Patrick Forde is a Hematologist Oncology specialist and an Oncologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Forde is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Mesothelioma. His top areas of expertise are Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC), Lung Cancer, Mesothelioma, Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC), and Bone Marrow Transplant. Dr. Forde is currently accepting new patients.

Julie R. Brahmer, M.D., M.Sc. is the Director of the Thoracic Oncology Program, Professor of Oncology at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins and the Marilyn Meyerhoff Professor in Thoracic Oncology. She also directs the Kimmel Cancer Center on the Johns Hopkins Bayview campus and is co-principal investigator on Johns Hopkins' National Clinical Trials Network. Dr. Brahmer received her undergraduate degree in Chemistry and Philosophy in 1989 from the Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska and went on to receive her medical degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine in 1993. Completing her internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Utah, Dr. Brahmer later became the Chief Medical Resident until moving to Baltimore to complete her fellowship in Medical Oncology at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Brahmer is an active clinical leader in the treatment of lung cancer and mesothelioma. She leads the organization of the multidisciplinary thoracic malignancy conference whose members meet weekly to discuss thoracic malignancy cases that need a multidisciplinary review/approach. Dr. Brahmer's research and clinical practice focuses on the development of new therapies for the treatment and prevention of lung cancer and mesothelioma. Dr. Brahmer's research interests include leading early phase immunotherapy trials of anti-PD-1 antibodies, international phase III studies of immunotherapies in lung cancer and investigator-initiated trials evaluating epigenetic therapies in combination with immunotherapies. She is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Thoracic Committee and Cancer Prevention Steering Committee. She is one of the founding Board members for the National Lung Cancer Partnership (formerly Women Against Lung Cancer). Within the National Lung Cancer Partnership, she currently serves as a member and the Chairman of the Scientific Executive Committee. She is also on the medical advisory board of the Lung Cancer Research Fund and the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation. Dr. Brahmer is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Mesothelioma. Her top areas of expertise are Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC), Lung Cancer, Lung Adenocarcinoma, and Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC).

Petr Hausner is an Oncologist and a Hematologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Hausner is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Mesothelioma. His top areas of expertise are Pseudomyxoma Peritonei, Colorectal Cancer, Familial Colorectal Cancer, and Anal Cancer. Dr. Hausner is currently accepting new patients.

Azam Ghafoor is a Hospital Medicine provider in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Ghafoor is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Mesothelioma. His top areas of expertise are Mesothelioma, Lung Cancer, and Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC).

Katherine Scilla is a Hematologist and an Oncologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Scilla is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Mesothelioma. Her top areas of expertise are Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC), Lung Cancer, Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC), ALK-Positive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, and Tissue Biopsy. Dr. Scilla is currently accepting new patients.

Russell Hales, M.D., is an assistant professor of radiation oncology and molecular radiation sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He also is director of the thoracic multidisciplinary clinic. His research focuses on reconstructing health delivery models to enhance value and improve clinical outcomes. He also studies the effect of immunotherapy and RT in thoracic tumors. Dr. Hales was awarded an R21 grant to study the use of dynamic MRI in predicting tumor motion in patient with lung cancer. Taken together, his research focuses on optimizing patient outcomes using resources from physics, engineering, biology and health delivery systems. Dr. Hales’ efforts extend beyond radiation oncology and clinical management. He has helped to lead in the thoracic oncology program, which includes 20 faculty members and nearly 50 staff, to help chart a vision for this program’s future. In the last four years, the program has gradually transitioned from The Johns Hopkins Hospital campus to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Dr. Hales was tasked to head the building and design committee that worked with architects to create a structure conducive to 21st century oncology care. His work extends beyond the bricks and mortar of the new cancer center today to team development within the thoracic oncology program. Simply put, the thoracic oncology move was designed to conceptualize the transition of care from department-based to disease-based medicine. As such, Dr. Hales has worked to integrate the efforts of specialists in medical oncology, thoracic surgery, interventional pulmonology, pathology and radiology. These experts share a clinical space focused on thoracic malignancies and bring a patient-centered model of care to their group. Dr. Hales graduated from Brigham Young University Summa Cum Laude and Valedictorian in 2001. He attended Johns Hopkins Medicine and graduated with an M.D. in 2005. He trained on the Osler Medical Service and attended residency at Johns Hopkins. He joined the faculty at Hopkins in 2010. Dr. Hales focus in program building, research and clinical endeavors is robust, but he understands the key role of academia in training future leaders in medicine. He has been awarded Teacher of the Year in the department of radiation oncology at Hopkins for three of the last six years. He is a well-respected lecturer and travels nationally to speak at conferences and educational workshops about novel therapies in lung and esophagus cancer. Make A Gift. Dr. Hales is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Mesothelioma. His top areas of expertise are Lung Cancer, Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC), Thymic Epithelial Tumor, Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC), and Endoscopy.

