Top Docs ’14: Thoracic Surgery
By Seattle Mag June 17, 2014
This article originally appeared in the July 2014 issue of Seattle magazine.
!–paging_filter–pThoracic Surgery/p
pFocusing on the chest cavity and rib cage, including the heart, lungs and esophagus, thoracic surgeons treat patients with lung cancer, coronary diseases, aneurysms and heart diseases./p
pstrongRalph W. Aye, M.D./strong, emesophageal reflux and hiatal hernia, early lung cancer/em; Swedish Thoracic Surgery Services, 1101 Madison St., Suite 900, Seattle, 206.215.6800; Swedish Medical Center; University of Pittsburgh, 1977nbsp;/p
pstrongBrian E. Louie, M.D./strong, emesophageal cancer, lung cancer/em; Swedish Thoracic Surgery Services, 1101 Madison St., Suite 900, Seattle, 206.215.6800; Swedish Medical Center; University of Toronto, 1996nbsp;/p
pstrongDonald E. Low, M.D./strong, embenign diseases of chest and esophagus, esophageal cancer/em; Virginia Mason Hospital Seattle Medical Center, Buck Pavilion, 1100 Ninth Ave., Seattle, 206.223.6164; Virginia Mason; Queens University Kingston, Ontario, 1981nbsp;/p
pstrongEric Vallieres**, M.D./strong, emlung cancer, mesothelioma, surgery for hyperhidrosis/em; Swedish Thoracic Surgery Services, 1101 Madison St., Suite 900, Seattle, 206.215.6800; Swedish Medical Center; Université Laval, Canada, 1982nbsp;/p
pstrongDouglas Wood, M.D./strong,em complex airway disease, end-stage lung disease/em; UW Medical Center, 1959 NE Pacific St., Seattle, 206.543.3093; UWMC, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance; Harvard University, 1983/p