Joseph D. Whitlark, M.D.

Having lost several close family members, including a twin brother, to lung cancer, I feel my empathy with patients and their families is invaluable in guiding them through an incredibly stressful time.

• All types of lung resections
• Esophageal resections
• Mediastinal resections, particularly thymoma resections
• Robotic procedures of all types
• All types of pleural procedures
• Treatment of thoracic infections
• Diagnostic work-ups for all types of thoracic malignancies

Thoracic Surgery

State University of New York at Buffalo/Cardiothoracic Surgery

University of South Carolina School of Medicine

Mercy Catholic Medical Center

Clinical Assistant Profesor of Surgery, Pennsylvania State School of Medicine, Hershey, Pa.

• American Medical Association
• Society of Thoracic Surgery
• American College of Surgeons
• Eastern Cardiothoracic Surgical Society

• Teacher of the Year, Pennsylvania State School of Medicine at Hershey, 2017
• Best Thoracic Presentation, Eastern Cardiothoracic Surgical Society Meeting, 2007

• Decreasing time between discovery of lung cancer and treatment
• Improving pleural emphysema treatment
• Lung cancer genomics utilization

• Spent year from July 1991 to June 1992 at Emory University in cardiothoracic surgical research
• Registered physician vascular technologist