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; Executive Vice-Chair, Department of Surgery
Director, Quality and Outcomes, Thoracic Surgery Service, Director, Memorial Hospital Step Down Unit, Co-Director, Thoracic Liquid Biopsy Program
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
Program Director, Thoracic Surgery Fellowship and Residency
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; Executive Vice-Chair, Department of Surgery
Director, Quality and Outcomes, Thoracic Surgery Service, Director, Memorial Hospital Step Down Unit, Co-Director, Thoracic Liquid Biopsy Program
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
Program Director, Thoracic Surgery Fellowship and Residency
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; Co-Director, Thoracic Liquid Biopsy Program; Chief Scientific Officer, MSK Direct
Chief, Thoracic Oncology Service; Co-Director, Druckenmiller Center for Lung Cancer Research; Sylvia Hassenfeld Chair in Lung Cancer Research
Chief, Early Drug Development Service
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; Vice Chair of Clinical Operations, Department of Radiation Oncology
Director, Radiation Oncology, MSK Bergen
Chief, Radiation Oncology, MSK Westchester & MSK Bergen
Director, Thoracic Radiation Oncology Research
Chief of Radiation Oncology, Norwalk Hospital
Chief Medical Officer, New York Proton Center
Director, Metastatic Disease Radiation Oncology Research
Vice Chair, Graduate Medical Education Committee
Co-Director, Inpatient Radiation Oncology Consult (IROC) Service, Department of Radiation Oncology
Diagnostic Radiology
Vice Chair for Education, Department of Radiology
Director of General Radiology
Interventional Radiology
Chief, Interventional Radiology Service; Enid A. Haupt Chair in Clinical Investigation
Director, Interventional Radiology, MSK Westchester
Director, Interventional Radiology, MSK Monmouth
Interventional Pulmonology
Section Head, Section of Interventional Pulmonology; Program Director, Interventional Pulmonology Fellowship
Chief, Pulmonary Service
Director, Interventional Pulmonary Outpatient Services; Associate Program Director, Interventional Pulmonary Fellowship
Assistant Attending
Social Work
Pathology
Director, Thoracic Pathology
