Michigan:
Dr. Harvey Pass
Harper University Hospital
Wayne State University
3990 John Road, Suite 2102
Detroit, MI 48201
Contact: (313) 745-8746
Dr. Pass is Chief of Thoracic Oncology and the Thoracic Oncology Program Leader at Karmanos Cancer Institute; Chief of Thoracic Surgery at Detroit VA Hospital, and a Professor of Surgery and Oncology at Wayne State University. His Photo-Dynamic therapy is an aggressive new treatment for malignant mesothelioma
Nebraska:
Dr. Brian Loggie
Creighton University Medical Center
Division of Surgical Oncology, Suite 3700
601 North 30th Street
Omaha, NE 68131
Contact: (402) 280-5009
Dr. Loggie is Chief of Surgical Oncology and Director of the Cancer Center at Creighton University Medical Center, as well as a Professor of Surgery at Creighton University Medical School. He specializes in treating peritoneal mesotheliom
New Mexico:
Dr. Claire F. Verschraegen
University of New Mexico
900 Camino de Salud NE
Albuquerque NM 87131
Contact: (505) 272-5837
E-mail: cverschraegen@salud.unm.edu
Dr. Verschraegen is an oncologist and the Director of Experimental Therapeutics at the University of New Mexico. She is an expert in the treatment of peritoneal mesothelioma.
North Carolina
Dr. David H. Harpole, Jr.
DUMC Box 3617
3582 Duke Hospital South
Durham, NC 27710
Contact: (919) 668-8413
E-mail: harpo002@mc.duke.edu
Dr. Harpole is an Associate Professor of Surgery at Duke University Medical Center and Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Durham VAMC.
Ohio
Dr. David Mason
The Cleveland Clinic
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44195
Phone: (216) 444-4053
9500 Euclid Avenue
Dr. Mason is an Associate Staff member of the Cleveland Clinic with special interests in general thoracic surgery; minimally invasive thoracoscopic and laparaoscopic surgery, lung cancer, esophageal cancer, malignant mesothelioma, lung transplantation, imunosuppression
Pennsylvania
Dr. Daniel Sterman
3600 Spruce St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Contact: (215) 614-0984
Dr. Sterman is the Director of Interventional Pulmonary and an Assistant Professor at University of Pennsylvania Medical School. He co-authored of several informative articles on treatment and clinical trials for pleural mesothelioma.
Dr. Larry Kaiser
University of Pennsylvania
4th Floor
Philadephia, PA 19104
Contact: (215) 662-7538
Dr. Kaiser is Chair of the Department of Surgery, Director of General Thoracic Surgery, Director of the Thoracic Oncology Program & Center for Lung Cancer and Related Disorders, and a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School
Tennessee
Dr. Spencer McCachren
Thompson Cancer Survival Center
1915 White Ave., 1st Floor
Knoxville, TN 37916
Contact: (865) 541-1720
Texas
Dr. David Rice
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
1515 Holcombe Blvd., Box 445
Houston, Texas 77030
Phone: (713) 745-4530
E-mail: drice@mdanderson.org
Dr. Rice was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland. He received his medical degree (M.B., B.Ch.) at the School of Medicine, Trinity College, the University of Dublin in 1991 and then completed his internship at St James Hospital, Dublin, Ireland in 1992. He left Ireland in 1992 to obtain his general surgery residency training at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN in 1999. During this time Dr. Rice took 18 months to complete a research fellowship in tumor immunology, examining ways of stimulating T-cells of the immune system to better fight cancer.
W. Roy Smythe, MD
Professor and Chairman Department of Surgery
The Texas A&M University System Health Science Center
Scott and White Clinic
2401 South 31st Street
Temple, Texas 76508
E-mail: wrsmythe@swmail.sw.org
Dr. W. Roy is a thoracic surgeon and a Professor of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. He has extensive experience with treating mesothelioma patients and is a leading researcher in the field of gene therapy.
Washington
Dr. Eric Vallieres
1959 NE Pacific Street
Seattle, WA 98195
(206) 548-4477
Dr. Vallieres is a thoracic surgeon who practices in Seattle at the University of Washington, and offers Multi-Modal therapy for treatment Medical Center of malignant mesothelioma.
