berler MH, Lebares CC, General Surgery Research Collaborative on Resident Well-Being
• Flourishing as a guide to intervention: a national multicenter study of general surgery residents.
  Global surgical education : journal of the Association for Surgical Education 2022 Greenberg AL, Boscardin C, Lebares CC, General Surgery Research Collaborative on Resident Wellbeing
• Emotional Regulation in Surgery: Fostering Well-Being, Performance, and Leadership.
  The Journal of surgical research 2022 Greenberg AL, Sullins VF, Donahue TR, Sundaram VM, Saldinger PF, Divino CM, Anton NE, Stefanidis D, Reilly LM, Egan RJ, Beals CKJ, Riall TS, Duh QY, Mukhtar RA, Hirose K, Lebares CC
• Validity evidence for flourishing as a measure of global wellbeing: a national multicenter study of academic general surgery residents.
  Global surgical education : journal of the Association for Surgical Education 2022 Lebares CC, Greenberg AL, Gonzales PA, Boscardin CK, and the General Surgery Research Collaborative on Resident Wellbeing
• Defining and Validating Flourishing in Surgery: Differences by Race and Gender in a Multicenter Study.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2021 Anya Greenberg, Carter C. Lebares
• Enhancers and Inhibitors of Well-Being: A Multicenter Study of Surgical Resident Perspectives.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2021 Anya Greenberg, Carter C. Lebares
• Surgical Trainee Well-Being: A Synergy of Individual and System-Level Interventions.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2021 Greenberg AL, Collins CR, Rosser ML, Ascher NL, O'Sullivan PS, Reilly LM, Lebares CC
• Scoping mindfully.
  Gastrointestinal endoscopy 2021 Jangi S, Lebares C
• From challenge to change in Surgery.
  American journal of surgery 2021 Lebares CC
• Enhanced stress-resilience training for surgical trainees.
  BJS open 2021 Luton OW, James OP, Mellor K, Eley C, Hopkins L, Robinson DBT, Lebares CC, Powell AGMT, Lewis WG, Egan RJ
• Flourishing as a Measure of Global Well-being in First Year Residents: A Pilot Longitudinal Cohort Study.
  Journal of medical education and curricular development 2021 Lebares CC, Greenberg AL, Shui A, Boscardin C, van der Schaaf M
• Appendiceal neurofibroma in a patient with neurofibromatosis 1 and recurrent abdominal infections from ventriculoperitoneal shunt: a case report.
  Journal of surgical case reports 2021 Greenberg AL, Choi WT, Shaked O, Lee AT, Berrahou IK, Jacques LG, Lebares CC
• Mastering Stress: Mental Skills and Emotional Regulation for Surgical Performance and Life.
  The Journal of surgical research 2021 Anton NE, Lebares CC, Karipidis T, Stefanidis D
• Enhanced Stress Resilience Training in Surgeons: Iterative Adaptation and Biopsychosocial Effects in 2 Small Randomized Trials.
  Annals of surgery 2021 Lebares CC, Coaston TN, Delucchi KL, Guvva EV, Shen WT, Staffaroni AM, Kramer JH, Epel ES, Hecht FM, Ascher NL, Harris HW, Cole SW
• Exploration of Individual and System-Level Well-being Initiatives at an Academic Surgical Residency Program: A Mixed-Methods Study.
  JAMA network open 2021 Lebares CC, Greenberg AL, Ascher NL, Delucchi KL, Reilly LM, van der Schaaf M, Baathe F, O'Sullivan P, Isaksson Rø K
• Portal venous gas and hepatic cyst infection with Clostridium perfringens.
  Surgery 2020 Joseph A. Lin, Cecilia J. Im, Zachary C. Dietch, Carter C. Lebares
• Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy in an Academic General Surgical Program: Implications for Acute Care Surgeons.
  Surgical innovation 2020 Ross JT, Liang NE, Lebares CC, Carter JT, Harris HW, Cello JP, Rogers SJ, Lin MYC
• Key factors for implementing mindfulness-based burnout interventions in surgery.
  American journal of surgery 2019 Lebares CC, Guvva EV, Desai A, Herschberger A, Ascher NL, Harris HW, O'Sullivan P
• Endoscopic Magnetic Compression Anastomosis For Small Bowel Bypass in a High Operative Risk Setting.
  Surgical laparoscopy, endoscopy & percutaneous techniques 2019 Lebares CC, Graves CE, Lin MY, Fidelman N, Cello J, Harrison MR, Rogers S
• Efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Training in Surgery: Additional Analysis of the Mindful Surgeon Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial.
  JAMA network open 2019 Lebares CC, Guvva EV, Olaru M, Sugrue LP, Staffaroni AM, Delucchi KL, Kramer JH, Ascher NL, Harris HW
• Feasibility of Formal Mindfulness-Based Stress-Resilience Training Among Surgery Interns: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
  JAMA surgery 2018 Lebares CC, Hershberger AO, Guvva EV, Desai A, Mitchell J, Shen W, Reilly LM, Delucchi KL, O'Sullivan PS, Ascher NL, Harris HW
• Mindful Surgeon: A Pilot Feasibility and Efficacy Trial of Mindfulness-Based Stress Resilience Training in Surgery.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2018 Carter C. Lebares, Ekaterina V. Guvva, Kevin L. Delucchi, Andrew S. Kayser, Nancy L. Ascher, Hobart W. Harris
• Burnout and gender in surgical training: A call to re-evaluate coping and dysfunction.
  American journal of surgery 2018 Lebares CC, Braun HJ, Guvva EV, Epel ES, Hecht FM
• Burnout and Stress Among US Surgery Residents: Psychological Distress and Resilience.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2017 Lebares CC, Guvva EV, Ascher NL, O'Sullivan PS, Harris HW, Epel ES
• Burnout in US Surgery Residents: Do Year of Training and Mindfulness Matter?.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2017 Carter C. Lebares, Ekaterina V. Guvva, Isabel E. Allen, Nancy L. Ascher, Patricia O'Sullivan, Elissa S. Epel
• Per-Oral Pyloromyotomy (POP): An Emerging Application of Submucosal Tunneling for the Treatment of Refractory Gastroparesis.
  Gastrointestinal endoscopy clinics of North America 2016 Lebares C, Swanstrom LL
• Future Directions for Endoscopic Operations.
  The SAGES Manual Operating Through the Endoscope 2016 Carter Lebares, Silvana Perretta
• Transforming growth factor-beta induces secretion of activated ADAMTS-2. A procollagen III N-proteinase.
  The Journal of biological chemistry 2003 Wang WM, Lee S, Steiglitz BM, Scott IC, Lebares CC, Allen ML, Brenner MC, Takahara K, Greenspan DS