Find a Tracheal Disease Expert

At Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, our Complex Airway Program provides comprehensive care for patients with tracheal diseases — from diagnosis to treatment to surveillance after therapy. The team includes thoracic surgeons, interventional pulmonologists, head and neck surgeons, anesthesiologists, intensive care specialists, and radiologists.

Select from the list below to learn more about our team of experts, including their education, training, board certifications, current publications, and specific areas of expertise.

Katherine Gray
Assistant Attending Physician
Matthew Bott
Associate Attending Surgeon
Memorial Sloan Kettering Surgeon Prasad S. Adusumilli
Deputy Chief and Attending, Thoracic Service; Vice Chair for Translational Research, Department of Surgery; Co-Director, Mesothelioma Program; Member, Solid Tumors Cell Therapy, Cellular Therapeutics Center; Min H. & Yu-Fan C. Kao Chair in Thoracic Cancer
Manjit S. Bains, MD, FACS
Min H. and Yu-Fan C. Kao Chair in Thoracic Cancer
Dr. Alexis Chidi
Assistant Attending Surgeon; Co-Director, Lung Cancer Screening Program
James Huang, MD
Program Director, Thoracic Surgery Fellowship and Residency; Associate Vice Chair of Education, Department of Surgery
Memorial Sloan Kettering surgeon Gaetano Rocco
Attending Surgeon
Valerie W. Rusch, MD, FACS
Vice Chair for Clinical Research, Department of Surgery; Miner Family Chair in Intrathoracic Cancers
Memorial Sloan Kettering thoracic surgeon Smita Sihag
Assistant Attending Surgeon
Dr. Luc G.T. Morris
Attending Surgeon; Director, Head & Neck Oncologic Surgery Fellowship Program; Head, Laboratory of Experimental Cancer Immunogenomics
Thomas J. Ow, MD, MS
Associate Attending Surgeon
Mohit Chawla, MD, FCCP
Chief, Pulmonary Service
Memorial Sloan Kettering interventional pulmonologist Or Kalchiem-Dekel
Assistant Attending
Robert P. Lee, MD
Section Head, Section of Interventional Pulmonology; Program Director, Interventional Pulmonology Fellowship
Catherine Oberg
Assistant Attending Physician
Memorial Sloan Kettering radiologist Michelle Ginsberg
Executive Vice Chair, Department of Radiology; Director, Cardiothoracic Imaging, Department of Radiology; Vice Chair for Education, Department of Radiology
Memorial Sloan Kettering radiologist Andrew Plodkowski
Director of CT and General Radiology
William L. Marx, MD
Attending Anesthesiologist
Memorial Sloan Kettering anesthesiologist David Amar
Director, Thoracic Anesthesia
Dawn P. Desiderio, MD
Vice Chair, Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine
Memorial Sloan Kettering anesthesiologist Alessia Pedoto
Attending Anesthesiologist
Memorial Sloan Kettering anesthesiologist Aymar Borel Soh Fotso
Assistant Attending Anesthesiologist
Neil A. Halpern, MD, MCCM, FCCP, FACP
Director, Critical Care Center; Chief, Critical Care Medicine Service; Medical Director, Respiratory Therapy
Stephen M. Pastores, MD, FACP, FCCP, FCCM
Vice-Chair of Education, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Sanjay Chawla, MD, FCCP, FACP, FCCM
Attending Physician
Nina D. Raoof, MD
Assistant Attending Physician
Louis P. Voigt, MD
Chair, Ethics Committee
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