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  • Benjamin LZ Shou

    Benjamin LZ Shou

    Resident in Cardiothoracic Surgery - Thoracic Surgery
    Affiliate, Department Funds

    BioBenjamin Shou is a resident in the integrated cardiothoracic surgery program. He attended medical school at Johns Hopkins and completed his undergraduate degree at University of California, Los Angeles, in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology with a concentration in Computational Biology. His academic interests include adult cardiac surgery, imaging, and artificial intelligence in healthcare.

  • Joseph Shrager

    Joseph Shrager

    Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsIn clinical research, Dr. Shrager studies outcomes in several areas within Thoracic Surgery including: parenchyma-sparing operations and minimally invasive resections for lung cancer, subsolid lung cancers, thymectomy for myasthenia gravis and thymoma, diaphragm plication, and treatment of emphysema.

    Dr. Shrager's lab is focused on the impact of disease states upon the diaphragm. His group published the seminal paper (NEJM) describing diaphragm atrophy assoc'd with mechanical ventilation.