The Women's Guild Lung Institute Expert Team

Led by Zab Mosenifar, MD, and Rorbert J. McKenna, Jr., MD, the Women's Guild Lung Institute at Cedars-Sinai is comprised of a world-class team of pulmonary specialists, including pioneers in the field.  Cedars-Sinai is a world leader in video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) treatment of lung cancer.

Leadership

Paul W. Noble MD Chair, Department of Medicine Director, Women's Guild Lung Institute	Robert McKenna Jr MD Medical Director, Thoracic Surgery and Trauma Co-Medical Director, Women's Guild Lung Institute Surgical Director, Women's Guild Lung Institute Program Director, General Thoracic Surgery Fellowship Surgical Director, Women's Guild Lung Institute at Cedars-Sinai
Zab Mosenifar MD Co-Medical Director, Women's Guild Lung Institute

Pulmonology

David Balfe MD Medical Director, Pulmonary Stepdown Unit	George E. Chaux MD Medical Director, Lung Transplant Center
Ashraf Elsayegh MD Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit	Jeremy A. Falk MD Associate Director, Lung Transplant Center
Dani Hackner MD Associate Chair, Department of Medicine Director, Transitional Critical Care Services	Leslie M. Stricke MD Internal Medicine Pulmonology
Syed Omar Tirmizi MD Internal Medicine	Robert N. Wolfe MD, FCCP Pulmonology

• Michael I. Lewis MD
  Director, Respiratory Intensive Care Unit
  Co-Director, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program
  

Thoracic Surgery

Ali Mahtabifard MD Thoracic Surgery	Heather Merry MD Thoracic Surgery
Harmik J. Soukiasian MD Associate Director, Thoracic Surgery Associate Program Director, Thoracic Surgery Residency Program

Cardiothoracic Surgery

Wen Cheng MD Program Director, Thoracic Surgery Residency Director, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Surgical Director, Lung Transplant Program

Hematology - Oncology

Ronald B. Natale MD Medical Director, Clinical Lung Cancer Program

Chest Radiology

Peter J. Julien MD Chief, Thoracic Imaging Member, Tumor Ablation Program Member, Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center - A Project of Women's Guild

Pulmonary Pathology

Alberto Marchevsky MD Director, Pulmonary and Mediastinal Pathology

Candidate Participant*

• Isabel F. Pedraza MD
  Pulmonary Medicine
  

• Sara Ghandehari, MD, Pulmonology
• Heather Jones, MD, Pulmonology

Other Participating Team Members

• Roy Artal, MD, Pulmonology
• Harvey Brown, MD, Pulmonology
• David Gum-Tong Ng, MD, Pulmonology
• Ralph Potkin, MD, Pulmonology
• Karen Sibert, MD, Anesthesiology
• Steven M. Simons, MD, Pulmonology

* Candidate Participant (indicates physicians who have met candidate level participation and who are in the process of fulfilling the requirements to become a full participant in the center.)