Professional Overview
Honors and Awards
- Board Certification, Thoracic Surgery, American Board of Thoracic Surgery General Surgery, American Board of Surgery (.)
Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
Lung Cancer, Thoracic Cancers - Surgical Oncology, Esophageal Cancer
Clinical Trials
- Recruiting Microarray Analysis of Gene Expression and Identification of Progenitor Cells in Lung Carcinoma
- Recruiting Identification of Circulating Tumor Cells in the Peripheral Blood of Lung Cancer Patients
- Not Recruiting CyberKnife Radiosurgical Treatment of Inoperable Early Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
- Not Recruiting Phase II Docetaxel / Carboplatin / XRT + Surgical Resection in Stage III NSCLC
- Not Recruiting Evaluation of Cyberknife Precision Radiation Delivery System for Unresectable Malignant Lung Cancer
Publications
- A pilot cohort study of the determinants of longitudinal opioid use after surgery. Anesth Analg. 2012; (3): 694-702
- Results from a single institution phase II trial of concurrent docetaxel/carboplatin/radiotherapy followed by surgical resection and consolidation docetaxel/carboplatin in stage III non-small-cell lung cancer. Clin Lung Cancer. 2011; (5): 280-5
- Tumor volume as a potential imaging-based risk-stratification factor in trimodality therapy for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer. J Thorac Oncol. 2011; (5): 920-6
- Complications of ablative therapies in lung cancer. Clin Lung Cancer. 2008; (2): 122-6
- Management of locally advanced non small cell lung cancer from a surgical perspective. Curr Treat Options Oncol. 2007; (1): 1-14
- Metabolic tumor burden predicts for disease progression and death in lung cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2007; (2): 328-33
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