Dr. Boris Sepesi is a thoracic surgeon and the director of General Thoracic Surgery and Thoracic Oncology at HCA HealthOne in Colorado. As part of the HealthOne Physician Group in Aurora, Colorado, his clinical focus is on managing patients with complex thoracic oncological diagnoses, including lung cancer and pleural mesothelioma. Education and Career Dr. Sepesi
Dr. Michael Weyant is a board-certified thoracic surgeon and system-wide director of the thoracic surgery program at Inova Health in Virginia. Dr. Weyant treats patients with lung cancer and other thoracic malignancies and diseases, including pleural mesothelioma. He is skilled in the use of robotic minimally invasive surgical techniques, including lung-sparing surgery. Education and Career
Dr. Robert Meguid is a thoracic surgeon and professor of cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado. His clinical focus is on benign and malignant diseases of the lung, including lung cancer and other thoracic malignancies. He is skilled in segmentectomy, lobectomy, pneumonectomy, mediastinoscopy, and bronchoscopy, as well as
Dr. Jay M. Lee is a thoracic surgeon and the Surgical Director of UCLA and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Thoracic Oncology Program. An internationally recognized expert in all aspects of thoracic surgical oncology, his clinical focus is on patients with lung cancer and other thoracic malignancies, including pleural mesothelioma. Education and Career Dr. Lee received his
Dr. William Mitchell is a medical oncologist whose practice is dedicated to the care of patients with all types of thoracic cancers, including lung cancer, pleural mesothelioma, and thymomas. A large part of his clinical role at UC San Diego’s Moores Comprehensive Cancer Center is dedicated to palliative care. He directs the Doris Howell Service
Dr. Lyudmila Bazhenova is a medical oncologist who practices at Moores Comprehensive Cancer Center at UC San Diego, in San Diego, California. She specializes in treating patients with all types of lung cancer and other thoracic malignancies, including pleural mesothelioma. She is also a clinical professor of Medicine at UC San Diego Medical School. Education
Dr. Patricia Thistlethwaite is a cardiothoracic surgeon and professor of surgery at the Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health. In addition to heart surgery, she specializes in minimally invasive approaches to thoracic diseases, including lung cancer, mediastinal and chest wall surgeries, pleural mesothelioma, diseases of the thymus, and heart and lung transplantation. Education and Career Dr.
Dr. Thierry M. Jahan is a University of California at San Francisco medical oncologist who specializes in the treatment of lung cancer, pleural mesothelioma, and other thoracic malignancies. Over decades of caring for patients, he has a well-deserved reputation for his empathetic and compassionate treatment of his patients and his commitment to finding a cure
Dr. Harmik J. Soukiasian is a thoracic surgeon specializing in minimally invasive robotic thoracic surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. As Chief of Thoracic Surgery, he cares for patients diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma, lung cancer, esophageal cancer, and many other thoracic conditions. Education and
For more than fifty years, mesothelioma and asbestos-related disease advocates have been fighting for a ban on the use of asbestos in the United States. After decades of pushback from the chemical industry and roadblocks imposed by previous administrations, the Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a rule prohibiting ongoing uses of the carcinogenic material.