Dr. David P. Carbone is a medical oncologist who specializes in treating patients with lung cancer and other thoracic malignancies at the James Comprehensive Cancer Center at the Ohio State University. Dr. Carbone is Director of the cancer center’s thoracic center and co-leader of the Translational Therapeutics Program, where he focuses on genetics, targeted therapies,
Dr. Gregory A. Otterson is a retired thoracic oncologist who most recently held positions at the James Comprehensive Cancer Center at the Ohio State University. He was the co-director of the Thoracic Oncology Program and a professor of internal medicine. Dr. Otterson specialized in the treatment of patients with thoracic malignancies, including pleural mesothelioma, adenocarcinoma,
Dr. Dwight Owen is a medical oncologist and researcher at the James Comprehensive Cancer Center in Columbus, Ohio. He specializes in treating patients with thoracic malignancies, including pleural mesothelioma, lung cancer, and thymic cancers. Dr. Owen says that what drove him into oncology was the human connection and the fact that it let him be his
Dr. Peter G. Shields is a medical oncologist and researcher at The Ohio State University James Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is a tenured professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and in the Division of Epidemiology. Education and Career Dr. Shields earned a Bachelor of Arts degree
Dr. Peter J. Kneuertz is a thoracic surgeon at the James Comprehensive Cancer Center in Columbus, Ohio, specializing in minimally invasive surgery for the treatment of lung cancer, esophageal cancer, and other thoracic malignancies, including pleural mesothelioma. He is skilled in Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) and robotic surgery, as well as extrapleural pneumonectomy and bronchoscopy.
Dr. Robert E. Merritt is a general thoracic surgeon, professor, and director of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at Ohio State University. He has special expertise in minimally invasive surgery in the treatment of lung cancer and thoracic malignancies, including pleural mesothelioma. His clinical interests include primary lung carcinoma, esophageal carcinoma, thymic malignancies, primary tumors
Dr. Philip Linden is the Chief of the Division of Thoracic and Esophageal Surgery at University Hospitals and UH Seidman Cancer Center in Cleveland, Ohio. His clinical interests are thoracic cancers of all kinds, including lung cancer and pleural mesothelioma, and he is skilled in ablative therapies and minimally invasive lung and esophageal surgeries, including
Dr. Afshin Dowlati is a medical oncologist and hematologist at the University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center and a researcher at Case Comprehensive Cancer Center. As the Director of the Thoracic Oncology Program, he specializes in both the biological and clinical management of thoracic malignancies, with a particular interest in small cell lung cancer and pleural
Dr. Melinda Hsu is a thoracic medical oncologist at University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. She specializes in the care of patients with lung cancer, as well as other thoracic malignancies, including malignant pleural mesothelioma. Education and Career Dr. Hsu earned her Bachelor of Arts
Dr. Debora S. Bruno is a thoracic medical oncologist and Medical Director of Clinical Research at the City of Hope in Atlanta, Georgia. She is focused on caring for patients with lung cancer, thymic malignancies, and malignant pleural mesothelioma, with an emphasis on the use of new therapies that improve the time patients have without