Research and Professional Experience

2004 - present, Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery; Director, Lung Cancer and Thoracic Oncology Program, City of Hope; Professor, Beckman Research Institute

1998 - 2004, Chief of the Section of Thoracic Surgery and Professor of Surgery at the University of Iowa College of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Iowa City, Iowa.

1995 - 1998, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery, The University of Iowa College of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Iowa City, Iowa

1995, Surgical Director, Lung Volume Reduction and Lung Transplantation Program; Staff Surgeon, Department of Surgery; Surgical Chair - Cancer and Leukemia Group B, The

1995, Staff Surgeon, Veterans' Affairs Medical Center, Surgical Services, Iowa City, Iowa

1994 - 1995, Fellow, Cardiothoracic Surgery, West Roxbury Veterans' Affairs Medical Center, West Roxbury, Massachusetts

1993 - 1994, Resident, Cardiac Surgery; The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 

1992 - 1993, Chief Resident, General Thoracic, The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

1989 - 1990, Chief Resident, Surgery, University of Minnesota Hospitals and Clinics, Minneapolis, Minnesota

1988 - 1989, Senior Resident, Surgery, University of Minnesota Hospitals and Clinics, Minneapolis, Minnesota

1985 - 1988, Research Fellow, (Artificial Organs, Oncology, Endrocrinology, Transplantation Research), University of Minnesota Hospitals and Clinics, Minneapolis, Minnesota

1983 - 1985, Resident, Surgery, University of Minnesota Hospitals and Clinics, Minneapolis, Minnesota

1982 - 1983, Intern, Surgery, University of Minnesota Hospitals and Clinics, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Education and Training

1996, University of Minnesota, Ph.D., Surgery with a minor in Biometry and Anatomy

1982, Duke University Medical School, M.D.

1978, Duke University, B.S., Chemistry (Magna Cum Laude)

This is an abbreviated document. Full CV available upon request. Information on this page may be self-reported and is subject to change at any time. Last updated: 12/08.

2003, Alley-Sheridan Fellow/Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education in Association with The Division of Health Policy Research and Education, Harvard University, “Skills for the New World of Health Care”, Kennedy School of Government, Boston, MA.  April 26 – May 4, 2003. 

2003, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Thoracic Alumnus of the Year 2003

1990, Co-Chairman for "Forms of Therapy" Session, American Diabetes Association 50th Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia 

1988, Willem J. Kolff Young Investigators Award, ASAIO, Reno, Nevada

1988, Travel Fellowship Award, American Society for Artificial Organs 

1986, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Graduate School, Minnesota

1980 - 1981, Howard Hughes Medical Research Fellow, Duke University

1978 - 1980, Wilder Medical School Scholarship

1978, Phi Lamda Upsilon Honorary Chemical Society, Duke University

Board Certifications

2001, American Board of Surgery

1996, American Board of Thoracic Surgery (recertification)