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