Medical Advisory Committee

The Medical Advisory Committee is comprised of Medical Professionals that focus on esophageal cancer treatments and include Surgeons, Medical Oncologist and Gastroenterologist in various Medical Institutions. The focus of this Committee is to work within the subcommittee structure that we have developed. If you click on the name of each Doctor mentioned you will be shown their link to their institution.

Arizona

Dr. Elbert Kuo – Surgeon
Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center Thoracic Surgery

Dr. Ryan Macke – Thoracic Surgeon
Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center Thoracic Surgery

Dr. Praveen Sridhar – Thoracic Surgeon
University of Arizona Cancer Center

Arkansas

Dr. Jason Muesse – Thoracic Surgeon
UAMS Winthrop Rockefeller Cancer Institute

Dr. Matthew Steliga – Thoracic Surgeon
UAMS Medical Center

California

Dr. David Tom Cooke – Surgeon
Associate Program Director, Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
University of California, Davis Medical Center

Dr. Jeffery Velotta – Thoracic Surgery
Oakland Medical Center

Dr. Zev Wainberg – Oncologist
UCLA Health System

Dr. Sha’ Shonda Revels Surgeon
UCLA Medical Center

Dr. Wilson Tsai – Thoracic Surgeon
John Muir Medical Center

Dr. Brooks Udelsman – Thoracic Surgeon
Keck Medicine of USC

Colorado

Dr. Sunnie Kim – Medical Oncologist
UCHealth

Florida

Dr. Mark Block –Thoracic and Cardiac Surgeon
Memorial Regional Hospital South

Dr. Gary W. Chmielewski – Medical Director of Robotic Thoracic Surgery
AdventHealth

Illinois

Dr. Thomas Birdas – Surgeon
Indiana Health

Dr. Dan Catenacci – Medical Oncologist

Dr. Mark Ferguson – (Retired) Professor of Surgery
The University of Chicago Medicine

Nataliya V. Uboha – Medical Oncologist
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine

Kentucky

Dr. Mansi M. Shah-Jadeja Surgeon
Markey Cancer Center

Massachusetts

Dr. Elliot Servais – Thoracic Surgery
Beth Israel Lahey Health

Dr. Michael Kent – Director Of Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Dr. Peter Enzinger – Oncologist
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Dr. Rian M. Hasson – Thoracic Surgery
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Dr. Eirini Pectasides – Medical Oncologist
Dana-Faber Cancer Institute

Dr. Syed Quadri – Surgeon
Lahey Hospital and Medical Center

Dr. Samuel Klempner – Medical Oncologist
Massachusetts General

Michigan

Dr. Kiran Lagisetty – Thoracic and Cardiac Surgeon
University of Michigan Health System

Dr. Rishindra M. Reddy – Professor
University of Michigan Health System

Missouri

Dr. Bryan Meyers – Thoracic Surgeon
Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University

New Hampshire

Dr. Dana Ferrari-Light – Assistant Professor of Surgery, Section of Thoracic Surgery
Dartmouth Health and Geisel School of Medicine

Dr. Joseph Phillips – Thoracic Surgeon
Dartmouth- Hitchcock

New Jersey

Dr. Tom Bauer – Chairman of Surgery, JSUMC
Hackensack Meridian Health

Dr. Martin S. Karpeh – Chairman Department of Surgery
Hackensack University Medical Center

Dr. Nabil Rizk – Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery
John Theurer Cancer Center

New York

Dr. Adam Bass – Oncologist
Columbia University

Dr. Prasad Adusumilli – Surgeon,  Deputy Chief, Thoracic Service
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Dr. Sree Bhavani Chalasani –Medical Oncologist
Memorial Sloan Kettering cancer center

Dr. Manjit Bains – Surgeon
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Dr. Todd Demmy – Professor of Oncology
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Dr. Raja M. Flores – Surgeon
Professor and Chief of Thoracic Surgery
Mount Sinai Medical Center

Dr. Hans Gerdes – Gastroenterologist
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Dr. David Ilson – Medical Oncologist
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Dr. David R. Jones – Surgeon
Chief Thoracic Service Department of Surgery
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Dr. Smita Joshi – Medical Oncologist
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Yu-Fan C. Kao Chair in Thoracic Cancer
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Dr. Geoffrey Y. Ku- Oncologist
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Dr. Steve Maron – Medical Oncologist
Memorial Sloan Kettering cancer Center

Dr. Joshi Mita – Medical Oncologist
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Dr. Daniela Molena – Surgeon
Director, Esophageal Surgery Program
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Dr. Bernard J. Park – Surgeon
Deputy Chief of Clinical Affairs, Thoracic Service
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Dr. Marina Shcherba – Medical Oncologist
Memorial Sloan Kettering cancer Center

Dr. Paul E. Oberstein – Medical Oncologist
NYU Langone Health

Dr. Rutika J Mehta – Gastrointestinal Oncology
Weill Cornell

Dr. David D. Odell – Professor
University of Michigan Health System

North Carolina

Dr. Jason Long – Assistant Professor of Surgery
UNC Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Pennsylvania

Dr. Omar Awais – Thoracic Surgeon
UPMC Mercy

Dr. Tyler Grenda– Surgeon
Jefferson Health

Dr. Roman Petrov
Temple University Hospital

South Carolina

Dr. Albert Craig Lockhart – Medical Oncologist
University of South Carolina

Sheel Patel-Polk, DO – Surgeon
Roper St. Francis Physician Partners Thoracic Surgery

Tennessee

Dr. Michael Gibson – Research Director for Translational Research in Head and Neck Oncology
Vanderbilt Health

Texas

Dr. Mara Antonoff – Assistant Professor Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Dr. Ravi Rajaram – Surgeon
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Dr. Shanda Blackmon – Executive Director
Baylor College of Medicine

Dr. Inderpal Sakaria – Thoracic Surgery
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center – Department of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery

Dr. Scott Reznik – Assistant Professor Cardio Thoracic Surgery
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Virginia

Dr. Simran Randhawa – Thoracic Surgeon
Inova

Dr. Linda Martin – Associate Professor
University of Virginia Health System

West Virginia

Dr. Ghulam Abbas – Thoracic and Cardiac Surgeon
West Virginia University Medical Center

International

Brazil

Dr. Ulysses Ribeiro Jr – Oncologist, Surgeon, Gastroenterologist
Instituto do Cancer  do Estado.. Sao Paulo (Brazil)

China

Dr. Keneng Chen – Surgeon
Peking University Cancer Hospital (Beijing)

Germany

Dr. Arnulf Hoelscher – Surgeon
German Center for Esophageal and Gastric Cancer Surgery

Hong Kong

Dr. Simon Law –  Surgeon
The University of Hong Kong

Dr. Ian Wong – Surgeon
The University of Hong Kong

India

Dr. CS Pramesh – Surgeon
Tata Memorial Centre (India)

Japan

Dr. Yuko Kitagawa – Surgeon
Keio University (Minato)

United Kingdom

Dr. S. Michael Griffin – Surgeon
Royal Victoria Infirmary

Dr. Mansi Shah – Thoracic Surgeon
UK HealthCare and Markey Cancer Center