Dr. John Garrett

Sandeep Khandhar is a Thoracic Surgeon and a General Surgeon in Fairfax, Virginia. Dr. Khandhar is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Thymic Epithelial Tumor. His top areas of expertise are Lung Cancer, Lung Nodules, Pleuropulmonary Blastoma, Endoscopy, and Thymectomy. Dr. Khandhar 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 a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Thymic Epithelial Tumor. His top areas of expertise are Lung Cancer, Thymic Epithelial Tumor, Pleuropulmonary Blastoma, Gastrectomy, and Endoscopy.

Marc Margolis is a Thoracic Surgeon in Reston, Virginia. Dr. Margolis is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Thymic Epithelial Tumor. His top areas of expertise are Median Arcuate Ligament Syndrome (MALS), Lung Cancer, Pleuropulmonary Blastoma, Endoscopy, and Thymectomy.