Overview
- Dr. Binmoeller is an internationally recognized expert in advanced endoscopic procedures and endosonography. He is board certified in gastroenterology and internal medicine.
- He investigates new diagnoses and treatments for gastrointestinal (GI) disorders and upper GI tract tumors.
- Dr. Binmoeller founded and directs the Interventional Endoscopy Services (IES) Medical Group — for patients requiring complex endoscopic therapy. Dr. Binmoeller performs more than 5,000 therapeutic procedures annually that span the entire spectrum of interventional endoscopy.
- Author of more than 200 publications and the book Therapeutic Endoscopy: Color Atlas of Operative Techniques, Dr. Binmoeller trains and mentors endoscopists from academic and medical centers worldwide.
Training
Dr. Binmoeller obtained his M.D. from the University of Freiburg in Germany and the University of Bern, Switzerland. He completed a residency in internal medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and a fellowship in gastroenterology at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon. Dr. Binmoeller has served as Director of Interventional Endoscopy Services at California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, and was Director of Endoscopy and Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of California, San Diego.
Publications
Weilert F, Binmoeller KF, New Endoscopic Technologies and Procedural Advances for Endoscopic Hemostasis. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol
Shah JN, Bhat YM, Hamerski CM, Kane SD, Binmoeller KF, Feasibility of nonradiation EUS-based ERCP in patients with uncomplicated choledocholithiasis (with video). Gastrointest Endosc
Tyberg A, Perez-Miranda M, Sanchez-Ocaña R, Peñas I, de la Serna C, Shah J, Binmoeller K, Gaidhane M, Grimm I, Baron T, Kahaleh M, Endoscopic ultrasound-guided gastrojejunostomy with a lumen-apposing metal stent: a multicenter, international experience. Endosc Int Open
Teoh AY, Ng EK, Chan SM, Lai M, Moran S, Binmoeller KF, Moon JH, Ho KY, Ex vivo comparison of the lumen-apposing properties of EUS-specific stents (with video). Gastrointest Endosc
Siddiqui AA, Adler DG, Nieto J, Shah JN, Binmoeller KF, Kane S, Yan L, Laique SN, Kowalski T, Loren DE, Taylor LJ, Munigala S, Bhat YM, EUS-guided drainage of peripancreatic fluid collections and necrosis by using a novel lumen-apposing stent: a large retrospective, multicenter U.S. experience (with videos). Gastrointest Endosc
Bhat YM, Weilert F, Fredrick RT, Kane SD, Shah JN, Hamerski CM, Binmoeller KF, EUS-guided treatment of gastric fundal varices with combined injection of coils and cyanoacrylate glue: a large U.S. experience over 6 years (with video). Gastrointest Endosc
Weilert F, Binmoeller KF, Endoscopic Ultrasound-Assisted Pancreaticobiliary Access. Gastrointest Endosc Clin N Am
Binmoeller KF, Hamerski CM, Shah JN, Bhat YM, Kane SD, Underwater EMR of adenomas of the appendiceal orifice (with video). Gastrointest Endosc
Binmoeller KF, Bhat YM, Underwater peroral endoscopic myotomy. Gastrointest Endosc
Itoi T, Ishii K, Ikeuchi N, Sofuni A, Gotoda T, Moriyasu F, Dhir V, Teoh AY, Binmoeller KF, Prospective evaluation of endoscopic ultrasonography-guided double-balloon-occluded gastrojejunostomy bypass (EPASS) for malignant gastric outlet obstruction. Gut
Teoh AY, Ho LK, Dhir VK, Jin ZD, Kida M, Seo DW, Wang HP, Yang AM, Binmoeller KF, Varadarajulu S, A multi-institutional survey on the practice of endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) guided pseudocyst drainage in the Asian EUS group. Endosc Int Open
Khashab MA, Baron TH, Binmoeller KF, Itoi T, EUS-guided gastroenterostomy: a new promising technique in evolution. Gastrointest Endosc
Binmoeller KF, Hamerski CM, Shah JN, Bhat YM, Kane SD, Garcia-Kennedy R, Attempted underwater en bloc resection for large (2-4 cm) colorectal laterally spreading tumors (with video). Gastrointest Endosc
Weilert F, Bhat YM, Binmoeller KF, Shah JN, Response. Gastrointest Endosc
Barthet M, Binmoeller KF, Vanbiervliet G, Gonzalez JM, Baron TH, Berdah S, Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery gastroenterostomy with a biflanged lumen-apposing stent: first clinical experience (with videos). Gastrointest Endosc
Weilert F, Binmoeller KF, Endoscopic management of gastric variceal bleeding. (Opens new window)Gastroenterol Clin North Am
Binmoeller KF, Sendino O, Kane SD, Endoscopic ultrasound-guided intravascular therapy. J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Sci
Shah JN, Weilert F, Bhat YM, Binmoeller KF, Response. Gastrointest Endosc
Bhat YM, Kane SD, Shah JN, Hamerski CM, Binmoeller KF, Single-session circumferential EMR and metal stent placement for the treatment of long-segment Barrett’s esophagus with high-grade intraepithelial neoplasia. )Gastrointest Endosc
Teoh AY, Binmoeller KF, Lau JY, Single-step EUS-guided puncture and delivery of a lumen-apposing stent for gallbladder drainage using a novel cautery-tipped stent delivery system. Gastrointest Endosc
Weilert F, Bhat YM, Binmoeller KF, Kane S, Jaffee IM, Shaw RE, Cameron R, Hashimoto Y, Shah JN,EUS-FNA is superior to ERCP-based tissue sampling in suspected malignant biliary obstruction: results of a prospective, single-blind, comparative study. Gastrointest Endosc
Itoi T, Binmoeller KF, EUS-guided choledochoduodenostomy by using a biflanged lumen-apposing metal stent. Gastrointest Endosc
Binmoeller KF, Shah JN, Bhat YM, Kane SD, Suck-ligate-unroof-biopsy by using a detachable 20-mm loop for the diagnosis and therapy of small subepithelial tumors (with video). Gastrointest Endosc
Binmoeller KF, EUS-Guided Drainage of Pancreatic Fluid Collections Using Fully Covered Self-Expandable Metal Stents. Gastroenterol Hepatol (N Y)
Vohra S, Holt EW, Bhat YM, Kane S, Shah JN, Binmoeller KF, Successful single-session endosonography-based endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography without fluoroscopy in pregnant patients with suspected choledocholithiasis: a case series. J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Sci
Binmoeller KF, Shah JN, Bhat YM, Kane SD, “Underwater” EMR of sporadic laterally spreading nonampullary duodenal adenomas (with video). Gastrointest Endosc
Itoi T, Binmoeller K, Itokawa F, Umeda J, Tanaka R, Endoscopic ultrasonography-guided cholecystogastrostomy using a lumen-apposing metal stent as an alternative to extrahepatic bile duct drainage in pancreatic cancer with duodenal invasion.Dig Endosc
Petersen BT, Kahaleh M, Kozarek RA, Loren D, Gupta K, Kowalski T, Freeman M, Chen YK, Branch MS, Edmundowicz S, Gluck M, Binmoeller K, Baron TH, Shah RJ, Kinney T, Ross W, Jowell P, Carr-Locke D, A multicenter, prospective study of a new fully covered expandable metal biliary stent for the palliative treatment of malignant bile duct obstruction. Gastroenterol Res Pract
Cameron R, Binmoeller KF, Cyanoacrylate applications in the GI tract. Gastrointest Endosc
