The Next Generation of Mesothelioma Surgeons Roundtable Discussion

DR. PASS: The topic for this roundtable discussions for Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery is going to be surgery for mesothelioma. Our participants are Joe Friedberg, University of Maryland; Andrea Wolf, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; David Rice, MD Anderson Cancer Center; and Wickii Vigneswaran, Loyola University Health System. All 4 of these surgeons were trained and are presently at high volume mesothelioma centers. Drs. Wolf and Friedberg were trained by Dr. Sugarbaker. Dr. Vigneswaran was trained at Mayo, and performed a large volume of surgical cases at the University of Chicago where he has a lot of cases that are both surgical as well as medical. Dr. Rice practices at MD Anderson and was one of the innovators of postoperative intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT).