Robert Taylor Ripley

Baylor Medicine at McNair Campus
7200 Cambridge Street
Houston, TX 77030

To get connected to Dr. Ripley, call: 877-362-1554

R. Taylor Ripley, MD is the associate professor of surgery at Baylor College of Medicine and director of the Mesothelioma Treatment Center at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center. Dr. Ripley is a nationally recognized, board-certified thoracic surgeon and expert in thoracic surgical oncology specializing in treatment of mesothelioma. In addition to mesothelioma, he practices all facets of general thoracic surgery including infectious lung disease and benign esophageal diseases as well as endobronchial, multidisciplinary management of patients with lung, esophageal, thymic, and other thoracic malignancies, and endoscopic interventions. He also specializes in robotic surgery to provide minimally invasive approaches to thoracic diseases.

Dr. Ripley started his medical career as a thoracic oncology fellow at the National Cancer Institute where he was an associate professor of surgery in the Thoracic and Oncologic Surgery Branch. While at the NIH, Dr. Ripley was awarded the NCI Director’s Innovation Award for targeting specific p53-mutations for the treatment of esophageal adenocarcinoma. He established the Foregut Team at the NIH Clinical Center for the management of patients with esophageal cancer. Additionally, he has been developing a novel assessment of thoracic cancers by profiling mitochondrial pathways, which he will continue with us. He has lectured nationally and published extensively on his work in the field of thoracic oncology and tumor metabolism. Prior to his faculty appointment at the NCI, Dr. Ripley trained extensively in the care of patients with mesothelioma under world-renowned surgeons during his fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Prior to that, he served his general surgery residency at the University of Colorado and received his MD degree from Vanderbilt University.