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Specialty:
Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery
Surgery
Board Certification:
Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery
Surgery
Faculty Rank: Professor
Medical or Graduate Education:
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Residency:
Barnes-Jewish Hospital - Surgery
Fellowship:
Brigham and Women's Hospital - Thoracic Surgery
Clinical Expertise:
Cancer surgery, lung
Chest tumors
Esophageal cancer
Esophageal surgery
Esophagus disorders
Hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating)
Lung cancer
Minimally invasive procedures
Thoracic surgery
Thoracoscopic surgery
Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS)
Research Interests:
Lung cancer
Micrometastases
Molecular profiling
Proteomics
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Below is a list of scientific publications for which this practitioner was either the primary author or a contributor. Citations come from PubMed, a database of biomedical literature, life science journals and online books. PubMed is a service of the US Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. Click on the title of the cited work for more information (this will take you directly to PubMed.gov). Listings go back five years.
Development of a serum biomarker panel predicting recurrence in stage I non-small cell lung cancer patients. Esophageal carcinoma advances in treatment results for locally advanced disease: review. Anterior mediastinal mass secondary to histoplasmosis. CDKN2A (p16) Promoter Hypermethylation Influences the Outcome in Young Lung Cancer Patients. Biomarkers of the Insulin-Like Growth Factor Pathway Predict Progression and Outcome in Lung Cancer. Split-course chemoradiotherapy for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer: a single-institution experience of 144 patients. Neoadjuvant chemoradiation for clinically advanced non-small cell lung cancer: an analysis of 233 patients. Prognostic value of xanthine oxidoreductase expression in patients with non-small cell lung cancer Adenocarcinoma in a 40-year-old colonic interposition treated with Ivor Lewis esophagectomy and esophagogastric anastomosis. The early years: how to set up and build your practice. Enhancement of a multianalyte serum biomarker panel to identify lymph node metastases in non-small cell lung cancer with circulating autoantibody biomarkers STS database risk models: predictors of mortality and major morbidity for lung cancer resection Weight Gain in Advanced Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Patients During Treatment With Split-Course Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy is Associated With Superior Survival A multi-analyte serum test for the detection of non-small cell lung cancer Bilobectomy for non-small cell lung cancer: a search for clinical factors that may affect perioperative morbidity and long-term survival Development of a multiplexed tumor-associated autoantibody-based blood test for the detection of non-small cell lung cancer PTEN, RASSF1 and DAPK site-specific hypermethylation and outcome in surgically treated stage I and II nonsmall cell lung cancer patients Age is a strong risk factor for atrial fibrillation after pulmonary lobectomy Sentinel node mapping in lung cancer: introduction Right middle lobectomy for a primary pulmonary leiomyoma: a case report The incidence of perioperative anastomotic complications after sleeve lobectomy is not increased after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy Pneumonectomy after chemoradiation therapy for non-small cell lung cancer: does "side" really matter? An unusual case of Aspergillus fibrosing mediastinitis Enucleation of a giant esophageal gastrointestinal stromal tumor Establishment of a multi-analyte serum biomarker panel to identify lymph node metastases in non-small cell lung cancer Simultaneous costal cartilage-sparing modified Ravitch procedure and latissimus dorsi transfer for chest wall deformity repair in Poland's syndrome Intraoperative sentinel node mapping with technitium-99 in lung cancer: results of CALGB 140203 multicenter phase II trial Diffusion lung capacity for carbon monoxide (DLCO) is an independent prognostic factor for long-term survival after curative lung resection for cancer Cytologic features of adult spindle cell variant of rhabdomyosarcoma: a report of two cases Endobronchial colorectal metastasis versus primary lung cancer: a tale of two sleeve right upper lobectomies Repeat pulmonary resection for metachronous colorectal carcinoma is beneficial Contemporary review on the inequities in the management of lung cancer among the African-American population Utility of silicone esophageal bypass stents in the management of delayed complex esophageal disruptions Identification of clinical factors predicting Pleurx catheter removal in patients treated for malignant pleural effusion Sentinel node mapping in lung cancer: the Holy Grail? Cytologic imprints of giant atypical bronchopulmonary carcinoid tumor of the lung with extensive oncocytic component Invited commentary
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View Transcript When a patient shows up in our thoracic surgery office at University Thoracic Surgeons, they’re often facing the most difficult health issue of their life. I think the thing that we’re blessed with is a team of committed individuals that recognize that and handle the patients with a great deal of empathy and care. And what we’re able to demonstrate to them is that they found in us a partner in fighting this.
Lung cancer was really thought to — and still does in some cases — carry a very grave prognosis. That said, if it’s caught early enough — which we’re doing much more these days — operating — often with minimally invasive techniques — allows the patients to begin with a very frightening diagnosis and come out at the other end cured.
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