Doctor David J. Sugarbaker M.D Profile

David J. Sugarbaker M.D: Thoracic Surgery
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Address:75 Francis Street Boston, MA USA - United States of America, 02115
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Treatment Center: Brigham and Women's Hospital

Doctor David J. Sugarbaker is board certified in Thoracic Surgery and Surgery.

In present, doctor David J. Sugarbaker is the Chief of The Division of thoracic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the Chief of the Surgery services at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Doctor Sugarkaber, M.D. attended medical school at Wheaton College and Cornell University Medical School and completed his residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Doctor Sukarbaker is involved in different programs for cancer care and has been active in the development of the new minimally invasive surgical procedures, and also involved in area of thoracic malignancy therapy.

Known as a pioneer in the mesothelioma cancer research is also known as the most cited physician in the literature describing the treatment of asbestos related disease.

He is well known for his interest in malignant mesothelioma cancer, an asbestos related disease which is starting to be very common for people who have been exposed to asbestos in the past.

He is part of a team, a research team, and he helped devise a trimodality therapeutic approach based on extrapleural pneumonectomy, chemotherapy and radiation.

Very important to know is that doctor Sugarbaker is the founder of the International Pleural Mesohelioma Program.