Idrees Mian is a Hematologist and an Oncologist in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Dr. Mian is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Mesothelioma. His top areas of expertise are Mesothelioma, Angiosarcoma, Lung Cancer, and Inflammatory Breast Cancer. Dr. Mian is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Anagnostou is an Associate Professor of Oncology, co-director of the Upper Aerodigestive Malignancies Program, director of the Thoracic Oncology Biorepository, leader of Precision Oncology Analytics and co-leader of the Molecular Tumor Board and the Thoracic Oncology Precision Medicine Center of Excellence in the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins. She has established the Molecular Oncology laboratory that seeks to understand the genomic wiring of response and resistance to immunotherapy through integrative genomic, transcriptomic, single-cell and liquid biopsy analyses of tumor and immune evolution. Dr. Anagnostou graduated from Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece and received a PhD from the same institution. After completing her internal medicine residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital, she subsequently trained in Medical Oncology at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Anagnostou is a translational cancer investigator, focusing on large-scale genomic and liquid biopsy analyses in human cancers. Her group has discovered novel genomic mechanisms of response and resistance to immunotherapy and her research is particularly focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms of response and resistance to these therapies, capturing these by minimally invasive methods and translating this knowledge into novel technologies and innovative therapeutic approaches for cancer patients. She is the international study chair of the first ctDNA-based molecular response adaptive immuno-chemotherapy clinical trial for metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NCT04093167). Dr. Anagnostou's long term goal is to transform medical oncology to personalized molecular oncology, where treatment decisions are tailored to cancer genomics and molecular real-time response assessments informed by liquid biopsies. Dr. Anagnostou is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Mesothelioma. Her top areas of expertise are Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC), Lung Cancer, Mesothelioma, and Gastroesophageal Junction Cancer.

Dr. Stephen C. Yang is a professor of surgery and medical oncology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and The Johns Hopkins Hospital. In October 2008 he was named the first recipient of The Arthur B. and Patricia B. Modell Professor in Thoracic Surgery. Dr. Yang is an extreme supporter of medical students, being the only surgeon (amongst 20 chosen from the School of Medicine) for the medical student advisory Colleges system, and is the faculty sponsor for the Surgery Interest Group and the Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association. Dr. Yang graduated from Duke University with a B.A. in Chemistry and received his M.D. degree from the Medical College of Virginia. He completed his general surgery residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and finished his cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at the Medical College of Virginia. He also completed a 3 year thoracic surgical oncology research fellowship at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. He currently serves on the Postgraduate Affairs, Medical School Admissions, Educational Policy, and Curriculum Reform Committees in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He served on numerous national and international committees for these organizations, and is the Taskforce Chair on the Looking to the Future Residency Scholarships for the Society of Thoracic Surgeons He is Editor of Practical Reviews in Chest Medicine and guest editor/ reviewer for numerous peer review journals. He is co-editor of the book Current Therapy in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, edited the esophageal surgical section in the 2nd edition of Atlas of Gastrointestinal Surgery with John Cameron, M.D., and series editor-in-chief of The Early Diagnosis of Cancer also editing the book volume of The Early Diagnosis of Lung Cancer. In 2001, he and his lung transplant team were featured in the ABC series 24/7 and is currently also being followed in the sequel to that series focusing in on resident and medical student teaching. This series as well as other experiences are still shown on the Discovery Channel. The extensive work in preparing an esophageal cancer patient for surgery on the BBC and the Discovery Channel. Dr. Yang's laboratory research interests include using molecular techniques for lung cancer screening and for molecular staging of micrometastasis to predict recurrence following surgical resection. His clinical practice and research covers the breath of general thoracic surgery in pulmonary and esophageal surgery, video-assisted and robotics thoracic surgery, mediastinal and pleural work, lung volume reduction surgery for emphysema, and work in geriatric thoracic surgery. Dr. Yang is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Mesothelioma. His top areas of expertise are Lung Cancer, Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC), Pleuropulmonary Blastoma, Endoscopy, and Thymectomy.