Kahaleh M, Artifon EL, Perez-Miranda M, Gupta K, Itoi T, Binmoeller KF, Giovannini M, Endoscopic ultrasonography guided biliary drainage: summary of consortium meeting, May 7th, 2011, Chicago. World J Gastroenterol
Binmoeller KF, Shah JN, Bhat YM, Kane SD, Retract-ligate-unroof-biopsy: a novel approach to the diagnosis and therapy of large nonpedunculated stromal tumors (with video). Gastrointest Endosc
Binmoeller KF, Weilert F, Shah JN, Bhat YM, Kane S, Endosonography-guided transmural drainage of pancreatic pseudocysts using an exchange-free access device: initial clinical experience. Surg Endosc
Binmoeller KF, Smith I, Gaidhane M, Kahaleh M, A kit for eus-guided access and drainage of pancreatic pseudocysts: efficacy in a porcine model. Endosc Ultrasound
Itoi T, Binmoeller KF, EUS-guided anastomosis. Gastrointest Endosc Clin N Am
Weilert F, Binmoeller KF, EUS-guided vascular access and therapy. Gastrointest Endosc Clin N Am
Binmoeller KF, Weilert F, Shah J, Bhat Y, Kane S, “Underwater” EMR without submucosal injection for large sessile colorectal polyps (with video). Gastrointest Endosc
Itoi T, Binmoeller KF, Shah J, Sofuni A, Itokawa F, Kurihara T, Tsuchiya T, Ishii K, Tsuji S, Ikeuchi N, Moriyasu F, Clinical evaluation of a novel lumen-apposing metal stent for endosonography-guided pancreatic pseudocyst and gallbladder drainage (with videos). Gastrointest Endosc
Weilert F, Shah JN, Marson FP, Binmoeller KF, EUS-guided coil and glue for bleeding rectal varix. Gastrointest Endosc
Shah JN, Marson F, Weilert F, Bhat YM, Nguyen-Tang T, Shaw RE, Binmoeller KF, Single-operator, single-session EUS-guided anterograde cholangiopancreatography in failed ERCP or inaccessible papilla. Gastrointest Endosc
Binmoeller KF, Weilert F, Shah JN, Kim J, EUS-guided transesophageal treatment of gastric fundal varices with combined coiling and cyanoacrylate glue injection (with videos). Gastrointest Endosc
Chen YK, Parsi MA, Binmoeller KF, Hawes RH, Pleskow DK, Slivka A, Haluszka O, Petersen BT, Sherman S, Devière J, Meisner S, Stevens PD, Costamagna G, Ponchon T, Peetermans JA, Neuhaus H, Single-operator cholangioscopy in patients requiring evaluation of bile duct disease or therapy of biliary stones (with videos). Gastrointest Endosc
Watson RR, Binmoeller KF, Hamerski CM, Shergill AK, Shaw RE, Jaffee IM, Stewart L, Shah JN, Yield and performance characteristics of endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration for diagnosing upper GI tract stromal tumors.)Dig Dis Sci
Binmoeller KF, Nguyen-Tang T, Endoscopic ultrasound-guided anterograde cholangiopancreatography. J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Sci
Shah JN, Marson F, Binmoeller KF, Temporary self-expandable metal stent placement for treatment of post-sphincterotomy bleeding. (Opens new window)Gastrointest Endosc
Morgan D, Upchurch B, Draganov P, Binmoeller KF, Haluszka O, Jonnalagadda S, Okolo P, Grimm I, Judah J, Tokar J, Chiorean M, Spiral enteroscopy: prospective U.S. multicenter study in patients with small-bowel disorders. Gastrointest Endosc
Chang KJ, Erickson RA, Chak A, Lightdale C, Chen YK, Binmoeller KF, Albers GC, Chen WP, McLaren CE, Sivak MV, Lee JG, Isenberg GA, Wong RC, EUS compared with endoscopy plus transabdominal US in the initial diagnostic evaluation of patients with upper abdominal pain. Gastrointest Endosc
Binmoeller KF, Fully covered metal stents in the pancreatic duct: balancing trade-offs. Gastrointest Endosc
