The Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery Experts

Thoracic and Foregut Surgery Experts

James Ackerman, MD

Evan Alicuben, MD

Omar Awais, DO

• Thoracic surgical oncology for lung, esophageal, mediastinal, and gastroesophageal cancers
• Surgical treatment of benign esophageal diseases
• Multi-modal therapy for thoracic diseases

Nicholas Baker, MD

• Minimally invasive surgery for lung, pleural, and esophageal diseases

Neil Christie, MD

• Minimally invasive thoracic surgery
• Anti-reflux surgery
• Fluorescent bronchoscopy
• Thoracic stereotactic radiosurgery

Rajeev Dhupar, MD, MBA

• VATS lobectomy
• Thoracic Surgical Oncology
• Minimally invasive esophageal cancer surgery
• Minimally invasive anti-reflux surgery
• Stereotactic ablative radiation
• Malignant pleural effusions and diseases of the pleura

Renee Levesque, MD

Ryan Levy, MD

• Minimally invasive surgery for lung, pleural, and esophageal diseases
• Thoracic surgical oncology for esophageal, gastric, and lung cancers
• Management of GERD and other thoracic conditions

Arjun Pennathur, MD

• Minimally invasive thoracic surgery
• Thoracic surgical oncology

Inderpal (Netu) Sarkaria, MD, FACS

• Minimally invasive esophageal surgery
• Video Assisted Thoracic Surgical (VATS) lobectomy for lung cancer
• VATS thymectomy for thymoma
• Anti-reflux surgery

Matthew Schuchert, MD

• Thoracic surgical oncology
• Radiofrequency ablation

Tadeusz Witek, MD

• Esophageal surgery
• Robotic thoracic surgery
• Thoracic oncology

Cardiothoracic Transplant Experts

Jenalee Coster, MD

Pablo Sanchez, MD, PhD, FACS

• Lung transplantation
• ECMO
• EVLP

Masashi Furukawa, MD

• Lung transplantation