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David J. Sugarbaker, MD
Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA Chief, Department of Surgical Services Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Phone: (617) 732-6824
Uses aggressive treatment of pleural mesothelioma, including extrapleural pneumonectomy, chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
Lambros Zellos, MD, MPH
Attending Thoracic Surgeon; Clinical Co-Director of the International Mesothelioma Program Brigham & Women's Hospital Dana Farber Cancer Institute Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Phone: (617) 525-9657
Uses multimodality therapy. He may recommend pleurectomy or extrapleural pneumonectomy with chemotherapy or radiation.
David C. Rice, MD
Assistant Surgeon and Assistant Professor of Surgery; Director, Mesothelioma Program; Director, Minimally Invasive Surgery Program, Thoracic Surgery The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Phone: (713) 794-1477
Regularly conducts clinical trials.
Valerie W. Rusch, FACS
Attending Thoracic Surgeon Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Phone: (212) 639-5873
Specialist in pleural decortication and extrapleural pneumonectomy.
W. Roy Smythe, MD
Professor and Chairman Department of Surgery, Texas A&M University System Health Sciences Center, Scott & White Hospital, Temple, TX
Phone: 254-724-2595
Works on developing new treatment protocols.
Raja M. Flores, MD
Attending Thoracic Surgeon Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Phone: (212) 639-2806C
Conducts clinical trials and has created a large patient database to help doctors understand what doesn’t work and learn new treatments for mesothelioma.
Paul H. Sugarbaker, MD, FACS, FRCS
Director, Surgical Oncology Washington Cancer Institute, Washington, DC
Phone: (202) 877-3908
Well-known specialist in treating peritoneal mesothelioma using a combination of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation.
Brian W. Loggie, MD
Professor of Surgery, Creighton University Medical School; Chief, Division of Surgical Oncology; Director of Cancer Center Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Phone: (402) 280-4100
For patients who meet certain criteria, he uses surgical debulking along with intraperitoneal heated chemotherapy.
David L. Bartlett, MD
Professor of Surgery, Chief, Division of Surgical Oncology UPMC Cancer Pavilion, Pittsburgh, PA
Phone: (412) 692-2852
Claire F. Verschraegen, MD
Director, Clinical Trial Office and Investigational Drug Program Cancer Research and Treatment Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Phone: (505) 272-4551
Regularly conducts clinical trials on drug treatments for mesothelioma.
Gregory P. Kalemkerian, MD
Co-Director of Thoracic Oncology University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center Ann Arbor, MI
Phone: (734) 936-5281
Mesothelioma specialist.
Joseph S. Friedberg, MD
Chief of Thoracic Surgery University of Pennsylvania at Presbyterian, Philadelphia, PA
Phone: (215) 662-9195
Conducts clinical trials, including one on photodynamic therapy.
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David P. Mason, MD
Staff Surgeon, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
Phone: (216) 444-4053
Member of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology team.
David M. Jablons, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery Chief, General Thoracic Surgery UCSF Mt. Zion Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
Phone: (415) 885-3882
Pleural mesothelioma specialist who uses radical pleurectomy decortication and is researching other therapies.
Lary A. Robinson, MD
Director, Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery Principal Thoracic Surgical Oncologist H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL
Phone: (813) 972-8412
Part of the multidisciplinary thoracic oncology group. Conducts clinical research for lung cancer and mesothelioma.
Craig W. Stevens, MD, PhD
Division Chief, Radiation Oncology H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute Tampa, FL
Phone: (813) 972-8424
Robert Cameron, MD
UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Phone: (310) 794-7333
Robert N. Taub, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
Phone: (212) 305-4076
Medical oncologist at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Daniel Sterman, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
Phone: (215) 614-0984
Eric Vallieres, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery, Section of General Thoracic Surgery University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
Phone: (206) 598-4477
Regularly conducts clinical trials and writes articles on mesothelioma treatments.
Stephen C. Yang, MD
Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery Associate Professor of Surgery and Oncology Surgical Director, Lung Transplantation Program Director, Thoracic Oncology Program Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD
Phone: (410) 614-3891
Mark J. Krasna, MD
Medical Director of the Cancer Institute at St. Joseph Medical Center Towson, MD
Phone: (410) 427-2220
Helped develop thoracic surgery as a discipline and has written and teaches about thoracoscopic surgery.
David H. Harpole, Jr., MD
Associate Professor of Surgery, Thoracic Oncology Program Assistant
Professor of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Phone: (919) 668-8413
Harvey Pass, MD
Professor and Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery and Thoracic Oncology, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery NYU School of Medicine and Comprehensive Cancer Center New York, NY
Phone: (212) 263-7417
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