Memorial Sloan Kettering is home to a multidisciplinary team of compassionate experts who specialize in treating lung cancer. The team includes thoracic surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, radiologists, pathologists, nurses, and other healthcare professionals who focus only on caring for people with lung cancer.
Having experts from all of these disciplines on your team ensures that your treatment plan is coordinated and comprehensive. The team meets regularly to review each patient’s case and will work together to develop a personalized treatment plan that is right for you.
Because the number of patients we see in a year is among the highest in the United States, our experts have a very high level of expertise.
Select from the list below to learn more about our lung cancer experts, their education, training, board certifications, publications, and specific areas of clinical expertise.
Surgery
Chief, Thoracic Service, Department of Surgery; Co-Director, Druckenmiller Center for Lung Cancer Research; Fiona and Stanley Druckenmiller Chair in Lung Cancer
Director, Esophageal Surgery Program
Co-Director, Specialized Advanced Care Unit
Deputy Chief and Attending, Thoracic Service; Vice Chair for Translational Research, Department of Surgery; Co-Director, Mesothelioma Program; Head, Solid Tumors Cell Therapy, Cellular Therapeutics Center
Min H. & Yu-Fan C. Kao Chair in Thoracic Cancer
Deputy Chief of Clinical Affairs, Thoracic Service
Vice Chair for Clinical Research, Department of Surgery; Miner Family Chair in Intrathoracic Cancers
Minimally Invasive Surgery
Chief, Thoracic Service, Department of Surgery; Co-Director, Druckenmiller Center for Lung Cancer Research; Fiona and Stanley Druckenmiller Chair in Lung Cancer
Director, Esophageal Surgery Program
Co-Director, Specialized Advanced Care Unit
Deputy Chief and Attending, Thoracic Service; Vice Chair for Translational Research, Department of Surgery; Co-Director, Mesothelioma Program; Head, Solid Tumors Cell Therapy, Cellular Therapeutics Center
Min H. & Yu-Fan C. Kao Chair in Thoracic Cancer
Deputy Chief of Clinical Affairs, Thoracic Service
Vice Chair for Clinical Research, Department of Surgery; Miner Family Chair in Intrathoracic Cancers
Medical Oncology
Physician Ambassador to China and Asia-Pacific, Bobst International Center
Chief, Thoracic Oncology Service; Co-Director, Druckenmiller Center for Lung Cancer Research; Sylvia Hassenfeld Chair in Lung Cancer Research
Research Director, Early Drug Development
Co-Director, MSK Mesothelioma Program
Vice Chair, Clinical Research, Department of Medicine
Clinical Director, Thoracic Oncology Service
William and Joy Ruane Chair in Thoracic Oncology
Radiation Therapy
Chief for External Beam Radiotherapy, Long Island
Director of Regional Radiation Oncology Clinical Research
Director, Thoracic Radiation Oncology; Chief of Radiation Oncology, Manhattan Service
Chief, Radiation Oncology, MSK Westchester & MSK Bergen
Chief of Radiation Oncology, Norwalk Hospital
Director, Head and Neck Radiation Oncology Research; Director, Metastatic Disease Radiation Oncology Research
Diagnostic Radiology
Vice Chair for Education, Department of Radiology
Director of General Radiology
Interventional Radiology
Chief, Interventional Radiology Service
Director, Interventional Radiology, MSK Westchester
Director, Interventional Radiology Training Program
Director, Interventional Radiology, MSK Monmouth
Interventional Pulmonology
Director, Pleural Diseases; Program Director, Interventional Pulmonology Fellowship; Assistant Director, Section of Interventional Pulmonology; Co-Supervising Physician, Pulmonary Advanced Practice Provider (APP)
Chief, Pulmonary Service; Director, Section of Interventional Pulmonology
Director, Interventional Pulmonary Outpatient Services; Associate Program Director, Interventional Pulmonary Fellowship
Social Work
Pathology
Director, Thoracic Pathology
