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STATE OF THE ART TREATMENT
INFLUENCED BY A PIONEERING HISTORY
Clinical Overview
Research Overview
Surgical Team
Clinical Overview
The Emory General Thoracic Surgery Center in Atlanta, Georgia, has developed and refined various innovative treatments for disorders of the structures and organs of the chest, particularly the lungs and esophagus. Emphasizing and applying minimally invasive methods whenever appropriate, the center is one of only a handful of clinical programs in the country that offers minimally invasive techniques for performing esophagectomy, lobectomy and sympathectomy for hyperhidrosis. Additionally, the center is the only service in Georgia to accept Medicare patients for lung volume reduction surgery and lung transplantation (clicking on this link will take you out of the thoracic surgery center's site to the adult lung transplantation service's separate site. Please click the back button if you wish to return).
Conditions and diseases treated by Emory general thoracic surgeons include:
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Achalasia |
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Diaphragmatic paralysis |
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Emphysema |
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Esophageal cancer |
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Gastroesophageal reflux disease |
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Hiatal hernia |
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Paraesophageal hernia |
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Hyperhidrosis |
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Lung cancer |
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Malignant pleural effusion |
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Mesothelioma |
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Metastatic cancer to the lungs (colon, renal, sarcoma, etc.) |
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Pericardial effusion |
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Thoracic outlet syndrome |
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Tracheal stenosis and/or cancer |
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Research Overview
The center has dramatically increased the number of thoracic surgery-based cancer protocols at Emory by being the only academic site participating in clinical trials sponsored by the prestigious American College of Surgeons Oncology Group (ACOSOG), a research organization established primarily to evaluate the surgical management of patients with malignant solid tumors. The center is also directly involved in setting national and international standards for quality assurance in its field by being a data-collection site for the General Thoracic Surgery Database of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons.
The Carlyle Fraser Heart Center at Emory Crawford Long Hospital, a nationally known research facility, coordinates many of the center's clinical and laboratory research projects, including investigation of the use of proteinomics for the diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma, evaluation of hyperthermic pleural lavage for the treatment of malignant pleural effusions and the role of GERD in chronic rejection in lung transplantation.
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Surgical Team
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Dr. Daniel Miller is the Chief of the General Thoracic Surgery Center. He is also the Surgical Director of the Thoracic Oncology Program of the Winship Cancer Institute as well as the Chair of Lung Center Development of Emory University Hospital. In late 2003, Dr. Miller initiated the Emory Hyperhidrosis Center, the only service of its type in Georgia offering minimally invasive microthoracoscopic sympathectomy for treating hyperhidrosis. |
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Dr. Seth Force is the Surgical Director of Adult Lung Transplantation (this link will take you out of the thoracic surgery center's site; please click the back button if you wish to return). Since coming to Emory, Dr. Force has been integral to tripling the number of lung transplants performed per year by the service. |
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Dr. Kamal Mansour, who practices at the Atlanta VA Medical Center, perfected a technique replacing the esophagus with a section of bowel. In 2001 he was awarded the Shield of Medicine by the Medical Scientific Society of Egypt for being one of the ten most outstanding Egyptian doctors in the world. |
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Practicing at Emory since 1974, Dr. Joseph Miller, Jr., was the Director of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery for six years and has received numerous local and national Best Doctor awards. |
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In addition to his clinical responsibilities, Dr. Sunil Singhal directs the division's thoracic surgery oncology research program. His personal research interests are lung cancer and esophageal cancer. |
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