David J. Sugarbaker
| David J. Sugarbaker | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 5, 1953 Jefferson City, MO |
| Education |
Wheaton College Cornell University Medical School |
| Known for | Establishing first non-cardiac division of thoracic surgery in the U.S. Developing first general thoracic surgical training track in the U.S. First to develop the multimodality therapy for Mesothelioma patients First to introduce the goal of macroscopic complete resection |
| Medical career | |
| Profession | Surgeon |
| Institutions |
CHI St. Luke's Health–Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center Baylor College of Medicine |
David John Sugarbaker (born August 5, 1953) is currently the Chief of the Division of General Thoracic Surgery and the Director of the Baylor College of Medicine Lung Institute at CHI St. Luke's Health–Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston, Texas. He is an internationally recognized thoracic surgeon specializing in the treatment of mesothelioma, the surgical management of malignant pleural mesothelioma, and treatment of complex thoracic cancers.
David John Sugarbaker grew up in Jefferson City, Missouri, as one of ten children of a cancer surgeon and a nurse. Sugarbaker spent his high school and college years helping his father in the operating room, visiting patients outside of town, and becoming interested in medicine.
He graduated cum laude with his Bachelor of Science degree in 1975 from Wheaton College in Illinois.
He graduated at the top of his class with his medical degree from Cornell University Medical School in 1979 and married Linda Sterk two weeks before beginning his surgical internship. He completed a residency in surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and a residency in cardiothoracic surgery at Toronto General Hospital, where he served as chief resident in both thoracic surgery and cardiac surgery. He then became chief resident in cardiac surgery at Toronto General Hospital and a resident in pediatric cardiac surgery at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.
Sugarbaker began his career in 1988, focusing primarily on pleural mesothelioma. Following the completion of his residency training, Dr. Sugarbaker was appointed chief at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, where he founded and built the first non-cardiac division of thoracic surgery in the United States. The division grew under his leadership to become the largest of its kind in the United States. In 1989, Sugarbaker was a leader in the establishment of the Tissue and Blood Repository at Brigham and Women's Hospital. One of the first tissue repositories in the U.S., the Tissue and Blood Repository has led to collaborative research projects. A year later, Sugarbaker completed the first ever lung transplant in Massachusetts. In 1992, Sugarbaker developed the first general thoracic surgical training track in the U.S. and has since trained over 80 residents and placed about two-thirds of his graduates into academic positions. In addition to his career at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Sugarbaker began as Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School in 1999. In 2002, he founded the International Mesothelioma Program (IMP) with the central goal of finding a cure for the disease. The program is the largest of its kind and attracts patients from all over the world.
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