Department: Cardiothoracic Surgery

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Sheikh, Ahmad Y.

Academic Appointments Clinical Instructor, Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery
Clinical Focus
- Cardiothoracic Surgery and Transplantation
- Mechanical Circulatory Support
- General Surgery
Research Interest
Molecular imaging of cardiac stem cell therapy Heart failure Cardiothoracic Transplantation Surgical Education

Practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Shrager, Joseph B.

Academic Appointments Professor - Med Center Line, Cardiothoracic Surgery - Thoracic Surgery
Member, Stanford Cancer Institute
Clinical Focus
- Cancer > Thoracic Oncology
- Thoracic Cancers - Thoracic Surgery
- Thoracic Surgery
Research Interest
In clinical research, Dr. Shrager has been an innovator studying outcomes in a variety of areas within Thoracic Surgery including: parenchyma-sparing operations and minimally invasive resections for lung cancer, transcervical thymectomy for myasthenia gravis, and surgical treatment of emphysema. In the lab, Dr. Shrager is focused on the impact of disease states upon the diaphragm. His group published the seminal paper (NEJM) describing diaphragm atrophy assoc'd with mechanical ventilation.