Carol Tweed is an Oncologist and a Hematologist in Silver Spring, Maryland. Dr. Tweed is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Mesothelioma. Her top areas of expertise are Breast Cancer, Inflammatory Breast Cancer, Paget Disease of the Breast, and HER2 Negative Breast Cancer. Dr. Tweed is currently accepting new patients.

Kenneth Miller is a Hematologist Oncology specialist and a Hematologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Miller has been practicing medicine for over 44 years and is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Mesothelioma. His top areas of expertise are ALK-Positive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC), Lung Adenocarcinoma, and Squamous Cell Lung Carcinoma. Dr. Miller is currently accepting new patients.

Yaniv Berger is a primary care provider, practicing in Family Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Berger is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Mesothelioma. His top areas of expertise are Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young, Glucocorticoid-Remediable Aldosteronism, Familial Hypertension, Pancreaticoduodenectomy, and Hepatectomy. Dr. Berger is currently accepting new patients.

David Smith is a Hematologist and an Oncologist in Easton, Maryland. Dr. Smith is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Mesothelioma. His top areas of expertise are Thrombocytopenia, Hemangioma Thrombocytopenia Syndrome, Adult Immune Thrombocytopenia, and Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS).

Frederick Barr is a Hematologist Oncology provider in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Dr. Barr is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Mesothelioma. His top areas of expertise are Urothelial Cancer, Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer, Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer, and Bladder Cancer. Dr. Barr is currently accepting new patients.

Richard Battafarano, M.D., Ph.D., joins the Johns Hopkins Department of Surgery as director of the Division of General Thoracic Surgery and the first regional director of general thoracic surgery. He comes to Johns Hopkins from University of Maryland Medical System, where he was chief of the Division of Thoracic Surgery. Dr. Battafarano specializes in the treatment of benign and malignant diseases and lesions of the chest, including minimally invasive operations such as video-assisted thoracscopic surgery (VATS) for lung and esophageal cancers. He also has a special interest in treating Barretts esophagus, emphysema, mesothelioma and paraesophageal hernias. The focus of Dr. Battafaranos basic and translational research includes outcomes in the surgical management of early stage lung cancer patients with neuroendocrine histology, optimal management of lung cancer patients with mediastinal lymph node metastases, and the effect of survivin overexpression in the development of esophageal cancer. Dr. Battafarano sees patients at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins Health Care & Surgery Centers at Green Spring Station and at White Marsh. Dr. Battafarano is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Mesothelioma. His top areas of expertise are Lung Cancer, Thymic Epithelial Tumor, Pleuropulmonary Blastoma, Gastrectomy, and Endoscopy.

Syed Nasir is a Hematologist and an Oncologist in Towson, Maryland. Dr. Nasir is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Mesothelioma. His top areas of expertise are Familial Colorectal Cancer, Colorectal Cancer, Lynch Syndrome, and Paget Disease of the Breast.

Gang Chen is a Hematologist Oncology specialist and a Hematologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Chen is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Mesothelioma. His top areas of expertise are Colorectal Cancer, Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS), Familial Colorectal Cancer, Paget Disease of the Breast, and Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery. Dr. Chen is currently accepting new patients.

Elizabeth Jaffee is an Oncologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Jaffee is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Mesothelioma. Her top areas of expertise are Pancreatic Cancer, Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma, Fibrolamellar Carcinoma, Pancreaticoduodenectomy, and Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery.

Jason Taksey is an Oncologist and a Hematologist in Columbia, Maryland. Dr. Taksey is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Mesothelioma. His top areas of expertise are Urothelial Cancer, Familial Prostate Cancer, Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer, and WT1-Related Wilms Tumor Syndromes. Dr. Taksey is currently accepting new patients.

Kurt Wehberg is a Thoracic Surgeon in Salisbury, Maryland. Dr. Wehberg is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Mesothelioma. His top areas of expertise are Lung Nodules, Pleuropulmonary Blastoma, Lung Cancer, Heart Bypass Surgery, and Aneurysm Repair.