Nguyen-Tang T, Shah JN, Sanchez-Yague A, Binmoeller KF, Use of the front-view forward-array echoendoscope to evaluate right colonic subepithelial lesions. Gastrointest Endosc
Fockens P, Cohen L, Edmundowicz SA, Binmoeller K, Rothstein RI, Smith D, Lin E, Nickl N, Overholt B, Kahrilas PJ, Vakil N, Abdel Aziz Hassan AM, Lehman GA, Prospective randomized controlled trial of an injectable esophageal prosthesis versus a sham procedure for endoscopic treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease. Surg Endosc
Nguyen NQ, Binmoeller KF, Shah JN, Cholangioscopy and pancreatoscopy (with videos).Gastrointest Endosc
Sherman S, Cheng CL, Costamagna G, Binmoeller KF, Puespoek A, Aithal GP, Kozarek RA, Chen YK, Van Steenbergen W, Tenner S, Freeman M, Monroe P, Geffner M, Deviere J, Interleukin-10 ERCP Study Group, Efficacy of recombinant human interleukin-10 in prevention of post-endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography pancreatitis in subjects with increased risk. Pancreas
Kaltenbach T, Cabral P, Yee L, Allen M, Binmoeller K, Soetikno R, Giant small-bowel GI stromal tumor: aspirin provocation to endoscopically unmask site of obscure overt GI bleeding. Gastrointest Endosc
De Lusong MA, Shah JN, Soetikno R, Binmoeller KF, Treatment of a completely obstructed colonic anastomotic stricture by using a prototype forward-array echoendoscope and facilitated by SpyGlass (with videos). Gastrointest Endosc
Soetikno R, Kaltenbach T, Binmoeller K, Friedland S, Burdon T, Integrated gastrointestinal imaging and therapy. Gastroenterology
Ross A, Mehdizadeh S, Tokar J, Leighton JA, Kamal A, Chen A, Schembre D, Chen G, Binmoeller K, Kozarek R, Waxman I, Dye C, Gerson L, Harrison ME, Haluszka O, Lo S, Semrad C, Double balloon enteroscopy detects small bowel mass lesions missed by capsule endoscopy. Dig Dis Sci
Binmoeller KF, Optimizing interventional EUS: the echoendoscope in evolution. Gastrointest Endosc
Binmoeller KF, Endosurgery: what do we need? Gastrointest Endosc Clin N Am
Yague AS, Sison C, Binmoeller KF, Soetikno R, Pneumatosis intestinalis in the differential diagnosis of arteriovenous malformations. Gastrointest Endosc
Mehdizadeh S, Ross A, Gerson L, Leighton J, Chen A, Schembre D, Chen G, Semrad C, Kamal A, Harrison EM, Binmoeller K, Waxman I, Kozarek R, Lo SK, What is the learning curve associated with double-balloon enteroscopy? Technical details and early experience in 6 U.S. tertiary care centers. Gastrointest Endosc
Bosworth HB, Rockey DC, Paulson EK, Niedzwiecki D, Davis W, Sanders LL, Yee J, Henderson J, Hatten P, Burdick S, Sanyal A, Rubin DT, Sterling M, Akerkar G, Bhutani MS, Binmoeller K, Garvie J, Bini EJ, McQuaid K, Foster WL, Thompson WM, Dachman A, Halvorsen R, Prospective comparison of patient experience with colon imaging tests. Am J Med
Rengstorff DS, Binmoeller KF, A pilot study of 2-octyl cyanoacrylate injection for treatment of gastric fundal varices in humans. Gastrointest Endosc
Greenwald BD, Caldwell SH, Hespenheide EE, Patrie JT, Williams J, Binmoeller KF, Woodall L, Haluszka O, N-2-butyl-cyanoacrylate for bleeding gastric varices: a United States pilot study and cost analysis. Am J Gastroenterol
Sedlack R, Petersen B, Binmoeller K, Kolars J, A direct comparison of ERCP teaching models. Gastrointest Endosc
Binmoeller KF, Rathod VD, Difficult pancreatic mass FNA: tips for success. Gastrointest Endosc
Kamler JP, Borsatto R, Binmoeller KF, Circumferential endoscopic mucosal resection in the swine esophagus assisted by a cap attachment. Gastrointest Endosc