Mesothelioma Doctors

California

Dr. Robert Cameron - Los Angeles, California
Dr. Cameron is Assistant Professor of Surgery and the Director of Thoracic Oncology at UCLA Medical Center. He specializes in treating mesothelioma patients.

P.O. Box 951741
Los Angeles, California 90095-1741
Phone: (310) 206-8232

Dr. David Jablons - San Francisco, California
Dr. Jablons is the Program Leader of the Thoracic Oncology Program at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and a Program Member of the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center. Current research initiatives include the molecular biology of non-small cell lung cancer and mesothelioma with emphasis on gene discovery through differential display and subtraction hybridization techniques in primary tumors, metastases, and cell lines.

UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center
Box 0128, UCSF
San Francisco, California 94143-0128
Phone: (800) 888-8664 or (415) 885-7777
Website: cc.ucsf.edu

Current research: http://cc.ucsf.edu/research/thoracic.html

Additional information about Dr. Jablons can be found at:
http://www.som.ucsf.edu/faculty/Profile.asp?PersonID=7201 and
http://cc.ucsf.edu/people/jablons_david.html
 

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Dr. Lary A. Robinson - Tampa, Florida
Dr. Robinson is the Director of the Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center. He is a member of the multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology group, which evaluates and treats all stages of mesothelioma. Clinical and research interests include aggressive surgical management of mesothelioma and advanced lung cancer.

H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
12902 Magnolia Drive
Tampa, Florida 33612-9497
Phone: (813) 972-8412
Website: www.moffitt.usf.edu

Additional information about Dr. Robinson can be found at:
http://www.moffitt.usf.edu/Prevention_and_Treatment/physician/details.asp

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Dr. Dong M. Shin – Atlanta, Georgia
Dr. Shin is the Professor of Hematology and Oncology at the Emory University School of Medicine and the Director of the Clinical and Translational Cancer Prevention Program at Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University. His areas of interest include head, neck and lung cancers.

Winship Cancer Institute
The Emory Clinic - C
1365 Clifton Rd, NE
Atlanta, Georgia 30322
Phone: (888) WINSHIP or (404) 778-1900
Website: www.winshipcancerinstitute.org

Additional information about Dr. Shin can be found at:
http://www.emoryhealthcare.org/
find_physician/physician_detail.jsp?physicianid=11592&SessionID=338213

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Dr. Nicholas Vogelzang - Chicago, Illinois
Dr. Vogelzang is the Director of the University of Chicago Cancer Research Center and a medical oncologist with the University of Chicago Cancer Research Center Mesothelioma Program. His interests are in clinical trials in genitourinary malignancies and mesothelioma. He is a recognized expert in new therapies for patients with metastatic kidney cancer, including genetic therapy, new cytokine therapy, and combination.

University of Chicago Cancer Research Center Mesothelioma Program
5841 South Maryland Ave., MC 1140
Chicago, Illinois 60637
Phone: (773) 834-7424
 

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Dr. Stephen C. Yang - Baltimore, Maryland
Dr. Yang is the Associate Professor of Surgery and Oncology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He also serves as the Chief of the Division of Thoracic Surgery, the Director of the Lung Transplantation Program and Director of Thoracic Oncology Program at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. His primary interests include lung transplantation, video-assisted thoracic surgery (V.A.T.S.) and thoracic surgical oncology with particular interests in lung and esophageal cancer and mesothelioma.

The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Surgery, Osler 624
600 North Wolfe Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21287-5674
Appointments: (410) 614-3891
Website: www.hopkinsmedicine.org

Additional information about Dr. Yang can be found at:
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/jhtop/
Thoracic_Tumor_Board/Surgeons/Stephen_Yang__M_D_/
stephen_yang__m_d_.html
 

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Dr. David Sugarbaker - Boston, Massachusetts
Dr. Sugarbaker is the Chief of Surgical Services at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He also serves as the Chief of Thoracic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sugarbaker instituted The International Pleural Mesothelioma Program in response to the growing rise in the incidence of mesothelioma worldwide. Malignant pleural mesothelioma has been a central focus of Dr. Sugarbaker's clinical and laboratory research, and he pioneered the "tri-modal" therapy approach.

Brigham & Women's Hospital
Division of Thoracic Surgery
75 Francis Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Phone: (617) 732-6824
 

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Dr. Gregory P. Kalemkerian - Ann Arbor, Michigan
Dr. Kalemkerian is the Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and the Director of the Multidisciplinary Lung Cancer Clinic at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. He coordinates the lung cancer research program, focusing on experimental therapeutics.

