Dr. Valerie W Rusch MD
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
1275 York Ave New York NY, 10021Rating
4/5
About
Today's optimal care of cancer patients depends on the close involvement and coordination of physicians in multiple specialties. Tightly integrated, multidisciplinary care is the hallmark of our appro ...
Education and Training
Columbia Univ Coll of Physicians And Surgeons, New York Ny 1975
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Thoracic SurgeryAmerican Board of Thoracic SurgeryABTS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Indications for pneumonectomy. Extrapleural pneumonectomy.
- Thoracic surgical clinical trials: Y2K and beyond.
- Important prognostic factors in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma, managed surgically.
- Neoadjuvant therapy and surgical resection for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer.
- Tension pneumocephalus resulting from iatrogenic subarachnoid-pleural fistulae: report of three cases.
- Experimental therapeutics with a new 10-deazaaminopterin in human mesothelioma: further improving efficacy through structural design, pharmacologic modulation at the level of MRP ATPases, and combined therapy with platinums.
- Morbidity and mortality after neoadjuvant therapy for lung cancer: the risks of right pneumonectomy.
- An initial experience with FDG-PET in the imaging of residual disease after induction therapy for lung cancer.
- Long-term results of combined-modality therapy in resectable non-small-cell lung cancer.
- Surgical techniques for pulmonary metastasectomy.
- Despite some expression of folate receptor alpha in human mesothelioma cells,
- Replication-competent herpes virus NV1020 as direct treatment of pleural cancer in a rat model.
- The clinical course of nonsmall cell lung carcinoma in survivors of Hodgkin disease.
- High-resolution computed tomography in clinical T1 N0 M0 adenocarcinoma of the lung.
- A phase II trial of chemotherapy and surgery for non-small cell lung cancer patients with a synchronous solitary metastasis.
Awards
- 2008-2012 New York Super Doctors
Treatments
- Lung Cancer, Esophageal Cancer, Endobronchial Ultrasound (ebus)
Professional Memberships
- Member AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH
- Member AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THORACIC SURGERY
- Fellow AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CHEST PHYSICIANS (FELLOW)
- Fellow AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS (FELLOW)
- Member AMERICAN MEDICAL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION
- Member AMERICAN RADIUM SOCIETY
- Member AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
- Member AMERICAN SURGICAL ASSOCIATION
- Member SURGEON THORACIC SOCIETY
- Member ASSOCIATION FOR ACEDEMIC SURGERY
- Member GENERAL THORACIC SURGEONS SOCIETY
- Member INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF LUNG CANCER
- Member M.D. ANDERSON ASSOCIATES
- Member NEW YORK CANCER SOCIETY
- Member NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THORACIC SURGERY
- Member SOCIETY SURGICAL ONCOLOGY
- Member SOCIETY OF THORACIC SURGEONS
- Member WOMEN IN THORACIC SURGERY
Fellowships
- The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
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