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Ahmad Sheikh
Clinical Assistant Professor, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Surgical simulation and education
Molecular imaging of cardiac stem cell therapy
Heart failure
Cardiothoracic transplantation -
Joseph Shrager
Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Stanford University Medical Center
Current Research and Scholarly 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.
