Dr. Scott M. Atay is a thoracic surgeon at Keck Medicine of USC in southern California. He specializes in treating malignant diseases, including pleural mesothelioma, lung cancer, and esophageal cancer. He is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery and the Surgical Director of the USC Lung Transplant Program. Education and Career Dr. Atay began his
The Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office has issued 104 indictments to a developer it fears raised the risk of malignant mesothelioma to thousands. The company is accused of illegally demolishing a former elementary school, spreading asbestos dust to a large neighborhood and exposing its own workers to the carcinogenic material at the same time.
Dr. Matthew A. Gubens is a thoracic oncologist at the UCSF Health Thoracic Surgery and Oncology Clinic and the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. He specializes in treating patients diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer, small cell lung cancer, thymoma and thymic carcinoma, and pleural mesothelioma. Dr. Gubens is actively involved in research seeking
Dr. Hitesh Batra is an interventional pulmonologist with a special interest in pleural diseases, including malignant pleural mesothelioma. He is Director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Hospital’s Interventional Pulmonology and Pleural Disease program, the state’s first and only interventional pulmonary program. Education and Career Dr. Batra earned his medical degree at the
Dr. Julie Renee Brahmer is a medical oncologist and international leader in the development of new therapies for the treatment and prevention of lung cancer and pleural mesothelioma. Her positions at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center include Co-Director of the Cancer Immunology Program and Director of Thoracic Oncology. Her particular expertise lies in drug
Dr. Heather Wakelee is a medical oncologist specializing in thoracic cancers, like lung cancer and pleural mesothelioma. She sees patients at the Thoracic Cancer Program at Stanford in Palo Alto, California. After years of developing a research program and being the physician lead for Stanford’s thoracic malignancies clinical research group, she took on the role
Dr. Farid Gharagozloo is a thoracic surgeon and a leading expert in minimally invasive robotic thoracic surgery. He specializes in treating thoracic cancers, like lung cancer and pleural mesothelioma, as well as benign esophageal conditions. His career is distinguished by having been the first in the world to perform robot-assisted extrapleural pneumonectomies. Education and Career
Dr. David Tom Cooke is Professor and Founding Chief of UC Davis Health Center’s Division of General Thoracic Surgery. He specializes in complex general thoracic surgery and thoracic oncology, with special clinical interests including lung cancers and surgery for malignant mesothelioma. Education and Career Dr. Cooke earned an undergraduate degree in Immunology at the University
Dr. Jonathan Wesley Riess is a thoracic oncologist at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center in Sacramento, California. As Medical Director of Thoracic Oncology, he relies on advances in diagnostics, targeted therapies, and immunotherapy in the care of patients with malignant mesothelioma, lung cancer, and other thoracic cancers. In addition to his clinical care, he
Dr. Ravi Salgia is a medical oncologist and the Professor and Chair of the Department of Medical Oncology & Therapeutics Research at City of Hope in Duarte, California. He is an expert in the treatment of lung cancer, pleural mesothelioma, and thymic malignancies. Dr. Salgia has over 30 years of award-winning accomplishments in treating patients