StephenG.SwisherMD

Cardiovascular Surgery

Head, Division of Surgery, Professor and Chair Department of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, Charles A. LeMaistre Distinguished Chair in Thoracic Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

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Office
1515 Holcombe Blvd
Houston, TX 77030
Phone+1 713-792-6161

Education & Training

Memorial Hermann - Texas Medical CenterFellowship, Thoracic Surgery, 1994 - 1996
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical CenterResidency, Surgery, 1986 - 1993
University of California San Diego School of MedicineClass of 1986

Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 1988 - Present
FL State Medical License 2021 - Present
GA State Medical License 2022 - 2026
TX State Medical License 1994 - 2026
AL State Medical License 2022 - 2025
AZ State Medical License 2022 - 2025
LA State Medical License 2023 - 2025
MS State Medical License 2022 - 2025
OK State Medical License 2020 - 2025
TN State Medical License 2022 - 2025
WA State Medical License 2022 - 2025
American Board of Thoracic Surgery Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery
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Awards, Honors, & Recognition

America's Top Doctors Castle Connolly, 2009-2014
Top Doctors:SE Texas Castle Connolly, 2013
America's Top Doctors for Cancer Castle Connolly, 2007-2013
Super Doctor SuperDoctors.com
Fellow (FACS) American College of Surgeons
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Clinical Trials

Combination Chemotherapy Followed By Chemoradiotherapy, With or Without Surgery, in Treating Patients With Resectable Locally Advanced Cancer of the Esophagus or Gastroesophageal Junction Start of enrollment: 2003 Sep 01
Completed
Phase 2

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Clinical Practice Guideline on Surgical Management of Oligometastatic Non-small Cell Lung Cancer.
Mara B Antonoff, Kyle G Mitchell, Samuel S Kim, Hai V Salfity, Svetlana Kotova
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 2025-01-10
High peripheral T cell diversity is associated with lower risk of toxicity and superior response to dual immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy in patients with metastati...
Mehmet Altan, Ruoxing Li, Ziyi Li, Runzhe Chen, Ajay Sheshadri
Journal for Immunotherapy of Cancer. 2024-12-25
Conditional Survival of Patients With Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Who Undergo Lobectomy, Segmentectomy, or Wedge Resection Using the NCDB.
Nathaniel Deboever, Michael Eisenberg, Jiangong Niu, William Graber, Mara B Antonoff
Journal of Surgical Oncology. 2024-12-05

Journal Articles

Inhibition of thioredoxin/thioredoxin Reductase Induces Synthetic Lethality in Lung Cancers with Compromised Glutathione Homeostasis
John V Heymach, Stephen G Swisher, Jack A Roth, John D Minna, Clinical Cancer Research
Landscape of EGFR -Dependent and -Independent Resistance Mechanisms to Osimertinib and Continuation Therapy Post-Progression in EGFR-Mutant NSCLC
Stephen G Swisher, Vassiliki A Papadimitrakopoulou, John V Heymach, Jack A Roth, Jianjun Zhang, William N William, Bonnie S Glisson, Clinical Cancer Research
Validation of the 12-Gene Predictive Signature for Adjuvant Chemotherapy Response in Lung Cancer
Cesar Moran, Jack A Roth, Yang Xie, John D Minna, Vassiliki A Papadimitrakopoulou, John V Heymach, Stephen G Swisher, Clinical Cancer Research