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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Membership Benefits
ACS
ACS Fellow Since 2004

Carla Celeste Braxton, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Surgery - Surgical Critical Care
  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • E. Assn, Surg of Trauma
  • Am Medical Association
  • Surg Infection Soc
  • Soc of Critical Care Med

Additional Information

Gender

Female

Type of Practice

Academic medical center

General Surgery

2429 Bissonnet St Ste 126

Houston, TX 77005

United States

Contact Information

Biography

Dr. Braxton is a board-certified general surgeon with subspecialty training in trauma surgery and surgical critical care medicine (second board certification obtained). Dr. Braxton also has a special interest in minimal-access thyroid and parathyroid surgery, and performs parathyroid surgery with intraoperative PTH.

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Critical Care

Endocrine (Gland)

  • hyperparathyroidism
  • parathyroid surgery
  • thyroid nodules/cancer
  • thyroid surgery

Head and Neck

  • parathyroid surgery
  • thyroid surgery

Minimally Invasive Procedures

Hospital Appointments

University of Kansas Med Center

Kansas City, KS,

Attending

09/2002—05/2011

Michael E. DeBakey VAMC

Houston, TX,

Attending

09/2011—05/2015

Houston Methodist West Hospital

Houston, TX,

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

05/2015—Present

Academic Appointments

University of Kansas School of Medicine

Kansas City, KS

Assistant Professor

09/2002—05/2011

Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, TX

Associate Professor

09/2011—05/2015