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Dr. Pass is Professor of Surgery and Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery and Thoracic Oncology at NYU School of Medicine and Comprehensive Cancer Center. He has studied pleural mesothelioma since 1988 when he was the Head of Thoracic Oncology and Senior Investigator of the Surgery Branch of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda and then Head of Thoracic Oncology at the Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit (one of the 37 NCI designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers). Dr. Pass combines cytoreductive surgery, either EPP or pleurectomy, with innovative or standard adjuvant therapies including novel antiangiogenesis inhibitors postoperatively or chemotherapy combinations. His Thoracic Oncology laboratory is pursuing the study of proteins (proteomics) and gene expression profiles in mesothelioma to develop new early detection strategies, as well as designing alternate innovative treatments which use novel proteins as targets for mesothelioma. Dr. Pass is a graduate of Duke University Medical School. | 