Dr. Jeffrey Velotta is a thoracic surgeon and Director of the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Mesothelioma Program and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine. His patient care centers on thoracic surgery, and he is particularly skilled in minimally invasive lung and
Dr. Bryan Burt is the Chief of Thoracic Surgery and Professor of Surgery at UCLA Health and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. He is an internationally recognized surgeon-scientist and surgical oncologist who specializes in minimally invasive robotic thoracic surgery for the treatment of lung cancer, esophageal cancer, thymic
Dr. Groth is a thoracic surgeon at the Baylor School of Medicine and Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston, Texas. His practice includes the multi-disciplinary management of benign and malignant disorders of the esophagus/foregut, lung, pleural space, mediastinum, chest wall, and diaphragm, including malignant pleural mesothelioma, lung cancer, and esophageal cancer. In addition to
Dr. Travis Osterman is a medical oncologist at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. His clinical interests are focused on lung cancer, thymic malignancies, and malignant pleural mesothelioma, but he is also an informatician interested in applying clinical informatics methods across the cancer care continuum. In addition to providing high-quality, compassionate patient care,
Dr. Jonathan C. Nesbitt is Professor and Chair of the Department of Thoracic Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. He has significant expertise in the management of diseases including lung cancer, esophageal cancer, diseases of the mediastinum, chest wall tumors, and pleural diseases, including malignant pleural mesothelioma. Dr. Nesbitt treats patients with complex thoracic
Dr. Christine M. Lovly is a medical oncologist and scientist at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, Tennessee. She has a special interest in thoracic malignancies, including lung cancer and malignant pleural mesothelioma, and splits her time between clinical patient care and laboratory research. Education and Career Dr. Lovly received a bachelor of arts in Chemistry
Dr. Mariam Alexander is a thoracic medical oncologist. Her patient care focuses on those diagnosed with lung cancer and solid tumors like malignant pleural mesothelioma, and she specializes in the use of targeted therapies to provide better outcomes. As part of the multidisciplinary lung and thoracic oncology team at Hollings Cancer Center and the Medical University
Dr. Gerard Silvestri is a lung cancer pulmonologist at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and its affiliated Hollings Cancer Center. He specializes in lung cancers of all types, starting with evaluating each patient’s individual disease characteristics and then managing their condition to improve outcomes. His dedication to the care of lung cancer patients has
Dr. Bostock Rosenzweig is a board-certified thoracic surgeon at Baptist Health Miami Cancer Institute in Miami, Florida. He specializes in treating lung and esophageal cancer, mesothelioma, mediastinal and chest wall tumors, and benign esophageal diseases such as reflux, achalasia, and paraesophageal hernias. He has special interests in health disparities, shared decision-making, esophageal cancer, minimally invasive thoracic
Dr. Kathryn Engelhardt is a fellowship-trained thoracic surgeon at Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Health and its Hollings Cancer Center. She has advanced expertise in cancer care, lung transplantation, and robotic surgery and her clinical interests are surgery of the lung, airway, esophagus, stomach, chest wall, and mediastinum. As part of her practice, she