Who We Are/Surgeon Profiles
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Joseph Shrager, MD Professor and Division Chief Dr. Shrager is identified as one of “America’s Top Doctors” in Castle-Connolly’s prestigious listing. He was also listed multiple years running as a “Top Doc” in Philadelphia Magazine. Evidence of his expert status among his peers includes membership on the editorial board of the Annals of Thoracic Surgery. |
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Richard Whyte, MD Professor Research Interests: clinical lung and esophageal cancer treatment studies, lung transplantation, surgical, management of emphysema. |
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Robert E. Merritt, MD Assistant Professor Dr. Merritt practices all aspects of thoracic surgery but has special interest in minimal access surgery for gastroesophageal reflux disease, VATS lobectomy for lung cancer, and tracheal surgery. |
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Chuong D. Hoang, MD Assistant Professor Dr. Hoang practices general thoracic surgery, having had diverse exposure to re-operative thoracic surgery, lung-sparing bronchoplastic surgery, esophageal procedures, Pancoast tumors, VATS, and transcervical thymectomy. |
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Walter
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Cannon, MD Adjunct Clinical Professor Cannon graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School in 1969, completed his entire residency at Stanford in 1975, and joined the Palo Alto Medical Clinic (PAMC). In 1990, Cannon joined Dr. Jim Mark part-time on the Stanford University Thoracic Surgery Service. He is still part of that service but resigned from the PAMC in 2006 to become a co-director of Operating Room Services at Stanford Hospital & Clinics. |