U-M Health System
Comprehensive Cancer Center
1500 E. Medical Center Drive
CCGC 6-303
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0944
Phone: (800) 865-1125

Website: http://www.cancer.med.umich.edu

Additional information about Dr. Kalemkerian can be found at:
http://www.cancer.med.umich.edu/clinic/lungstaff.htm

Dr. Harvey Pass - Detroit, Michigan
Dr. Pass is the Head of Thoracic Oncology at the Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit and has studied pleural mesothelioma since 1988 when he was the Head of Thoracic Oncology and Senior Investigator of the Surgery Branch of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda. Dr. Pass is internationally known for the treatment of mesothelioma, with special expertise in the field of photodynamic therapy (PDT), a treatment with drugs that become active and kill cancer cells when exposed to light. Dr. Pass has been named among “America’s Top Doctors” by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.

Harper University Hospital
4100 John R., Suite 615
Detroit, Michigan 48201
Phone: (313) 745-4400
Website: www.dmc.org
 

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Dr. Brian Loggie - Omaha, Nebraska
Dr. Loggie is Professor of Surgery, Chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology, and Director of the Cancer Center at Creighton University Medical Center. He specializes in the treatment of peritoneal mesothelioma and peritoneal carcinomatosis. His research protocol involves surgical debulking in combination with intraperitoneal heated chemotherapy.

Creighton University Medical Center
Division of Surgical Oncology, Suite 3700
601 North 30th Street
Omaha, Nebraska 68131
Phone: (402) 280-5009
Website: http://medicine.creighton.edu/Surgery

Additional information about Dr. Loggie can be found at:
http://medicine.creighton.edu/Surgery/Faculty/loggie.htm
 

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Dr. Claire Verschraegen - Albuquerque, New Mexico
Dr. Verschraegen is an oncologist and the Director of Experimental Therapeutics and Clinical Investigations at the University of New Mexico Cancer Research and Treatment Center.

University of New Mexico Cancer Research and Treatment Center
900 Camino de Salud NE
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131
Phone: (505) 272-5837
Website: http://hsc.unm.edu

Additional information about Dr. Verschraegen can be found at:
http://hscapp.unm.edu/upa/pd/detail.cfm?DocKey=1933
 

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Dr. Mary Louise Keohan - New York, New York
Dr. Keohan is the Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and New York Presbyterian Hospital. She is a medical oncologist who specializes in the treatment of mesothelioma, sarcoma and Kaposi's sarcoma at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, where there are a number of ongoing multimodality studies of patients with pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma as well as other connective tissue oncology studies.

Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
161 Fort Washington Avenue
Herbert Irving Pavilion, Suite 9-917
New York, New York 10032
Phone: (212) 305-0549
Website: www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/medicine/sarcoma/irving.html

Dr. Roman Perez-Soler - New York, New York
Dr. Perez-Soler is the Associate Director of Clinical Oncology at New York University Kaplan Cancer Center in New York, NY. He specializes in medical oncology and is the principal investigator of the Phase II L-NDDP/Platar trial for pleural mesothelioma.

Recent publications:
http://library.med.nyu.edu/cgi-bin/facbib-bio.pl?AU=perezr01&RP=N&CP=N

New York University School of Medicine
550 First Avenue
New York, New York 10016

Phone: (212) 263-8043
Website: www.med.nyu.edu

Additional information about Dr. Perez-Soler can be found at:
http://www.med.nyu.edu/people/perezr01.html

Dr. Valerie Rusch - New York, New York
Dr. Rusch specializes in treating patients with cancers of the lung, esophagus, mediastinum, and chest wall, including those with mesothelioma. Her research interests include the genetics of lung cancer and mesothelioma and predicting how a patient will respond to a particular treatment. She is also involved in developing methods for early detection of thoracic cancers.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
1275 York Avenue
New York, New York 10021
Phone: (212) 639-5873
Website: www.mskcc.org

Additional information about Dr. Rusch can be found at:
http://www.mskcc.org/prg/prg/bios/51.cfm

Dr. Robert Taub - New York, New York
Dr. Taub is the Professor of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons and a medical oncologist who directs the Connective Tissue Oncology Program at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, where there are several ongoing multimodality studies of patients with pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma.

Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
161 Fort Washington Avenue
Herbert Irving 9-907
New York, New York 10032
Phone: (212) 305-4076
Website: www.nyp.org

Additional information about Dr. Taub can be found at:
http://www.beryl.net/custom/physref/nyp/PhysDetail.asp
 

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Dr. David H. Harpole, Jr. - Durham, North Carolina
Dr. Harpole is an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Thoracic Surgery at Duke University Medical Center. He specializes in thoracic oncology, general thoracic surgery, and benign and malignant diseases of the lung, esophagus, and mediastinum.

Duke University Medical Center
2400 North Pratt Street
Room 0311 Terrace Level
Durham, North Carolina 27705
Phone: (919) 668-8413
Website: http://surgery.mc.duke.edu/thoracic

Additional information about Dr. Harpole can be found at:
http://surgery.mc.duke.edu/thoracic/Harpole.htm
 

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Dr. Joseph S. Friedberg - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dr. Friedberg is the Director of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. His interests are in all areas of thoracic surgery, including benign and malignant pulmonary diseases and malignant mesothelioma.

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
1100 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107
Phone: (800) JEFF-NOW or (215) 955-2996
Website: www.jeffersonhospital.org/surgery

Additional information about Dr. Friedberg can be found at:
http://www.jeffersonhospital.org/surgery/e3front.dll?gwyLnk=http%3A
%2F%2Fapps.jeffersonhospital.org%2Fcgi-bin%2Fphysiciandirectory%2F
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0&recNumStart=1&affiliation=&specialty=Surgery+-+Thoracic%
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Dr. Larry Kaiser - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dr. Kaiser is a cardiothoracic surgeon and the co-director of the Thoracic Oncology Research Lab. His work in the laboratory focuses on gene therapy of thoracic tumors. He also serves as the John Rhea Barton Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery as well as the Eldridge L. Eliason Professor of Surgery and Chief of Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. His areas of interest include malignant mesothelioma and mediastinal tumors.

3400 Spruce Street
4 Silverstein Pavilion
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4227
Patient Appointments: (215) 662-2050
Website: http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/lungctr/academic_programs/
pulmonary/research/labs/albelda/torl/torl_home.html

Additional information about Dr. Kaiser can be found at:
http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/lungctr/academic_programs/pulmonary/
research/labs/albelda/torl/people.html

Dr. Daniel Sterman - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dr. Sterman is the Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA. He is also the Clinical Director of the Thoracic Oncology Gene Therapy Program. His clinical interests include the treatment of thoracic malignancies as they apply to the development and implementation of new techniques in interventional pulmonology.

University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Division
833 West Gates Building
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4283
Phone: (215) 614-0984
Website: www.uphs.upenn.edu/lungctr/academic_programs/pulmonary

Additional information about Dr. Sterman can be found at:
http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/lungctr/academic_programs/
pulmonary/provider_profiles/dsterman.html
 

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Dr. W. Roy Smythe - Houston, Texas
Dr. Smythe is the Associate Professor and Director of the Mesothelioma Multidisciplinary Treatment and Research Program at the University of TX M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. He has designed a pilot protocol at M. D. Anderson for malignant pleural mesothelioma involving aggressive surgical therapy followed by intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT). His research interests include prodrug gene therapy, apoptosis, mesothelioma, and lung neoplasms.

Curriculum Vitae:
http://www.mdanderson.org/departments/tcvsurg/display.cfm?id=
6e6eec3d-29ac-4c21-93f115c507c4105b&method=
displayfull&pn=8569ad4f-955b-11d4-80fa00508b603a14

The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Box 445
Houston, Texas 77030-4095
Phone: (713) 792-6933
Appointments: (713) 792-6161 or (800) 392-1611
Website: www.mdanderson.org

Additional information about Dr. Smythe can be found at:
http://www.mdanderson.org/departments/tcvsurg/display.cfm?id=
8569b58f-955b-11d4-80fa00508b603a14&method=displayfull&pn=
8569ad4f-955b-11d4-80fa00508b603a14


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Dr. Eric Vallieres - Seattle, Washington
Dr. Vallieres is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, WA. He is a surgical oncologist who has been the principal investigator of a Phase II multi-modal trial for mesothelioma patients at the University of Washington Medical Center. His research focuses on clinical trials to evaluate and pursue induction and/or adjuvant strategies to the surgical treatment of lung cancer and the multimodality therapy of mesothelioma.

University of Washington
Department of Surgery
Box 356310
Seattle, Washington 98195-6310

Phone: (206) 543-3093
Website: http://depts.washington.edu/surgery

Additional information about Dr. Vallieres can be found at:
http://depts.washington.edu/surgery/faculty/vallieres.html