Joseph Shrager

Clinical Focus

• Cancer > Thoracic Oncology
• Thoracic Cancers - Thoracic Surgery
• Thoracic Surgery
• Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted
• Thoracoscopy

Administrative Appointments

• Chief, Stanford Division of Thoracic Surgery (2008 - present)
• Chief, Section of General Thoracic Surgery, UPenn (2003 - 2007)
• Editorial Board Member, Annals of Thoracic Surgery (2001 - present)
• Member, AATS Workforce on Education (2008 - present)
• Member, STS Workforce on Evidence-based Surgery (2006 - present)
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Honors and Awards

• Elected Member, Society of Clinical Surgery (2008)
• "Top Doctors" Listing, “America’s Top Doctors” (2007)
• "Top Doctors" Listing, “America’s Top Doctors for Cancer" (2006)
• "Top Physicians" Listing, “Guide to America’s Top Physicians” (2005)
• Elected Member, American Association for Thoracic Surgery (2002)

Professional Education

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Cardiothoracic Surgery

Research Interests

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.

Clinical Trials

• Comparison of Different Types of Surgery in Treating Patients With Stage IA Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Recruiting
• GSK1572932A Antigen-Specific Cancer Immunotherapeutic as adjuvant therapy for NSCLC Recruiting
• Three Different Radiation Therapy Regimens in Treating Patients With Limited-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer Receiving Cisplatin and Etoposide Recruiting

Publications

• Thymoma. Shrager JB, Ann Thorac Surg. 2009; 87 (1): 339-41
• Intraoperative and postoperative management of air leaks in patients with emphysema. Shrager JB, DeCamp MM, Murthy SC. Thorac Surg Clin. 2009; 19 (2): 223-31, ix
• Early changes of lung function and structure in an elastase model of emphysema--a hyperpolarized 3He MRI study. Emami K, Cadman RV, Woodburn JM, Fischer MC, Kadlecek SJ, Zhu J, Pickup S, Guyer RA, Law M, Vahdat V, Friscia ME, Ishii M, Yu J, Gefter WB, Shrager JB, Rizi RR. J Appl Physiol. 2008; 104 (3): 773-86
• Rapid disuse atrophy of diaphragm fibers in mechanically ventilated humans. Levine S, Nguyen T, Taylor N, Friscia ME, Budak MT, Rothenberg P, Zhu J, Sachdeva R, Sonnad S, Kaiser LR, Rubinstein NA, Powers SK, Shrager JB. N Engl J Med. 2008; 358 (13): 1327-35
• Extended transcervical thymectomy in the treatment of myasthenia gravis. Khicha SG, Kaiser LR, Shrager JB. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2008: 1132 336-43