Raja Flores

Raja Flores, M.D. Ames Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Chief of Thoracic Surgery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Mount Sinai Medical Center1190 Fifth Avenue, Box 1028 New York, NY  10029 United States 1 212 241-9466 (Asst. Lina) 1 646 659-1521 (Fax)

Specialty

• General Thoracic Surgery

Background

• Professor and Chief of Thoracic Surgery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
• Associate Attending Surgeon - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (2000 - 2010)
• Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery - Cornell University Medical College (2000 - 2010)
• Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency - Brigham and Women's Hospital.Harvard Medical School
• Thoracic Oncology Research Fellowship - Brigham and Women's.Harvard Medical School/Dana-Farber/CALGB
• Harvard School of Public Health - Program on Clinical Effectiveness
• General Surgery Residency - Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
• Medical School - Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• College- New York University
• M.S. in Biostatistics (clinical research methods) - Columbia University

Interests

• Lung Cancer Screening
• Thoracoscopy
• VATS Lobectomy
• Locally Advanced "Unresectable" Cancer
• Extrapleural Pneumonectomy for Mesothelioma
• Pleurectomy / Decortication for Mesothelioma
• Asbestos
• Tracheal Stenosis
• Carinal Surgery
• Esophageal Cancer Surgery